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Matthew Blevins, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Matt Blevins, who successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation “Design and Optimization of Membrane-Type Acoustic Metamaterials” on April 15, 2016, advised by Dr. Lily Wang and earlier by Dr. Siu-Kit Lau!  After graduation, Matt will be joining the U.S. Army Corps of … Continue reading

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Madeline Davidson, M.S.

Congratulations to Madeline Davidson, who successfully defended her M.S. Thesis “Quantification of Time Varying Directivity of Musical Instruments” on April 4, 2016, advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  Madeline has accepted a position with the acoustics group within HDR based in Minneapolis, and will … Continue reading

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Take a 360 Virtual Tour of UNL Architectural Engineering!

The UNL Office of Graduate Studies has released a 360 video that takes prospective graduate students on a virtual tour of the UNL Architectural Engineering Program!  Get an inside look at the Nebraska Acoustics Group Lab (PKI Room 210) and … Continue reading

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Joonhee Lee, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Joonhee Lee, who successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation “The Effects of Tones in Noise on Human Annoyance and Performance” on February 15, 2016, advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  As Joonhee is a fan of seafood, we all went to Bonefish … 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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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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Boyd presents UCARE-sponsored research at Nebraska Summer Research Symposium

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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Hong receives 2015 Martin Hirschorn IAC Prize

Congratulations to Hyun Hong who has been named the recipient of the 2015 Martin Hirschorn IAC Prize awarded for a Graduate Student Project, from the Institute of Noise Control Engineering! Hyun is currently a PhD student in our program, studying … Continue reading

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Lee receives 2015-16 UNL Maude Hammond Fling Fellowship

Congratulations to Joonhee Lee, who has been selected as one of the 2015-16 recipients of the Maude Hammond Fling Fellowship from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln!  This fellowship is one of UNL’s most prestigious graduate honors, awarded to graduate … Continue reading

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