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Discussed the curatorial possibilities in a Liberal Arts environment on , a series hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology's Chaowen Ting and Kansas University's Carolyn Watson, on June 15th, 2020.


Was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to serve on its 2020 Music Panel.


Created and produced "", a new resource for choral communities around the nation, based on "Dark River - the Fannie Lou Hamer Story" by Mary D. Watkins which was given its East Coast premiere at ³ÉÈËÊÓƵin 2014. Featuring historical commentary by Janice D. Hamlet at Northern Illinois University, the event premiered on July 28th, 2020 with the Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus, and was presented again on Aug 3rd, 2020 by the West Village Chorale in New York City.


Was featured on , a part of Cleveland Opera Theatre's "Opera For All Online" series. The show discussed his work in diversifying operatic programming and aired on July 1, 2020.


Work with the ³ÉÈËÊÓƵSymphony Orchestra was featured by in an artist interview on June 19th, 2020 titled, "It's not the Police, It's not the Bullets, It's the Attitude; A Conversation with the Artists of Invitation to a Die-In".


Harada, A. B., Thackray, E., and; Nordstrom, K. N. (2022). Silo flow and clogging in the presence of an obstacle. Physical Review Fluids, 7(5).


Beck J., Burton J.C., Kamela M., Kuchera M.P., Lovell A.J., Nordstrom K., Tenzin T., Ziffer J. (2021). Reflections on Physics Education and Communication with Tibetan Monastics. Frontiers in Communication (6), 221.


Cai, G., Harada A.B., & Nordstrom, K. (2021) Mesoscale metrics on approach to the clogging point. Granular Matter 23(69), 113.


Harada, A. B., & Nordstrom, K. N. (2020). Gravity-Driven Flow and Clogging in the Presence of an Intruder. In I. Zuriguel, A.  Garcimartin, & R.C. Hidalgo (Eds.), Traffic and Granular Flow (pp. 365-371). Springer.


Norling, J. (2022) Using Intentions to Predict Fertility. Journal of Demographic Economics, 88(3).