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Eric W. Healy Anna Heaney Kevin Heaney Don Hunsaker II Tom LePage Brad Libbey Piers Messum Molly Norris Steve Pettyjohn Ken Roy
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Nancy Timmerman Brandon Tinianov Kenric Van Wyk Max Versace Douglas Wilcox Preston Wilson Mark Wochner
University of Washington, APL University of Washington, APL Haskins Labs, Yale University Nancy Timmerman, PE Serious Materials
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Academy and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Dyslexia Association. He has published extensively in the domains of cognitive neuroscience, functional organization of the brain as it pertains to reading and language, dyslexia, and related areas. He plays a key role in several research pro- grams supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and other funding sources.
He will be working closely with the board of directors of Haskins Laboratories and its executive manage- ment team, which includes Philip Rubin, Ph.D., chief executive officer and vice president, Douglas Whalen, Ph.D., vice president of research, and Joseph Cardone, chief financial officer, as well as with scientists, educators and other members of the Haskins commu- nity. A major initiative will be to explore new partnerships and funding opportunities that will help the Laboratories build on its pioneering research and discoveries spanning more than seventy years and remain on the cutting edge of the science of the spoken and written word.
Haskins Laboratories was founded
in 1935 by the late Dr. Caryl P. Haskins. This independent research institute has been in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970 when it formalized affiliations with Yale University and the University of Connecticut. The Laboratories’ pri- mary research focus is on the science of the spoken and written word.
University of Nebraska ASA Student Chapter hosts Royster Student Acoustics Competition
The University of Nebraska ASA Student Chapter hosted the Royster Student Acoustics Competition on Saturday, December 8, 2007, at the Peter Kiewit Institute in Omaha, Nebraska. The competition was open to a wide variety of acoustics topics related to either hearing conservation or noise control. The Roysters gener- ously provided $5000 in scholarship funds for the competition to encourage qualified students to pursue graduate studies in these areas.
Students from the University of Nebraska, the University of Kansas, and Brigham Young University partici- pated in the competition. The entries were evaluated by a panel of three
Haskins Labs appoints Ken Pugh as President and Director of Research
Joanne L. Miller, chair of the board of directors of Haskins Laboratories, announced that Kenneth R. Pugh, Ph.D., has been appointed president and director of research of Haskins Laboratories, effective immediately. Dr. Pugh becomes the sixth president and director of research since the founding of the Laboratories in 1935. Dr. Pugh succeeds Carol A. Fowler, Ph.D., who has been president and director of research at Haskins Laboratories since 1992. Dr. Pugh has been affiliated with Haskins Laboratories since 1990. He is also currently an associate profes- sor in the department of pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine and the director of the Yale Reading Center. Kenneth Pugh received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the New York Institute of Technology, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from The Ohio State University. He has been a vis- iting professor at College of the Holy Cross, University of Connecticut, and Dartmouth College. Among many other activities, he is a Corresponding Member of the Rodin Remediation
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Students and judges at Royster Student Acoustics competition