Previous Announcements

 

2020

• The ASA’s first virtual meeting “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere” will be held December 7-11 2020. See https://acousticalsociety.org/asa-meetings/
• The 2020 ASA Gold Medal will be awarded to Judy R. Dubno. Congratulations Judy!
• The 2020 William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience will be awarded to Edwin R. Rubel. Congratulations Ed!

2019

2018

CONGRATULATIONS TO PPTC AWARDEES AT MINNEAPOLIS!
William Yost awarded the Gold Medal
David Kemp awarded the von Bekesy Medal
Shihab Shamma awarded the Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience
Lynne Werner awarded the Student Council Mentor Award

New Fellows of ASA!
Deniz Baskent
Monita Chatterjee 

Elected!
Vice President-Elect: Peggy B. Nelson
Member of the Executive Council:  Brian C.J. Moore

Congratulations to the newly elected TC Members!
2019-2022 (term starts after Louisville)
Douglas Brungart
David Eddins
Ruth Litovsky
Virginia Richards
G. Christopher Stecker
Kelly Whiteford

Victoria BC (Fall 2018) PP Sponsored Sessions

Acoustics Outreach: Linking Physiology and Behavior for Future Collaborations
Organized by: Amanda Lauer, Anna Diedesch

Music, Speech, and the Brain
(Joint with Speech Communication, Musical Acoustics)Organized by: Christina Zhao, Patricia Kuhl

Speech Perception in Children with Auditory Prostheses
(Joint with Speech Communication)
Organized by: Mishaela DiNino, Kelly Jahn

Understanding Limitations on Auditory Spatial Acuity
Organized by: Andrew Brown

 

2017

Planting Seeds of Collaboration – Travel Award and Special Session

For the second year in a row, the Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Technical Committee funded 6 students/post-docs to attend and present at the 173rd ASA Meeting in Boston, MA (25-27 June 2017). Award recipients were invited to present their research in a special session titled “Acoustics outreach to budding scientists: Planting seeds for future clinical and physiological collaborations.” Each awardee received $750 US for travel expenses and was introduced to several P&P mentors at the meeting. This award is intended to promote translational research and to expose clinical and physiological researchers to the Acoustical Society.

2016

William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience

The William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience was established in 2011 through a generous donation by Bill and Chris Hartmann to the Acoustical Society of America to recognize and honor research that links auditory physiology with auditory perception or behavior in humans or other animals. The fourth prize was awarded at the 171st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Salt Lake City (23-27 May 2016) to Alan R. Palmer, who delivered the Hartmann Auditory Neuroscience Prize Lecture, entitled “Bridging the chasm: Animal physiology and human psychophysics.”

2015

ASA Silver Medal Award given to Roy Patterson

The Silver Medal is presented to individuals, without age limitation, for contributions to the advancement of science, engineering, or human welfare through the application of acoustic principles, or through research accomplishments in acoustics. Roy Patterson was awarded the ASA Silver Medal Award at the 170th ASA Meeting in Jacksonville, Florida (2-6 November 2015) for his great contributions to the field of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. Presentation of the award at the fall meeting enabled another great from the P&P Technical Committee, Dave Green, to attend the award ceremony. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, 4 November. Congratulations to Roy Patterson for winning the ASA Silver Medal Award!

Planting Seeds of Collaboration – Travel Award and Special Session

The Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Technical Committee funded 6 students/post-docs to attend and present at the 171st ASA Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah (23-27 May 2016). Award recipients were invited to present their research in a special session titled <em>”> They received $750 for travel expenses and were matched with a mentor at the meeting. This award is intended to promote translational research and to expose clinical and physiological researchers to the Acoustical Society, especially those whose mentors may not normally attend ASA meetings. Following is a list of award recipients along with their presentation titles:

Darrin K. Reed: “Differences in cortical responses to spatial changes in foreground versus background auditory objects.”

Ian M. Wiggins: “Shining a light on the neural signature of effortful listening.”

Kelsey L. Anbuhl: “Temporary unilateral hearing loss during development impairs behavioral and neural sensitivity to interaural level difference cues for sound localization.”

Karolina Charaziak: “Removing effects of ear-canal acoustics from measurements of otoacoustic emissions.”

Dario Vignali: “Modeling dynamic properties of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions: Low-frequency biasing and entrainment.”

Brandon T. Paul: “Hidden hearing loss in tinnitus with normal hearing thresholds.”

Congratulations to all of the award recipients!

