UC Davis selected music department graduate student Hannah Adamy (ethnomusicology) as their Graduate Student Researcher for “Engaged Scholarship and Engaged Learning” for 2017–18. 

As part of the new strategic plan, UC Davis has a desire to fund community-informed arts initiatives. Adamy will be helping Michael Rios, the faculty advisor to the Provost, to design a plan to make this happen. She will be researching other institutions with these kinds of community-engaged arts programs and compiling data about them.