Dr. Adam Frank, assistant professor in the Honors College gave two talks at the University of Oxford on Jan. 28. He was one of eight panelists invited to participate in the medical anthropology workshop “The Viewpoint of the Technique: Managing Time and Crisis Resolution in Eastern Religions and Medicines.” A cultural anthropologist, Dr. Frank’s paper is entitled “Yong yi, bu yong li: Attaining gongfu among Wu style taijiquan practitioners in Shanghai.” Oxford’s Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology also invited him to speak as part of its Seminar series. He delivered a lecture entitled “Re-tooling a Body with the Body:Three Ways of Teaching Taijiquan to the White Guy.”
Dr. Rick Scott, dean of the Honors College, was named by Mayor Mike Watson of Maumelle as chair of a steering committee to develop a wetlands management program for the White Oak Bayou. The three-year effort has the steering committee working with a technical advisory committee of experts in wetlands management and an intergovernmental team from Maumelle, North Little Rock, Pulaski County, the State of Arkansas, and the Corps of Engineers. Dr. Scott currently holds an elected position on the Board of Directors of the National Collegiate Honors Council and is Executive Secretary-Treasurer for the Southern Regional Honors Council. He and his wife, Brenda, have been Maumelle residents since 1988.
One hundred Honors College sophomores presented lectures on Saturday, Feb. 13, that were evaluated by instructors and alumni, as part of a matriculation process that orients students preparing for the minor in Honors Interdisciplinary Studies. Students and their lecture titles are listed next:
Imran Adamu Diaster Aid
Emanuel Albeik The Prestige of Powerball
Wilson Alobuia The Role of Minorities in State Development
Derek Anderson The Genius of Kurt Gödel
Dulce Armas A Sociological Look at Suicide in the Armed Forces
Brett Bailey Bioinformatics: How Society Has Used Computers in the Field of Biology
Zach Barber Suicide and Murder in the Gay Community
Lennon Bates Shoes in Society: The Fetish
Sara Bayles The Friends of Susan B. Anthony: The Women of the Suffrage Movement
Who Are Left Out of the History Books
Justin Bird Wendell Berry and the New Agrarianism
Ty Bittle Extraterrestrial Life: Likelihood of Encountering Comparable
Intelligences
Kimberly Cannon Carnival Time in the Virgin Islands
Mani Chander Progeria
Tsungyen Chen Matter’s Rebel Brother: Antimatter
Sarah Clarke Balancing Humanity with Technology: Today’s Science Fiction Compared
with Tomorrow’s Reality
Ayvee Cruz The Drawbacks of Sending Your Family Member to a Nursing Home
Destiny Davis Growing Up Outside: The Influence of Nature on Who We Are
Steven DeLoach The Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes
Catherine Demailly Meet Your Meat: A Brief Explaination of PETA
Brittany Edwardes The Ancient Other: Androgyny in Early Greek and Native American
Literature
Jenny England Local Food Possibilities for the City of Conway
Katie England The Shepherd Conservation Society
Kelsey English The Rise of Human Trafficking
David Friesen Technology and Charitable Giving
Jessica Gambill Heeling Soles: TOMS Shoes
Patty Graves Trajan’s Column and Ways to Read It
Austin Hall The Fabulousness of the Kennedy Camelot
Leanne Hampton Classical Crisis: The American Orchestra
Amber Haydar Star Formation and the Process of Stellar Evolution
Bryan Head Alzheimers
Kathy Hill Karate-Do: A Way of Life
Mary Beth Hill The Art of Cake Decorating
Andy Hoelscher Nonviolence as Tactic: A New Approach to Conflict Resolution
Devin Holt Jack Johnson: A Look at How an American Boxer Challenged His
Country
Anna Horton The Spirit That Transcends: An Introduction to Transcendental Meditation
Erin Howland Sentencing Juveniles as Adults
Cody Hudson A Brief History on Programming Languages
Justin Hughes Graduated Controls: How China Controls Its Artificial Civil Society
Jenn Hynum How Technology Will Affect the Film Industry of Tomorrow
Katie Jones Antibiotics: Do Bugs Really Need Drugs?
Due to space limitations, the remaining list of presentations will be in the next Bear Ledger.