Spring 2009 DOTS Facilitators
Pantelis N. Vassilakis grew up in Athens, Greece, moving to the US almost
14 years ago. He holds a B.A. degree in
Music Composition & Technology from Kingston University, Surrey (1993), M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees in Music
Cognition, Acoustics, & Aesthetics from UCLA (1997 and 2001), and
a Postdoctoral Certificate in Auditory Science also from UCLA (2003). He has composed for the English National
Ballet and the London Chinese Orchestra and, since 1997, has been presenting at
US national and international conferences, publishing several abstracts,
articles, and book chapters and serving as reviewer for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, the
Computer Music Journal, the Journal of
Comparative Physiology, publications by Oxford University Press, and more. Recognitions include awards
from the London Arts Board (1993), the National Training Council, UK (1994), and
the Acoustical Society of America (1999 & 2001).
Since 2003, Pantelis has been teaching at DePaul University’s School of Music,
while coordinating digital audio and video collection development for the
University, working as an instructional designer for programs related to his
areas of expertise, and participating in University-wide initiatives on digital
copyright policies and on quality of instruction. For the last 2 years, he has
also been teaching at Columbia College's Audio Arts and Acoustics Department.
His research interests include cross-cultural
dissonance perception, digital signal analysis, otoacoustic emissions, sound
localization, musical aesthetics, film music theory, and
assessment driven collaborative learning.
In July, 2009 Pantelis will join Columbia College as the Chair of the Audio Arts
and Acoustics Department.
email:
pvassila@depaul.edu
web: www.acousticslab.org
phone: 773 325 4144
Sharon
Guan was born in Harbin, the northernmost city in China, to a very talented
family: her mother starred in one of the ten must-see movies in China; her
father had successful careers as a play writer, a novelist, an actor, a scenery
designer, a painter, a conductor/composer, and a ballet dancer; her brother was
the winner of the Chinese equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.
Why is she sharing her family story with you? Because after hearing this story,
a friend of hers once replied, “Then what’s wrong with you, Sharon? Were you
adopted? Did your parents buy you at the fish market?” To this day, Sharon loves
to share what her friend said with the world!
Sharon has a B.A. in International Journalism from Beijing Broadcasting
Institute and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in educational technology from Indiana State
University. She came to DePaul in 2002 to serve as the director of Instructional
Technology Development and then, as the director of Instructional Design and
Development. She has conducted research on interpersonal needs and communication
preferences among distance learners (dissertation, 2000), problem-based
learning, online collaboration, language instruction, interactive course design,
and faculty development strategies.
email:
xguan@depaul.edu
phone: 773 325 7726