UCA faculty and staff recently made the following presentations, publications, etc.: Tina A. Mankey, Department of Occupational Therapy, presented a workshop titled ?Sensory Integration for Learning & Development: A Collaborative Approach? to a group of occupational therapists, physical therapists, & speech pathologists in Jonesboro in July.
Mary Sue Passe-Smith, Department of Geography, presented “Exploring Local Tornado Alleys for Predictive Environmental Parameters” at the 26th Annual ESRI International Users Conference ‘GIS: Communicating Our World’ in San Diego last month.
Hui Wu, Department of Writing and Speech, had her paper “China’s First Treatise on Persuasion by Guiguzi, Master of the Ghost Valley (400-300 BCE)” presented in May at the conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Memphis. Wu also won a Freeman fellowship earlier in the year to participate in the workshop on Japan Studies held in the Pacific Center of Tokai University in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Michael Hargis, Department of Marketing and Management, had the article ?Race differences at work: The role of educational inequality? published in June 2006 in the Journal of Business and Psychology. He also served as co-chair for a symposium titled ?Leadership, It?s All Relative: Applying Relative Importance Statistics to Leadership? at the annual meeting for the Academy of Management in Atlanta in August. Additionally, He presented a paper titled ?Relative importance of transformational and transactional leadership styles in predicting leader effectiveness and subordinate job attitudes.?
Barbara Clancy, Department of Biology, along with students James R. Hyde and Brandon M. Kersh, were invited to make a platform presentation in September at the 23rd International Neurotoxicology Conference in Little Rock.
