Thanks to KATV for featuring the UCA Bears’ victory over the Little Rock Trojans 12-3 in Round 1 of the Rock N Roar Rivalry at Bear Stadium on Tuesday, March 14, 2017!
UCA’s STEM Leadership For Girls Conference Featured In Log Cabin Democrat
Thanks to the Log Cabin Democrat for a great story featuring UCA’s Annual Girls In STEM Conference and the UCA STEM Institute!
UCA Alumnus & Night of Distinction Honoree Coach Charlie Strong Featured in Soiree
Thanks to Soiree for featuring UCA alumnus and Night of Distinction honoree Coach Charlie Strong! Coach Strong is currently the head football coach at the University of South Florida and will be honored next to Herby Branscum Jr. and Sue Voegele at UCA’s Seventh Annual Night of Distinction Gala on April 29, 2017!
UCA History Professor Makes Appearance In Historical Documentary Series
Roger Pauly, associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas, recently participated in a historical documentary called “American Guns: A History of US Firearms” that has just become available on Amazon Prime.
The documentary was produced in 2016 and currently has one season available to stream on Amazon Prime. It is based on the book “Firearms: The Lifestyle of a Technology” (John Hopkins University Press, 2010) by Professor Pauly.
The 13-part documentary series is summed up on Amazon: “It is not known when the first gunpowder charge exploded. But since that moment, firearm designers and manufacturers have been driven to make guns more accurate, improve reliability, ease of operation, portability, and finally, make guns more beautiful. No country has contributed more to the advancement of firearms than the United States.”
UCA is the only academic institution credited in the program and Pauly appears in 12 of the 13 episodes.
Video of UCA Student Juggling Goes Viral
University of Central Arkansas junior, Blayk Puckett, was pulled over for having a brake light out by the UCA Police Department on Donaghey Avenue while he was driving home from the Torreyson Library on March 3, 2017.
Puckett said he was driving slowly because he knew he had a broken tail light, but Sgt. Keith McKay was on the lookout for such behavior. Slow driving, especially late at night on a Friday, is often indicative that a person may have been drinking.
Sgt. McKay was one of the two officers who pulled Puckett over, and in the parking lot of Smokehouse Barbeque, Puckett had a chance to explain that he was only driving slowly to be as careful as possible since he had a taillight out.
After discussing his situation and showing his brake light to the officers, the officers asked Puckett about his license plate, which read “JUGGLER.”
Puckett revealed that he was a magician and a juggler. He offered to give them a show and the UCA officers agreed.
In the dashcam footage, Puckett takes out his juggling equipment from the backseat of his vehicle and juggles three bowling pins for the officers.
The dashcam video footage went viral after Puckett posted it on Facebook and the video was picked up by local media, then national media and then the video went worldwide!
It has been viewed online more than 30 million times and was viewed by 8,363,928 viewers on televisions in the United States.
Some media clips featuring UCA Student Blayk Puckett featured below: