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Research Frontiers, Fall 2005 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Research Frontiers Research Frontiers Fall 2005 Research Frontiers, Fall 2005 University of Arkansas Fayetteville. Office of University Relations Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/research-frontiers-magazine Citation University of Arkansas Fayetteville. Office of University Relations. (2005). Research Frontiers, Fall 2005. Research Frontiers. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/research-frontiers-magazine/6 This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the Research Frontiers at ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Frontiers by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Arts & Letters Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 Office of the Chancellor http://www.uark.edu/ John A. White Chancellor A Message from the Chancellor: Throughout the University of Arkansas community we are celebrating the successful completion of the historic $1 billion Campaign for the Twenty-First Century. The Campaign has made such a difference for our campus. Its impact will be felt for generations to come. From scholarships and fellowships to new build- ings to endowed professorships, the results of this Campaign will enhance every aspect of our University. I’m particularly pleased about the positive impact achieving this milestone will continue to have on the University of Arkansas’ research programs. The resources the Campaign has secured have attracted top rank researchers to Fayetteville. Their discov- Museum of Art, Museum of Art The Metropolitan Cloisters Collection, 1956 (56.70) Photograph ©1996 eries, innovations and insights will help lead the state of Arkansas, our nation and world to a brighter tomor- row, through the knowledge and spirit of innovation they impart to our students. Few research universities offer the kind of hands-on research experience to students—both graduates and undergraduates—that the University of Arkansas offers. The Campaign for the Twenty-First Century is helping ensure that our stu- dents have access not only to award-winning faculty members, but also to some of the finest research facili- ties available anywhere. The Campaign has provided the U of A with undeniable momentum. This past December, an indepen- dent think-tank at the University of Florida called TheCenter included the University of Arkansas among the top tier of the nation’s research universities in their report, The Top American Research Universities. Our orget park-sized art installations and cartoon cells – in the meaning while writing her first book: “Early Netherlandish Carved University ranked with the likes of MIT, Johns Hopkins and Harvard, and ahead of several prestigious insti- 15th and 16th century, triptychs were all the rage, accord- Altarpieces: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing,” published by tutions. Much of our success in this ranking was directly attributable to the Campaign for the Twenty-First Fing to art professor Lynn Jacobs. The best Cambridge University Press. As she pursued her Century. artists painted them, religious orders used them current research into triptychs, she discovered that As you read this issue of Research Frontiers I hope you share my excitement over the cutting-edge work in churches, and business people bought them for the artists used this format to create symbolic doors conducted at the University every day. And I invite you to envision even greater things to come. Hard as it the home. Often, religious triptychs were commis- – boundaries between different levels of reality, is to believe, this is just the beginning. The Campaign for the Twenty-First Century has provided the margin sioned as memorials to be placed at the gravesites different times and spaces, different levels of status for excellence that will continue to lead the University of Arkansas and its research programs to the fore- of donors wanting to transcend from the secular to and different worlds. front of the nation’s leading institutions of higher education. the sacred realm. “In some triptychs, there seems to be a deliber- Jacobs is writing a book about these “paint- ate ambiguity,” she said. These triptychs seem to Happy reading, ings with doors,” as they were referred to in the depict “a space that is connected and disconnected Netherlands and elsewhere at that time. In the at the same time.” 15th and 16th centuries, artists such as Jan van For instance, in “The Annunciation” triptych by Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch and Robert Campin cre- Photo by Russell Cothren Robert Campin, shown above, Jacobs points to the ated triptychs, many of which remain well known Lynn Jacobs painting of a door, which on the left side panel John A. White today, like Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. And even as they reveals the donor and his wife and on the middle panel depicts Chancellor went out of fashion, Peter Paul Rubens created the Antwerp trip- Mary and an angel. Once when Jacobs was at the Cloisters in New tychs of the early 17th century. York, she stood in front of the painting, contemplating the