User:BetsyCohenPhD

Elizabeth A. (Betsy) Cohen is a Brooklyn-born California-based acoustician and engineer for the arts, scholar of music perception, digital archivist, and advocate for music therapy.  First female president of the Audio Engineering Society. First woman to serve on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technology Council. As an Acoustician at Cohen Acoustical Inc. fundamental contributions to architectural acoustics and pitch perception were made public. Organizations like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, CBS Television, Dolby Laboratories, Fraunhofer Labs, The Grateful Dead, NASA-Ames, Paramount, Sony, and Walt Disney Imagineering have used her technological advances. Betsy Cohen, PhD designed the sound for The Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and was the lead acoustician for the Joan and Irving Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, Colorado.

Academia

Cohen received a BA in Music and Physics from Bennington College studying instrument building with Gunnar Schonbeck and composition with Otto Luening, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Acoustics from Stanford University.

Board Contributions

• Sound Preservation Board of the Library of Congress
• Rhythm for Life Foundation
• Institute for Music and Neurologic Function
• AMPAS Science and Technology Council
• Digital Motion Picture Archive Committee
• The Academy Archive Digital Content Project
• National Science Foundation
• Sloan Foundation Stewardship Gap Advisory Group