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The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2024 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, including assistant professor Grace Leslie and associate professor Joel Swanson along with 14 other faculty members from departments and research institutes across the campus.

Grace Leslie, director of the ATLAS Institute's Brain Music Lab, is focused on the nexus between music, technology and neuroscience. She discusses how she and her students collaborate on research around non-verbal communication and empathy through the medium of music and art.

The National Science Foundation’s CAREER award is among the most prestigious honors supporting junior faculty doing outstanding work integrating research and education toward a meaningful social impact. The CAREER award is highly competitive and is

Electronic musician, flutist and researcher Grace Leslie believes that music touches something deep in the human brain—a hardwired need, perhaps, to sit around a fire or in a concert arena and feel connected to the people around us. Humans have been making music for longer than we’ve lived in cities and grown crops. “In most cultures, it’s used to draw people together,” says Leslie.

The ATLAS Institute and the College of Music are delighted to welcome Grace Leslie to the CU ��«����Ƶ faculty this fall as an assistant professor in the ATLAS Institute with a tenure home in the College of Music. Leslie is an