NEW OFFICERS for AMS-NE!

Newly elected officers of the AMS New England Chapter are as follows

Evan MacCarthy, President (2020-22)

Mark DeVoto, Program Chair (2020-22)

Richard Mueller, Representative to AMS Council (2020-23)

Ginger Dellenbaugh, Student Representative to AMS Council (2020-22).

Additionally, the 2020 recipient of the Chapter's Schafer Award is Samuel Chan (New York University), who presented the paper "Sinophonic Discords: Musical Hatred and the Negotiation of Sonic Difference" at our Fall 2019 meeting.

And we are indebted and grateful to Jacquelyn Sholes for her four years of service as President of the chapter.

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Fall 2018 Chapter Meeting (Saturday, September 29 ECSU)

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Year-End Review: AMS-NE in 2015

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NEW CHAPTER WEBSITE!

Please visit: https://www.newengland. ams-net.org/ as we transition to our new site. This current site will no longer be updated, but will be retained while we transfer the chapter archives. For the Fall 2022 CFP, please visit the new site: https://www.newengland. ams-net.org/

AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

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