Larry
E. Humes is currently Distinguished Professor, Department of Speech and
Hearing
Sciences, Indiana University. He received his Master’s degree in
clinical audiology from Central Michigan University and his Ph.D. in
audiology and hearing science from Northwestern University. He has
been at Indiana University since 1986, serving as department chair
from 1996-2001, and prior to that was on the faculty at Vanderbilt
University for eight years. He has served on the editorial board for
the Journal of the
American Academy of Audiology
and the Australian
Journal of Audiology,
as Section Editor or Associate Editor for Ear
and Hearing and the
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research,
and as Editor-for-Hearing for the latter journal. Professor Humes chaired a committee
of the National Academies’
Institute of Medicine whose report examined evidence of noise-induced
hearing loss and tinnitus in military veterans since the 1940s. He
has over 160 scholarly publications and more than 230 presentations
on a variety of topics in audiology and hearing science. His most
recent research activities have been focused on age-related changes
in auditory perception, including speech-recognition ability, and on
outcome measures for hearing aids. Professor Humes is a Fellow of
the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA), the
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and the
Acoustical Society of America. He received the Honors of the
Association from ASHA in 2007 and was awarded the Alfred E. Kawana
Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications from ASHA in 2008. In
2008, he received the
James Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology from the American
Academy of Audiology and a Presidential Award from the academy in 2010.
