Congratulations to Katrin Vikner Sjoblom  from the Chalmers Institute of Technology, for being awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for work on the architectural acoustics of operas.  Mizuki was nominated by Prof. Mendel Kleiner and Prof. Morten Mose Lund.

Congratulations to Mizuki Inoue  from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, for being awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for work on a commendation-winning entry to the 2013 ASA Student Design Competition.  Mizuki was nominated by Prof. Yasushi Shimizu.

Congratulations to Robert Connick from RPI!  He has been awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on characterizing normal-incident sound transmission loss of nanomaterial aerogels, as nominated by Prof. Ning Xiang.

Congratulations to Aireen Batungbakal from the University of Southern California!  She has been awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for her work on developing a design support tool on the acoustic performance of double-skin facades, as nominated by Prof. Douglas Noble.  (As an interesting sidenote, Aireen’s thesis advisor on this work was Elizabeth Valmont, a former recipient of the Newman Medal herself!)

Congratulations to David Arce from Roger Williams University!  He has been awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for his acoustical analysis of a religious worship space within a Catholic church located in Providence, Rhode Island.  David was nominated by Prof. Jeffrey Staats.

Hom with her Newman Medal

Congratulations to Kathryn Hom from the University of Kansas!  She has been awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for her work on how different rooms can affect choral sound, as nominated by Prof. Bob Coffeen.

From left, Russell Richardson (RBA Acoustics), Shane Sugrue, and Professor Stephen Dance

Congratulations to Shane Sugrue from London South Bank University!  He has been awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on studying correlations between objective measures and subjective perception of choral singers in assorted venues, as nominated by Dr. Stephen Dance.

Congratulations to Adam Buck from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln!  He has been awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on measuring the just noticeable difference of reverberation time using a transformed up-down adaptive method, as nominated by Dr. Lily Wang and Dr. Siu-Kit Lau.

Congratulations to Gabriel Messingher!  He has been awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on relating hospital acoustics to staff performance and perception, as nominated by Dr. Erica Ryherd.

Congratulations to Robert Burrell from London South Bank University!  He has been awarded a 2013 Newman Student Award Medal, for his work on studying acoustic privacy in open plan offices, as nominated by Dr. Stephen Dance.