University Professor of Composition in Music, premiered "EOS: Goddess of the Dawn (A Ballet for Orchestra)" with the Utah Symphony, "Selene for percussion quartet and string quartet" with JACK Quartet and Third Coast Percussion, "Helix Spirals for string quartet" with the Parker Quartet at Harvard University, "Dappled Things" with TTBB, and "Capricious Toccata for solo violin" at Agnes Scott College. She was awarded the Order of Lincoln from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra's Composer Award, and was one of six finalists worldwide for the Gramophone Classical Music Award for 2014. Thomas was also a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, traveling to 100 affiliated college and university campuses in 2014–15.