UCA political science professor GARY WEKKIN last month presented two papers at the Southwestern Political Science Association meetings in Albuquerque, N.M. The first paper, entitled “George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush: Puzzling Presidents, or the Puzzle of the Presidency?” will be published this month in a special issue of White House Studies devoted to the two Bush presidencies. The second paper, co-authored with UCA student Jared A. Stewart and UA-Fayetteville political scientists Andrew Dowdle and Leslie Piatt, was titled “Moral Values or Presidential Coattails? Did Gay Marriage Ballot Measures Boost Social Conservative Support for Republican Candidates in 2004?”
GARRY CRAIG POWELL in the UCA Department of Writing has been awarded the 2007 Eureka! Fellowship for a short-story writer by the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, in Eureka Springs. The fellowship provides for a month-long residency at the colony. Powell also has recently had stories accepted for publication by Nimrod International and Zone 3.