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Blevins receives 2015 Leo Beranek Student Medal

Congratulations to Matthew Blevins who has been awarded a 2015 Leo Beranek Student Medal from the Institute of Noise Control Engineering for excellence in the study of noise control (graduate level)!  Blevins was honored for his research on using impedance-mobility models … Continue reading

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NAG at ASA Conference in Pittsburgh (May 2015)

A number of NAG members participated in the last ASA conference in Pittsburgh (May 18-22, 2015).  Matt Blevins, Madeline Davidson, and Joonhee Lee all presented technical papers that were well-received.  We are also very proud of Jay Bliefnick who received a commendation award … Continue reading

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Stuart Shell, M.S.

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 named 2015 recipient of ASA Student Council Mentoring Award

Dr. Lily Wang has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 ASA Student Council Mentoring Award.  She will receive the award at the upcoming Acoustical Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh, on Wednesday May 20, 2015, during the student … Continue reading

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Wang participates in EPA Healthy Schools STAR Kick-off

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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Bliefnick selected as ASA Student Council rep

Congratulations to Jay Bliefnick, who has been selected to be the representative to the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Student Council, for the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics (TCAA) over the upcoming two-year term!  Jay recently matriculated as a PhD student in our program, after finishing … Continue reading

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Dr. Lily Wang leads EPA grant to study school environments

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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‘People Behind the Science’ Podcast: Dr. Lily Wang

Dr. Lily Wang was featured on a recent podcast, ‘People Behind the Science’, as interviewed by host Dr. Marie McNeely.  If you have 47 minutes to spare sometime, take a listen (… although Dr. Wang admits she hasn’t had the … Continue reading

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NAG at Internoise 2014 in Melbourne (Nov 2014)

Dr. Lily Wang and two PhD students (Zhao ‘Ellen’ Peng and Joonhee Lee) presented technical papers at Internoise 2014 in Melbourne, November 16-19, 2014.  Both Ellen and Joonhee received Young Investigator Travel Grants to attend the conference.  The conference was a … Continue reading

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Zhao ‘Ellen’ Peng, Ph.D.

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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