Raymond-Jean Frontain, professor of English, has been awarded a $3,000 Mellon Fellowship to support his research on playwright Terrence McNally at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Frontain expects to complete a book tentatively titled Something about Grace: The Theater of Terrence McNally. Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of Writing, recently had his Louis-Ferdinand … [Read more...]
UCA's Strategic Growth Institute awarded contract by Asheville HUB Alliance for economic development study
The Asheville HUB Alliance of Asheville, N.C. has selected the Strategic Growth Institute at the University of Central Arkansas to assess the framework of Asheville/Buncombe County's economic development organizations. The analysis will recommend specific measures and strategies to improve the effectiveness of the area's economic development organizations and how they work together. SGI's … [Read more...]
Noted photographer to visit UCA Art department
Internationally-known photographer Shelby Lee Adams will be a visiting artist at UCA's Department of Art on Thursday and Friday. Adams, who has photographed the mountain backwoods families of Appalachia for more than 25 years, will give a presentation this Thursday at 7 p.m. in McCastlain Hall Room 143 on the UCA campus and an informal talk on Friday at 10 a.m. in the Baum Gallery, also located … [Read more...]
Authors to speak at UCA
Two authors scheduled to participate in the Arkansas Literary Festival in Little Rock this weekend will speak at UCA on Friday morning at 9 a.m. in the Torreyson Library Conference Room (206). Robert Leleux will speak about his new book, "Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy," a rollicking laugh-filled tale about growing up in the South; and Joshua Dagon will speak about his books "The Fallen," "Demon … [Read more...]
UCA faculty news
Victor A. Puleo, Jr., CFP … [Read more...]
UCA President to attend Clinton Global Initiative meeting
University of Central Arkansas President Lu Hardin is among a select group of college and university presidents who will attend the first Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) this weekend in New Orleans. Hardin's attendance at CGI U is marked by UCA's commitment to devote substantial resources toward research that will alleviate poverty in the rural areas of Arkansas. "I decided to … [Read more...]
UCA poll indicates voters would approve lottery, severance tax increase
According to a public opinion survey released Wednesday by the University of Central Arkansas, voters in Arkansas would approve two proposed ballot initiatives that would create a state lottery to fund college scholarships and raise the state severance tax on natural gas production to fund higher education, highway improvements and local governments. The poll also indicates that the presumptive … [Read more...]
UCA to host applied research conference
UCA tomorrow will host the seventh annual Conference on Applied Research in Information Technology, which is sponsored by Acxiom Laboratory for Applied Research (ALAR). In addition to UCA Computer Science Department, other members of the Acxiom Laboratory for Applied Research include the MIT Information Quality Program, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (Department of Computer Science … [Read more...]
UCA helps develop national community and economic development test
UCA played an instrumental role in developing the new national Professional Community and Economic Developer (PCED) certification test, which was offered for the first time on March 5 at the Texas Community Development Institute in Houston. The PCED test, administered by the Community Development Council, is offered to persons working in community and economic development who are qualified to sit … [Read more...]
UCA faculty news
Jim Deitrick, director of UCA's Humanities and World Cultures Institute (HWCI), and Raymond-Jean Frontain and Biling Chen of UCA's Department of English recently attended the National Meeting of the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) in Chicago. Deitrick gave a presentation entitled "E-jing: Using Technology to Teach China" and participated on a panel, "New Works in the Field: Introduction … [Read more...]
