Category: Students
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AA+A Faculty Member, Ron Gresham, Wants His Students to “Get Good”!
Date: 5/10/2012 AA+A faculty member, Ron Gresham, fell in love with audio at the age of 12, took it on the road with the Orlando Magic and Chicago Bulls, and then settled down – sort of – to have a “a one on one, face to face, person to person relationship with his students.” Read…
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AA+A Celebrates: Graduating/Award-Winning Students & Acoustics B.S. Major
Date: 5/3/2012 This year’s Manifest Reception for the AA+A Department will be dedicated to our students, recognizing our graduating seniors and their families and honoring our 2011-2012 Scholarship winners. It will also celebrate our new degree major, B.S. in Acoustics, reflecting on its past, present, and future, recognizing the Department’s founding Chair and Acoustics scholar, Doug Jones, and thanking all those who contributed to…
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Residence Hall Tutoring: the Innovative Idea of an AA+A Student
Date: 3/20/2012 AA+A Senior, Thomans Noble, proposed and then fulfilled a bold idea to offer Math and Science tutoring in residence halls outside of normal Learning Studio locations and business hours. His innovative approach has increased utilization of Math and Science Learning Studio services and led it’s Director, Karen Royster-James, to say, “Thomas is going to do…
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AA+A’s Acoustics program lands prestigious NCAC Student Travel Award
Date: 2/15/2012 The AA+A acoustics program is one of five University programs nationwide to receive the 2012 National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC) Student Travel Award. NCAC is an nationally recognized organization with a strong focus on acoustics education and standards. Along with Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago, the other recipients were: University of Hartford, University of…
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AA+A Students share Emmy credit for “Freq Out”
Date: 12/5/2011 Students in the Spring 2011 “College Studio Operations” course, run by AA+A Lecturer, Ron Gresham, were among two student groups and several alumni winning a “Student Production” award at the Chicago/Midwest Emmys in November. The award was in the “Long Format (Fiction and Non-Fiction)” category (Category S-4 ) for the Spring 2011 live sketch comedy TV…
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AA+A Celebrates its Graduating Seniors and Student Award Winners
Date: 4/26/2011 This year’s Manifest Reception for the AA+A Department will be dedicated to our students, recognizing our graduating seniors and their families and honoring the 2010-2011 student Scholarship and Grammy award winners. The reception will be held on Friday, 5/13, 5:30-6:30pm, 624 S. Michigan Ave. College Library, 3rd Floor Gallery. Come celebrate with us! We anticipate that our scholarship donors…
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AA+A Faculty and Students Garner Grammy Nominations and Win
Date: 2/23/2011 Audio Arts and Acoustics adjunct faculty member Michael Freeman’s “Joined at the Hip” won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album on February 13, 2011. “Joined at the Hip” is a Telarc album that Michael Freeman mixed and produced for blues icons Pinetop Perkins and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, both Muddy Waters alumni.…
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AA+A Faculty/Students at 2nd Pan American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics
Date: 1/18/2011 Audio Arts + Acoustics made its presence felt at the 2nd Pan American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics in Cancun, Mexico. Two research presentations brought together AA+A faculty, students, and alumni at a prestigious international event that very few undergraduate students ever attend, let alone present: “A comparative study of traffic noise modeling software” and “Perception and…
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Another AA+A Faculty (and students!) receives a 2010 Grammy Nomination
Date: 12/10/2010 This has to be Michael Freeman’s year! Following impressive nods from both the “Blues Blast” and “Keeping the Blues Alive”Music Awards, the Grammy Nominated producer and AA+A Part-Time Faculty just received another Grammy Nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album in 2010! The recognition is for “Joined At The Hip” a Telarc album that Michael mixed…
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AA+A student and alum work with the latest in digital sound
Date: 10/1/2010 Audio Arts & Acoustics student, Aaron Patkin (BA 2011) and alum, Adam Rosenthal (BA 2005) are featured in a prominent industry article discussing implementation of the latest technology in Digital Audio Consoles and Systems Design. Working for Gand Concert Sound, Glenview, IL, they help design and provide concert venues with flexible and powerful…