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assistant professor. In 1954 he became a professor of geo- physics and also was named a member of the University of California's Institute of Geophysics, and, in 1960, he estab- lished a branch of the institute on the Scripps campus in La Jolla, California. Until 1982, he served as director of the Scripps branch and as an associate director of the university- wide institute, which was renamed the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP).
Dr. Munk has won numerous awards during his research career. He received the National Medal of Science in 1983 and the 1999 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences for his fundamental contributions to the field of oceanography, the first time the prize was awarded to an oceanographer. In 2001, he was the inaugural recipient of the Prince Albert I Medal in the physi- cal sciences of the oceans, which Prince Rainier of Monaco created in cooperation with the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans. Dr. Munk was named an Honorary Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2004.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is an independ- ent organization whose overall objective is to promote the sci- ences and strengthen their influence in society. Every year the Academy awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the Crafoord Prize and a number of other large prizes.
Ronald Aarts awarded AES Silver Medal
Ronald M. Aarts, Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, was awarded the Audio Engineering Society Silver Medal. The citation read: “With this medal the society recog- nizes your outstanding contributions to research and applica- tions of signal processing in acoustics and sound reproduc- tion.”
Ronald Aarts received a BSc degree in electrical engineer- ing in 1977, and a Ph.D. in physics from Delft University of Technology in 1995. He joined the Optics group at Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1977. In 1984 he joined the Acoustics group at Philips Research Laboratories and worked on the development of CAD tools and signal processing for loudspeaker systems. In 1994 he became a member of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) group at Philips Research Laboratories and has led research projects on the improvement of sound reproduction, by exploiting DSP and psycho-acoustical phenomena. In 2003 he became a Research Fellow at the Philips Research Laboratories, and extended his interests in engineering to medicine and biology. He has published a large number of papers and reports and holds over 140 first patent application filings including over thirty granted US-patents in the afore mentioned fields. He has served on a number of organizing committees and as chairman for various international conven- tions. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow and past-governor of the AES (Audio Engineering Society), a member of the NAG (Dutch Acoustical Society), the ASA (Acoustical Society of America), the VvBBMT (Dutch Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering), and the NSWO (Dutch Society for Sleep and Wake Research).
ASA President Diemer de Vries (l) and Ronald M. Aarts (r)
The AES’s Silver Medal Award was established in 1971 in honor of audio pioneers, such as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, and is presented to people who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of audio engineering. The Audio Engineering Society was founded in 1948 and has grown to become an international organization that unites audio engineers, creative artists, scientists and students world- wide by promoting advances in audio and disseminating new knowledge and research. The AES currently has over 14,000 members around the world.
ASU professors receive publication awards
A recent article by Michael Dorman, Professor of Speech and Hearing Science and Tony Spahr, Research Associate of Speech and Hearing Science, at Arizona State University was recently cited in The Hearing Journal Volume 63, June 2010 as one of the “Most Thought Provoking" articles in the area of cochlear implants in 2009. An annual evaluation of research articles is conducted each year by The Hearing Journal and for the second time in recent years an article written by Dr. Dorman has been cited. This year's article is: M.F. Dorman, R. Gifford, K. Lewis, S. McKarns, J. Ratigan, A. Spahr, “Word recognition following implantation of conventional and 10- mm hybrid electrodes” in Audiology & Neurotology 14(3), 181-189 (2009). Dr. Dorman is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
Julie Liss, Associate Professor in the Motor Speech Disorders Laboratory at Arizona State University, and her co- authors have been named the winners of the 2009 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) Editor’s Award for their article, “Quantifying Speech Rhythm Deficits in the Dysarthrias”. [Liss, J.M., White, L. Mattys, S.L., Lansford, K., Lotto, A.J., Spitzer, S., and Caviness, J.N., Quantifying speech rhythm deficits in the dysarthrias. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52(5), 1334- 1352 (2009); Research supported by NIH NIDCD R01 DC006859, J. Liss PI]An article selected for an Editor’s Award is the one that the
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