UCA News

UCA Career Services will host the annual Fall Career Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 10, in the Student Center Ballroom. More than 70 employers have been invited from across the state to speak with students regarding job opportunities within their company. All students and alumni are invited to attend. … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas will hold a Veteran?s Day ceremony at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 11, at the flagpole in front of Main Hall. Maj. Gen. Don C. Morrow, adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard, will give a keynote address. City and county officials will also be in attendance. The ceremony is open to the public. … [Read more...]

"Victoria," a play about aging, premiers at UCA's Reynolds Performance Hall, Nov. 14-16. UCA Public Appearances presents the Arkansas premiere of a new comedy-drama about aging, Victoria, created and performed by Montreal actress/dancer Dulcinea Langfelder. Performances are scheduled in Reynolds Performance Hall at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14, and 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 16. The 11 … [Read more...]

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has announced its fourth annual Jack Kent Cooke Foundation graduate scholarship competition. The Foundation will award 45 to 50 scholarships to outstanding students to begin graduate studies in fall 2005. UCA is eligible to nominate two graduating seniors or recent alumni (graduated in May 2000 or after) who are planning to enter graduate studies in fall 2005. … [Read more...]

National non-traditional student week is Nov. 8-12. The Univerity of Central Arkansas Career Services Office is sponsoring several events next week in honor of UCA's non-traditional students. Non-traditional students are no longer defined as just 25 and older students. They are any student that is attending college non-traditionally (i.e. commuters and transfer students; married students; … [Read more...]

The UCA Staff Senate needs volunteers for it's biggest fund-raiser of the year. Volunteers are needed to work as ushers at several basketball games throughout the season. Your help is needed for the following games: Nov. 15, men's game with Midwestern State; one usher is needed; arrive at 6 p.m. Nov. 19, men's game with West Texas A and M; one usher is needed; arrive at 6 p.m. Nov. 23, … [Read more...]

A workshop titled "Research Compliance: What, Why and When!" will be held on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Student Center 213A. General information about the IRB, IACUC and other federally mandated compliance policies concerning research and some teaching activities will be presented. Questions welcome! Refreshments provided. Please call 450-3451 to register. … [Read more...]

Music faculty Min-Ho Yeh (clarinet), David Gillham (violin and viola), and Chiharu Iinuma (piano) will present a chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. in Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall on Friday, Nov. 5. The program includes trios by Bruch and Mozart, the first clarinet sonata by Brahms, and "Kokiliko-Genso," a newly-written work for clarinet, viola, and piano by distinguished Japanese composer … [Read more...]

Officials will announce plans Friday, Oct. 29, for a scholarship program to be named after a University of Central Arkansas student and basketball player who died in an apartment fire in April. The scholarship is being named after Aaron B. Mackey, a 22 year-old UCA student from Maumelle. He was a member of the UCA basketball team. On April 29, he died in an apartment fire outside of Conway in … [Read more...]

A weekly listing of submitted presentations and publications by UCA faculty and staff. UCA graduate Barbara Seedha and Dr. Joseph Horton, College of Business Administration, presented a paper at the meeting of the American Society for Competitiveness, Oct. 14-16 in Washington, D.C. The paper is based on Seedha's Honors College thesis, which Horton supervised. U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine … [Read more...]