Congratulations to Eric McGowan from the University of Kansas!  He has been awarded a 2015 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on “Comparison of results from three mechanical system noise prediction computer programs”, as nominated by Prof. Bob Coffeen.

Congratulations to Matthew Neal from Penn State!  He has been awarded a 2015 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on “Connecting the Sense of Envelopment to Specific Components of the Sound Field using Perceptually Motivated Auralizations”, as nominated by Prof. Michelle Vigeant.

Congratulations to Ariana Sharma from Vassar College!  She has been awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal, for her work on “Effect of Installed Diffusers on Sound Field Diffusivity in a Real-World Classroom”, as nominated by Prof. David T. Bradley.

Congratulations to Jay Bliefnick from Colombia College Chicago!  He has been awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on “The Development and Analysis of a Large Variable Acoustics Space”, as nominated by Prof. Lauren Ronsse and Prof. Dominique Chéenne.

Congratulations to Leo Weber from London South Bank University!  He has been awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on “Investigation into the Application of an Acoustic Metamaterial for Sound Attenuation with Airflow”, as nominated by Dr. Stephen Dance.

Congratulations to Dane Bush from RPI!  He has been awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on “Room-Acoustics Investigations of
Beamforming Performance Using Coprime Linear Microphone Arrays”, as nominated by Prof. Ning Xiang.

Congratulations to Chiemi Wakabayashi from Tokyo Institute of Technology, for being awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal.  Wakabayashi was nominated by Prof. Yasushi Shimizu, for her contributions towards her team’s excellent design submitted to the 2014 ASA Student Design Competition. In particular, Prof. Shimizu complimented Wakabayashi’s study on how the stage configuration fit each stage performance, both from an architectural design and an acoustical design.

Smyth (on right) with Donal Lennon, head of the Built Environment Laboratory in University College Dublin

Congratulations to Fiona Smyth from University College Dublin, for being awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal.  Smyth was nominated by Prof. Hugh Campbell, for her thesis “From Concept to Application: Analytical Frameworks in Architectural Acoustics in a Contextual Study of Three Anglican Cathedrals”, which addresses interdisciplinary developments in architectural acoustics in early twentieth-century Britain and Ireland.

Congratulations to Li Hui from Tsinghua University, for being awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal.  Hui was nominated by Prof. Yan Xiang, for research on human responses from being in extreme silent environments for eight hours.

Congratulations to Jonathan Sheaffer from University of Salford in the UK for being awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal.  Sheaffer was nominated by Dr. Bruno Fazenda, for his thesis work: “From Source to Brain: Modeling Sound Propagation and Localization in Rooms”.