- Royce Fellowship
Emily
Schwartz
Award Year
2016
The Music of Medicine: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Effect of Music Therapy on Symptom Management in Pediatric Oncology Care
Faculty Sponsor: Paul Phillips
Music therapy has been shown to be an effective tool for patients to explore the complicated emotions associated with their illness. Emily will investigate how children in a pediatric oncology ward convey emotions through music. Emily will conduct interviews with children who undergo music therapy and record their musical improvisation, looking for correlations between musical expression and vocalized emotion.