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STEM Leadership For Girls Conference At UCA Proves To Be Huge Success
The University of Central Arkansas STEM Institute hosted the STEM Leadership for Girls Conference Wednesday, March 8, which began at 8 a.m. in Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center on the campus.
Girls from high schools in central Arkansas such as Conway, Vilonia, Bigelow and Mayflower attended the event that featured a keynote address from Ark. Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin.
There were six workshop sessions going on throughout the day, and each girl attended three sessions based on an interest survey that they completed prior to arrival. The sessions offered will be Geology, Genetics Counseling, Endocrinology, FBI – Evidence Recovery Team, Computer Science (afternoon only), and Nursing (nursing SIM lab in UCA nursing department). Our hope is to expose the girls to STEM careers and to encourage them to pursue jobs in STEM.
The goal of the conference was to expose the girls to STEM careers and to encourage them to pursue jobs in STEM.
Lt. Governor Tim Griffin was among the speakers to the girls attending the third annual STEM Leadership for Girls Day event.
The welcome began at 8:20 a.m., which included UCA’s very own Christina Madsen, Lt. Governor Tim Griffin, and representatives from Wal-Mart who will be speaking about Million Women Mentors.
Representatives in STEM fields from Arkansas businesses and organizations such as Acxiom, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the FBI also hosted learning sessions throughout the day.
Anna Beth Gorman, a representative for Million Women Mentors of Arkansas, spoke to the girls to kick off the day’s events.
Attendees learned more about the Million Women Mentors initiative, which supports the engagement of one million STEM mentors to increase the interest and confidence of girls and women to persist and succeed in STEM programs and careers.
For more information about the STEM Leadership for Girls, visit their website.
UCA Senior Psychology Student Accepts Position At Harvard Medical School
Emily Hahn, a senior psychology major graduating this spring, has accepted a position as a Clinical/Computational Research Coordinator in the Division of Neurotherapeutics at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.
Responsibilities for this position include: collecting and analyzing data for fMRI component of closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation study (funded by Department of Defense) designed to treat a broad range of treatment resistant psychiatric populations.
Congratulations Emily! Go Bears!
Holocaust Survivor Susan Warsinger Shares At UCA Event
UCA was host to the Spring 2017 presentation of “Witness to History: An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Susan Warsinger.”
This year’s event was free and open to the public and was held in the UCA Student Center Ballroom on Monday, March 6, 2017, from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
The event was sponsored by UCA Foundation, Inc., UCA Department of Philosophy and Religion, UCA Department of History, UCA College of Liberal Arts, University of Arkansas Community College – Morrilton, and Hot Springs Village, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Jewish Federation of Arkansas
For more information, please contact Phillip Spivey at pspivey@uca.edu or 501-450-3690.
For more information about Susan Warsinger, visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s website.
UCA Professer Gary Bunn Receives Award For Service to Sigma Phi Epsilon
Congratulations to Dr. Gary Bunn, director of Candidate Services in the College of Education, for receiving the Exemplary Service Award from Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Dr. Bunn was one of five recipients of the award during the fraternity’s Carlson Leadership Academy awards dinner this month.
The Exemplary Service Award is one of the highest honors that can be given by Sigma Phi Epsilon, with only five recipients annually.
“I can think of so many other volunteers across the nation who inspire me and whose work might better qualify for ‘exemplary service,’ and I struggle to put myself among their ranks,” Bunn said. “I was truly humbled by this recognition and very grateful for those who deemed that I am worthy of such an honor. I will certainly strive to live up to this recognition.”
The Exemplary Service Award recognizes devoted and productive service at the chapter, district, regional and/or national level for a minimum of 20 years. Recipients will have made significant and lasting impact for the betterment of the fraternity.
The announcement of Dr. Bunn’s award was made public to SigEp members in January describing him in these words, “He has impacted SigEp far beyond his chapter as a lieutenant district governor, Carlson Leadership Academy facilitator and active member of the national leadership committee, which for many years guided our award-winning leadership programs. This award comes after Gary was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008.”
Bunn was a founding member of the Arkansas Zeta Chapter of SigEp at UCA and entered the fraternity in 1988. He currently serves as adviser to the chapter.