Science Communication Award 2025

Nomination/Application Deadline: 13 October 2025

The deadline has passed.

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) offers Science Communication Awards in Acoustics to recognize excellence in the communication of acoustics-related topics to a popular audience.

The 2025 awards will include content created between 1 March 2023 and 1 October 2025. If you have read, heard, viewed or created acoustics-related content during this period, please nominate it!

Nominated entries will be judged according to their general accessibility, relevance to acoustics, accuracy, and quality. Eligible media formats include newspaper and magazine articles, videos, podcasts, social media content, books, and websites. The ASA will consider nominations, including self-nominations, of  ASA members and non-members alike.  Multiple entries by a single author are accepted and will be judged separately.

Each award recipient will receive a cash prize of USD$2500 and travel support to attend an ASA meeting where the awards will be presented. For entries with multiple authors/creators, only a single author/creator will receive the travel reimbursement and the cash prize is to be split between all co-authors.

Submit entries online by 13 October 2025. Be prepared to provide the following information:

Submission form

Category: journalist, science communicator, or acoustics professional
Name, address, email address of all author/s, creator/s, producer/s (indicate senior author when applicable)
Nominator’s contact information if not a self-nomination
Title of entry and date and name of publication, host site, or broadcaster
Medium: print, online, TV or radio broadcast
Circulation: number of viewers, page views, subscribers, listeners, etc.
Description of significance of work
ASA Member ID (members only)