Kyla Bailey, a music education senior at UCA, last month performed as a soloist with the Fujian Symphony Orchestra in China on Christmas Eve. Her appearance was arranged by UCA director of orchestras Israel Getzov. Bailey performed Christmas carols with the symphony and sang solos on many pieces, including "Silver Bells," "Joy to the World" and "O Holy Night." According to an article in the … [Read more...]

Sydney Yeager of Smackover, a senior at UCA, has been awarded a Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. The grant is $2,650, and UCA will add matching funds in the amount of $1,250. Yeager's in-depth research project, "Which Doctor is the Witch Doctor?", is a comparative ethnomedical analysis of Western scientific medicine and traditional … [Read more...]

Micah Abrams, assistant professor of Chemistry at UCA, is one of four national recipients of the 2008 Hewlett Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the American Chemical Society. The award is "designed to recognize early success and academic potential in computational chemists who are on the tenure track, but had not yet received tenure," and it includes a check for $1,000, a special gift … [Read more...]

The Spring 2008 Community Education curriculum at the University of Central Arkansas includes classes on everything from literature and foreign languages to scuba dving and photography. A full brochure is available online at www.uca.edu/aoep/communityed, or call 450-3118 for more information. The literature enrichment series about world classics begins with Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and will … [Read more...]

UCA President Lu Hardin yesterday announced that UCA will soon break ground on a new $18.1 million building that will be the new home of its College of Business. In a speech to the Conway Rotary Club, Hardin said the 82,000-square-foot facility could be completed by the beginning of the fall 2009 semester. "The new College of Business building will be state-of-the-art, and one of its exciting … [Read more...]

UCA officials yesterday announced that a design by Minneapolis artist Andrew Leicester was selected for UCA's Public Art for Alumni Circle Centennial Project. Leicester has been working internationally in public art since the 1970s and has won numerous awards for his projects. His resume includes 45 projects in the categories of Public Art, Arts for Transit, Public Art Masterplans, Private … [Read more...]

Tim Thornes, assistant professor of writing and linguistics at UCA, was invited to the third annual Workshop on Syntactic Complexity at the University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, where he presented the paper "The development of complexity in Northern Paiute verb structure." He will also be presenting the paper "Polyfunctionality and the Northern Paiute middle voice marker" at the annual … [Read more...]

The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre announced that the second annual Arkansas Shakespeare Festival will present three productions over three weekends in June at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. AST also is introducing a membership campaign to support the Festival, which will include Shakespeare's classic "Romeo and Juliet," the perennial musical favorite "The Sound of Music," and … [Read more...]

UCA Honors College student Jordyn Haught recently agreed to live for three days within a tastefully prepared cardboard house inside the lobby of Farris Hall as part of a canned food drive organized by her suitemate and fellow Honors College student Felecia Cagle. Students, staff, and faculty members were encouraged to keep Haught in the house by donating the food items, and donations also were … [Read more...]

Danny Arrigo, an associate professor in UCA's Department of Mathematics, and Luis Suazo, an undergraduate mathematics and physics major, have recently had their article "First order compatibility for the (2 + 1) dimensional diffusion equation," accepted for publication in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. This is their second article together. Their first article, "Symmetry … [Read more...]