Announcements

Fourth-year PhD student and doctoral candidate Philip Kaufinger presented a Grad Skills Seminar on Inkscape, a graphic design tool for technical writing, at the Student Chapter meeting on Friday, September 19th, 2025. Philip demonstrated how to draw shapes, insert LaTeX equations, format plots,...

The McKinney Fellows presented on their research at the McKinney Fellows Symposium held in the D. T. Blackstock Auditorium at the Applied Research Laboratories on Thursday, September 18th, 2025. The current McKinney Fellows are (from left to right in the picture below) Anika Cho, Cassidy Christie,...

Doctoral students Cassidy Christie and Chirag Gokani organized an acoustics workshop on June 5th, 2025, for high-school students participating in the day camp "STEM in Art and Sound" organized by Women in STEM (WiSTEM) at UT Austin. The workshop consisted of an introductory acoustics lecture, a...

Several students from the Austin ASA recently attended the 188th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in New Orleans. Below are abstracts presented by students associated with our Chapter: Student presenter Abstract title Blaine GilbertCoupled-mode theory for guided acoustic waves with...

Cassidy Christie was elected to the ASA Student Council as the student representative for the Biomedical Acoustics Technical Committee! As a member of the Student Council, Cassidy will assist with planning student events at ASA meetings, connecting students through the SONIC program, and taking...

Alicia Casacchia successfully defended her dissertation, "Advances in the acoustic characterization of materials via integration of collateral techniques," on April 10th, 2025. Congratulations, Alicia! Alicia's dissertation can be read here. Alicia holds a B.S. in physics from North Central...

Philip Kaufinger was elected to the ASA Student Council as the student representative for the Computational Acoustics Technical Committee! As a member of the Student Council, Philip will assist with planning student-centered events at ASA meetings, connecting graduate students across disciplines...

Congratulations to the McKinney fellows who presented on their research as graduate students for the annual McKinney Fellows Symposium! The Chester M. McKinney Graduate Fellowship in Acoustics is awarded annually to one incoming student to the acoustics program, providing the opportunity to...

AJ Lawrence successfully defended his dissertation, "On acoustic multiple scattering from Willis media," on July 30th, 2024. Congratulations, AJ! AJ holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to beginning his graduate studies at UT Austin, AJ was a...