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First Robert E. Apfel Fellowship awarded
On May 22, during the Yale Engineering Graduate Commencement Convocation, The Robert E. Apfel Fellowship Fund awarded its first gift to Ping Yan, a Ph.D. candidate who is working on her dissertation project on biomechanical modeling of the heart as a basis for recovering deformation infor- mation from ultrasound image sequences. Ms. Yan began her Ph.D. with Professor Apfel and he was involved in some of the early planning of her thesis work which brings together ideas from ultrasound physics, image processing and biomedical modeling. The Robert E. Apfel Fellowship Fund was established in appreciation for Professor Apfel’s mentoring by 36 students, postdocs, and colleagues during his time at Yale University.
Robert Apfel (1942-2002) was the Robert E. Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University and a member of the Yale faculty for over three decades.
He was a noted researcher in phys- ical acoustics and biomedical devices, whose work earned him many honors, including the A.B. Wood Medal from the Institute of Acoustics (U.K.), the R. Bruce Lindsay Award from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) as well as its Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics and the ASA’s highest honor, the Gold Medal. He was a Fellow of the ASA and served the Society in many roles including President (1995-1996), Vice President (1991-1992), Member of the Executive Council (1979–1982) Chair of the Technical Committee on Physical Acoustics (1977-79), Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1999-2002), Editor of Acoustics Research Letters Online (1999-2002).
Technology for a Quieter America
The National Academy of Engineering Committee on Technology for a Quieter America met on May 1 and 2, to begin a 30-month study on the development and deployment of tech-
nologies to alleviate the negative hearing and health effects of noise in workplaces, communities, and homes. The steering committee is chaired by George Maling and includes Robert Bernhard, Robert Bruce, Beth Cooper, Patricia Davies, Carl Hanson, Robert Hellweg, Gerald Lauchle, Richard Lyon, and Ian Waitz. Consultants to the project are Leo Beranek, Stephen Crandall, Kenneth Eldred and William Lang.
Nine areas of interest have been identified: cost-benefit analysis of noise-control technologies; impacts of noise on the competiveness of U.S. products; industry demand for and education for noise-control special- ists; new technologies; engineering controls and common descriptors for hazardous noise; improved metrics for community noise; public information on the benefits of low-noise products and the adverse effects of excessive noise; coordination of activities by federal and state agencies; and provid- ing assistance to state and local noise- control programs.
USA Meetings Calendar
2006
28 Nov–2 Dec
2007
4–8 June
22-24 Oct
27 Nov–2 Dec
152nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America joint with the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516- 576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; Web: asa.aip.org].
153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516- 576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; Web: asa.aip.org].
NoiseCon 2007, Reno, NV [Web: www.inceusa.org/nc07].
154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana (note Tuesday through Saturday) [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington
2008
29 June–4 July
28 July–1 Aug
Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; Web: asa.aip.org].
Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), European Acoustics Association (EAA), and the Acoustics Society of France (SFA), Paris, France [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; E-mail: asa@aip.org; Web: asa.aip.org/meetings.html.]
9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (Quintennial meet- ing of ICBEN, the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise). Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, CT [Jerry V. Tobias, ICBEN 9, Post Office Box 1609, Groton CT 06340-1609, Tel. 860-572-0680; Web: www.icben.org. Email icben2008@att.net.
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