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The Newman Student Award Fund is named for Robert Bradford Newman, a founding member of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.  He was a faculty member of the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, and of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University for thirty years. He was widely known as a teacher with extraordinary ability to communicate the essentials of architectural acoustics.  Now, you can download audio files and accompanying transcripts of Newman’s architectural acoustic lectures given at MIT in 1970, by clicking on this text to the download site!  A combined PDF file with all of the available lecture transcripts is also available.  More information on Newman’s contributions can be found in this bio from the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

A committee of his friends has developed this program to honor outstanding students at schools of architecture and architectural engineering throughout the world. Students selected for the Newman Medals must have demonstrated excellence in this discipline and in the application of acoustical design principles in the course of their study.

The fund will annually provide individual medal awards at qualifying institutions. It will also strive to support the development of improved teaching methods which promote the study of architectural acoustics, a discipline to which Bob Newman dedicated his life.
The Robert Bradford Newman Fund currently sponsors three programs:

Click here to download the policies and procedures of the Newman Fund Advisory Committee (last revised in Spring 2011).

Click here to download excerpts of the ASA Echoes Newsletter, discussing the Newman Fund’s 25th Anniversary Special Session, held at the ASA meeting in Seattle, May 2011.

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