University of Central Arkansas

The UCA Department of Philosophy and Religion this week is hosting a three-night humanities lecture series entitled, "Into the Wilderness: Exploring Jewish Arkansas."

The lecture series began last night and continues through tomorrow night. The events are being held in Doyne Health Sciences Auditorium from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. each night, and they are open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

Last night, Rabbi Eugene Levy of Little Rock's Congregation B'nai Israel presented a lecture entitled, "From Classical Reform Judaism to 21st Century Reform Judaism in 20 Years."

Tonight, Carolyn LeMaster speaks on "Threads of History: The Arkansas Jewish Collection." LeMaster is the author of "A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820s-1990s."

Tomorrow night, James Moses, an associate professor of history at Arkansas Tech University, will talk about "Southern Rabbis and Social Justice in the South: Rabbi Ira Sanders of Little Rock."

The lecture series is sponsored by The UCA Foundation, Humanities and World Cultures Institute, Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Department of History.

A scholarship for African-American students at UCA recently was endowed through the creation of the Joseph Norman Manley Scholarship Fund at the UCA Foundation in memory of the late Dr. Joseph Norman Manley by his family.

A Conway native who graduated from the Pine Street High School in 1954, Manley was the first African-American to earn a degree from UCA. He transferred to UCA in the fall of 1956 after completing his freshman year at Howard University and his sophomore year at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Manley graduated from UCA with a bachelor?s of science degree in 1958.

He went on to receive a master?s of science degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, then a doctorate of optometry from Ohio State University. He practiced optometry from his office in Little Rock and was assistant director of the Arkansas Comprehensive Health Planning Program until his death in 1974 at age 38.

African-American students at UCA in all areas of study with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.5 will be eligible for the scholarship, which will be awarded for the first time in the fall. During a special reception announcing the scholarship, UCA President Lu Hardin unveiled an endowment plaque for the scholarship. The plaque will be placed among more than 75 others on the Donor Wall of Honor in the lobby of McCastlain Hall.

Kelley Erstine, vice president of advancement and development, thanked the family for their generosity in establishing a scholarship for African-American students. ?This scholarship is a tribute to the legacy of Dr. Joseph Norman Manley. The generosity of Dr. Manley?s family will ensure the success of future generations of minority students who wish to earn a higher education at UCA.?

For more information on donating to the Joseph Norman Manley Scholarship Fund, contact the UCA Foundation at (501) 450-5288 or toll free 1-800-981-4426.

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.

The University of Central Arkansas was not selected as a site for one of the four officially-sanctioned debates among the major-party nominees for president and vice president of the United States.

After a unusually long deliberation period, the Commission on Presidential Debates this morning notified UCA President Lu Hardin that the debates will be held at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. and the University of Mississippi at Oxford.

"We are most grateful for UCA's application, which particularly impressed the CPD crew and staff," said CPD executive director Janet Brown.

UCA last spring submitted its application to host a debate, and it was among 16 locations under final consideration by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Arkansas has never before been the site of an official general-election presidential debate.

"While the University of Central Arkansas, and many of us personally, are very disappointed by the CPD's decision not to designate UCA as one of three presidential debate sites, we are grateful to have been given strong consideration." said UCA President Lu Hardin. "It was an honor to be part of this process, which represents the epitome of the democratic process of America at work. I am particularly grateful for the assistance of CPD Executive Director Janet Brown and CPD producers Rory Davies and Marty Slutsky. They were a pleasure to work with and are dedicated, talented individuals who will make a debate work at any site. While it is premature to give consideration to re-application, we certainly won?t preclude that possibility four years from now."

UCA this year is celebrating its 100th anniversary. It is the fastest-growing and second-largest higher education institution in Arkansas, with almost 13,000 students enrolled.

The Commission on Presidential Debates (debates.org) was established in 1987 to ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners. Its primary purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates. The organization, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation, sponsored all the presidential debates in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004.

The UCA football team will travel to Lake Charles, La. this Saturday to play undefeated McNeese State for the Southland Conference title.

Incredibly, this is UCA's first season to play a full Southland schedule after moving up to Division I last year.

