One descendant of David Blackstock of the University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

In the first academic genealogy session, held at the 153rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Salt Lake City in 2007, David T. Blackstock displayed a poster detailing the Harvard academic tree leading back to Helmholtz [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121(5, Pt. 2), (2007)]. David also included the tree going up and discussed his Ph.D. and M.S. students. The author of this poster, Bart Lipkens, was one of David’s Ph.D. students. I was a faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University for two years, where I had one Ph.D. student, Shaozeng Dong. I then became a faculty at a predominantly undergraduate teaching institution, Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts. Western New England offers M.S. programs but limited Ph.D. opportunities. Even though my efforts are primarily focused on undergraduate teaching, I continue an acoustics research program, built mostly around M.S. and undergraduate students through a very active program of REUs (research experiences for undergraduates). This program has led several students to pursue further graduate education and careers in acoustics. A review of these students will be given.