door. Often but not exclusively religious in nature, these paintings Is it a opening or a barrier? Can the monk see what is happening consisted of three painted wooden panels with hinges that allowed in the middle panel? As she gazed and wondered aloud, a crowd them to be opened and closed. Triptychs often sported paintings began to gather with her, surrounding the painting. The University of Arkansas is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. that gave the illusion of sculpture on the exterior of the panels. “Everyone had a different opinion,” she said. “It made it clear Jacobs became interested in the intersection between format and that these paintings can be really hard to interpret.” n UA full page ad 4/7/04 10:20 AM Page 1 Without food preservation research and technologies, we’d still be plucking our own. Committed to supporting innovative research and new food preservation technologies. IV www.zeromtn.com University of Arkansas Research Frontiers – Fall 2005 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RESEARCH 8 FRONTIERS Fall 2005 HOTSPOT In Yellowstone National Park, the earth seems to breathe beneath the tourists’ feet. Geoscientists exam- ining lakeshore processes at Yellowstone Lake believe that the lakeshore may be exhibiting this swelling and shrinking, and they have spent the last two summers investigating this possibility. INFORMEDINGESTION 16 When people order fast food, they often 2 Research Briefs get more than they bargained for in terms Exercise and allure, nanostructure birth, of calories and fat, say two marketing pro- bacteria that live forever, the state’s first fessors. Their research has demonstrated supercomputer, effects of domestic violence that nutrition information, when provided on on business, new book on architecture and the spot, can influence consumers’ decisions RFID center. when it comes to ordering food from the menu. 6 Student Research TasTETEST Leslie Yingling studies how and why students 22 voted in the 2004 election and looks at the Panels of trained taste testers and a host of issues that moved them the most. untrained consumer panelists try food in the name of bringing better products to the 30 In Review kitchen table. Food scientists try to tease Books from the University of Arkansas Press out the elements of taste – including texture and professors in foreign languages, history, – that make people say “yum” or “yuck.” English and journalism. 32 UA Q&A GRANDMOTHERLOVE 28 What causes power outages? What is the A School of Social Work researcher studies World Wide Web? the challenges African-American grand- mothers face when they raise their own 33 Arts and Letters Art professor Lynn Jacobs examines the sym- children’s children -- often facing obstacles bolism of triptychs, “paintings with doors,” from the state and federal government. that enjoyed popularity in the 15th and 16th centuries. University of Arkansas Research Frontiers is published twice a year by the Office of University Relations in the Division Cover: The moon rises over Yellowstone Lake, of University Advancement. Questions or comments should be sent to the attention of the Editor, University of Arkansas Research Frontiers, 800 Hotz Hall, 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 or sent by e-mail to blouin@uark. where geosciences professor Stephen edu. Associate Vice Chancellor for University Relations, Susan Rogers; Editor, Melissa Blouin; Writers, Matt McGowan, K. Boss and his students have spent two Barbara Jaquish, Lynn Fisher, Kendall Curlee, Fred Miller, Dixie Kline, Kristy Guttmann; Art Director, Eric Pipkin; Design Team, Roy Cordell, Leigh Caruthers Prassel, Amanda Ryan; Photographer, Russell Cothren; Dean, Graduate School, summers studying the lakeshore pro- Collis Geren; Dean, Continuing Education, Donnie Dutton; Interim Dean, School of Law, Howard Brill; Dean, Univer- cess of this lake within a living volcano. sity Libraries, Carolyn Henderson Allen; Dean, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Don Bobbitt; Dean, College of Stephen Boss, photo. Engineering, Ashok Saxena; Dean, Sam M. Walton College of Business, Dan L. Worrell; Dean, Dale Bumpers College of Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences, Greg Weidemann; Dean, College of Education and Health Professions, Reed Greenwood; Dean, School of Architecture, Jeff Shannon; Dean, Honors College, Bob McMath. 05-154 University of Arkansas Research Frontiers – Fall 2005 1 Research Briefs Research Briefs Build Muscles, Feel Alluring hasn’t been researched in the same depth as the The Listeria that Won’t Die: after more than six actual benefits of exercise. It was published in the How Much Damage It Can Do months of languish- A study by doctoral student Tina Penhollow found Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality. ing, still killed 60 that college students who exercise frequently and “Much of the research that has been done has Meat processors already know that dangerous Listeria percent of their see themselves as physically fit are more likely to rate focused on sexual satisfaction, and desired frequency monocytogenes bacteria can withstand some major assaults.
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