The student Royster Competition is a poster competition held once a year by regional chapters of the Acoustical Society of America for a total of $5,000 in scholarships. The program was established through a grant from Larry and Julia Royster. Full time graduate students enrolled in a program involving acoustics or senior undergraduates expecting to enroll in a program are eligible to submit entries. Posters should cover hearing conservation or noise control subjects.
December 3, 2009 - The Florida Chapter of the Acoustical of America held its first competition. Students from the University of Florida and the University of South Florida submitted the following.
Kristen Doyle, University of South Florida Department of Communication Sciences
Title: Does speech presented in noise prime the semantic and phonological processing of printed target words? Preliminary ERP Evidence
Shawna Dell, University of Florida Department of Communicative Disorders
Title: Noise prevention program effects on knowledge and attittudes towards noise in adolescents
Qing Yang, University of Florida Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: A higher-order spectro-temporal integration model for predicting signal audibility
Lucky Tsaih, University of Florida School of Architecture
Title: Exploring the natural sounscapes
Supraj Anand, University of Florida Department of Communicative Disorders
Title: An acoustic-perceptual study of voice tremor
Savyasachi Singh, University of Florida Department of Communicative Disorders
Title: Automatic quantification of "roughness" in speech using amplitude modulation cues
Congratulations to Qing Yang! Winner of the 2009 Royster Poster Competition