Monthly Archives: December 2015

NAG Winter Party 2015

The annual Nebraska Acoustics Group Winter Party was held on Wednesday, December 16, 2015.  The party featured italian food from Spezia in Omaha, a game of ‘LCR’ (to determine the order of opening gifts), and our traditional ‘white elephant’ gift … Continue reading

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Skoug from ESI Engineering presents to UNASA

Ryan Skoug (MAE ’09) came back to Nebraska on December 4, 2015, to present on a number of different projects that he’s been working on as a consultant with ESI Engineering in Minneapolis, MN.  The talk was sponsored by the University of Nebraska ASA … Continue reading

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Healthy Schools Project featured in UNL 2014-15 Research Report

Among the projects featured in the UNL 2014-15 Research Report is the one led by Dr. Lily Wang on assessing school environment and student performance, sponsored by the EPA Healthy Schools Initiative; a short video has been produced to describe the work. … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 11-11-15 and 12-2-15

At the 11-11-15 NAG meeting, Ian Hough presented on the noise measurement campaign and residence improvement program near Chicago airports, with which he was involved prior to joining us at UNL.  The ‘acoustic nugget’ focused on new technology that could maneuver … Continue reading

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Hyun Hong, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Hyun Hong, who successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation “Subjective Perception of Varying Reflection Densities in Room Impulse Responses” on November 23, 2015, advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  Hyun is planning to pursue architectural acoustic consulting, and will start an internship … Continue reading

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Boyd’s study on crowd noise at hockey games

Brenna Boyd’s study on “Measurements and player surveys of crowd noise levels during college hockey games”, presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Jacksonville, Florida (November 2015), generated a lot of buzz.  A press release prepared by the AIP … Continue reading

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