UCA (6-4, 5-1) last week beat Stephen F. Austin 35-23 in its final home game to set up this title matchup.

McNeese State (10-0, 6-0) is No. 4 in The Sports Network Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA) poll.

Saturday's kickoff at McNeese State is 7 p.m. As always, a live radio broadcast is available at KUCA (91.3 FM), KABZ "The Buzz" (103.7 FM), KCNY (107.1 FM) or at www.ucasports.com.

A UCA biology study recently was the subject of the cover story in the Sept. 2007 edition of the journal Neurotoxicology.

The study, conducted by UCA biology professor Barbara Clancy and undergraduate students James Hyde and Brandon Kersh, developed an accessible, online resource (www.translatingtime.net) that can be used to equate dates in the neurodevelopmental literature across laboratory species to humans, predict neurodevelopmental events for which data are lacking in humans, and help to develop clinically relevant experimental models.

The results of the study were published online in May 2007, and Hyde and Kersh have since graduated from UCA.

Kersh, who had been accepted into the graduate program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, passed away in May, and his family has established a scholarship in his name. Donations can be made to: Brandon Kersh Scholarship Fund, UCA Foundation, Buffalo Hall, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, AR 72035-0001.

Kevin B. Hamilton, UCA's associate director for housing, has been named president of the Arkansas College Personnel Association (ArCPA) for 2007-08.

Since 2000, Hamilton has served in other ArCPA executive positions, including vice president, treasurer, public information officer and webmaster.

The ArCPA is a state division of the American College Personnel Association and is charged with representing the state?s two-year and four-year public and private institutions of higher education. The primary purpose of the ArCPA is to provide cooperative association of those persons engaged in college student personnel service and administration; promotion of state conferences to discuss the problems, progress, and possibilities of personnel services; formulation and maintenance of professional standards among workers; dissemination of the student personnel point of view among all educational workers; and provide programs, services, opportunities, leadership, and guidance to institutions of higher education within the State of Arkansas in developing programs which address statewide needs.

UCA will host the 42nd annual Arkansas Model United Nations (AMUN) Conference at the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center and Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17.

The AMUN Conference, which is coordinated by the UCA Department of Political Science, involves the participation of about 400 high school students and faculty advisors from Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Model United Nations (MUN) students from UCA, Hendrix College, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock serve as staff for the two-day conference, during which high school students simulate debates, discussions, negotiations, and votes in various UN bodies, including the Security Council, UNICEF, and International Court of Justice.

The opening session of the conference will take place in Reynolds Performance Hall on Friday at 1 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Andr?s Chao, Consul General of the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock.

For more information, please contact Mark Mullenbach in UCA's Department of Political Science at 450-5690 or markm@uca.edu.

UCA's Fall 2007 Humanities Fair will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 28 in the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center on the UCA campus. Registration will begin at 9 a.m., and programs will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The conference, organized by UCA's Humanities and World Cultures Institute, is free and open to high school students and their teachers. It is not required for students to submit original humanities projects to attend, although awards will be made to highlight excellence and creativity in student work. The theme of this year?s humanities fair is Malcolm Gladwell?s "The Tipping Point." Student projects based on this theme are welcome, as are submissions with other topics. Project examples may include poetry, short stories (fiction or creative nonfiction), essays, or multimedia presentations (for Tipping Point projects).

The Humanities Fair will enable students to experience what their first day will be like when they attend university courses. They will have their choice of attending this year?s sessions to be conducted by UCA professors in Philosophy and Religion, History, English, Anthropology departments and Asian and Gender Studies concentrations.

Click here for the event program, and click here for registration and instructions for submitting student projects.

Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of writing, recently had his novel CHODE! (which is the prequel to his novel Chum -- already published by Zoland Books) accepted for publication by Spuyten Duyvil Press.

Garry Craig Powell, of the Department of Writing, has had his short story, "The Arab Mind," accepted for publication by the New Orleans Review.

John Vanderslice, assistant professor of writing, has published new short stories in the journal Quick Fiction and Arkansas Literary Forum, an online journal of creative writing.

