Awards and Grants
2026 Journal of Voice: Best Voice Pedagogy Paper
Christian T. Herbst, Brad H. Story, and David P. Meyer. “Acoustical Theory of Vowel Modification Strategies in Belting,”Journal of Voice, 39:5, 2025, 1192-1204, doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2023.01.004
2025 University of Iowa Capture Your Research! Photo Contest
Capture Your Research! is an image competition where students, faculty, and staff submit an image that captures the essence of their research. These are judged on originality/creativity, appeal of the image, relationship between the image and their research, and the clarity of the written description. My 2025 Voice Foundation Symposium Program Cover Image (LINK) came in second place in the Faculty/Research category.
2025 World Voice Training and Rehabilitation Award
Presented in conjunction by DIVA Voice and the International Association of Teachers of Singing (IATS) at their 10thannual conference in Philadelphia. IATS is the largest voice organization in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. I was unable to attend in person due to a schedule conflict: I was singing soli in Handel’s Messiah with the University of Iowa Symphonic Choir and Orchestra.
2023 Shenandoah University Transformative Teaching and Learning Fellowship
This competitive grant provides support for an international study using virtual reality to determine if western-classical singers modify their vocal production in simulated performing spaces.
2022 International Exchanges Grant from the Royal Society in London
This competitive grant supports ongoing research in hybrid CT-MRI modeled vocal tracts, a multi-site collaboration with Dr. David Howard of Royal Holloway College of London, and faculty of the Biomedical Engineering and Medical Schools of the University of Iowa.
2022 Voice Foundation Research Grant
This competitive grant is funding the construction of a dummy head and torso with anatomically modeled auditory and phonatory structures derived from segmented CT and MRI scans. This physical model will be equipped with state-of-the-art electronic transducers to simulate in vivo singing and hearing in an experimental, in simulo environment.
2021 Journal of Voice: Best Clinical Medicine Paper
Matthew Naunheim, Jonathan Bock, Philip Doucette, Matthew Hoch, Ian Howell, Michael Johns, Aaron Johnson, Priya Krishna, David Meyer, Claudio Milstein, John Nix, Michael Pitman, Trineice Robinson-Martin, Adam Rubin, Robert Sataloff, Herbert Steven Sims, Ingo Titze, Thomas Carroll. “Safer Singing During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: What We Know and What We Don’t,” Journal of Voice, 35:5, 2021, p. 765-771, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.06.028 Click to read
2021 Shenandoah University President’s Award
For extraordinary leadership of the university faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2010 Van L. Lawrence Fellowship
Awarded jointly by The Voice Foundation and the Foundation Heritage Fund of the NATS Endowment in recognition of contributions to the art and science of the singing voice.
2008 David W. Brewer Award for Best Poster: Honorable Mention
“Are All Breathing Strategies Equal? An Acoustic Examination of ‘High’ and ‘Low’ Breathing Techniques for Singing.” Poster presentation at the 39th annual symposium Care of the Professional Voice in Philadelphia.