Up Close – UCA Magazine

Up Close with Chris Hancock ’10

Hancock volunteers with PopUp in the Rock, a community development organization that places temporary exhibits in neighborhoods to showcase their possibility.

Up Close with Mary Dunlap ’14

Dunlap attributes her time as a public relations major at the University of Central Arkansas for influencing her success and accomplishments at The Iron Yard.

Up Close with Armani Famous

Famous is a member of the Residential Housing Association, Student United Way, NAACP and is on the executive board of Griot society. She works at the Reynolds Performance Hall.

Up Close with Dr. Duncan McKinnan

Between his work as a professor and working on his own personal research, McKinnon found the time to join a team of researchers on PBS’s “Time Team America” that aired in August 2014.

This year has been filled with many history-making moments, and this issue of the UCA Magazine showcases several of those instances.

We start with the total solar eclipse in April and the rarity of witnessing this celestial event. With UCA being in the path of totality, our campus became a destination for thousands of individuals from Arkansas and at least 32 states and five countries. We hosted presentations with UCA professors, eclipse yoga, children’s book readings, a car show, and of course, the watch party on The Stripes. If that was not enough, our campus played host to Luna: the Eclipse Superhero, and the Barkanalia event which allowed visitors to experience the eclipse with their dogs. This was a “totally” great day.
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