Vicki Parish
Vicki Parish, instructional technology support personnel, has been named Employee of the Quarter for the third quarter for the 2011-12 academic year. Parish works in the Instructional Development Center. She has worked at UCA for two years.
“In all my dealings with Vicki, she is respectful, kind and fair,” one colleague wrote about Parish. ” She goes the extra mile, always thinking of ways to improve our systems and use technology to our advantage. She has helped make such a difference this year and her efforts impact staff who will never understand the contributions she makes on their behalf.”
Each winner receives recognition and prizes including $150 in BearBucks, tickets to UCA’s Night of Distinction, and a reserved parking spot for the following quarter.
Matt Taylor (Class of ’07; major: Music Education, minor: Honors Interdisciplinary Studies) is graduating this month with his Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, located in Coral Gables, Florida.
Alisha Neblett, a senior from Little Rock, is an English and Spanish major with an Honors Interdisciplinary Studies minor. Her studies gave her various opportunities to pursue and explore her interest in world literatures and cultures and the questions of identity that surround both of these topics. In her sophomore year, she conducted human subject research in order to investigate the difference between foreign language classes in secondary schools in Tanzania and the United States in order to note how the schools’ approaches to foreign language studies affects second language acquisition. In her junior year, she presented a paper at the UCA English Graduate Conference titled “‘The Black Dog’ and the ‘Tawny Strumpet’: Expressions of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.” The paper used two Shakespearean tragedies, Titus Andronicus and Antony and Cleopatra, to show how the stereotypes of darker-skinned people affect their stage presence throughout the plays.
Don B. Bradley III, professor of marketing and executive director, National Advancement Center, was the recipient of the Entrepreneurial Leader in Education Award presented by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Business students were given the opportunity to present ideas to the Target company to compete in this year’s Target Case Study Grant competition on March 29 in the College of Business. MBA students Zachary Neel and Sarah French were the winners of this year’s competition. The students were awarded $4,000.
Lindsey Cason of Bryant was named the University of Central Arkansas Outstanding Insurance & Risk Management Student at the 2012 College of Business Awards Ceremony.
Chemistry Students Attend National American Chemical Society Meeting