Final Doctoral Recital

Jazz, Drums, Percussion, Jeremy Carlstedt. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

Final Doctoral Recital

Oboe, Grażyna Bacewicz, Nadia Boulanger, Elliott Carter, Jean Coulthard, Darius Milhaud, Simon Sargon. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

Final Doctoral Recital

Viola, Dimitri Shostakovich, York Bowen. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

Tripping the Telematic Fantastic: Adventures in Presenting Telematic Musicing at In-Person Conferences in 2024

This article documents my challenges, successes, and what I learned while demonstrating what I describe as telematic musicing at six academic conferences in the U.S., Scotland, Finland, and Lithuania in 2024. Through personal narrative, autoethnography, and audience reactions, I share observations and conclusions I drew as a result of demoing telematic musicing to different audiences. I outline the technological and attitudinal challenges I encountered at the conferences and assess whether I was able to resolve them. I also discuss the need to strike and maintain a balance between hardware, software, and what Peter Neumann calls “peopleware.” Finally, I reflect on the sustainability and viability of fully online telematic musicing using commercial internet and my personal reasons for continuing to make music with others

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Evidence-Based Guidelines into Nursing Education

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies are transforming the healthcare system and patient care delivery. Due to this, there is an essential need for faculty to incorporate AI into the nursing curriculum to educate students about its use and improve preparation for clinical practice. This practice-based article addresses the integration of AI into nursing education for students using AI-driven academic learning activities. These activities, created in alignment with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials, explore clinical decision-making by comparing AI recommendations to evidence-based guidelines. Students are tasked with reflecting on AI’s accuracy and the ethical implications of technology in academia and practice. This article highlights the importance of responsible AI use in conjunction with critical thinking and evidence-based care. Through the integration of AI into education, students can develop the necessary skills and tools to provide safe and quality care to patients in a technology-driven healthcare system

Exploring the Connection Between Teaching Frameworks and Policies for Assessing Teaching

Most faculty policies aimed at faculty review or assessment of teaching do not include specific teaching criteria and standards but instead lean heavily on student evaluations and peer review of teaching. This approach provides no concrete path for using assessment in a feedback loop that enables teachers to improve teaching. Implementing teaching frameworks can improve feedback loops and assessment policies by providing specific criteria and standards. Developing teaching effectiveness frameworks and connecting them to teaching assessment policies can be a critical step in advancing institutional change initiatives focused on teaching effectiveness. This critical alignment enables sustainable and meaningful change. This article explores positive outcomes from aligning institutional teaching assessment policies to teaching frameworks as the primary means of assessing teaching: creating a shared language, strengthening the role of formative feedback, building up the role of faculty development throughout the career span, and creating transparent and reliable expectations for faculty reviews

Final Doctoral Recital

Cello, Ludwig van Beethoven. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

La quarta via, Aulò, Oltre i bordi e Maka: attività didattiche

Queste attività didattiche si propongono di esplorare quattro documentari sulla cultura postcoloniale in Italia: La quarta via, Aulò, Oltre i bordi e Maka. Ogni film ha come protagonista una scrittrice africana italiana, rispettivamente Kaha Mohamed Aden, Ribka Sibhatu, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah e Geneviève Makaping. Ciascuna sezione presenta un breve riassunto della trama, comprende domande sulle storie di Somalia, Eritrea, Camerun e Italia e sullo stile cinematografico (suoni, uso delle luci, fotografia). Le attività esplorano questioni relative all’appartenenza nazionale, alla rappresentazione degli immigrati nei media, alla spazializzazione della memoria e alle geografie intime e affettive che caratterizzano le culture degli immigrati

The Zone: Hyperintimacy in Telemersive Performance

This article explores how immersive technologies can create intimate connections between physically separated people through the telematic performance titled The Zone. The project links two stage spaces—one for a performer and one for an audience member—using advanced technologies including volumetric video, 3D scanning, spatial audio, motion capture, and augmented reality. Developed at the Institute of Computer Music and Sound Technology at the Zurich University of the Arts, these Extended Reality (XR) tools enable what we call hyperintimacy—an enhanced form of connection that transcends physical distance through immersive telepresence. Despite the artificial technological context, participants experience genuine encounters that balance digital mediation with human connection

THE FOURTH ROAD, AULÒ, BEYOND THE FRAME, AND MAKA: A STUDY GUIDE

This study guide is aimed to help students explore four documentaries about postcolonial culture in Italy: The Fourth Road, Aulò, Beyond the Frame, and Maka. It is the result of a reflection and collective work by a professor who wrote the films and a teaching assistant and previous student of a course on migration studies. Each film features a prominent African Italian writer, respectively Kaha Mohamed Aden, Ribka Sibhatu, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah and Geneviève Makaping. After a brief plot summary, the study guide includes questions about various elements of cinematic style, such as sound, lighting, and genre conventions. It also explores themes related to migration cultures, including the feelings of multiple belonging and unbelonging experienced by immigrants. Additionally, the guide investigates spatial issues such as ghettoization, the spatialization of memory, and the concept of intimate and affective geography. Specific questions address the histories of Somalia, Eritrea, Cameroon, and Italy