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News and Stories | Music

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Joshua Pearl' 19 learned about the therapeutics of music in the hardest possible way: He was afflicted with an autoimmune disease that caused him severe pain. He turned to the piano as a form of treatment, and it helped lessen the need for painkillers he had been prescribed. Recognizing that music could do for others what it did for him, PearlĀ became a music therapist.
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A 1942 headline in The Campus, the undergraduate newspaper of City College of New York, set the tone: ā€œFirst Female Invades Tech School Faculty,ā€ it blared. Cecilie Froehlich led Pacific's math department until 1970 and was an outspoken advocate for recruiting women into the fields of math and engineering.
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Computer science and music offer the best of both worlds.
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Jeffrey Williams '93 came to Pacific on a music scholarship. The "Pacific experience," however, gave him the tools to pursue his dream career in law enforcement.
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Amber Patton '14 finds new talent, new perspectives while studying abroad in Ireland.
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Michael Burch-Pessesā€œFrom the time I was in junior high, I always knew I wanted to teach,ā€ says Michael Burch-Pesses, Pacific’s director of bands.