Karen Steelman, associate professor, was featured in the South African Art Times for her work with an interdisciplinary team working to preserve rock art legacy.
Brandi Lynch, administrative specialist II, has signed with Spencer Hill Press to publish her debut young adult novel, Lead Me Back Home, in October 2015.
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Michael Yoder, associate professor of geography, has had his essay, “Foreign Direct Investment and Commercial Property Development in a US-Mexico Border City” published in the journal Urbana: Urban Affairs and Public Policy, volume XV, pp. 1-14, 2014. The article examines investment on the part of Mexican nationals in warehousing, shopping centers, and office buildings in Laredo, Texas, the leading NAFTA-related cargo crossing point of the US-Mexico border.
Brannon Watson, adjunct faculty in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, received Golf Digest’s top golf teacher in Arkansas for 2013-2014. The award was announced in the magazine’s November issue and gives a list of the top coaches in each state. Watson, founder of the Arkansas Golf Center, is the head golf instructor, master club fitter and V1 high-speed video lesson expert at the store. Arkansas Golf Center has won the title of top-100 fitter in the United States and 2012 Golf Range Association of America top-50 ranges in the standalone category. Watson is a 2005 UCA graduate, and he teaches beginning golf at UCA. He said teaching this class allows him to see about 1,000 new swings per year where other teachers are only able to see about 100.