This summer, Stephen Caldwell, director of choral activities at the University of Arkansas, traveled to Kenya, where he has been working with choirs, conducting at festivals, adjudicating the East African Music Festival, and guest lecturing at Mt. Kenya University.
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George Sabo, professor of anthropology and director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey, is one of five principal investigators for the MicroCT Imaging Consortium for Research and Outreach, home of the university’s new micro-computed tomography system. Computed tomography uses x-ray technology to generate high-resolution 2-D and 3-D representations of an object’s internal and external structure. Researchers can examine materials down to the micro- (less than or equal to 0.1 millimeter) and even nano-scale (less than 0.001 millimeter). For Sabo, the ability to see archeological artifacts this way enhances and, in some ways, accelerates his research. During a recent training session,...
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Have you ever listened to a piece of music and had the sense that you were hearing a story unfold? Some melodies, especially when they incorporate dramatic shifts in dynamics or rhythm, can give listeners the sense of a narrative in the music. Elizabeth Margulis, a professor of music at the University of Arkansas, wondered how much these narratives are influenced by the listener’s culture. She is currently working with Patrick Wong of the City University of Hong Kong on a three year project, funded by the National Science Foundation. They are studying the relationship of music and narratives...
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George Sabo stares at the screen with the intensity of a child who’s just hooked up a new Xbox. Sabo, professor of anthropology and director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey, is looking through – not at – a 500-year-old Caddo artifact. Behind him, Claire Terhune, Sabo’s colleague and assistant professor of anthropology, explains the specs and awesome power of the machine that enables Sabo to view this artifact like never before. Along with Wenchao Zhou, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Haley O’Brien and Paul Gignac at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Terhune and Sabo are principal...
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Two U of A researchers are writing a book about what recovery looks like in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, one of the most damaging storms in U.S. history.
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