Dr. Ingo Titze named 2024 Gold Medalist of the Acoustical Society of America

Utah Center for Vocology is thrilled to share that our senior scientist, Ingo R. Titze, PhD, has been named 2024 Gold Medalist of the Acoustical Society of America. The Acoustical Society of America (ASA), with some 8000 members worldwide, is part of the American Institute of Physics. Many areas of acoustics are covered by ASA, including architectural acoustics, acoustic oceanography, animal bioacoustics, music acoustics, speech production and perception, noise control, biomedical acoustics, and vibration theory. A Gold Medalist is chosen from these combined areas once a year, the highest recognition of the Society.

                                                                                       

Harvey Fletcher, Head of the former Acoustics Group at Bell Telephone Laboratories and “father of stereophonic sound”, received the award in 1957. For local historical interest, Harvey Fletcher was the father of James C. Fletcher, former University of Utah President. Vern Knudsen, also a native of Utah, received the Gold Medal in 1967 after becoming Chancelor of UCLA. Titze is the third recipient from the State of Utah, and the first from the state of Iowa, where much of his research originated.

Ingo Titze is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah in three departments: Otolaryngology, Biomedical Engineering, and Music. His primary position is Senior Scientist at the Utah Center for Vocology. He is the Founder and current President of the National Center for Voice and Speech. As a retiree, he remains a Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Iowa. He has written over 500 peer-reviewed articles in professional journals, authored five books, and edited two books. He received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in 1965 and a PhD in physics from BYU in 1972 under the mentorship of William J. Strong.

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As an avid singer, much of Ingo’s studies have focused on the singing voice. In the years 2000-2009, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts provided large laboratory and voice training spaces for his work with professional actors and singers.

Other major recognitions have been Honoree of the American Speech, Language, Hearing Association (2010), ASA Silver Medalist in Speech Communication (2007), first elected President of the Pan American Vocology Association (2015), and the Sundberg-Titze Award (2020) granted yearly by the Voice Foundation in Philadelphia. He gave a Forum Lecture at BYU in 1998 and the Presidential Lecture at the University of Iowa in 2001.

                                                                     

Titze is known as the Father of Vocology, a word and discipline he helped coin and originate in 1990. Vocology is the study of vocalization in humans and animals. The ASA Gold Medal is "For contributions to understanding human voice production and the development of clinical applications."

Dr. Titze will be presented with the Gold Medal at the ASA meeting May 15, 2024 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Contacts for interviews or further information:

Lynn Maxfield and Angie Keeton, Utah Center for Vocology, University of Utah, Lynn.maxfield@utah.edu; Angie.Keeton@utah.edu

 

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