The University of Central Arkansas and College Square, UCA's independent life-style community, awarded the UCA University Connection Award for October to Myrtle Lee Selig. The award was developed to honor College Square residents who are consistently involved with College Square activities, UCA campus events and who have made significant contributions to the community or society. Selig has … [Read more...]
Brodman named outstanding faculty in liberal arts
Dr. Jim Brodman discovered his interest in history while studying at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., but was warned to avoid Spanish history, as it was hopelessly complicated. So, of course, he soon enrolled at the University of Virginia to study medieval Spanish history. Through the aegis of Edward Younger, an early graduate of UCA (then the Arkansas Normal School), who was dean of the … [Read more...]
Honors College to present Challenge Week
The UCA Honors College and the Department of Biology will look at an emerging theory called Intelligent Design during Challenge Week, a multi-event symposium, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 14. According to Dr. Rick Scott, director of the Honors College, proponents of Intelligent Design attribute evolution to a guiding intelligence instead of random variation and natural selection, while critics … [Read more...]
Presentations and Publications
A weekly listing of submitted presentations and publications by UCA faculty and staff. Submissions made to UCA Today are posted the following Friday. Dr. William H. Friedman, Department of Management Information Systems, presented a paper on Oct. 3, at the Arkansas College Teachers of Economics and Business in Little Rock, at the UALR campus. The paper, titled ?Pricing Computer Resources as … [Read more...]
UCA recruits transfers from across state, country
Sportswriters will tell you that by playing with statistics, you can sometimes deduct that a team like Harding University would be able to compete in football with say, a University of Miami. That?s pretty far-fetched of course, but statistics about the enrollment this fall at UCA do reveal some interesting data, particularly in the area of transfer students. Of the 136 students who … [Read more...]
Tarkka receives grant for research apparatus
Dr. Richard Tarkka, Department of Chemistry, recently received a $23,374 grant for the acquisition of a Luminescence Spectrometer and a Carousel Parallel Synthesis Apparatus. The instruments will allow Tarkka to continue working on a collaborative effort with Bob Gawley at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. The pair?s study is attempting to develop new methods of testing seafood for … [Read more...]
UCA Theatre presents, ?One Flea Spare?
UCA Theatre will present One Flea Spare, by Naomi Wallace, at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 15, 16 and 17, in the Reynolds Performance Hall. This critically acclaimed drama is set in 1665 as the plague is sweeping through London. A month-long quarantine is about to expire on a wealthy couple's boarded-up house when two vagrants break in, forcing the occupants to endure another month's captivity. The story … [Read more...]
Trustees approve personnel adjustments
Personnel Adjustments from the Oct. 3 Board of Trustee Meeting: ADJUSTMENTS: Barbara Biljan, Library, Library Laboratory Instructor, change from half-time to eighty percent time, change salary, effective September 5, 2003. Terry James, change from Associate Provost/Title 3 to Graduate School/Title 3, change title from Interim Director Academic Planning and Assessment/Director of Special … [Read more...]
Conque tells Bearbackers he believes in his team
While saying that he was "frustrated, disappointed and at time times borderline embarrassed," UCA head football coach Clint Conque also told supporters at the weekly Bearbackers luncheon on Monday, "I still believe in these young men and the things we've established here. "It is extremely important that you continue to support these young men," Conque told the large gathering in the Hall of … [Read more...]
UCA unveils WWII memorial
The University of Central Arkansas obviously warmed hearts and rekindled memories for many in the huge crowd who turned out for the unveiling of the World War II memorial on an otherwise damp, gray Friday afternoon. The ceremony took place in front of McAlister Hall, which is the site of the memorial. The monument is made of black granite with gold lettering. It is over four feet wide and … [Read more...]
