Welcome to the Robert Bradford Newman Fund Homepage

Robert Bradford Newman, a founding member of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., 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.

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:

1. Newman Medals for students
2. Schultz Grants for educators
3. Student Design Competition, co-sponsored with the Acoustical Society of America Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics and the National Council of Acoustical Consultants with generous financial support from the Wenger Foundation


• Announcement of the 2010 Student Design Competition, to be judged at the Baltimore ASA meeting, April 19-23, 2010
• 2009 Results (Portland)
• 2008 Results (Paris)
• 2007 Results (Salt Lake City)
• 2006 Results (Providence)
• 2005 Results (Vancouver)
• 2004 Results (New York City)
• 2003 Results (Nashville)
• 2002 Results (Pittsburgh)
• 2001 Results (Chicago)

Click here to download some past and present Newman Fund Newsletters!

View of 2005 Student Design Competition in Vancouver