James M. Lynn Professor of Audiology
Interim Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts
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Bachelor of Arts, Speech and Hearing Science
The University of Iowa
Master of Arts, Audiology
The University of Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy, Audiology
The University of Iowa
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Background Jim Lynn claims Ohio as adopted home state after having grown up in Iowa. Originally a music major, he became interested in Audiology while still a freshman. He earned Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral Degrees from the University of Iowa. After a brief period as an audiology faculty member at The Ohio State University, he joined the faculty at The University of Akron, and became Director of the School of Communicative Disorders in 1990. Jim served as the Director of the School from 1990 thorugh 2000. Currently, he serves as Associate Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts.
Interests Jim is interested in a variety of areas. His doctoral work was in the area of speech acoustics and speech perception. At The University of Akron, he developed an interest in evoked potentials. Jim has been a computer nerd for most of his adult life, having learned the basics before microcomputers had been invented. Jim has done computer programming in BASIC and Pascal programming languages for both DOS and Apple operating systems. However, he now spends computer time doing WWWeb pages and playing computer games with his elementary school age child, Kathryn.
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