UCA News

UCA music lecturer Brent Shires and piano instructor Terrie Shires will present a program of French horn music this Friday at 5:45 p.m. at the Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall. The recital is preparation for a performance two days later at the University of Illinois, and it is free and open to the public. Brent Shires is a founding member of Pinnacle Brass, the resident quintet at UCA, as well … [Read more...]

As the University of Central Arkansas moves up to NCAA Division I status and joins the Southland Athletic Conference, UCA executed a contract agreement with Head Football Coach Clint Conque to extend his tenure at least through the end of 2011. "I was very impressed and pleased that UCA finished with an 8-3 record and in the national Top 25 during our first year competing at the Division I … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas's student newspaper, The Echo, won 27 awards at last Friday's Arkansas College Media Association awards, including First Place for General Excellence . The Echo also swept the First, Second and Third Place awards in the Editorial Writing category, and won First Place in News Writing and First Place in Editorial Cartoon. It was a banner day for UCA's literary … [Read more...]

Dr. Mike Martin, Bryan Massey and Bill Bandy are the 2007 recipients of UCA's 2007 Faculty Excellence Awards. Martin, a biology professor, won the Teaching Excellence Award; Massey, in UCA's Department of Art, won the Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award; and Bandy won the Public Service Award for his work in UCA's Department of Physical Therapy.Martin has been at UCA since 1995. In … [Read more...]

Los Angeles Modern Dance Troupe DIAVOLO will perform two concerts and a master class at UCA's Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall this Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. General admission tickets are available from $12 to $35, and tickets for UCA students are $5 with a valid UCA I.D. To purchase tickets, call UCA Ticket Central at 450-3265 or 1-866-810-0012 or visit www.uca.edu/tickets. The … [Read more...]

The UCA English Department has established a scholarship fund with the UCA Foundation to honor Becky Williams and Linda Arnold, who will retire next month from the faculty after a combined 49 years of service to UCA. The Williams/Arnold Scholarship will be presented annually to a junior English major who intends to pursue a career in education. The funds would be applied during the student's … [Read more...]

Three UCA students will participate in the first-ever UCA "Iron Chef" competition this Friday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Christian Cafeteria. Javia Jacobs, Whitney Mapes and Julie Storing will have one hour to prepare three appetizer-style dishes from ingredients provided by Aramark, which is sponsoring the event. There will be prizes for all three contenders, and their creations will be … [Read more...]

Dr. Catherine Acre of the UCA Occupational Therapy Department was officially named a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association at its annual conference in St. Louis last weekend. Other UCA faculty making presentations at the conference included: Dr. Letha Mosley, Ms. Elizabeth LeQuieu and LaTeasha D. Gaither (Short Course entitled "Bridging Occupation, Obesity, and Motivation from … [Read more...]

UCA will host the 67th annual Arkansas Boys State from June 3 to 8. The week-long civics education program is organized and sponsored by the American Legion Department of Arkansas, and more information is available at www.arlegion.org. … [Read more...]

UCA's Department of Speech-Language Pathology is well represented in the leadership of the Arkansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, with John Lowe as President-Elect, Kim McCullough as Vice-President-Elect for Continuing Education and Linda Edwards as Treasurer. This is nothing new for the Department, as Graduate Dean Elaine McNiece and Donna Smiley both served as President of ASLHA, which … [Read more...]