UCA News

The UCA Foundation recently announced a gift valued at approximately $550,000 from Bobbie Garner Floyd of Conway in memory of her late husband, John M. Garner. The donation is a combination of a cash gift and a planned charitable remainder trust. The John M. Garner and Bobbie Garner Floyd Scholarship Fund will fund scholarships for students with a preference for students from Wynne High School … [Read more...]

The UCA Debate Team recently made an excellent showing recently at the Boosier Parrish Community College debate tournament with four competitors going a combined 16?8 and advancing two UCA competitors to octofinals. Jonathan Welk, a junior Political Science major, went 5?1 in his first collegiate debate competition and advanced to octofinals. Chris White, a freshman Political Science major, went … [Read more...]

UCA professors JD Swanson, Kari Naylor, Lance Bridges, Brent Hill and Melissa Kelley received a $25,000 grant from Arkansas INBRE to expand the incubation and freezer equipment in UCA's College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. UCA will match the grant with an additional $5,000. The funds will be used to increase -80 degree freezer space by one-third and update incubator space, allowing … [Read more...]

UCA President Lu Hardin recently joined the leaders of the other member institutions of the Arkansas Association of Public Universities on Mount Magazine for the first AAPU Presidents and Chancellors Advance/Retreat. A major topic of discussion among the leaders was working together to increase the number of Arkansans holding a bachelor's degree by formulating strategies to increase college-going … [Read more...]

UCA Theatre will present six evenings of totally improvised theatre entitled The Flaky Biscuit Convention on February 13-15 and 20-22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bridges/Larson Theatre in the Snow Fine Arts Center on the UCA campus. The company cast includes John Brunson and Jackie Rivera, both of Jacksonville, Meg Graham of Rogers, Josh Heffington of Greenbrier, Megumi Kabe of Japan, Aaron Kopf and … [Read more...]

Tim Thornes, assistant professor of Linguistics in UCA's Department of Writing, has an invited book review that will appear in the spring issue of the International Journal of American Linguistics (University of Chicago Press). He reviews "Timbisha (Panamint)" by John McLaughlin, a grammatical description of a highly endangered language of the Death Valley region of southeastern California. Jim … [Read more...]

Terry Weidner will be the keynote speaker at the 2008 UCA China Symposium on Fri., Mar. 7, from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at the McCastlain Ballroom on the UCA campus. This year's symposium, titled ?The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: China in 2008,? is sponsored by a Title VI Federal Grant and the UCA Confucius Institute for Arkansas, in conjunction with UCA's Instructional Development Center and UCA's … [Read more...]

The UCA Board of Trustees will hold a regularly scheduled meeting this Friday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. in the Board of Trustees Conference Room in Wingo Hall on the UCA campus. The meeting agenda is available on the UCA website at this link. … [Read more...]

Arkansas State Sen. Tracy Steele will be featured at February's edition of "Tuesday with a Professional," which will take place next Tues., Feb. 12 during X-period (1:40 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.) in Student Center 215. Steele will discuss his political career as well as the foundation he leads, The Stand Foundation, which is designed to provide young adults with opportunities for leadership, community … [Read more...]

John Vanderslice, assistant professor of Writing at UCA, has had new short stories accepted for publication by the journals Eureka and Boston Literary Magazine. Renee Ryburn, instructor in UCA's Department of Family & Consumer Sciences, completed her Ph.D. at Iowa State University this Fall. She graduated in December with a doctoral degree in Family and Consumer Sciences Education. Her … [Read more...]