The European Union Commission has selected Richard Cohn, who taught his last class at Yale in December (see photo), to serve a five-year term as European Area Research Chair at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. The 2.5-million Euro grant will support the establishment of a permanent research cluster in music theory and analysis at Coimbra. In consultation with an international board of music scholars, Cohn will oversee the appointment of three permanent faculty positions, as well as term-limited senior and post-doctoral research positions, and the distribution of funding to three PhD candidates. Once the research group is selected, he will lead weekly meetings, mentor younger scholars, and convene conferences on a variety of music-theoretic topics. Cohn will divide his time between Portugal and Australia, where, as (honorary) 2-year Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney, he will continue a now decade-long project of incubating a music-theory research and teaching cluster in the antipodes.