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[AUDITORY] Student & Postdoc funding opportunity - ASA Spring 2018



Dear List,

We are once again offering travel awards for students and postdocs to attend and present invited talks at the Acoustical Society of America’s (ASA) Spring meeting. Details regarding the travel award are included below. 

Please forward this notice to your students and postdocs who are doing research on clinical and physiological acoustics topics, particularly those who have not had the opportunity to attend ASA meetings in the past.

~Anna
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Anna C. Diedesch, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A
Assistant Professor
Western Washington University 
Communication Sciences & Disorders


Acoustical Society of America Travel Award Opportunity

An initiative of the Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Technical Committee 175th Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 7-11 May 2018

The Psychological and Physiological (P&P) Acoustics Technical Committee of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) will fund 6 students or post-docs to attend and present invited talks at the ASA’s spring 2018 meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Travel awards will be granted to 3 individuals with research related to clinical topics and 3 individuals relating to topics in physiological research relevant to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. Precedence will be given to first-time attendees to an Acoustical Society meeting. Membership in the Acoustical Society of America is not required.

Awardees will be assigned to present an invited talk in a special session titled “Acoustics Outreach: Planting Seeds for Future Clinical and Physiological Collaborations '18” (award recipients must present the talks), $750 for travel expenses, and will be introduced to several P&P mentors at the meeting.

A goal of this award is to promote translational research and expose clinical and physiology researchers to the Acoustical Society, whose mentors may not normally attend ASA meetings.

Applications must include:

  • A cover letter – limit one page

  • An abstract for a podium presentation – limit of 200 words (applicants must be

    the first author and make the presentation)

  • A letter of recommendation

  • A current CV

    Cover letter should include a statement of interest in interdisciplinary research, how your research is relevant to psychological and physiological acoustics, a background on your education and area of study, and a statement of financial need for attending an ASA meeting. Please compile documents into one pdf file. Letter of recommendation may come from a mentor or colleague, and may be emailed separately.

    Deadline for the travel award is Friday, November 3, 2017. Please email applications to Anna C. Diedesch: Anna.Diedesch@xxxxxxx

    Applicants will be informed of the decisions on November 13, 2017