The AES Educational Foundation Board has made their decisions for academic year 2026/2027

Graduate Student Awards

AES Educational Foundation Scholarship Grants were awarded to the following AES members:

Nelly Victoria Alexandra Garcia Sihuay, Queen Mary University of London

Jiaxiang Zhang, McGill University

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The Garry Margolis Scholarship was presented to: Samuel Brian Courtney, University of Miami.

The Nancy Flannery Memorial Scholarship to: Yiping Han, University of York.

The Genelec Mike Chaffee Scholarship was awarded to: Nancy Rico-Mineros, Stanford University (CCRMA)

The Emil Torick Scholarship was awarded to: Hilla Inbar, New York University

The L-Acoustics Dr. Christian Heil Future of Sound Scholarship was awarded to: Facundo Franchino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Ilpo Martikainen Audio Visionary Scholarship was awarded to: Najla Silmi, University of Rochester

The John Eagle Scholarship was awarded to: Kyosuke Sato, Tokyo University of the Arts

The Olive Excellence in Audio Award was presented to: Alexander Akstens, Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

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Undergraduate Student Award

The recipient of the Mary Lea Simpson Scholarship Award: Armando Buendia, Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Puebla, Mexico

The William ‘Bil’ Thomas VornDick Memorial Scholarship was awarded to: Nathaniel Dickson, Belmont University

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Congratulations!

Jim Anderson, President AES Educational Foundation