Dr. Erica Ryherd joins Nebraska Engineering

Welcome to Dr. Erica Ryherd!

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Erica Ryherd as one of the newest faculty members in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln!  Dr. Ryherd received a BS in Architectural Engineering from Kansas State University and a PhD in Architectural Engineering from UNL in 2006, specializing in acoustics.  She was a postdoctoral researcher in Occupational & Environmental Medicine at the Gothenburg University Sahlgrenska Academy of Medicine in Sweden, funded by the Acoustical Society of America F.V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2006-07.  Prior to joining UNL, she was on the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Georgia Tech.  One of her primary research interests is in understanding and improving hospital soundscapes.  As a matter of fact, Dr. Ryherd will be presenting “Healthy Soundscapes: Bridging the Gaps between Engineering, Architecture and Medicine”, this Thursday September 11, 2014 at 2 PM EST, as part of the Center for Health Design’s ICONS and Innovators Webinar Series.  Click here to register now!