This week’s issue of our local Southside Times [1] carries an interesting preview of an upcoming multimedia concert presentation developed by UIndy’s Dr. Rebecca Sorley, professor and director of student support for the Department of Music [2].
Celebrating the History of Indiana through Music marks Indiana’s bicentennial year with a program of Hoosier composers, from underappreciated women of the ragtime era to the legendary likes of Porter and Carmichael. The Faculty Artist Concert Series [3] performance — 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center’s Ruth Lilly Performance Hall — will feature Sorley and her daughter Allegra on piano, with historical commentary by Professor of History [4] Edward Frantz.
Click here [1] to read the story by writer Marianne Coil.
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[5]UIndy’s Archeology & Forensics Team [6], a crack squad of Human Biology [7] grad students led by Associate Professor Krista Latham, was back in the news this week after a highway worker discovered human remains under a bridge near the Ohio River town of Mauckport.
Called in to assist, the team led the recovery of the skeletal remains, which were quickly identified as a 56-year-old man missing since February 2014. The find generated great interest in Louisville [5], Evansville [8] and elsewhere [9].
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Assistant Professor of Political Science [10] Laura Albright continues to be a sought-after source on all things related to the presidential race and the Indiana General Assembly. She appeared this past week as a panelist on the Inside Indiana Business “Insiders” panel [11] as well as a guest with WIBC-FM morning host Tony Katz, discussing a certain candidate’s decision to snub [12] the latest Republican president debate. (OK, it was Donald Trump.)