The following presentations, publications and accomplishments were submitted by UCA faculty and staff: The Title III team of Director Terry James, Activity Director Sherri Latimer, Technology Specialist Jan Hill, and Assistant Provost for Sponsored Programs Charlotte Cone, presented a paper titled “The Calf-Path: One University’s Experience with Pen-Enabled Technologies” at the Workshop on the Impact of Pen-Enabled Technology on Education at Purdue University. The team members co-authored a paper of the same name which is scheduled for publication in the conference monograph.
Dr. J. David Taylor, Department of Physical Therapy, has completed a research study titled “The Impact of a Supervised Strength and Aerobic Training Program on Muscular Strength and Aerobic Capacity in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes”. The study has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
Dr. Hui Wu, Department of Writing and Speech, has had the article, “Writing and Teaching behind Barbed Wire: An Exiled Composition Class in a Japanese Concentration Camp,” accepted for publication in a top journal of writing instruction studies, College Composition and Communication, whose acceptance rate is lower than 10 percent. Her study is the first in the history of rhetoric and composition that addresses composition in Japanese interment camps to make an important part of Arkansas history known nationally.
Dr. Wu also has had her article ?The Paradigm of Margaret Cavendish: Reading Women?s Alternative Rhetorics in a Global Context? accepted to serve as a chapter in the book ?Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture? (eds. Jacqueline J. Royster and Ann Marie M. Simpkins, State University of New York Press, 2005). The book won the 2006 Nancy Dasher Award by the College English Association of Ohio.
