MultiDisciplinary
Anterior Cruciate Ligaments
By Alexis Jenkins
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Alexis Jenkins definitely is very active from the start. Sports have always been her passion; growing up, you could always catch her outside at the softball field playing with her high school, tournament team, or family. This all was until she had an almost career-ending injury occur not just once but twice. Luckily, she could continue to play two years of college softball, but she always wondered why tearing your ACL, also known as your Anterior Cruciate Ligament, was such a big deal. Now years later, she is a Senior here at Millersville studying Sports Journalism. After graduation, she plans to work her way into the ESPN world to eventually become an ESPN Broadcast Journalist.
MUSic
Can You Hear Colors? An Exploration of the Cognitive Effects of Synesthesia on Musicians.
By Kaitlyn Pekarik
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in both positive and negative ways. After graduation, Kaitlyn hopes to become an elementary music teacher and share her love of music and the arts with as many students as possible.
Kaitlyn Pekarik is a junior Music Education major with a concentration in percussion. Since spring of 2020, Kaitlyn has been studying and researching synesthesia, a disorder that causes involuntary experiences related to the senses, and its effects on musicians. As a musician with synesthesia herself, she felt compelled to provide an understanding of the disorder, as well as share stories from other musicians that also have the disorder. Through the music program of the McNairy Library Research Fellows, Kaitlyn conducted several oral history interviews that provided insight on how the disorder affects musicians
Author's Note:
I do not have any known conflict of interest to disclose.
Thank you to my advisor, Dr. Marilyn Parrish, for all of your help and support throughout this project.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kaitlyn A. Pekarik at kapekari@millersville.edu.
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Keywords: synesthesia, musicians, music