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The University of Central Arkansas Office of Diversity and Community will host the annual MLK Prayer Breakfast Friday, Jan. 17, in the Student Center Ballroom. Breakfast begins at 8:15 a.m., and the official program begins at 9 a.m. The breakfast is held each year to celebrate the spiritual legacy and moral courage that Dr. Martin Luther King brought to the social justice movement. This year’s … [Read more...] about UCA CELEBRATES KING WITH PRAYER BREAKFAST

The University of Central Arkansas Division of Outreach and Community Engagement will host “Colors and Creativity,” an art exhibition featuring the works of clients of Independent Living Services (ILS), at UCA Downtown from Monday, Jan. 6, through Friday, Jan. 24. An opening reception will be held Friday, Jan. 10, from 5-7 p.m. ILS is a local nonprofit organization that provides residential … [Read more...] about UCA DOWNTOWN FEATURES INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES ARTISTS

The University of Central Arkansas’s Reynolds Performance Hall will host international music and theater performers “The Choir of Man” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7, as part of the group’s North American tour. A worldwide hit, the show offers 90 minutes of indisputable joy. It’s equal parts party and concert and an overall pint-filled good time set in a real working pub. The multi-talented cast … [Read more...] about REYNOLDS PERFORMANCE HALL TO BRING ‘THE CHOIR OF MAN’ TO THE STAGE

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed an executive order establishing the State Computer Science and Cybersecurity Task Force and appointed Stephen Addison, dean of the University of Central Arkansas College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, to be a member of the force. Addison joins 30 other members who serve as leaders in education, industry and government in Arkansas. According to a press … [Read more...] about UCA’S STEPHEN ADDISON APPOINTED TO STATE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CYBERSECURITY TASK FORCE

Three University of Central Arkansas faculty members in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics received a total of $1,020,435 in grants to support research. Tansel Halic and Sinan Kockara, both associate professors of computer science, received a $761,119 National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for their research titled “Virtual Rotator Cuff … [Read more...] about UCA FACULTY RECEIVE MORE THAN $1 MILLION FOR RESEARCH

The University of Central Arkansas’s Reynolds Performance Hall will welcome the critically acclaimed, award-winning production “The Spongebob Musical” on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at 7:30 p.m. Based on the hit animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” the musical features an original pop- and rock-infused score by a legendary roster of Grammy Award-winning songwriters. This one-of-a-kind musical … [Read more...] about REYNOLDS PERFORMANCE HALL TO HOST ARKANSAS PREMIERE OF ‘THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL’

More than 120 students came together to present the culmination of their research during the fifth annual STEM@Arkansas Pseudoscience Fair. The Pseudoscience Fair unites courses in philosophy, communication, engineering, biology, chemistry and history with a common intellectual experience. For this assignment, students were asked to choose a pseudoscientific claim — that is, something that sounds … [Read more...] about FIFTH ANNUAL PSEUDOSCIENCE FAIR

Corey Throneberry has been named the senior director of development for the University of Central Arkansas College of Business. Prior to joining UCA, Throneberry worked as a business development officer at First Service Bank. He also worked with Centennial Insurance Agency in Conway. Throneberry graduated from the UCA College of Business in 2008 with a bachelor’s in insurance and risk … [Read more...] about COREY THRONEBERRY NAMED SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT FOR UCA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS