UCA News

In conjunction with the third annual Little Rock Film Festival, award-winning documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud recently visited UCA to present a series of workshops as part of the Artists in Residence series. Arkansas native Renaud, along with his brother Craig, makes up the brains behind several critically acclaimed films, including the Emmy-nominated drug addiction documentary Dope Sick … [Read more...]

UCA's 38th annual Academic Honors Convocation will take place this Sunday, April 26, at 2 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall. UCA President Tom Courtway and UCA Provost Lance Grahn will recognize superior academic achievement and this year's Outstanding University Students. The event is free and open to the public. … [Read more...]

Dr. Reinaldo (Dito) Morales Jr., assistant professor of art history at UCA, has confirmed a major discovery in the world of rock art: an ancient rock painting at a burial site from the Inca site of Machu Picchu in Peru.Morales announced his discovery today at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Atlanta and plans to submit a manuscript about his discovery, New Rock Art at … [Read more...]

The UCA Debate Team finished its strong 2008-09 season by advancing two competitors to semifinals, three competitors to octo-finals and one to double octo-finals at the national tournament as well as finishing fourth overall for their season-long performance. In its second year of existence, the team was recognized for finishing fourth in overall season-long success that consisted of third place … [Read more...]

Six faculty grants, totaling more than $9,000, were awarded recently by the University of Central Arkansas Foundation. The UCA Foundation awards grants each year to faculty for programs that enhance learning opportunities at UCA. These grants, generally in amounts less than $3,000, are intended to encourage creative programs that may serve as "seeds" for future programs and provide for unique and … [Read more...]

Jessica Tabor Lassiter, who graduated from UCA last May, recently received the Best Paper Award at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Business Disciplines in St Louis. "This is not an award for the best student paper," said Dr. Mike Casey, Chair of UCA's Department of Economics. "It is an award received in competition with Ph.D. business faculty members from around the world. I … [Read more...]

UCA will host "Gospel Explosion" on Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus. Eight gospel choirs and the UCA Ebony Models will take part in the event, which is sponsored by the UCA Financial Aid Office as a tribute and memorial scholarship fund-raising event in honor of the late longtime UCA employee, Fay Dunevant. The goal of the Financial Aid … [Read more...]

The UCA Department of English will host its third annual Graduate Student Conference on Literature this Thursday and Friday, April 9 and 10, in the UCA Student Center. This year's theme is We Are One People: Writing America. Because there are many "Americas" and many American voices, this conference hopes to create a place where those voices may be heard as we consider the idea and ideal behind … [Read more...]

Ashley Byrd, a graduate English M.A. student, recently won the $200 Ellen Millsaps Prize in American Literature at the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society's National convention in Indianapolis for her paper "'Stop mixin' up mah doings wid mah looks': Exploring Surrogacy, Sex, and Separation in Janie Crawford's Early Self-Image." Byrd originally wrote the paper in Dr. Jeffrey Johnson's … [Read more...]

Raymond-Jean Frontain, professor of English at UCA, delivered a belated Milton Quartercentenary Lecture title "Milton, Theology and Syntax" at four universities in West Bengal, India: Kalyani University, the University of Burdwan, Vidyasagar University in Midnapore, and Viswa Bharati, the experimental "open world" university founded in 1921 by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The lecture will … [Read more...]