Aging and Speech Communication Research Conference

Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, hosted the 6th Aging and Speech Communication Research Conference on 11-14 October 2015. The primary purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers working around the world in the areas of cognitive processing and sensory perceptual processing, especially hearing, to share their latest research findings with regard to aging and speech communication. Presentations and posters were presented by leaders in the field of aging and speech communication.

One-Day Symposium

The Knowles Hearing Center at Northwestern University hosted a one-day symposium on The Business of Hearing Health Care. The symposium was held at the Hilton Orrington in Evanston, Illinois, on Friday, 9 October 2015. Each speaker and their topic is shown below:

Neil DiSarno, American Speech & Hearing Association

As the world of health care turns, where does hearing health care fit?

David Zapala, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

Positioning audiology in an integrated health care system.

Paul Pessis, North Shore Audio-Vestibular Lab

Ultimately, who is paying the price? Quality of care at reduced cost.

Andrew Bopp, Hearing Industries Association

The legislative and regulatory horizon for hearing health care.

Ian Windmill, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

What about laws, ethics, and morals?

Katherine Bouton, Author of “Shouting Won’t Help” and “Living Better with Hearing Loss”

But what does the consumer want? Clarity, quality and cost effectiveness.

Lisa Hunter, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and University of Cincinnati

How do we educate and train an audiologist for the new world?

William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience

The William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience was established in 2011 through a generous donation by Bill and Chris Hartmann to the Acoustical Society of America to recognize and honor research that links auditory physiology with auditory perception or behavior in humans or other animals. The third prize was awarded at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Pittsburgh (18-22 May, 2015) to Laurel H. Carney, who delivered the Hartmann Auditory Neuroscience Prize Lecture, entitled “Relating Physiology to Perception: The Case of the Notched-Noise Masker.”

2013

Student Council Representative

Anna Diedesch was elected The Student Council Representative. She was selected from a pool of interested applicants. Her two-year term began at the end of the Spring 2013 ASA meeting in Montreal. We were very excited to welcome her to our council!

William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience

The William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience was established in 2011 through a generous donation by Bill and Chris Hartmann to the Acoustical Society of America to recognize and honor research that links auditory physiology with auditory perception or behavior in humans or other animals. The first Prize was awarded at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Montreal (2-7 June 2013) to Tom C. T. Yin, who delivered the Hartmann Auditory Neuroscience Prize Lecture entitled “Physiological and behavioral studies of sound localization” on Tuesday June 4th, 2013

Von Békésy Award

The 2013 von Békésy Award was awarded to M. Charles Liberman, for discoveries regarding coding of sound by the auditory nerve in normal and impaired hearing. The award was presented at the Spring 2013 ASA meeting in Montreal at the Plenary Session and Awards Ceremony on Wednesday afternoon.

Great One-Day Symposium

The Knowles Hearing Center at Northwestern University hosted a great one-day symposium on Noise & Hearing. The symposium was held at the Hilton Orrington in Evanston, Illinois and included 9 amazing speakers. Each speaker and their topic is shown below. Links to the poster and website can be accessed from the conference’s page.

Benj Kanters, hearing conservation and the music industry

Mead Killion, engineering solutions to hearing protection

Sharon Kujawa, vision for the future

M. Charles Liberman, biology of noise-induced hearing loss

Lynne Marshall, designing hearing conservation for the future

Kurt Yankaskas, noise and the military

Jaime Garcai-Añoveros, cellular protection mechanisms against noise

Donna Whitlon, neural repair after noise exposure

Jing Zheng, noise exposure and hair cells

2012

Special Issue of Acoustics Today focused on P&P

Special thanks to Brenda Lonsbury-Martin for guest editing the April 2012 issue of Acoustics Today, which focused entirely on P&P and provides all ASA members with an accessible and impressive sampling of the variety of fascinating work going on in our field.

ASA Fall School

ASA School 2012 was a new ASA event where graduate students and early career acousticians in all areas of acoustics could learn about and discuss a wide variety of topics related to the interdisciplinary acoustical theme Living in the Acoustic Environment. ASA School 2012 provided opportunities for meeting faculty and fellow students, discussing research topics, developing collaborations and professional relationships within acoustics, and mentoring. ASA School 2012 was a two-day course consisting of lectures by prominent acousticians, roundtables, demonstrations, and discussion groups to expand on the lecture materials and to foster communication across disciplines and technical areas of acoustics. Social events, including a Friday evening welcome reception and Saturday evening dinner, were also scheduled to provide an informal setting for further discussions and social exchange.

Special thanks to Dan Tollin and Chris Stecker for providing their expertise as P&P faculty representatives in Kansas City!!

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