The Integrated Health Sciences Building (IHSB) saw its grand opening in August 2021. The 80,000-square-foot, four-story facility offers expanded educational opportunities for students and faculty in the College of Health and Behavioral Sciences (CHBS).
Continue ReadingBeWell: Building a Campus Culture of Health During COVID-19 and Beyond
During a pandemic that has taken a global toll on both physical and mental health, investment in human capital is essential now more than ever before. Through the employee wellness program, BeWell, the University of Central Arkansas invests in the physical and mental well-being of more than 1,500 faculty and staff members.
Continue ReadingGrowing Together: UCA Professor Learns Art of Homesteading
M Shelly Conner has the makings of an agricultural dream. With her wife, Tiffany, she operates a 15-acre homestead in Cabot with plans to grow their own food supply and be self-sufficient.
Continue ReadingPrescription for Training: Service-Learning Partnership Promotes Skill, Confidence, Friendship
At its core, academic service-learning at the University of Central Arkansas is designed to integrate community service with instruction to positively impact the learning experience. One uniquely effective and practical example of this learning style exists between the College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and area law enforcement agencies.
Continue ReadingGoing the Distance: Clinician Immerses Into Alaskan Culture for Holistic Treatment
Beard always knew her career would not be typical. After she graduated from the University of Central Arkansas’ College of Health and Behavioral Sciences with a master of science in communication sciences and disorders, she completed a clinical fellowship at Kidsource Therapy. When she learned about itinerant positions in rural Alaska in 2015, she immediately applied and landed a gig with two remote villages in the Yukon region.
Continue ReadingCommunity Nutrition: Students Solidify Passion and Gain Confidence Through Service-Learning
The College of Health and Behavioral Sciences Department of Nutrition and Family Sciences has a long history of service-learning at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Service-learning is a way for students to tackle authentic problems, wrestle with complicated issues, serve communities with vigor and achieve learning objectives.
Continue ReadingPandemic Pivot: UCA Athletics Sets Own Course
With guidance from the UCA administration, medical staff, athletic training staff and the athletic department administration, the Bears and Sugar Bears not only survived, but thrived during an unprecedented and challenging year. UCA maneuvered successfully through and flourished during a pandemic year when very little was normal in the world of athletics.
Continue ReadingGar Carry Clues: Students Research Ancient Fish to Analyze Arkansas River Health
His love for the sport led to a passion for the environment and an interest in analyzing environmental samples for metal content using a method known as atomic spectroscopy. Mauldin came to the University of Central Arkansas in 2009 as professor and chair in the Department of Chemistry. In 2014, he turned his focus to full-time professor.
Continue ReadingBobby Gragston: Alumnus Achieves Dream of Training Olympics
As a health care services provider for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Bobby Gragston ’15 spent time working in Toyko, Japan training athletes for the games.
Continue ReadingIt Takes a Greek Village
Decades of discussion, site visits, meetings and planning have culminated into collective excitement as students begin to make memories and establish new traditions in Greek Village Phase II at the University of Central Arkansas. This phase of the now completed Greek Village includes housing for Interfraternity Council (IFC) fraternities Sigma Tau Gamma, Sigma Nu and […]
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