Honored Women

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WIA Luncheon Honorees

2007 – Katherine S. Harris – For pioneering research and leadership in speech production and dedicated service to the Society.
2008 – Patricia K. Kuhl – For contributions to understanding how children acquire spoken language and for leadership in the Society.
2020 – Judy R. Dubno – For contributions to understanding age-related hearing loss and for leadership in the acoustics community.

1987 – Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac – For outstanding contributions to developing an improved understanding of the dynamic response of electret transducers and noise propagation in urban environments.
1995 – Beverly A. Wright – For contributions to the understanding of auditory processing of complex sound.
2001 – Purnima Ratilal – For contributions to the theory of wave propagation and scattering through a waveguide, and to the acoustic remote sensing of marine life.
2003 – Dani Byrd – For research in motor control and timing in speech production.
2005 – Lily M. Wang – For contributions to room and musical acoustics.
2009 – Kelly Benoit-Bird – For contributions in marine ecological acoustics.
2013 – Eleanor P. J. Stride – For contributions to biomedical application of bubbles.
2016 – Megan S. Ballard – For contributions to underwater acoustic propagation modeling and inversion techniques in acoustical oceanography.

2001 – Ilene J. Busch Vishniac – For development of novel electret microphones and of micro-electro-mechanical sensors and positioners.

1981 – Carleen M. Hutchins – For outstanding contributions and leadership in the development of a new violin family of musical instruments, and for leadership in the acoustical research on bowed string musical instruments.

2017 – Evgenia Zabolotskaya – For contributions to nonlinear acoustics and bubble dynamics.

1997 – Patricia K. Kuhl – For contributions to the understanding of innate and learned aspects of speech perception and production.
2005 – Katherine S. Harris – For research and leadership in speech production.
2008 – Winifred Strange – For contributions to understanding speech perception.
2014 – Sheila E. Blumstein – For contributions to understanding how acoustic signals are transformed into linguistic representations.
2020 – Anne Cutler – For contributions to understanding speech recognition by native and non-native listeners, and leadership in speech science.

2019 – Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham – Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Speech Communication, and Architectural Acoustics – For contributions to understanding the perceptual, cognitive, and neural bases of speech perception in complex acoustic environments