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Acoustical News
Elaine Moran
Acoustical Society of America Melville, New York 11747
Robert L. Clark
ASA members elected Fellows of the AAAS
ASA members Robert L. Clark, William M. Hartmann, and Dan H. Sanes were elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This year 503 scientists were elected AAAS fellows and they will be honored at a ceremony during the AAAS annual meeting in February.
Robert Clark, dean of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester, was chosen for his “distinguished con- tributions to research on dynamic sys- tems and controls, acoustics, and more recently nanoscience and nanoengi- neered materials.” His work has led to more than 130 journal publications and earned him awards including the R. Bruce Lindsay Award of the Acoustical Society of America, the National Science Foundation Career Program Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the NASA Group Achievement Award. He is a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He earned bachelor’ master, and doctoral degrees from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
William M. Hartmann
William M. Hartmann, Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University, was honored for work in psychoacoustics, particularly for the discovery of dichotic pitch illusions and for research into the effects of room acoustics on the ability to localize sounds. His book, Signals, Sound, and Sensation (Springer, 1998) set the stan- dard for the application of signal pro- cessing mathematics to psychoa- coustics. He is currently the editor-in- chief of the Springer series Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Dr. Hartmann is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and served as chair of the ASA Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics (1980-84), as ASA Vice President (1998-99) and as President (2001-02). In 2001 Dr. Hartmann received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University and the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Silver Medal from the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Hartmann received a BSEE from Iowa State University and D.Phil. from Oxford University.
Dan H. Sanes, Professor at New York University's Center for Neural Science and Department of Biology, was honored for his studies on audito- ry central nervous system develop-
ment, including the influence of the sensory environment. His laboratory studies the development and function of auditory networks from brainstem to cortex. His laboratory has found, among other discoveries, that even mild hearing loss can have a profound and lasting impact on the the function of auditory cortex synapse function. AAAS recognized Sanes for his “semi- nal studies” in this area of scholarship. Dr. Sanes is also the co-author of the textbook "Development of the Nervous System" which will be released in its 3rd edition this year. He is a currently a Councilor of the Association for
Dan H. Sanes
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