Old news Feb 5-9, 2007 A continuing education course for logopeds, in Occupational voice disorders was given at KI/Huddinge, under the direction of Maria Södersten and Annika Sääf-Rothoff. Sten Ternström contributed on the Thursday with a lecture and laboratory session, on vocal behaviour in noisy environments. Feb 2, 2007 Voice Science Workshop Day for teachers and students at the University College of Opera, with Johan Sundberg, Sten Ternström and Anick Lamarche. A two-hour morning introductory lecture was followed by afternoon lab sessions on various aspects of phonation and articulation. An interesting and entertaining time was had by all. Jan 12-13, 2007 A pilot experiment was done at the University College of Opera (Operahögskolan), on the feasibility of arranging singing master classes at a distance. Mats Erixon with students, from the new Centre for Sustainable Communications, and a team from TMH comprising Anders Askenfelt, Kahl Hellmer and Sten Ternström, arranged a two-way video link with high-quality stereo sound between separate sound-proof studios. Maestro professor Petteri Salomaa from Helsinki, accompanied by professors Marc Tatlow and Thomas Schuback, instructed second-year students Paulina Pfeiffer and Joa Helgesson across the video/audio link. The outcome was rated by the participants and by a jury of observers. Most of them expressed surprise at the high degree of presence imparted by the technology and at how useful the link seemed to be. June 23, 1999 Symposium 1999 Real-time biofeedback relevant to voice therapy and pedagogy June 23, 1999 Patricia Grammings Minnesfond (in Swedish) March, 1998 Press release     PRESS RELEASE: MARCH 1998 NEW VOICE RESEARCH CENTRE AT KTH How many need a healthy voice in their daily work? What environmental factors affect the voice? What characterises the child voice? How does breathing technique affect the voice? How do country and pop singers use their voices? These and similar questions will be research topics at a new Voice Research Centre now in formation at KTH, Stockholm. The centre is headed by Johan Sundberg, Professor of Music Acoustics in the Department of Speech Music and Hearing which has a long-standing history in voice research. The foundation was laid more than 40 years ago by Professor Emeritus Gunnar Fant, who formulated the acoustic theory of voice production. Under his leadership, the department became renowned worldwide for its pioneering research and scientific expertise in the areas of speech technology and singing voice. Since the human voice has both physical and medical aspects, it has been natural to cooperate across disciplines, primarily with Logopedics and Phoniatrics at the Karolinska Institute, and with the Speech Physiology Group at Stockholm University. The new Voice Research Centre will consolidate and deepen a long and successful cooperation with these and other departments. The voice is one of our most important tools for communication in our daily life. Recent investigations show that almost 40% of the working population is dependent on a healthy voice. This need is felt not only by singers and actors, but also by many other professionals, such as teachers, lawyers, businessmen and women, physicians and nurses. The need for voice care is increasing and it is therefore important to establish a research centre. This is also well justified by Sweden’s prominent position in the major forms of vocal music: opera, choral, pop and rock. Voice, speech and language are different phenomena, although closely related. The voice is the tool, speech is sequences of sound, and language is their organisation and meaning. Disturbances of voice, speech and language are treated at clinics for phoniatrics and logopedics. It is important to describe voice function and to explore how the voice is affected by various external and internal factors. The main goal of the KTH Voice Research Centre is to maintain and develop scientific competence in the speech and singing voice area. The centre will also serve as a forum for interdisciplinary research for Swedish and foreign researchers. A series of international symposia will be arranged during 1998 to mark the inauguration of the KTH Voice Research Centre. The invited speakers at these symposia are internationally leading voice researchers from Sweden and other countries. The themes for the symposia, all to be held at KTH, are: The Voice in our Society (May 8), Breathing and Phonation (September 24-25), Child Voice (September 26-27) and Country & Pop Singing (November 6-7). More information is available on the KTH Voice Research Centre home page on the Internet, http://www.speech.kth.se/voice. You are also welcome to contact the centre directly at KTH Voice Research Centre, Speech Music and Hearing, KTH, SE-100 44 Stockholm, tel +46 8 790 7597 or 790 7873, fax +46 8 790 7854,