Research

The Arts and Quality of Life Research Center seeks to expand the current research base concerning the use of the arts to enhance the quality of life within a multicultural society through stimulating, supporting and facilitating interdisciplinary studies that employ various research paradigms and methods. 

 

Current Research

• $50,000 grant received for music entrainment study with cancer patients with chronic pain

• $15,000 grant received for Hear Our Voices: Songwriting with At-Risk Youth
• 7 Cochrane Systematic Reviews

Completed Research Studies

• $50,000 grant received for music therapy project with Latino women at risk for cardiovascular disease

• $24,900 Grant received for Singing for Tomorrow: The Use of Songwriting as an Expressive Medium for Hospitalized Children with Spinal Cord Injury

• HIV/AIDS research study
• $300,000 Arts and Quality of Life Grant