UCA News

The Oxford American magazine, based at the University of Central Arkansas, will release its first-ever Oxford American DVD in conjunction with the publication this week of The Oxford American Southern Movie Issue. The OA DVD is a "visual mix tape" featuring short films, scenes from essential Southern movies, historic footage, spectacular surprises, and much more. Special highlights include works … [Read more...]

The UCA-produced documentary on the Arkansas Gazette, "The Old Gray Lady: Arkansas's First Newspaper," will air on AETN this Friday night at 9 p.m. The film, directed by UCA alumnus Kevin Clark, with Joseph Anderson and Donna Lampkin Stephens of the Mass Communication/Theatre department as executive producer and producer, respectively, tells the story of what was the oldest newspaper west of the … [Read more...]

UCA psychology students Maranda Leonard, Anthony Thompson, and Brandon Wolfe recently received Regional Research Awards worth $300 from Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology for their paper entitled, "Relationship Between Political Orientation and Defensiveness." The trio found that politically liberal individuals used a level of psychological defense that directly paralleled the … [Read more...]

Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys football team, will deliver a speech on the UCA campus next Wednesday at 12 noon at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall. A North Little Rock native, Jones had a successful career in gas and oil exploration before purchasing the Cowboys in 1989. The event is free and open to the public. … [Read more...]

The award-winning Oxford American magazine, based on the UCA campus, tomorrow night will host a special free screening of its first-ever Southern Movie DVD in Stanley Russ Hall, Room 103. The DVD is a "visual mix tape" of Southern movies from past to present (with lots of contributions by Arkansas filmmakers). Works by Craig Brewer, Ray McKinnon, Joey Lauren Adams, Roger Corman, Phil Chambliss, … [Read more...]

The UCA Honors College tomorrow night will host the tenth annual Livestock 2007, a benefit concert for Heifer International, at Juanita's (1300 Main Street in Little Rock). This year's event is a project of an honors seminar on "The Music Business," co-taught by concert promoter Butch Stone and Rick Scott, director of the Honors College and longtime musician and song writer. It is sponsored by … [Read more...]

Jessica Hambuchen is the 2007 recipient of the Department of Nursing Graduate Academic Excellence Award at the University of Central Arkansas. Hambuchen, who will receive a Master of Science in Nursing on May 5, was chosen for this honor based on her intellectual curiosity and scholarly writing. Hambuchen also has the highest cumulative grade point average in the graduate nursing program. … [Read more...]

Dr. Hui Wu, Associate Professor in the UCA Writing Department, served as a featured speaker at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication held last month in New York. She presented her paper, "Lost in Translation: Modern Chinese Conceptualization of Rhetoric." … [Read more...]

Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter tonight will speak at the University of Central Arkansas. Halter's lecture is presented by the UCA Honors College. DATE: Tuesday, April 10 TIME: 6 p.m. LOCATION: McAlister Hall, Room 302 (The Forum) Halter took office in January. He was Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration under President Bill Clinton and held other senior White House … [Read more...]

UCA Assistant Golf Coach Jack O'Keefe was attuned to Zach Johnson's potential before the Master's golf tournament began last week, according to Louisville Courier-Journal columnist Eric Crawford. "O'Keefe made his first visit to Augusta for a practice round Wednesday," Crawford wrote. "His eyes bloodshot from pulling an all-nighter to get there, he told me, 'Look for Zach Johnson.'" Johnson was … [Read more...]