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Wade Green
Dr. Green serves as continuing assistant professor and clinical education coordinator for the Master of Athletic Training Program. He has both clinical and didactic experience in the areas of orthopedics, rehabilitation, primary care, and diagnostic ultrasound. He has published in the Journal of Athletic Training Education on parallels between primary care and the athletic training practice. He is also a practicing clinician for the past 18 years in college/university, multi-specialty orthopedics, performing arts, and occupational health settings.
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Ying Diao
Diao Ying is an ethnomusicologist and cultural anthropologist whose work centers on the intersection of sound, media, and religion, with a particular focus on music, minority, and transnational cultural production in the China鈥揝outheast Asia borderlands. She is the author of Faith by Aurality in China鈥檚 Ethnic Borderland: Media, Mobility, and Christianity at the Margins (University of Rochester Press, 2023). She was the 2022鈥2023 SSRC Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellow, during which she explored artistic innovation and community engagement of Ragamala Dance Company, exploring how South Indian diaspora artists navigate the U.S. performing arts industry to make their culturally rooted art forms accessible to contemporary audiences while challenging stereotypes about tradition, creativity, and community. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland, an MA in Theory of Literature & Arts from Fudan University, and a BA in Chinese Language & Literature from Tsinghua University.
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Yumiko Oshima-Ryan
Dr. Yumiko Oshima-Ryan began teaching at the 麻豆视频 Music Department in 2004. She enjoys teaching private and group piano lessons to students of all levels, including beginners. Along with Keyboard Skills courses for music majors and minors, she teaches courses on how to practice and prepare performances, as well as courses on wellness for musicians. Her recordings, "Piano Works for the Left Hand - Takashi Yoshimatsu" and 鈥淔rom Afar,鈥 are published by the Naxos Records label and available to stream on major digital platforms, including iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon.
Recently, she started collaborating with the dance department by creating original music for dance performances.