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Tianhui Ng

Honor

Was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to serve on its 2020 Music Panel.

Created and produced "Dark River Community Singalong", a new resource for choral communities around the nation, based on "Dark River - the Fannie Lou Hamer Story" by Mary D. Watkins which was given its East Coast premiere at Mount Holyoke in 2014. Featuring historical commentary by Janice D. Hamlet at Northern Illinois University, the event premiered on July 28th, 2020 with the Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus, and was presented again on Aug 3rd, 2020 by the West Village Chorale in New York City.

Was featured on “Page to Stage”, a part of Cleveland Opera Theatre's "Opera For All Online" series. The show discussed his work in diversifying operatic programming and aired on July 1, 2020.

Work with the Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra was featured by American Opera Projects in an artist interview on June 19th, 2020 titled, "It's not the Police, It's not the Bullets, It's the Attitude; A Conversation with the Artists of Invitation to a Die-In".

Kerstin Nordstrom

Publication

Beck J., Burton J.C., Kamela M., Kuchera M.P., Lovell A.J., Nordstrom K., Tenzin T., Ziffer J. (2021). Reflections on Physics Education and Communication with Tibetan Monastics. Frontiers in Communication (6), 221. 10.3389/fcomm.2021.731074

Harada, A. B., & Nordstrom, K. N. (2020). Gravity-Driven Flow and Clogging in the Presence of an Intruder. In I. Zuriguel, A.  Garcimartin, & R.C. Hidalgo (Eds.), Traffic and Granular Flow (pp. 365-371). Springer.

Johannes Norling

Publication

Norling, J. (2022) Using Intentions to Predict Fertility. Journal of Demographic Economics, 88(3).

De Kadt, D., Fourie, J., Greyling, J., Murard, E., & Norling, J. (2021). Correlates and Consequences of the 1918 Influenza in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics, 89(2), 173-195.