UCA faculty news

Ryan Fisher, assistant professor of choral music education in UCA’s Department of Music, recently had his article, “Debating Assessment in Music Education” published in Research and Issues in Music Education. Fisher also recently presented his research project, “Effect of Ethnicity on the Age-of-Onset of the Male Voice Change” at the Texas Music Educators Association research poster session.

Paige Rose, assistant professor of music education in UCA’s Department of Music, along with recent UCA graduate Karyna Johnson, recently presented their research project, “Effects of Structured Musical Activity Sessions on the Development of a Child with Autism: A Case Study” at the Texas Music Educators Association research poster session.

J.D. Swanson, assistant professor of biology at UCA, recently presented his research, Prickle Development of Rubus: A Model for Cell-To-Cell Communication and Cell Proliferation in Plants, at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XVIII) in San Diego.

At that conference, UCA undergraduate student Allicia Kellogg presented a poster on Molecular Investigation of Early Prickle Development Genes in Rubus, and graduate student Nathan Jones presented a poster about Identification of Genes Involved in Late Prickle Development in Rubus.