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International News
Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
IleneBusch-Vishniacmovesto McMaster University
Ilene Busch-Vishniac has been selected as the new Provost and Vice- President Academic at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Her appointment became effective 1 August.
McMaster President Peter George said “I am thrilled to welcome Dr. Busch- Vishniac to this very important role. In our international search, we discovered a respected and dynamic leader who not only brings to McMaster an extensive range of academic, administrative and research experience, but also a progressive approach that will continue to advance us nationally and internationally.”
After receiving undergraduate
degrees in physics and mathematics
from the University of Rochester, and
masters and PhD degrees in mechanical
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Busch-Vishniac worked at Bell Laboratories in the Acoustics Research Department. She joined the mechanical engineering faculty of the University of Texas in 1981 where she remained until 1998, when she joined Johns Hopkins University as professor and dean.
Ilene Busch-Vishniac has received many teaching and research awards, including the Achievement Award of the Society of Women Engineers, the Curtis McGraw Research Award of the American Society for Engineering Education and the Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics of the Acoustical Society of America.
She has served in various profes- sional organizations, including a term as president of the Acoustical Society of America, and a term on the Engineering Deans Council of the American Society of Engineering Education. She has authored 60 techni- cal articles and one book, and holds nine US patents on electromechanical sensors.
Busch-Vishniac’s research work has focused on noise control and on transduction. Her noise control work includes designs of highway noise barriers to improve sound reduction and, more recently, extensive work to characterize and control noise in hospitals. She has also done research on how best to educate people in engi-
neering.
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International Meetings Calendar
2007
17-18 October 25-26 October 14-16 November 29-30 November 6-9 December
2008
8-11 April
Institute of Acoustics Autumn Conference 2007, Oxford, UK [www.ioa.org.uk/vieup coming.asp]
Autumn Meeting of the Swiss Acoustical Society, Bern, Switzerland [www.sga- ssa.ch]
14th Mexican International Congress on acoustics, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico [Fax: +52 55 5523 4742; sberista@hotmail.com] Reproduced Sound 23, The Sage, Gateshead, UK [www.ioa.org.uk/view upcoming.asp]
International Symposium on Sonochemistry and Sonoprocessing (ISSS2007), [www.j-sonochem.org/ISSS2007]
Oceans08, Kobe, Japan [www.oceans08 mtsieeekobe-technoocean08.org/ index.cfm]
17-18 April 30 June-4 July
7-10 July
27-31 July
28 Jul-1 Aug-25
Spring Meeting of the Swiss Acoustical Society, Bellinzona (Tessin), Switzerland [www.sga-ssa.ch]
Joint Meeting of European Acoustical Association (EAA), Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and Acoustical Society of France (SFA), Paris, France [E-mail: phillipe.blanc-benon@ec-lyon.fr; www.sfa.asso.fr]
18th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics (ISNA18), Stockholm, Sweden [E-mail (temporary): benflo@mech.kth.se]
10th Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, Keele University, UK [www.mechanicso fhearing.com]
9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Mashantucket, Pequot Tribal Nation (ICBEN 9, P.O. Box 1609, Groton, CT 06340-1609, USA [ww.icben.org]
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