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FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Chronicle of Higher Education Looks in on Grad Student's Project Hurley Goodall, writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education and its Buildings & Grounds Blog, reported on a project designed by Kelsey Felthousen, a graduate student pursuing a master of fine arts in the art department.
As part of her project, her inside-out home can be viewed through April 5 on the university's webcam. On April 7, she expects to have a yard sale. |
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FOR RELEASE: Monday, March 31, 2008
Reuters, BBC Cover Egyptian Research by University Professor
The BBC conducted a lengthy interview with Rose about his findings and the work to find the site where the many people who lived and worked during Akhenaten's reign were buried and then the research to quantify the health and well-being of this group and draw some conclusions about it. Rose's experience in osteology, the study of the skeleton, provided ample help in comparing the Tell el-Armana group against healthy populations. |
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FOR RELEASE: Monday, March 10, 2008
University of Arkansas Expert Provides Both Cents Worth When BusinessWeek went looking for a couple of experts to provide the pros and cons of whether to allow Michigan and Florida to have Democratic delegates, the magazine found the perfect experts: Andrew Dowdle and Andrew Dowdle.
Dowdle's research on elections and his specialty in the history of primaries gave him the background to plausibly argue both sides of the debate without sounding like a partisan for either side.
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FOR RELEASE: Friday, February 01, 2008
Political Scientist Tells New York About Arkansas and the Election Political scientist and University of Arkansas professor Janine Parry was interviewed for 15 minutes by Leonard Lopate of WNYC, an NPR affiliate in New York City, as part of the radio station's series "States of the Union." Parry and Lopate discussed a wide range of subjects related to Arkansas and the election. Parry predicted that Arkansas will get more attention in the general election than in the primary. "For the general election, Arkansas is one Southern state that will very much be in play," Parry said."I think right now as things look, it's likely to go back into the Democratic column in 2008." A link to listen to the full radio interview is available at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/01/30/segments/92710 .
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FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Professor Cited on CBS News on Huckabee's Presidential Campaign Dr. Andrew Dowdle, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, is quoted in a story on CBSNews.com about Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign. |


Her master's thesis project involved constructing what she describes as an inside-out home, one in which the garden and blooming tulips are enclosed by walls and the living room, bedroom, kitchen and bath are exposed to the world. Felthousen said her intent was to make a visual statement about the amount of privacy people give up by posting personal and intimate details on such social networking sites as MySpace and Facebook.
Reporting for Reuters news service, Alaa Shahine interviewed Rose about their findings regarding ancient cemeteries near Tell el-Armana. Studying the remains of ordinary Egyptians who lived in Tell el-Armana between 1379 and 1362 BC, Rose and Kemp found evidence of a population suffering from anemia and stunted growth and working under dangerous conditions. The picture that emerges differs sharply from earlier images of wealth and abundance based on the art records of the city. Shahine wrote in his 
Dowdle, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, argued both the