Fifteen new employees have joined UCA. They are:
Erica Ruble, fiscal support specialist, Financial Accounting, Dec. 16.
Denicha Kemp, administrative specialist II, Office of Vice President for Student Services, Dec. 20.
Joshua Markham, CCED coordinator, AOEP Center Community Economic Development, Jan. 3.
Courtney Schurtz, administrative specialist II, AOEP Camps & Conferences, Jan. 3.
Laura Narro, administrative specialist II, Enrollment Services, Jan. 3.
Daniel Daves, institutional services assistant, Custodial Care, Jan. 3.
Brian James, instructor, Intensive English, Jan. 3.
Amanda Bruce, instructor, Intensive English, Jan. 3.
Sarah Garrett, public safety officer, University Police, Jan. 7.
Amber Harrell, advanced practice nurse, Office of Student Health, Jan. 10.
Scott Isenga, director of Fraternity Life, Leadership and Greek Services, Jan. 10.
Brandon Nagle, assistant coach, football, Jan. 12.
Matthew Kubik, assistant coach, football, Jan. 12.
Carmen Brown, instructor, Family and Consumer Sciences, Jan. 13.
Emily Gordon, instructor, Health Sciences, Jan. 14.
Lucas McKay has worked for the UCA PD part time as a Community Service Officer for the past three years. He is a graduate of Clinton High School and is currently attending Central Baptist College and majoring in Leadership and Ministry.
Matthew Lichty has worked for the Conway Police Department for the last five years and has obtained a Drug Recognition Expert Certification, Field Training Officer Certification, and is a Child Safety Seat Technician Instructor. He is a graduate of Newell-Fonda High School in Newell, Iowa and is currently attending UCA and majoring in Computer Science.
Christopher Vasquez has recently moved to Conway from Phoenix where he owned a small business. He is a graduate of Greenway High School in Phoenix.
Dr. Joe Cangelosi, professor of marketing and chair of the Department of Marketing & Management; Dr. David Kim, associate professor of marketing; and Dr. Ed Ranelli, dean of the College of Business at the University of West Florida, had their article “The Distribution of Preventive Health Care Information: A Demographic Analysis,” published in the International Journal of Business Disciplines, vol. 21, no. 2, Winter 2010, pp. 69-78.
Dr. Rebecca Gatlin-Watts, professor of management; Lauren Maxwell, instructor of economics; Marsha Carson, instructor of management and Emmanuel Lopez Luna from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico had an article published in Vol. 21, Number 2, the winter 2010 edition of The International Journal of Business Disciplines. The title of the article is “Perceptions of Ethical Behavior Among NAFTA University Students. “
Lynn Burley, associate professor in writing, presented her paper, “Fred and Ginger, Mary and Joseph and Bill and Hilary: Who Comes First in a Name Pair?” at the annual meeting of the American Name Society held in Pittsburgh in January. As a member of the ANS, she also voted for the 2011 Name of the Year, Eyjafjallajökull the Icelandic volcano that erupted last year and wreaked havoc on European travel due to the volcanic ash. She also participated in the voting for the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year, app. Both conferences were held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual conference.
John Vanderslice, associate professor of writing, has had a chapter from his novel Yellow accepted for publication by The New Delta Review. His short story “Range of Motion,” meanwhile, will appear this month in the journal Sou’wester. Also this month, an interview with him on the subject of remaking the teaching of creating writing will be featured on the blog of Cathy Day, noted fiction and nonfiction writer from Indiana.
Indiana University Press has just published the book Race in American Science Fiction, by Isiah Lavender III, associate professor in UCA’s English department. The book argues that “racial alterity is fundamental to the genre’s [i.e., Science Fiction’s] narrative strategy,” and discusses writers like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as Octavia Butler, Charles Saunders, and other African American novelists.
Three faculty members in the Department of Philosphy had their work recently published in the Fall 2010 issue (Vol. 17, #2) of the Journal of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World’s special issue on the “The Future of Liberal Arts Education.” “Philosophy in the Contemporary World is a peer-reviewed journal committed to the application of philosophy in understanding and solving contemporary ethical and conceptual problems.” Peter J. Mehl, professor of philosophy and religion and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, was the guest editor for this issue. The issue collects 13 essays on the topic, three of which are authored by members of the Philosophy and Religion department. Besides an editor’s introduction, Mehl wrote an essay titled, “Educating for Life: Liberal Arts and the Human Spirit.” Dr. Jim Shelton, professor of philosophy, wrote an essay titled “The Subversive Nature of Liberal Education.” Dr. Charles Harvey, chair and professor of Philosophy, wrote, “The Conservative Limits of Liberal Education.”
Lennon Bates, a junior biology major and anthropology minor was awarded a SURF grant for $4,000. Dr. Karen Steelman, associate professor of chemistry, mentors Lennon. Lennon’s work focuses on radiocarbon dating of ancient rock art. She is planning on attending graduate school to study anthropology with a focus in forensic anthropology, the study of human remains. Lennon, who is from Bryant, will graduate from UCA in Spring 2012.