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ences are from Ohio State University. He has authored numerous articles on a variety of topics related to speech pro- duction and perception. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and its Technical Committee on Speech Communication and served as Associate Editor of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association's Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research from 2004--2006.
Dennis Paoletti
Dennis Paoletti receives Alumni Fellow award from Penn State
Dennis Paoletti, principal of Shen Milsom & Wilkie, has been selected as a 2006 Alumni Fellow for his excep- tional contribution and personal inter- est in the University’s academic com- munity. The Penn State Alumni Fellow Award is the highest form of recogni- tion offered by the Penn State Alumni Association to the University’s alumni, and the award is conferred only on a select number graduates each year.
Dennis Paoletti began his career in architectural acoustics at the San Francisco office of Bolt Beranek and Newman in 1967. He founded his own firm, Paoletti Associates Inc., in 1976 and merged it with Shen Milsom & Wilke in 2000. He works primarily on high profile architectural projects such as performing arts centers, museums, cathedrals, etc. and is committed to the integration and coordination of his
technical disciplines with architecture to achieve imaginative and technically successful projects. He worked with many well known architects on numer- ous large scale projects including the San Francisco Opera House Renovation, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, among many others.
While at Penn State, Paoletti com- pleted advanced studies at the School of Architecture at the University of Florence, Italy. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Institute of Architects and the British Institute of Acoustics, as well as the Society for Marketing Professional Services.
Peter Rona elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Peter A. Rona, Professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, was named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Professor Rona received an A.B. from Brown University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. He is the author of over 200 scientific papers and four books. His research interests include Seafloor hydrother- mal systems; ocean ridge processes; geology of Atlantic continental mar- gins; genesis of seafloor mineral and energy resources. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
Donald Henderson
Donald Henderson receives award from Hofstra University
Donald Henderson, professor of communicative disorders and sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, was awarded the third annual Hofstra University National Research Award in May 2006. Dr. Henderson was recog- nized for distinguished contributions to the field of research on the human cochlea.
The Hofstra University National Research Award is an annual prize given in a discipline related to the mis- sion of Hofstra’s Saltzman Community Services Center, a facility dedicated to the education of students and the health and well being of the communi- ty. In 2006 the award was designated for contributions to the field of speech, language and hearing.
Donald Henderson is a member of the Acoustical Society of America. He received a B.A. in biology/psychology from Western Washington State College, and a Ph.D. in sensory psy- chology from the University of Texas. His interest in hearing loss developed during a postdoctoral fellowship with Hallowell Davis of the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis. He has pub- lished more than 200 research articles, hosted a number of international con- ferences and edited 13 books. His cur- rent research focuses on oxidative stress as a cause of hearing loss and the development of pharmacological strategies to prevent hearing loss.
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Peter Rona