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Elaine Moran
Acoustical Society of America Melville, New York 11747
Floyd Dunn
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Acoustics (UK), and the American Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
Professor Dunn has received numerous awards, including the Medal of Special Merit of the Acoustical Society of Japan (1988); the ASA Silver Medal in Bioresponse to Vibration (1989); the Career Achievement Award of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (1995); the 1996 IEEE Edison Medal, and the ASA’s Gold Medal (1998) “for creative contri- butions to fundamental knowledge of ultrasonic propagation in, and interac- tions with, biological media.”
Floyd Dunn is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He has served ASA in numer- ous positions including President (1985- 86), President-Elect (1984-85), Vice President (1981-82), Vice President-Elect (1980-81), Member of the Executive Council (1977-80), and as member and Chair of numerous committees.
Carol Espy-Wilson named Radcliffe Fellow
Carol Espy-Wilson, professor in the electrical and computer engineer- ing department at the University of Maryland at College Park and Director of the Speech Communication Laboratory, was named a 2008-09 Radcliffe Fellow. Radcliffe Institute fel- lowships are designed to support schol- ars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts.
During the fellowship year, Espy- Wilson will focus on the noise robust- ness of a probabilistic landmark-based speech-recognition system. The devel-
Carol Espy-Wilson
opment of this technology is a collabora- tive effort between researchers in engi- neering, linguistics, computer science, and rehabilitation science.
Professor Espy-Wilson received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a faculty member at Boston University prior to joining the University of Maryland faculty. She received a National Science Foundation Minority Initiation Award, the Clare Boothe Luce Professorship, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Independent Scientist Award, and a Honda Initiation Grant. She has received considerable research funding over the years from the National Science Foundation, The National Institutes of Health and from partnerships with various companies.
Professor Espy-Wilson is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), where she currently serves as chair of the Technical Committee on Speech Communication and a member of the Editorial Board of Acoustics Today. She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; and a past member of the NIH Language and Communication Study Section.
Floyd Dunn receives William J. and Francis J. Fry Award
Floyd Dunn was awarded the William J. and Francis J. Fry Award by the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound for his lifelong contributions to the general area of biophysics and bio- effects of ultrasound.
Floyd Dunn received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in 1949, 1951, and 1956, respectively, from the University of Illinois, Urbana, all in Electrical Engineering. Hejoined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1955, became Professor in 1965, and retired in 1995 with emeritus status. During his tenure, he held joint appointments as Professor of Electrical Engineering, of Bioengineering, and of Biophysics, was Director of the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory from 1977 to 1995, and Chairman of the Bioengineering Faculty 1978 to 1982. His main research inter- ests including all aspects of the interac- tion of ultrasound and biological media, about which he has published more than 200 journal articles, book chapters, and books.
Floyd Dunn is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the
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