Kyra Lancaster Receives Arnold Grant for Student-Faculty Research

2016 Jan 6

Kyra Lancaster of Elizabethtown, Pa., is one of two students to receive an Arnold Grant for a student-faculty research project during Summer 2015. Lancaster, a graduate of Elizabethtown Area High School, is pursuing a bachelor of science in music education.

This Arnold Grant supported two students traveling with Dr. Rebecca Lister, associate professor of music, for a summer program in Paraguay. In Asuncion, one of the oldest cities in the heart of South America, they worked with students entirely unlike any with whom they have worked before. The project provided the students with real life teaching experiences on the elementary level, teaching general music classes and lead workshops in the Colegio Internacional de Asuncion.

Additionally, Dr. Lister and these students worked and studied with students at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in order to gain better understanding of music and general Paraguayan culture. Dr. Lister supervised and assisted these students and used her contacts in Paraguay to facilitate further learning opportunities. Together, they hope to build on the foundation for exchange between Paraguayan and American students in the field of music, as well as other disciplines.