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Lauren Ronsse receives 1st Place Student Paper Award!

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Lily Wang

Congratulations to Lauren Ronsse, a recent PhD graduate from our program!  Lauren has received the 1st place Student Paper Award in Architectural Acoustics for her presentation “Impacts of Classroom Acoustics on Elementary Student Achievement” at the recent Acoustical Society of America … Continue reading →

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Lauren Ronsse receives ASA Women in Acoustics Young Investigator Travel Award

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Lily Wang

Lauren Ronsse, a recent PhD graduate from our program, received one of two Young Investigator Travel Awards given by the Acoustical Society of America’s Women in Acoustics Committee, to present her paper “Impacts of Classroom Acoustics on Elementary Student Achievement” … Continue reading →

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2011 NCAC Travel Award to Caleb Sieck

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Lily Wang

Caleb Sieck, an MS student, has received one of the inaugural 2011 National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC) Student Travel Awards, to present his paper “Modeling Treatments to Reduce Sound Transmission through an Open Window into a Room: Effect of … Continue reading →

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Active Noise Barrier for Traffic Noise

Posted on October 8, 2011 by NAGadmin

A new article by Carl Hart and Dr. Siu-Kit Lau has just come out in Journal of Sound and Vibration: “Active Noise Control with Linear Control Source and Sensor Arrays for A Noise Barrier“. This work aims to test the … Continue reading →

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Classroom Acoustics Affect Student Achievement

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Lily Wang

A new article based on Lauren Ronsse’s PhD work has just come out in Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine: “Classroom Acoustics Affect Student Achievement”!  There has been a great deal of previous research, indicating how noise in classrooms can impact speech intelligibility; … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Dr. David Bradley!

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Lily Wang

We are so proud of our alum, Dr. David Bradley, who recently received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his project “Quantification of Acoustic Scattering from Stochastic Fractal Surfaces”! David is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics at Vassar College, … Continue reading →

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