Background
Tosi, Oscar I. was born on June 17, 1929 in Trento, Italy. Came to the United States, 1962, naturalized, 1973. Son of Mario and Ethel (Manescu) Tosi.
Tosi, Oscar I. was born on June 17, 1929 in Trento, Italy. Came to the United States, 1962, naturalized, 1973. Son of Mario and Ethel (Manescu) Tosi.
Doctor of Science cum laude, National University Buenos Aires, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1965.
Association professor physics, National U. Buenos Aires, 1952-1962;
assistant professor acoustics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1966-1968;
associate professor, Michigan State University, 1968-1971;
professor, Michigan State University, since 1971. Director Speech and Hearing Laboratory, since 1970. Assistant dean (research) College Communication Arts and Sciences, 1972-1976.
Expert witness voice identification in federal, state courts, United States, Canada and Europe. Founder, director International Association Voice Identification, Inc., Lansing, since 1971. Member committee oneval. sound spectrograms National Academy Sciences, since 1976.
Appointed honorary deputy attorney general State of Louisiana, 1978. Fellow International Collegium of Experimental Phoniatrics and Communication Sciences. Member International Collegium Phonology (secretary-general since 1980), International Association Phoniatrics and Logopedics, Acoustical Society of America (staff member technical committee speech communication 1974-1977), American Speech and Hearing Association, American Association Teachers Physics, International Association Phonetics, Opera Guild Greater Lansing (founder 1973), Italian American Club of Lansing.