The Hugh Knowles Prize
The Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement is awarded periodically to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to research or clinical practice in the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of hearing disorders. Nominations for the prize may be submitted at any time to Mario Ruggero, chairman of the selection committee.
The 2008 Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement
 Bev Wright, Hugh Knowles Center Director and Brian Moore prize recipient. Presented to The Hugh Knowles Center honored Dr. Moore with an award of $20,000. Dr. Moore delivered a lecture titled: Processing of temporal fine structure by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. Thank you Dr. Moore for your wonderful visit to Northwestern University.Dr. Moore was selected as the 2008 winner for his contributions to the understanding of auditory perception in individuals with normal hearing and hearing impairment. His research interests include the perception of sound, mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairment, relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception, design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss, methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual, design and specification of high-fidelity sound-reproducing equipment, and the perception of music and of musical instruments. |
Past Recipients
2005 Peter Dallos
2000 A. James Hudspeth
1997 David M. Green
1995 David Kemp
1992 Josef J. Zwislocki
Prize Selection Committee: Mario A. Ruggero, PhD, Northwestern University; Chairman Judy Dubno, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina; David M. Green, PhD, University of Florida (emeritus); Ervin Hafter, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; A. James Hudspeth, MD, PhD, Rockefeller University; Eric D. Young, PhD, Johns Hopkins University; Josef J. Zwislocki, ScD, Syracuse University
