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National News National News Elaine Moran Acoustical Society of America Melville, New York 11747 Applied Science. Miller joined the Engineers in 1998, and a Fellow of the Washington University faculty in 1970 American Institute of Medical and as assistant professor of physics. Since Biological Engineering in 2000. the early 1970s, he has led a team of In 2004, the Acoustical Society of investigators who have focused on America awarded Miller the Silver using ultrasound to determine the Medal in Biomedical Ultrasound/ physics of normal and diseased hearts. Bioresponse to Vibration “for contribu- Professor Miller’s research tions to ultrasonic tissue characteriza- focuses on the physics of anisotropic, tion and quantitative echocardiogra- inherently inhomogeneous media. phy.” Among other honors, Miller was These systematic studies of the the recipient of two Industrial Research anisotropic properties of the heart have and Development IR-100 awards and led to fundamentally new insights. In served as a Sigma Xi National Lecturer. 1998 the National Institutes of Health Miller has been a mentor to 32 doctoral grant supporting this research was and post-doctoral students in ultrasonic James G. Miller awarded MERIT status, which is physics, many of whom have gone on to James G. Miller receives designed to “provide long-term, stable prominent careers. He received the Achievement Award support to investigators whose research Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award James G. Miller has been named competence and productivity are dis- from the Emerson Electric Co. in 2004. the recipient of the Achievement tinctly superior, and who are likely to In addition, over the last three decades Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, continue to perform in an outstanding Miller has guided cardiology fellows Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control manner.” This research has provided from the Washington University School Society “for his outstanding contribu- the basis for significantly improved of Medicine through the physics under- tions to ultrasonic tissue characteriza- diagnostic images of the hearts of pinning echocardiography. Each spring, tion and echocardiography.” The patients and has been incorporated Miller teaches a widely acclaimed award was presented during the IEEE's into commercially available echocar- undergraduate course titled “Physics of International Ultrasonics Symposium, diographic imagers in widespread use the Heart,” for which he received the held October 3-6, 2006, in Vancouver, throughout the world. Current investi- Council of Students of Arts and Sciences British Columbia. gations include studies of heart and Teaching Award in 1990. The Achievement Award is the bone as well as the physics underlying highest Society-wide award presented nonlinear ultrasonic propagation and James E. West awarded honorary to a member of the IEEE Ultrasonics, the consequences on generalized dis- degree by Michigan State University Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control persion relations of requirements of James E. West, a research professor Society in special recognition of out- causality. of electrical and computer engineering standing contributions. Selection crite- Miller received a B.A. in physics at Johns Hopkins University, was ria include significant technical publi- from Saint Louis University and M.A. awarded an Honorary Doctors Degree cations in the field of ultrasonics, ferro- and Ph.D. degrees in physics from in Engineering from Michigan State electrics, or frequency control, as well Washington University in St. Louis. He University on December 9, 2006. He as contributions to these technical is the author of more than 165 manu- was cited for his invention, with fields, and service to the Society. The scripts in critically reviewed journals; Gerhard Sessler, of the electret micro- award consists of an honorarium of more than 95 chapters in books, review phone, for his creation of programs $2,000, a plaque and a certificate. articles and conference proceedings; that encourage minorities and women James G. Miller is the Albert and more than 205 abstracts of talks to consider technology careers, and for Gordon Hill Professor of Physics and presented at national and international the development of the Cooperative director of the Laboratory for meetings. Research Fellowship Program for Ultrasonics in the Department of James Miller was named a Fellow minority doctoral students at Bell Labs. Physics in Arts and Sciences. He also of the American Institute of More than 250 doctorates were award- holds joint appointments as professor Ultrasound in Medicine in 1986, a ed to underrepresented minorities of medicine in the School of Medicine Fellow of the Acoustical Society of through his program. and professor of biomedical engineer- America in 1990, a Fellow of the During his 40-year career, West ing in the School of Engineering and Institute for Electrical and Electronic has earned more than 200 U.S. and for- 44 Acoustics Today, January 2007 James E. West Lily Wang Kenneth Telschow eign patents, and has written or con- very pleased with her abilities and the of Massachusetts—Amherst (1974- tributed to more than 100 technical direction she is taking them.” 1976) and was adjunct professor in papers and several books on acoustics Lily Wang is a Fellow of the physics at UCLA (1973-1974). and the science of electrets. Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Dr. Telschow’s background and West graduated from Temple and currently serves as the Chair of the interests are in the fields of acoustic University with a degree in physics. He Technical Committee on Architectural and ultrasonic properties of is a fellow of many organizations, Acoustics and Chair of the Tutorials microstructures of the solid state, con- including the Acoustical Society of Committee. She is a member of the densed matter and quantum liquids. America, the Institute of Electrical and Committee on Women in Acoustics, Dr. Telschow’s work has led to the pub- Electronics Engineers, and is a member and the Robert Bradford Newman lication of more than 100 articles in of the National Academy of Award Advisory Committee. She was journals and conference proceedings. Engineering. He was inducted into the the 1998-99 F. V. Hunt Postdoctoral National Inventors Hall of Fame in Research Fellow of the ASA and was John Ohala awarded Medal for 1999 for the invention of the electret awarded the R. Bruce Lindsay Award in Scientific Achievement microphone. 2005 “for contributions to room and John Ohala, Professor Emeritus, James West has served the musical acoustics.” Department of Linguistics, member of Acoustical Society of America in many ASA since 1967, ASA Fellow 1995, was roles since becoming a member in 1962 Kenneth Telschow honored for awarded the International Speech including President, ASA Cochair of patent inventions Communication Association (ISCA) the First Pan American Meeting on Kenneth Telschow, consulting sci- Medal for Scientific Achievement at its Acoustics in 2002, and as member and entist at the Idaho National Laboratory, annual meeting held this year in chair of numerous ASA committees. was one of 117 inventors recognized for Pittsburgh, PA, 17-22 October. This He was awarded the ASA’s Silver Medal receiving 61 patents at the 11th Annual medal, the 12th such awarded since in Engineering Acoustics in 1995 and Honors Banquet held by the U.S. 1988, recognizes cumulative scientific its Gold Medal in 2006. Department of Energy’s Idaho National contributions to the field of speech Laboratory on 1 December 2006. He Lily Wang receives education award was one of 4 inventors honored for Lily Wang, assistant professor of generating 10 patents and was cited architectural engineering at the “for work in characterization of materi- University of Nebraska—Lincoln als using acoustic microscopy.” (UNL), received the UNL Excellence in Dr. Telschow is a member of the Graduate Education Award in 2006. Acoustical Society of America. He Ellen Weissinger, executive associate received his Ph.D. degree in physics dean for Graduate Studies, presented the from UCLA in 1973 and has worked at award and said, “Dr. Wang’s advising and the Idaho National Laboratory from mentoring efforts and abilities are best 1984 to the present. left to student letters but words like Previously, he taught physics at ‘enthusiasm,’ ‘listens carefully to ideas,’ Southern Illinois University at ‘shares my excitement,’ ‘encourages stu- Carbondale as a tenured associate pro- dents to broaden their horizons,’ ‘intelli- fessor (1981-1984) and as an assistant gent,’ ‘talented,’ and ‘energetic’ show up professor (1976-1981). He also did repeatedly. Obviously her students are postdoctoral research at the University John Ohala National News 45 communication. His research is cen- tered in experimental phonology and phonetics and ethological aspects of communication, including speech per- ception, sound change, phonetic and phonological universals, psychological aspects of phonology, and sound sym- bolism. Professor Hiroya Fujisaki (University of Tokyo), who introduced Ohala at the opening plenary session of ISCA’s annual meeting, “Interspeech 2006,” noted that Ohala’s “works inte- grate physical phonetics and psycholin- guistics into phonology, and also inte- grates [a] more empirically-based Carolyn Richie Tomlinson Holman phonology into applied domains such Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences eXperiment) Sound System in 1983 to as man-machine communication. from Indiana University— ensure that the soundtrack for the third What makes [Ohala] an extraordinary
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