By SVG Staff
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 – 11:05 am
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The Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation has announced the recipients of AES Scholarships and Grants for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Audio Engineering for the 2025/2026 academic year. These awards are funded through generous contributions from benefactors – including EAW, Eventide, Genelec, L-Acoustics, Sean Olive and WSDG – and from the estates of John Eargle, Emil Torick, and in memory of Garry Margolis and Mary Lea Simpson. Other donations come from in-memoriam donors and individuals and companies that support education in audio.
Since its establishment in 1984, the Foundation has awarded grants for graduate studies to hundreds of exceptional applicants, many of whom have gone on to prominent and successful careers in the audio engineering industry.
“The AES Educational Foundation proudly recognizes the drive and ingenuity of the world’s leading audio engineering students with awards that pay tribute to our industry’s pioneers,” said Jim Anderson, President of the AES Educational Foundation. “We’re privileged to support these talented scholars as they advance their studies and research. We congratulate this year’s awardees and encourage all audio students to continue on their path as we strive together to make the industry stronger.”
The distinguished recipients of the AES Educational Foundation awards for the 2025/2026 academic year are as follows:
AES Educational Foundation Scholarship Grants were bestowed upon the following deserving individual students:
In addition, the Mary Lea Simpson Memorial Scholarship was given to William Heilbraun, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. The award provides tuition assistance for the final year of studies to an undergraduate student entering senior year at a North American college or university audio engineering/recording arts program.
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