The Larry and Julia Royster Student Scholarship Award
The Larry and Julia Royster Scholarship Award is made possible through a generous contribution by Larry and Julia Royster. The award is made by the Acoustical Society of America after a poster competition is conducted by one or two Regional or Student Chapters each year.
Competition entrants must be full-time graduate students enrolled in a program involving acoustics or senior undergraduate students expecting to enroll in such a program who present posters on Hearing Conservation or Noise Control topics including Education, Sound Surveys, Engineering and Administrative Controls, Hearing Protection, Audiometric Evaluations.
The full details and rules on holding a Royster Competition can be found in the following document: Royster Student Scholarship Award Program
Larry and Julia Royster with North Carolina Poster Competition Participants
Recipients have been:
- 2003
Patricio Ravetta, Virginia Tech,
Phased Array Technology Development at Virginia Tech, Concept and Application to Landing Gear Noise
- 2004
Kyle Schwartz, Virginia Tech,
Natural Hearing Restoration for Encapsulating Helmets
Nerissa McCoy, Virginia Tech,
Acoustical Design of Restaurants
- 2005
Noah Schiller, Virginia Tech,
Numerical simulation of an aircraft style panel excited by a random pressure field
Om Deshmukh, University of Maryland,
Speech enhancement using modified phase opponency model
- 2006
Steven Lovestedt and Jared Thomas, Brigham Young University
Active noise control for multiple stationary sinusoids in helicopter noise
Rahul Kadam, Virginia Tech
Computational Model for Vibro-Acoustic Simulation of a Pneumatic Chipping Hammer
- 2007
Lisa J. Burton, Duke University
Acoustic performance of sound attenuating ducts utilizing spatially periodic area changes with absorbing material
- 2008 – No Award
- 2009
Qing Yang, University of Florida
Zachary Collins, Brigham Young University
Interior Fourier Near-field Acoustical Holography Using Energy Density
- 2010
Tom-Davy Saux, Virginia Tech,
Active Noise Control of a Portable Generator Set
- 2011
Ryan Harne, Virginia Tech
A study of the concurrent attenuation of and energy harvesting from surface vibrations
Alan T. Wall, Brigham Young University
Military Jet Noise: Near-field Acoustical Holography of the F-22 Raptor
- 2012
Andy Christian, Pennsylvania State University
Towards a Consistent Near-Airport Flight Procedure Optimization Algorithm for Noise Mitigation
- 2013
Ravish Mehra, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Wave-Ray Coupling for Interactive Sound Propagation in Large Complex Scenes
Vijaya N. S. Sriram Malladi, Virginia Tech
Characterization of acoustic emissions with ambient noise using a novel Continuous Acoustic Scanning Technique (CAST)
- 2014
Blaine Harker and Brent Reichman, Brigham Young University
Quantifying the Impulsive Nature of Jet Noise
- 2015
Cody Elston, Rush University
Effects of Varying Rates of Speech on Comprehension and Memorization for Young Adults
Ni Sui, North Carolina State University
Method attaching a metamaterial to a honeycomb structure achieve strong low-frequency sound blockage with very light weight
- 2016
Kieren H. Smith, Brigham Young University
Preserving Musician Hearing at BYU
Nicholas Morales, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Acoustic Material Optimization
- 2017
Atul Rungta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Diffraction Kernels for Interactive Sound Propagation
Nikhil JRK Gerard, North Carolina State University
Acoustic Metasurface for Planar Sound Shielding.
- 2018
Brian Patchett, Brigham Young University
Shockwave Generation Using Time Reversal Acoustics to Test Hearing Protection Equipment
Kevin Leete, Brigham Young University
Coherence Analysis of the Simulated Sound Field from a Highly-heated Supersonic Jet
- 2019
Kieren H. Smith, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Relationship of time-logged acoustic conditions in K-12 classrooms with other environmental parameters