Let’s take a moment to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the recent ASA spring award recipients. These individuals have not only showcased unparalleled dedication to their respective fields but have also significantly propelled the boundaries of acoustics through their groundbreaking contributions. To further honor these awardees, let’s look at just a couple of their ASA publications:

Ingo R. Titze received the ASA Gold Medal for contributions to understanding human voice production and the development of clinical applications.

How can vocal folds oscillate with a limited mucosal wave?
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014359

Regulation of laryngeal resistance and maximum power transfer with semi-occluded airway vocalization
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005124

Stan Dosso received the ASA Silver Medal in Acoustical Oceanography for contributions to Bayesian inference methods in ocean acoustics and marine geophysics.

Trans-dimensional inversion for seafloor properties for three mud depocenters on the New England shelf under dynamical oceanographic conditions
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025176

Joint trans-dimensional inversion for water-column sound speed and seabed geoacoustic models
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019706

Keith Wilson received the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Computational Acoustics, Physical Acoustics, and Engineering Acoustics for contributions to computational acoustics, atmospheric acoustics, and national defense and security.

Phase-preserving narrow- and wide-angle parabolic equations for sound propagation in moving media
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0024460

Influence of ground blocking on the acoustic phase variance in a turbulent atmosphere
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020152

Peter D’Antonio received the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal for contributions to theory, design, and application of acoustic diffusers.

A cloud-based 3D BEM framework for predicting the diffusion coefficient
https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001645

Optimizing the signal to noise ratio in speech rooms using passive acoustics
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4801407

Christopher M. Kube received the R. Bruce Lindsay Award for contributions to the understanding of ultrasonic propagation and nonlinearity in polycrystalline materials.

Interaction of elastic waves in solids with quadratic and cubic nonlinearity
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0022381

In-process volumetric sensing of defects in multiple parts during powder bed fusion using ultrasound
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020739

Scott D. Sommerfeldt received the Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education

Solving one-dimensional acoustic systems using the impedance translation theorem and equivalent circuits: A graduate level homework assignment
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0008932

Selecting a new textbook for a graduate level course on vibration and fluid acoustics
https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001425

Julien Bonnel received the Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography

Broadband properties of potential and kinetic energies in an oceanic waveguide
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019545

Machine-learning-based simultaneous detection and ranging of impulsive baleen whale vocalizations using a single hydrophone
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017118

Christopher Shera received the Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience

Crucial 3-D viscous hydrodynamic contributions to the theoretical modeling of the cochlear response
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0016809

Overturning the mechanisms of cochlear amplification via area deformations of the organ of Corti
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014794

While we have highlighted a couple publications from each awardee, it’s important to note that their bodies of work extend far beyond these selections. We encourage everyone to explore the extensive contributions of these remarkable individuals, whose work continues to shape and advance the field of acoustics in profound ways.