Our awards committee, chaired by Amy Belfi, has announced the student award winners. Congratulations all!!

• 1st place: A New Auditory Theory and Its Implications for the Study of Timbre (Braden N. Maxwell. Johanna B. Fritzinger, Laurel H. Carney)
  
• 2nd place: Social Music: Investigating the Link Between Personal Liking and Perceived Groove (Douglas Kowalewski, Taylor Kratzer, Ronald Friedman)
• 3rd place: A Statistical Model for Melody Reduction (Tianxue Hu, Claire Arthur)
• Honorable mentions: 
  • Stimulus Accessibility and Music Theory/Therapy (Anna Yu Wang)
  • Timbre’s ​F​unction in the Perception ​of ​Affective ​Intents (Lena Heng, Stephen McAdams)
  • Effect of Metrical Primes on Perceived Complexity of 2:3 and 3:4 Polyrhythms (Zachary Lookenbill, Leigh VanHandel)