Category Archives: Publications

‘Ten Questions Concerning Smart and Healthy Built Environments for Older Adults’

Congratulations to Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Sam Underwood, and Dr. Lily Wang for recently publishing an open access article ‘Ten questions concerning smart and healthy built environments for older adults‘ in Building and Environment, with several other authors who participated in … Continue reading

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“Higher Sound Levels in K-12 Classrooms Correlate to Lower Math Achievement Scores”

A second paper by Laura Brill (MS ’17) and Dr. Lily Wang on work conducted through a EPA-sponsored research project has recently been published open-access in a special issue of Frontiers in the Built Environment: “Higher Sound Levels in K-12 … Continue reading

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“Speech and noise levels measured in occupied K–12 classrooms”

The August 2021 issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America includes a paper by Dr. Lily Wang and Laura Brill (MS ’17) on “Speech and noise levels measured in occupied K-12 classrooms“! From data logged over 6 full school … Continue reading

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Peng and Wang article receives 2020 ASHA JSLHR-Hearing Section Editor’s Award

We are thrilled to announce that alum Dr. Z. Ellen Peng’s article on “Listening Effort by Native and Nonnative Listeners Due to Noise, Reverberation, and Talker Foreign Accent During English Speech Perception“, co-authored with Dr. Lily Wang, was selected to … Continue reading

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“Ten Questions Concerning Well-Being in the Built Environment”

“Ten Questions Concerning Well-Being in the Built Environment” is an open-access paper recently published in Building and Environment as part of the “10 Question initiative”. It collects the views of ten experts, from academia and industry, and offers a range … Continue reading

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Noise Issue of Popular Science

Dr. Lily Wang was quoted in a recent article “It’s not just you: Restaurants have gotten too loud. But there are some fixes”, published in the noise issue of Popular Science! Lily’s research group continues to work on restaurant acoustics; … Continue reading

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January 2020 JASA publication

Dr. Joonhee Lee and Dr. Lily Wang have published an article on “Investigating multidimensional characteristics of noise signals with tones from building mechanical systems and their effects on annoyance” in the January 2020 issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society … Continue reading

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‘The End of the Ear-Splitting Dining Room’

Dr. Lily Wang was quoted in this article ‘The End of the Ear-Splitting Dining Room‘ on Eater.com! Lily’s research group has been getting more involved with restaurant acoustics, presenting two papers at the May 2019 ASA meeting in Louisville. Previously … Continue reading

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JSLHR article

The April 2019 issue of the  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research includes a paper by Dr. Zhao Ellen Peng and Dr. Lily Wang on “Listening Effort by Native and Nonnative Listeners Due to Noise, Reverberation, and Talker Foreign Accent During English … Continue reading

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Development of a model to predict the likelihood of complaints due to assorted tone-in-noise combinations

The May 2018 issue of the  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America includes a paper by Dr. Joonhee Lee and Dr. Lily Wang on “Development of a model to predict the likelihood of complaints due to assorted tone-in-noise combinations”! The article presents … Continue reading

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