Michelle Vigeant, assistant professor of acoustics and architectural engineering, was recently elected a member of the Acoustical Society of America executive council.
Dan Russell, professor of acoustics at Penn State, is the recipient of the Acoustical Society of America’s 2017 Student Council Mentor Award. Russell was recognized for his exceptional ability in guiding the academic and/or professional growth of his students and junior colleagues.
Michelle Vigeant, assistant professor of acoustics at Penn State, will use funding from a recent 3M Company award to extend her research in improving concert hall design for better room acoustics.
Penn State's Graduate Program in Acoustics recognized four students for their outstanding research papers during the annual acoustics awards luncheon held April 7 at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Blue-White Weekend attendees and the general public are invited to the Penn State Blue-White Science Expo, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22, in the HUB. The expo offers the community a chance to show their support for research while learning about the newest work from 17 of Penn State’s research faculty. A complete schedule and registration form for tickets is available at http://research.psu.edu/expo.
Penn State researchers are using information technology to virtually recreate and study concert hall acoustics.
Vic Sparrow, director of Penn State’s graduate program in acoustics, has been invited to deliver the Rayleigh Lecture during the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Nov. 11-17 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Graduate student Peter Kerrian uses the field of acoustics to help a popular golf club manufacturer analyze the sounds made by its drivers.
Ten students in Penn State’s graduate program in acoustics were recognized at the annual acoustics awards luncheon held April 22 at the Nittany Lion Inn. This year’s luncheon was the culmination of the program’s 50th anniversary.
Noisy gymnasiums, restaurants where conversations are nearly impossible and concert halls less than perfect for the music are all acoustical problems. Now Penn State acoustical engineers are using functional MRI to better understand room acoustics and the emotions they can cause.
Victor W. Sparrow, professor of acoustics at Penn State, has been named director of the Graduate Program in Acoustics in the College of Engineering.
Three acoustics doctoral students were awarded the Michiko So Finegold Award by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering at its Noise-Con 2013 event in Denver, Colo., at the end of August.
For aspiring major leaguers, one of the most painful aspects of learning the game is dealing with the sting of the bat's handle when a baseball is hit incorrectly. "If you hit the ball in the wrong place, it creates a vibration that hurts," said Daniel Russell, professor of acoustics and director of acoustics distance education at Penn State. But work by Russell is helping to soften the sting through a vibration absorber built into a bat's knob.
Eleven graduate students from the College of Engineering have received 2013 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
A dozen acoustics graduate students were honored for their research and publishing efforts at the program's awards luncheon April 8 at the Atherton Hotel in State College, Pa.
