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UCA Professors Published Textbook As Lower Cost Alternative For UCA Students

Dr. Shawn Charlton, Dr. Kenith Sobe, and Dr. Susan Sobel, Director of the UCA Counseling Center, have published a new textbook for General Psychology. Psychology: The Science of Who We Are (Fountainhead Press).

The book is currently in bookstores and will be used for several sections of General Psychology this fall.

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The textbook was prompted by the need for a lower cost alternative for students.

The Science of Who We Are sells for $80 vs. $200 for most other general psychology texts.

Also, proceeds from the text go back to accounts in the UCA Foundation to support undergraduate and graduate students at UCA, including study aboard, undergraduate research, and graduate counseling students.

UCA Psychology Student and UCA Psychology Professor Published In Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health

dxieCory Cobb, a second year student in the Counseling Psychology doctoral program, and Professor of Psychology Dr. Dong Xie’s paper, “Coping Styles and Depression among Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants,was accepted for publication in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.

This is Cory’s second first-author, peer-reviewed publication this year.

French Professor Won Grant To Host Film Festival

UCA French Professor Katelyn Knox recently won a grant to host a French film festival, Tournées, this fall.

The event will consist of six screening, which will be free and open to the general public, of award-winning films that are either in English or have English subtitles.1

The five films, rated PG-13 and up, will be screened on Tuesday and Friday evenings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. between October 30 and November 13.

Each of these films will be followed by reflections by a panel of three UCA professors from a variety of departments as well as an interactive audience question and answer session.

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The other screening will be family-friendly event held on Saturday, November 7, 2015.

From 5:00 to 5:30 p.m., a French culture fair with games and activities for kids and their families will be held, and a movie will run from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

All of the screenings will take place in Brewer Hegeman Conference Center.

For more information, click HERE.

The Tournées Festival will be made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée, and the Franco-American Cultural Fund. 3

 

 

Kimberly-Clark Company Made Donation and Visited UCA’s Lactation Suites

The Kimberly-Clark Company in Conway, Arkansas presented UCA with three cases of Huggies Natural Care Wipes for its newly opened lactation suites.

1In April, UCA opened three lactation suites as a complimentary service to nursing mothers.

The suites, which are available to students, faculty, staff and guests, are located in Torreyson Library, Old Main 206C and the Women’s Center in the Student Health Clinic.

This gift of wipes as well as Kimberly-Clark’s commitment to supply the suites with wipes will certainly help with the sustainability of these services.

Kimberly-Clark representative, Mrs. Bonnie Dixon-Holloway, visited two of the suites in August along with UCA faculty senator and assistant professor of Health Science, Dr. Duston Morris, and associate vice president for Institutional Diversity, Dr. Angela Webster-Smith.

“Kimberly-Clark is excited about the new lactation suites and believe they are a wonderful addition,” said Dixon-Holloway. “Their availability will be of a great benefit to many.  We look forward to hearing about the success of the program in the months to come.”

UCA Student Awarded Occupational Therapy Scholarship

Occupational therapy student Melodie Mauney has been awarded the Florence Wood Scholarship of the Arkansas Occupational Therapy Association from the American Occupational Therapy Foundation.

As a student of the occupational therapy class of 2015t, the occupational therapy department would like to congratulate Ms. Mauney on her scholarship!