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design, arts management, television, radio, early childhood education, music, dance, and interactive multime- dia. Founded in 1890 as a communica- tions school, Columbia College Chicago was revisioned in 1963 as a liberal arts college.
Dr. Vassilakis received a B.A. from Kingston University, Surrey, UK, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Music Cognition, Acoustics and Aesthetics from UCLA in 1997 and 2001, and a postdoctoral certificate in auditory science also from UCLA in 2003. In addition to presenta- tions and publications that range from “Auditory roughness as means of musi- cal expression” and “Culture-depend- ent emotional reactions to sound,” to "Anatomy, physiology, and function of auditory end-organs in the frog inner ear," Vassilakis has extensive experi- ence in digital sound restoration and mastering and signal processing, has composed for the London Chinese
Pantelis Vassilakis
lence in higher education, provides innovative degree programs in the visual, performing, media and commu- nication arts to nearly 12,500 students in over 120 undergraduate and gradu- ate programs, including audio arts and acoustics, film and video, art and
Orchestra and the English National Ballet, and has been a sound designer for BBC Radio 3.
Dr. Vassilakis is a member of sev- eral academic and professional soci- eties, including the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Society for Ethnomusicology, and College Music Society. His numerous distinctions include First Prize for his Gallery of Acoustics entry at the Fall 1999 ASA meeting and Best Student Paper Award in Musical Acoustics at the Fall 2001 ASA meeting.
Erratum: The credit line for the photo of Kirill Horoshenkov and Simon Tait on page 44 of the July issue of Acoustics Today was accidentally omitted. The correct caption, including the credit, reads: Kirill Horoshenkov (l) and col- league Simon Tait (r)
Photo credit: © Ron Colbroth.
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