Compositions by TIMARA majors Griffin Jennings and Mitchell Herrmann were selected for the 2016 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference, held this year at Georgia Southern University from February 11-13. Founded in 1984, SEAMUS is a non-profit national organization of composers, performers, and teachers of electroacoustic music representing every part of the country and virtually every musical style. The SEAMUS conference is the largest annual gathering of electroacoustic composers in the US. Selection for performance at the conference is highly competitive, and it is rare to be programmed as an undergraduate student. 

Mitchell received a further honor at the conference when his piece was chosen as the 2016 winner of the Allen Strange Memorial Award, which celebrates the best undergraduate electroacoustic composition of the year. This is the ninth time the Strange Award has been presented and the fourth time it has gone to a TIMARA major from Oberlin.