UCA News

More than 300 University of Central Arkansas Honors College faculty, staff, students and their parents gathered to celebrate the college?s annual Parents Day on Friday, March 11. This year, the celebration also honored Founding Director Dr. Norbert O. Schedler, who will retire this spring.The day began with parents gathering in the Honors College Forum for coffee and doughnuts, followed by a … [Read more...]

A weekly listing of submitted presentations, publications and accomplishments by UCA faculty and staff.Jeff Allender, Department of Geography, and several of his students were notified by the Institute of Transportation Engineers that a series of their surveys and collected data have been accepted for inclusion in the next publication of Parking Generation, a technical publication used by city … [Read more...]

Dr. Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, the director of the ?Skeptics Society? and the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, will give a guest lecture titled ?The Value of Skepticism? at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, April 4 at Reynolds Performance Hall. His appearance is sponsored by the Psi Chi Honors Society and Psychology Club. The lecture is free and open to the public.Shermer … [Read more...]

The Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity will host a two-day fundraiser for prostate cancer awareness and research outside the University of Central Arkansas Student Center, March 23-24. Organizers of the event say they hope the fundraiser will call attention to the plight of prostate cancer victims and raise awareness about prevention measures and the search for a cure. All profits from the fundraiser … [Read more...]

Chanticleer, the world-renowned 12-person male a cappella vocal ensemble, will perform for one-night only at Reynolds Performance Hall, Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30 pm. Tickets for the Tuesday night concert are available by calling 450-3265. Tickets are $15 for UCA faculty and staff and $10 for non-UCA students. UCA students may receive one free ticket with valid UCA I.D. Advance ticket … [Read more...]

Professional Stage Combat Choreographer Paul Steger will hold a public demonstration on Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Reynolds Performance Hall. UCA Theatre students will join Steger during the performance to demonstrate techniques they acquired during a four-day workshop this week. Audiences will be able to preview some of the fight sequences especially choreographed for the upcoming UCA … [Read more...]

The deadline for applications for the UCA Staff Senate Student Book Scholarship and for the Staff Senate Employee Book Scholarship is Tuesday, March 15. The student book scholarship is for dependents of full-time UCA staff employees who are in good standing academically and have completed at least 30 hours of college credit. The employee book scholarship is for full-time UCA … [Read more...]

Tickets for a special appearance by Jon Heder, star of Napoleon Dynamite are sold out.Heder will make two appearances at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Monday, March 21, at Reynolds Performance Hall. … [Read more...]

A weekly listing of submitted presentations, publications and accomplishments by UCA faculty and staff. Yuen Chan, Department of Marketing, Management and Information Systems, has been notified that his research paper titled " A Social Exchange-Driven Structural Equation Model Analysis of Psychological Empowerment" has been accepted by Organization Behavior Track of the Academy Of Management … [Read more...]

The Graduate Association of Counseling and Psychology Students (CAPS) is pleased to announce the first annual workshop in their professional development workshop series. This year's workshop will be presented at UCA?s Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center on Friday, April 15. Dr. John J. Murphy, associate professor of psychology at UCA, award-winning author and internationally recognized trainer and … [Read more...]