James E. Thurman, an associate professor in UCA’s Department of Speech-Language Pathology, recently was appointed by Gov. Mike Beebe to serve on the Arkansas Legislative Task Force on Traumatic Brain Injury through June 2009. Thurman came to UCA in 1965 on a football scholarship and went on to receive his B.S. and M.S. degrees at UCA. He received another M.S. from Brigham Young University before returning to UCA in 1972 to join the speech pathology faculty. For the last 26 years, Thurman has worked during weekends with head-injured clients at Timber Ridge Neuro-Rehabilitation Center, where he often brings students for unique practicum experiences.
Mary H. Mosley, Associate Professor of Reading/Literacy Education at UCA, presented research and chaired a session at the International Reading Association Southwest Regional Conference in Little Rock earlier this month. Mosley chaired the business session of the Arkansas Literacy Teacher Educators (ALTE) meeting at the conference. Hannah Webb, a UCA graduate assistant at the UCA Reading Center, was a co-presenter with Mosley at the Celebrate Literacy Research session, where their topic was “Research on Effective Literacy Coaches.”
Terri Hebert and Jeff Whittingham, assistant professors in UCA’s Department of Teaching, Learning and Technology, recently presented “Boys, Books, and Blogs” at the annual conference of the National Middle School Association in Houston.
