Category Archives: Research

Boyd’s study on crowd noise at hockey games

Posted on December 7, 2015 by NAGadmin

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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Boyd presents UCARE-sponsored research at Nebraska Summer Research Symposium

Posted on October 21, 2015 by NAGadmin

Brenna Boyd received a UNL Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) summer research grant to assist with preparing the measurement campaign associated with the UNL EPA Healthy Schools Project.  She presented her research “School Environment Effects on Student Achievement” … Continue reading →

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Stuart Shell, M.S.

Posted on June 1, 2015 by NAGadmin

Congratulations to Stuart Shell, who successfully defended his M.S. in Architectural Engineering Thesis “Effect of the Physical Environment on Teacher Satisfaction with Indoor Environmental Quality in Early Learning Schools” on May 13, 2015, advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  Stuart previously trained as an architect … Continue reading →

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Wang participates in EPA Healthy Schools STAR Kick-off

Posted on May 12, 2015 by NAGadmin

On April 21, 2015, Dr. Lily Wang was in Arlington, VA, to participate in an EPA public webinar which introduced the seven grantees funded under the EPA Healthy Schools STAR program, of which UNL was one.  More information on the EPA … Continue reading →

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2015 Spring Research Fair

Posted on April 23, 2015 by NAGadmin

Two NAG members presented posters at the 2015 UNL Spring Research Fair on April 14-15, 2015: (1) graduate student Joonhee Lee on “Threshold Estimation for Noise-Induced Annoyance by Tones from Building Mechanical Noises” and (2) undergraduate student Brenna Boyd on “Evaluation of Crowd Noise … Continue reading →

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Dr. Lily Wang leads EPA grant to study school environments

Posted on February 13, 2015 by NAGadmin

Dr. Lily Wang is the lead PI on a project “Evidence-Based Evidence-Based Interactions between Indoor Environmental Factors and Their Effects on K-12 Student Achievement”, recently funded through a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Healthy Schools STAR Program. The four-year … Continue reading →

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Zhao ‘Ellen’ Peng, Ph.D.

Posted on February 13, 2015 by NAGadmin

Congratulations to Zhao ‘Ellen’ Peng, who successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation “Designing Acoustics for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms:  Effects of Background Noise, Reverberation and Talker Foreign Accent on Speech Comprehension by Native and Non-Native English-Speaking Listeners” on November 5, 2014, advised by … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Francis, M.S.

Posted on October 27, 2014 by NAGadmin

Congratulations to Jennifer Francis, who successfully defended her M.S. Thesis “Determining Thresholds of Annoyance to Tones in Noise” on October 17, 2014, advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  We are looking forward to the UNL December Commencement, as we are expecting more than one … Continue reading →

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Research highlighted in Sheet Metal Journal feature article

Posted on July 28, 2014 by NAGadmin

The research conducted by Dr. Wang and her research group on linking classroom acoustic conditions to student achievement was highlighted in a recent article, featured in Sheet Metal Journal.  The interview for this article occurred as a consequence of Dr. … Continue reading →

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Carl Hart, Ph.D.

Posted on April 26, 2014 by NAGadmin

Congratulations to Carl Hart, who successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation “On a Combined Adaptive Tertrahederal Tracing and Edge Diffraction Model” on April 14, 2014, advised by Dr. Siu-Kit Lau and Dr. Lily Wang!  NAG members went to J. Coco’s for lunch to celebrate. … Continue reading →

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