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Hearing Health and Hearing Loss
1108 Boylston Street, Room 205

No high school or college athlete would be allowed on the
field before passing a preseason physical examination. So
why do we enroll and train musicians and other

performers without screening and monitoring their hearing?
Performing artists must meet high practice and performance
demands during their training and careers. New discoveries
about noise injury raise serious concerns about the safety of
the training and performance environment of these young
artists. This session will present up-to-date information

on normal hearing and on acoustic trauma and its newly
discovered corollary. We will explore “hidden hearing loss,”
and the acute and progressive loss of nerve connections

to auditory hair cells that follows loud noise exposure. The
presenter will describe an illustrative pilot hearing screening
and conservation program for the Conservatory and discuss
possible changes to the music production and engineering
environment to promote hearing conservation.

—Presented by: Steven Rauch

—Hosted by: Michael Abraham

How to Get That Grant
1108 Boylston Street, Room 217

Have you heard about a colleague, college, or nonprofit
organization receiving a generous grant, and realized that
you have a great idea, too? Perhaps you've wondered
whether you can get a grant to support your project, but
have no idea how to start. Or maybe you wrote grant
proposals years ago but are rusty. Funders are getting
tougher and competition is getting rougher. This session will
help you learn, from the college’s official grant writer, how to
get that grant, from developing the idea to completing the
components of a proposal and packaging the final product.
Topics include researching funders, effectively pitching your
idea(s), determining the need, finding research, writing the