Dr. LuZhe Sun, a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and one of the top cancer research scientists in the nation, recently delivered a presidential lecture at UCA as part of a student cancer research symposium. In a lecture hall filled with UCA students, Sun discussed the importance of cancer research. "As the death rate from heart disease decreases among … [Read more...]
UCA students nominated for Jack Kent Cooke scholarship
The UCA Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Nominating Committee has selected Anna-Kate Mayhew and Gretchen Tressler as UCA's 2008 nominees to the prestigious national graduate school scholarship competition. The Foundation will make its selections this summer. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program will award approximately 40 scholarships worth up to $50,000 each to seniors and … [Read more...]
UCA professor named Oklahoma-Arkansas Teacher of the Year
Danny Arrigo of UCA's Mathematics department recently received the 2008 Award for Distinguished Teaching of College or University Mathematics from the Oklahoma-Arkansas Section of the Mathematical Association of America. Each year the Section honors one member of the two-state region as the teacher of the year. In announcing the award, Joan Bell of Northeastern State University said, "All of Dr. … [Read more...]
UCA faculty news
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...]
