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OU Graduate Collin Abdallah Awarded Newman Medal for Acoustical Research

Collin Abdallah with his Robert Bradford Newman Medal for Merit in Architectural Acoustics.

OU Graduate Collin Abdallah Awarded Newman Medal for Acoustical Research


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May 30, 2018

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2018 OU B.Arch graduate Collin Abdallah was recently awarded the Robert Bradford Newman Medal Award for excellence in acoustics based on his 2017-2018 contributions to Associate Professor Butko’s Gallery Acoustics Research Project (also known as the “sOUnd lab”). The medal, funded through the Acoustical Society of America Newman Fund, was accompanied by $300 and a variety of architectural acoustics books. Collin is the fourth OU student to receive this prestigious award since 2011. 

For more information about acoustical research at OU, please contact Dan Butko (butko@ou.edu).


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