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James E. West
Lily Wang Kenneth Telschow
eign patents, and has written or con- tributed to more than 100 technical papers and several books on acoustics and the science of electrets.
West graduated from Temple University with a degree in physics. He is a fellow of many organizations, including the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1999 for the invention of the electret microphone.
James West has served the Acoustical Society of America in many roles since becoming a member in 1962 including President, ASA Cochair of the First Pan American Meeting on Acoustics in 2002, and as member and chair of numerous ASA committees. He was awarded the ASA’s Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics in 1995 and its Gold Medal in 2006.
Lily Wang receives education award
Lily Wang, assistant professor of architectural engineering at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln (UNL), received the UNL Excellence in Graduate Education Award in 2006. Ellen Weissinger, executive associate dean for Graduate Studies, presented the award and said, “Dr. Wang’s advising and mentoring efforts and abilities are best left to student letters but words like ‘enthusiasm,’ ‘listens carefully to ideas,’ ‘shares my excitement,’ ‘encourages stu- dents to broaden their horizons,’ ‘intelli- gent,’ ‘talented,’ and ‘energetic’ show up repeatedly. Obviously her students are
very pleased with her abilities and the direction she is taking them.”
Lily Wang is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and currently serves as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics and Chair of the Tutorials Committee. She is a member of the Committee on Women in Acoustics, and the Robert Bradford Newman Award Advisory Committee. She was the 1998-99 F. V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the ASA and was awarded the R. Bruce Lindsay Award in 2005 “for contributions to room and musical acoustics.”
Kenneth Telschow honored for patent inventions
Kenneth Telschow, consulting sci- entist at the Idaho National Laboratory, was one of 117 inventors recognized for receiving 61 patents at the 11th Annual Honors Banquet held by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory on 1 December 2006. He was one of 4 inventors honored for generating 10 patents and was cited “for work in characterization of materi- als using acoustic microscopy.”
Dr. Telschow is a member of the Acoustical Society of America. He received his Ph.D. degree in physics from UCLA in 1973 and has worked at the Idaho National Laboratory from 1984 to the present.
Previously, he taught physics at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as a tenured associate pro- fessor (1981-1984) and as an assistant professor (1976-1981). He also did postdoctoral research at the University
of Massachusetts—Amherst (1974- 1976) and was adjunct professor in physics at UCLA (1973-1974).
Dr. Telschow’s background and interests are in the fields of acoustic and ultrasonic properties of microstructures of the solid state, con- densed matter and quantum liquids. Dr. Telschow’s work has led to the pub- lication of more than 100 articles in journals and conference proceedings.
John Ohala awarded Medal for Scientific Achievement
John Ohala, Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, member of ASA since 1967, ASA Fellow 1995, was awarded the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Medal for Scientific Achievement at its annual meeting held this year in Pittsburgh, PA, 17-22 October. This medal, the 12th such awarded since 1988, recognizes cumulative scientific contributions to the field of speech
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