Faculty Accomplishments

Was featured in the Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences (Lathisms) calendar in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Osborne, T., Cifuentes, S., et. al. (2024). Climate justice, forests, and Indigenous Peoples: toward an alternative to REDD+ for the Amazon. Climatic Change, 177(8), 1-28.

Cifuentes, S. (2023). Co-producing autonomy? Forest monitoring programs, territorial ontologies, and Indigenous politics in Amazonia. Digital Geography and Society, 5, 100068.

Ciufo, T. (2024) Editorial Collective, Chapter Co-Author. Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, University of Michigan Press, Music and Social Justice Series. https://press.umich.edu/Books/I/Improvising-Across-Abilities3

Thomas Ciufo presented, "Teaching Acoustic Ecology: Social Engagement in a Time of Crisis" at the Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, New Aesthetic Expressions: The Social Role of Art. https://www.culture-connect.net/events/2023/7/5/artsinsociety

Thomas Ciufo (Music) presented a new project called Lines and Circles - an improvisational live performance project using a custom-built modular synthesis system. This concert work was presented at the 17th Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology at Connecticut College.

Recently proposed and chaired a panel entitled, Sound and Activism: Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art in the Time of Environmental Crisis. This panel was presented as part of Earth Day Art Model (https://edam2022.deck10.media) a global telematic and media event held on International Earth Day. The festival highlights current artistic perspectives that range from scientific observation to creative works of music and intermedia.

Recently released two CD projects. The collaborative live electroacoustic project, ElectroResonance, is out on the Neuma Record label in stereo and surround sound formats. He also released a 25th anniversary reissue of his first solo ambient electronic music project, Sun at Midnight. Both are available on CD and all major streaming platforms.

Presented Teaching Acoustic Ecology and Sonic Art in the Age of Environmental Crisis at the Responses in Music to Climate Change Conference, October 2021.