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UCA staff member Chris Collins and graduate student Danielle Joanette recently were honored for their contributions to UCA and Housing and Residence Life at the 2008 Southwest Association of College and University Housing Officers (SWACUHO) conference. Collins, a Maintenance Supervisor for Housing and Residence Life, received the Bob Cooke Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes service, … [Read more...] about UCA staff member and graduate student honored

UCA political science professor Gary Wekkin and recent UCA graduate Jared Stewart won the Southwestern Political Science Association's 2007 Allan Saxe Best Paper on State and Local Politics Award for their paper, "Moral Values or Presidential Coattails?: Did Gay Marriage Ballot Measures Boost Social Conservative Support for Republican Candidates in 2004?" which was co-authored with Andrew Dowdle … [Read more...] about UCA faculty news

Michael Daugherty, one of the most performed and commissioned American composers of concert music of his generation, will be at the University of Central Arkansas March 17-19 as artist in residence. Daugherty, professor of music at the University of Michigan, has received numerous awards, including the Stoeger Prize from the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the American Academy and Institute … [Read more...] about Composer Michael Daugherty to be UCA artist-in-residence

UCA Minority Student Services on Monday unveiled a new program targeted at incoming minority freshmen, "A Slice of UCA." The event was designed to better prepare incoming minority freshmen for the enrollment process at UCA. Over 40 students and their parents were invited to attend a day-long workshop about financial aid, academic advising and housing. The presenters for the workshop came from … [Read more...] about UCA Minority Student Services hosts event for incoming minority freshmen

Mary H. Mosley of UCA's College of Education last Saturday served as a judge for the third annual Poetry Out Loud National Recitation contest in Little Rock. Students from throughout the state competed in this poetry recitation competition. The winner, Temple Price, is an eleventh grade student from Hall High School in Little Rock. She will represent Arkansas in the national competition in … [Read more...] about UCA faculty news

Gordon Goodwin, 2006 Grammy Award winner, three-time Emmy Award winner and five-time Grammy nominee, brings his all-star 18-piece big band jazz ensemble, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, to UCA for one concert only tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. in Reynolds Performance Hall. Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band concert is an Artist in Residence project of the College of Fine Arts & Communication and is … [Read more...] about Grammy winner brings Big Phat Band to UCA

Sunny Dooley, a Navajo story teller, tomorrow will present "Stories from the Navajo Tradition" at the Faulkner County Library, 1900 Tyler Street, at 7 p.m. She will also appear at UCA on Friday at 10 a.m. in McAlister 302. Dooley is a Native Dine' (Navajo) storyteller, poet, playwright, lecturer, and folk singer who has traveled throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and West Africa, sharing her … [Read more...] about UCA brings Navajo story teller to Conway

The Arkansas Affiliate of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) will hold its annual conference at UCA this Thursday and Friday. Family and consumer sciences professionals will participate, including university and secondary educators, extension agents, dietitians, and business professionals. The student units from each state university will also attend this … [Read more...] about UCA to host family & consumer sciences conference

Joanna Castner Post, assistant professor of Writing at UCA, has an article in Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools, published February 2008 by the University of Minnesota Press. The article is entitled "Getting Real and Feeling in Control: Haptic Interfaces." The collection was edited by Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo. … [Read more...] about UCA faculty news