Submitted by: Chad Hearne, chearne@uca.edu on 08/30/2022
The request for proposals for UCA Foundation Faculty Grants will be valid through academic year 2022-2023. Completed applications must be submitted no later than October 14, 2022. Award decisions will be made no later than November 1, 2022 by a committee appointed by the UCA Foundation. Completed applications, as well as letters of support from the applicant’s Dean and Department Chair, should be submitted through the online application.
Submitted by: Scott Austin, saustin@uca.edu on 08/30/2022
Griffin Planetarium shows this weekend Friday September 2 and Saturday September 3 at 7:00pm: The one-hour shows this week includes a tour of the current sky, a review of the JWST images, and the full-dome movie “Edge of Darkness”. The planetarium is located in the Conway Corporation Center for the Sciences. Building doors open at 6:30pm. Seating starts 10 minutes before show time. Admission is free. Seating limited to the first 94. No admission after the shows begin. No food or drink allowed.
Submitted by: Jessica Underwood, jessicau@uca.edu on 08/30/2022
The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Academic Leadership (CETAL) offers a unique approach to learning communities: Coaching Circles. These communities foster conversation and community around shared interests in teaching and stages in career. Coaching circles encourage—and provide a safe space for—discussion, experimentation, and growth in teaching and professional development. Whether new to the teaching profession or aspiring to become an academic leader, there is a coaching circle for you!
Coaching circles are forming very, very soon- join one today!
New Faculty Teaching Academy
Mondays @ 2:00 p.m.
Early Career Coaching Circle
Tuesdays @ 3:00 p.m.
Applying for Full Professor
Mondays @ 2:00 p.m.
Aspiring Leaders
Tuesdays @ 3:00 p.m.
Personal and Professional Growth
Friday @ 10:00 a.m.
Practices and Pedagogies of Care
Wednesdays @ 2:00 p.m.
Teaching First-Year Students
Thursdays @ 3:00 p.m.
Dean’s Leadership Series: Leading from the Middle
October 18th @ 12:15 p.m.
For detailed information about each coaching circle, visit our website. Registration is available online.
https://uca.edu/cetal/faculty-learning-communities-book-discussion-groups/
Submitted by: Michelle Wynn, mwynn@uca.edu on 08/29/2022
Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration on September 9th from 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Submitted by: Mark Mullenbach, markm@uca.edu on 08/29/2022
The Washington Center (TWC) for Internships & Academic Seminars is now accepting applications for the Spring 2023 and Summer 2023 terms (see link below). The early application deadline for the Spring 2023 term is October 12, 2022. Students who apply by September 14th will be awarded a $1,000 housing scholarship, in addition to any other scholarships for which a student may be eligible. UCA undergraduate students who are interested in the internship program are encouraged to register for a virtual information session on Thursday, September 8th, 5:00pm Central Time. Here is the registration link: https://hubs.ly/Q01l6BYR0. For more information regarding the TWC internship program, please contact Dr. Mark Mullenbach, UCA Liaison, at markm@uca.edu.
Submitted by: Lainey Morrow, bmorrow@uca.edu on 08/29/2022
Each year the College of Business recognizes its outstanding faculty with awards. This year, two new awards were created to highlight the exceptional work of this faculty and to encourage continued excellence in the areas of societal impact, research, service, innovative teaching, engaged teaching, and an individual’s impact on the college itself.
Read about each individual winner: https://uca.edu/business/2022/08/29/2022-faculty-excellence-award-winners
Submitted by: Wendy Sparks, wsparks2@uca.edu on 08/29/2022
UCA Faculty and Staff can get up to two FREE tickets for Spamilton: An American Parody coming to Reynolds Performance Hall on Saturday, September 17 @ 7:30 pm.
Created by Gerard Alessandrini, the comic mastermind behind the long-running hit Forbidden Broadway and performed by a versatile cast of eight, Spamilton: An American Parody is a side-splitting new musical parody. A crash course of everyone’s favorite Broadway blockbusters, including celebrity satires, pop culture zings accompanied with hip-hop on the piano! After tearing it up in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, Spamilton: An American Parody will stage a singing, dancing, comedy revolution in Conway! Amanda Horton, Reynolds director said, “Come enjoy a quirky night of comedic theatre as we kick off our season with Spamilton. This is a show that Hamilton fans as well as musical theatre fans won’t want to miss.”
Current and retired UCA Faculty and Staff may each receive two FREE tickets to three of the Public Appearances performances in the 2022-23 season.
* To obtain your tickets you must visit the box office in person with your current UCA ID before the day of the performance.
* Free tickets are subject to seating availability and, therefore, an event may sell out before the date arrives for free tickets.
* We cannot place orders for free tickets over the phone, nor can you bring the ID of anyone else in order to obtain more than 2 free tickets.
* You cannot receive more than 2 free tickets for an event, however we have great discounts on tickets for purchase.
Reynolds Performance Hall
Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
501-450-3265
https://uca.edu/publicappearances/broadway/spamilton-an-american-parody/
Submitted by: Emre Celebi, ecelebi@uca.edu on 08/29/2022
Amber Abernathy, a 2022 graduate of the MS program in Computer Science, published her Master’s thesis in a prestigious journal:
A. D. Abernathy and M. E. Celebi, “The Incremental Online K-Means Clustering Algorithm and Its Application to Color Quantization,” Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 207, 117927, 2022.
The 2021 impact factor of Expert Systems with Applications is 8.665, ranking it 23 out of 276 journals in Engineering, Electrical & Electronics category.
Amber’s work was supervised by Dr. Emre Celebi, chair of Computer Science and Engineering. She currently works at UAMS as a Research System Analyst.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957417422011708
Submitted by: Marvin Williams, marvinw@uca.edu on 08/25/2022
We have heard so many students say, “I really didn’t have to study in high school so don’t know how.” The Office of Student Success wants to HELP! This semester, we will provide a combination of campus and virtual academic success workshops. Please encourage students to attend. Email attendance verification will be provided. Click on the link provided for a complete listing of times, dates, topics, descriptions and the button to add them to your google calendar!
Submitted by: Sara Bailey, sbailey7@uca.edu on 08/25/2022
Beginning this fall, the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs will facilitate the creation and management of Bears Write Now! faculty writing groups through which faculty can dedicate time to work on grant and other research-related writing.
A standing reservation will be created by ORSP for a recurring time and location for writing group meetings. For each group, an ORSP representative will attend the first meeting for introductions and assistance with setting up the structure of the group. However, Bears Write Now writing groups are meant to be led by faculty, for faculty. Thus, ORSP staff will not attend subsequent meetings unless requested to offer support to the group.
You may choose (1) a group that is focused solely on dedicated writing time for participants OR (2) a group that is not only focused on dedicated writing time for participants, but also on reporting writing progress to members of their respective group.
If you would like to participate in a writing group, please complete the registration form (see link below) by Friday, September 16th. You will be contacted by an ORSP representative with further information. If you have any questions, please contact Sara Bailey at sbailey7@uca.edu. Please note that filling out this form doesn’t commit you to joining a writing group. However, it does help ORSP identify whether there are patterns in faculty interests that might allow faculty writing groups to form.
