An audience including Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is expected at UCA tomorrow night for the world premiere of The Scarlet Letter opera. Acclaimed American composer Lori Laitman has teamed up with award-winning American poet David Mason to create the opera, an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary masterpiece, which was commissioned by UCA. "UCA will be one … [Read more...]

The UCA Board of Trustees will hold a regularly scheduled meeting this Friday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. in the Board of Trustees Conference Room in Wingo Hall on the UCA campus. The meeting agenda is available here. … [Read more...]

Dr. Brooks Green of UCA's Department of Geography in September presented a paper titled, "Modeling Population Dynamics in Rural Russia," in Ryazan, Russia at a conference on Regional Geography and Geoecology. Green and Dr. Jeff Allender, also of UCA's Department of Geography, last month attended the National Conference on Geographic Education in Dearborn, Mich. Dr. Brooks Pearson of UCA's … [Read more...]

Robert H. "Bunny" Adcock, Jr. this week began serving as interim vice president for financial services at the University of Central Arkansas, as the result of an appointment by interim UCA president Tom Courtway. Paul McLendon held the position until he retired last Friday. Adcock is vice chairman of the board of directors of Home BancShares, a $2.6 billion holding company with six … [Read more...]

UCA's Humanities and World Cultures Institute and UCA's Department of Philosophy and Religion, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Arkansas and the Jewish Cultural Center at Hendrix College, this week will present sponsor a three-night lecture series exploring Judaism and the Civil Rights Movement in the American South "Let My People Go! Judaism, Civil Rights, and the American South" … [Read more...]

The UCA Archives tomorrow will host a reception for the family of Jim Elder to formally announce the donation Elder's papers to the UCA Archives. Elder was the sports director for KARN radio and the voice of the Arkansas Travelers baseball team. He was one of the most admired media sports figures in Arkansas history. His collection contains a large collection of photographs of him, his family, … [Read more...]

Dr. Blake Tyson, associate professor of percussion at UCA, this week will perform as part of the Sounds of the Cathedral concert series in Stavanger, Norway. "I feel extremely lucky to have been invited to perform," Tyson said. "I'm looking forward to making some new friends, seeing a part of the world that I've never seen before, and hearing some great musicians perform on the concerts with … [Read more...]

The UCA Student Government Association and the UCA Athletic Department welcomes the UCA community to watch tomorrow's general election results on the video board at Estes Stadium. Admission is free, and the stadium concession stands will be open from 7 to 10 p.m. … [Read more...]

Anne Perry, the critically acclaimed crime writer who has more than 20 million copies of her books in print, today continues UCA's Artist in Residence program. Perry, who was selected by The Times of London as one of the 20th century's "100 Masters of Crime," will give a reading of her works as well as hold a book signing tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Doyne Health Science Center Auditorium. The … [Read more...]

UCA's Humanities and World Cultures Institute will host the Fall 2008 Humanities Fair this Wednesday, Nov. 6, the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center and Ida Waldran Auditorium at UCA. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m., with programs from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Humanities Fair, supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council, is open to high school students and their teachers. … [Read more...]