Art Samplaski has degrees from Indiana University and Cornell University; he received his Ph.D. with distinction for being able to speak simultaneously to readers in both the humanities and sciences. He has taught at Ithaca College, presented at multiple regional, national, and international conferences (including The College Music Society, the Kalamazoo Medieval Studies Congress, the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and the Society for Music Theory), and published in College Music Symposium, Empirical Musicology Review, Indiana Theory Review, Music Perception, Music Theory Online, Psychology of Music, and Psychomusicology. Since August, 2005, he has also been a volunteer astronomy educator at Cornell’s Fuertes Observatory and assisted with many public education & outreach activities with Cornell’s astronomy department.