Research Committee
Committee Chair
Gene Ann Behrens, PhD, MT-BCMember
Andrea McGraw Hunt, PhD, MT-BCMember
Shawna Vernisie, MA, LCAT, MT-BCMember
Trish Winter, PhD, MT-BCMember
Wendy Magee, PhD, Music Therapist
News from the Research Committee
Research Award Applications Posted!
(11/8/2017) - Research Award Applications Posted! All research awards have been updated with applications, both in Word format and PDF format. Deadlines are within a few months, so start the application process soon! Check them out here!Announcement: Research Award Winners!
(5/3/2017) - 2017 MAR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AWARD and 2017 MAR RESEARCH/SPECIAL PROJECT AWARD WINNERS The MAR Research Committee is delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 MAR Research/Special Project Award and the 2017 MAR Collaborative Research. Due to the large number of outstanding applications, it was decided to award two winners in each category this year! […]MAR Research Awards- Seeking Applicants!
(12/12/2016) - MAR is seeking applications for its 2017 research awards. MAR will be offering a Research/Special Project Award ($5000), a Collaborative Research Award ($5000) and a Graduate Student Research Award ($1000). For descriptions about the awards and application guidelines, please see the ‘Scholarships, Grants, and Awards) section of our website. Check them out here! For more […]MAR Graduate Student Research Award Recipient
(6/22/2016) - On Behalf of the MAR Research Committee, we would like to announce the recipient of the MAR GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD; The recipient of the 2016 MAR Graduate Student Research Award ($1,000) is Katherine Myers-Coffman for her research study ‘The Resilience Songwriting Model for Adolescent Bereavement: A Mixed Methods Study’. Katherine is a PhD student at […]Attention Graduate Students Interested in Research!
(4/1/2016) - The MAR Research Committee would like to remind folks of the Graduate Student Research Award which has a deadline of May 1st, 2016. The MAR Graduate Student Research Award assists graduate music therapy students undertaking original thesis or dissertation research with a grant of up to $1,000.00 to support research costs prior to the completion of […]Research Committee Announcements!!
(3/25/2016) - Research Award Recipients Dr. Wendy Magee was awarded the MAR Research/Special Project Award for her research project “Exploring the clinical utility of the Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness (MATADOC) with end-stage Dementia”. And, Dr. John Carpente was awarded the MAR Collaborative Research Award for his research project “Validity and Reliability Evidence for a Music Therapy […]