{"id":1508,"date":"2017-07-06T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/?page_id=1508"},"modified":"2019-02-25T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:40:03","slug":"may-8-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/explore-peabody\/deans-office\/from-the-dean\/may-8-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"May 8, 2017: Dean\u2019s Incentive Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>May 8, 2017: Dean\u2019s Incentive Grants<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Dean\u2019s Incentive Grants<\/strong>\u00a0provide grant funding to seed faculty- and student-led projects that focus on innovation, interdisciplinary initiatives, or community partnerships to advance Peabody\u2019s goals.\u00a0 Faculty and students were asked to submit proposals for new initiatives, programs, events, or projects that fall into one or more of three categories, and of the dozen received, three were selected.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients for the Spring 2017 Dean\u2019s Incentive Grant are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yian Hwang<\/strong><br \/>\nGraduate student, Computer Music<br \/>\n<strong>Category<\/strong>: Interdisciplinary, Innovation<br \/>\n<strong>Project<\/strong>: \u201c<u>The Trace of Life<\/u>\u201d \u2013 Create an interdisciplinary composition which explores issue of life and death by combining computer music composition, neuroscience, instrumental performance, visual arts and solo dance. Performances will be in Baltimore and in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cynthia Sun<\/strong><br \/>\nUndergraduate student, Piano Performance<br \/>\n<strong>Category<\/strong>: Interdisciplinary, Innovation<br \/>\n<strong>Project<\/strong>:\u00a0<u>Measuring Operating Forces in String Instruments<\/u>\u00a0&#8211; Develop a patentable device that can measure minimum operating forces in string instruments to reduce playing related injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elijah Wirth<\/strong><br \/>\nPreparatory Faculty &#8211; Theory, Wind Orchestra Conductor<br \/>\nChair of Music Theory<br \/>\n<strong>Category<\/strong>: Community<br \/>\n<strong>Project:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>Concert Arrangements of Music by Historical Composers of Minority Descent<\/u>\u00a0&#8211; Edit, transcribe, and arrange music by historical prominent composers of minority descent for modern wind ensemble and make it available to be downloaded for free along with recordings made by the Preparatory Wind Orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 8, 2017: Dean\u2019s Incentive Grants The\u00a0Dean\u2019s Incentive Grants\u00a0provide grant funding to seed faculty- and student-led projects that focus on innovation, interdisciplinary initiatives, or community partnerships to advance Peabody\u2019s goals.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1389,"menu_order":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29377,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508\/revisions\/29377"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peabody.jhu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}