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Acoustical News
Elaine Moran
Acoustical Society of America Melville, New York 11747
Patricia K. Kuhl
Patricia Kuhl elected NAS Fellow
Patricia K. Kuhl is one of 72 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The NAS is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a con- gressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.
Patricia Kuhl is the Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Learning, Co-Director of the UW Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Director of the University of Washington’s NSF Science of Learning Center, and Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences. She is inter- nationally recognized for her research on early language and brain development, and studies that show how young chil- dren learn.
Dr. Kuhl is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Rodin Academy, and the Norwegian
Academy of Science and Letters. She was awarded the Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America in 1997, and in 2005, the Kenneth Craik Research Award from Cambridge University. Dr. Kuhl is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Psychological Society. In 2008 in Paris, Dr. Kuhl was awarded the Gold Medal by the Acoustical Society of America for her work on learning and the brain.
Dr. Kuhl was one of six scientists invited to the White House in 1997 to make a presentation at President and Mrs. Clinton's Conference on “Early Learning and the Brain.” In 2001, she was invited to make a presentation at President and Mrs. Bush's White House Summit on “Early Cognitive Development: Ready to Read, Ready to Learn.” In 1999, she co- authored The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn (Morrow Press).
Daniel Tollin receives NOHR award
Daniel Tollin, Assistant Professor of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Colorado Medical School, has received the 13th Burt Evans Young Investigator Award from the National Organization for Hearing Research (NOHR).
Dr. Tollin was confirmed with this distinction by NOHR's Medical Advisors and Scientific Review Committee and by prior award win-
ners. This award
is named in
honor of Dr. Burt
Evans, a creative
and outstanding
audiological
researcher at
Northwestern
University who
succumbed tragi-
cally to ALS in
1997. A cash
award and plaque
were presented at
the 33rd annual
meeting of the
Association for
Research in Oto-
laryngology in
February, 2010.
The plaque reads:
“In recognition
and appreciation
of your excellent Daniel Tollin
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