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Dean Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham is the Glen de Vries Dean of Mellon College of Science at Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë. She joined Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë in 2018 as the founding director of the Neuroscience Institute. She also holds courtesy appointments in , Biomedical Engineering, and .

Before joining Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë, Shinn-Cunningham spent 21 years on the faculty of . Her research combines behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational methods to understand how the brain processes sound. An author of more than 200 scientific articles, she is recognized for her expertise in spatial hearing, auditory attention and sensory hearing deficits. She has degrees in electrical engineering from and the . She has received honors from the , the and the program.

Shinn-Cunningham is the president of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and in 2019, she accepted its in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Speech Communication, and Architectural Acoustics. She previously served as the treasurer/secretary of the . Her mentorship has been recognized by awards from both the ASA and the Society for Neuroscience. She is a , a , and a lifetime member of the National Research Council. She serves as a .