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The official page of the Undergraduate, Equivalency, and Graduate programs in Music Therapy at UGA.

12/12/2025

We are excited to highlight our two students going to internship this January! This internship is part of the 1200 clinical hours students music complete to be eligible to sit for their board certification exam.

Congratulations Sophie and Adelaide! We can’t wait to see all you accomplish!

12/11/2025

First year graduate students Carlee Durden, Rebecca Smith, Asila Folds, and Lauren McClary presented their research posters earlier this week as part of their  “Research in Music Therapy” final projects. Research participants ranged from school employees, to music therapy students, to college students with autism, to healthcare professionals. Amazing work and congratulations on a successful poster session!

12/10/2025

Alumni Pryce Lofton was recently recognized in Sforzando Magazine for her care and support of patients at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). She was a recipient of the Hope & Will award, which recognizes staff members who go above and beyond for their patients. You can read about her story here or in the link below.

Pryce, we are so proud of you and the impact you are making at CHOA!

Sforzando Magazine: https://music.uga.edu/sforzando

12/09/2025

Last week, our Guitar Skills and Guitar Techniques students visited Legacy Village of Athens for their final playing exam. Students facilitated a holiday sing along to spread cheer and show off the skills they have learned this semester!

12/05/2025

Congratulations to Emily Grabowski, MT-BC on passing her board certification exam! In addition to passing her exam, she has also accepted a job at Great Strides Pediatric Rehabilitation in Jacksonville, Florida. Congratulations again Emily! We are so proud of you!

12/04/2025

This week we wrapped up our first semester of Cancer Support Choir with Piedmont Healthcare’s Loran Smith Center for Cancer Support. At Loran Smith, cancer patients and survivors can attend programming to help support their physical and mental wellbeing. For the past three months, our faculty and students have been leading songs and holding space for community. We are grateful for this group and look forward to seeing it grow!

12/01/2025

Congratulations to senior music therapy and entrepreneurship student Adelaide Mangum on a successful presentation of her capstone project! Her group worked to create Biobeats, a software that utilizes live bio-feedback to change a patient’s music to help regulate their heat rate and reduce stress.

This project was a part of NASA’s Technology Transfer University (T2U) program. T2U allows students to utilize a NASA patent to create a new product and present their final project to a NASA representative. Read more about the program in the article below. Way to go, Adelaide!

UGA Today: https://news.uga.edu/nasa-launches-t2u-collaboration-with-uga/

11/20/2025

Thank you to Rachelle Ellis, MA, ATR, CHWC from the UGA Fontaine Center for facilitating a mask making art therapy session for our music therapy students during seminar this week! We are excited to collaborate with other creative arts therapists on campus! 🎨🎭

11/19/2025

It’s been a busy weekend for UGA Music Therapy! This weekend, students Rinaldo Bonomi, Caitlin Smith, and Hailey Hilton volunteered at a veterans songwriting retreat directed by Mallory Even, LPMT, MT-BC. These students had the opportunity to work with veterans of all ages with symptoms of PTSD. Veterans at this retreat participated in group music therapy sessions and worked with professional songwriters to write their own original song. Thank you Music Therapy Retreats for allowing our students to volunteer and learn about your work with veterans!

11/18/2025

Last week, Professor Stull presented her research on using music therapy to support the psychosocial needs of caregivers at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston! Out of nearly 1,975 research posters, hers was one of only three authored by a board-certified music therapist. This conference offered a wonderful opportunity to learn, network, and advocate for the role of music therapy in supporting older adults!

11/13/2025

This weekend, undergraduate music therapy major Lauren Smith presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (GURC) at the Oxford College of Emory University in Covington, Georgia. GURC is a multidisciplinary conference that provides undergraduate students the opportunity to showcase their research. Lauren’s study, titled “The effects of live versus recorded music on the engagement of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in music therapy,” was the only research presented regarding music or music therapy at GURC.

Congratulations Lauren!

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