Professional Activities

Christopher Swist, Artist in Residence in Music, wrote a fanfare called From the Rocks to the Stars that is had a double premier earlier this month. The KSC Concert Band premiered the concert band version November 5, and the New Britain Symphony Orchestra, a professional Connecticut orchestra Swist has been principal percussionist of since 1999, premiered the orchestral version November 8.

Drs. Carolyn Smith Keller and Saran Ghatak (Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology) have received a grant of $95,020 from The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for their project analyzing the social and political contexts of craft beer entrepreneurship. For this research, they will examine the role of cultural, economic, locational, and political factors that explain entrepreneurial success as well as the local impact of the craft beer industry in the US with special focus on five US cities including Portland, ME; Kalamazoo, MI; Asheville, NC; Cincinnati, OH and Kansas City, MO. The principal concern guiding the project is to understand the reciprocal relation between entrepreneurship and the socio-economic milieu that provides the context for its development.