UCA next week will host the 2007 Arkansas Envirothon State Competition. The Envirothon, which will take place next Sunday and Monday on the UCA campus, was established as a competitive, multi-disciplinary, problem-solving, natural resource event for high school students to challenge their environmental knowledge. The Envirothon program encourages students to pursue environmental knowledge actively.

Team sponsors and coaches train and test students in five natural resource areas: soils, aquatics, forestry, wildlife, and a current environmental issue such as wetlands management, groundwater, fire, or pesticides. Students challenge their knowledge in a problem-solving competition that entails "hands on" involvement with natural resource information. In addition to five written, field-station tests that cover the five study areas, they must give an oral presentation in which they form possible solutions to a realistic environmental problem dealing with the current issue. Envirothon teams take an in-depth look at these issues throughout the year, and by competing in the Envirothon, they not only learn about their state's natural resources, problems and solutions, they also learn about team building, communications, and conservation partnerships.

Each conservation area (there are seven in the state) may send up to three teams of five students to the Arkansas Envirothon competition, for a total of 21 competing teams. As needed, the districts set up a local, area-level competition to decide which 3 teams advance to the state level. The state competition is generally held in the fall of each year.

The overall winner of the state competition advances to the Canon Envirothon, which is hosted by a different state or province each year. For more information about the competition, visit www.uaex.edu/envirothon.

The UCA Centennial 5K race last Saturday attracted over 150 participants, including 147 runners and 20 walkers.

Ross Kramer, a UCA student, was the overall male winner and set the course record with a time of 17:22. Terri Conder Johnson, a UCA alumna, was the overall female winner in 20:52. Overall second and third place male finishers were Nolan Carter (18:48) and Kevin Lemley (19:08). Lemley is a UCA alumnus. Overall second and third place female finishers were Amy Porter (22:24:31) and Rebekah DiGiacomo (22:24:70). Porter is a UCA alumna and DiGiacomo is a UCA student.

In the student division, top male finishers were Chad Kirkman (20:57), Matthew Duck (22:27) and Michael Cassidy (23:16), while the top females were Heidi Miller (23:26), Jennifer Ginau (25:06) and Lauren Rodebush (25:55). In the alumni division, top male finishers were Dustin Speer (20:22), Keith Williams (21:35) and Matthew Bintliff (22:37), while the top females were Paula Vandaveer (25:33), Teresa DeVore (25:50) and Sharon Lawrence (26:08). In the masters division, the top male finishers were Bill Torrey (19:40), Art Gillaspy (22:10) and Don Starr (22:23), while the top females were Lana Bollen (24:24), Donna Stephens (25:07) and Daneen Hensiek (25:14).

Seven-year-old Casey Ott was the youngest runner and Jim Agee (at age 69) was the oldest runner. Five-year-old Joe Voss (grandson of Joe White) was the youngest walker and Lev Ignolnikov (69) was the oldest walker.
Gerard Bruno and Jennifer Ruud traveled from Stanhope, NJ to run the course.

Complete race results are available on www.ArkansasRunner.com.

Three members of the English department presented papers at the 64th annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association meeting last week in Memphis. Raymond-Jean Frontain read a paper titled "The Return to Cosmic Ritual: D. H. Lawrence's David as Total Theater" on the Modern Drama panel. Jay Ruud read a paper called "A Great Flash of Understanding: The End of Dante's Quest," and Dwayne Coleman read a apper entitled "Malory's Guenivere: A Search for Identity," both at the Old and Middle English Language and Literature session. Frontain also chaired a special session on poet Rupert Brooke.

Victor A. Puleo, Jr., CFP?, assistant professor of Insurance and Risk Management and CFP? Program Director in UCA's College of Business recently had an article entitled ?Dividend Policy Determinants in the Insurance Industry? published in the Journal of Academy of Business and Economics. He presented the article last month at the 2007 International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE) Annual Conference in Las Vegas. The paper is co-authored with Mike Casey, professor of Finance and chair of the EFIRM Department, and Frank Smith, visiting assistant professor at Henderson State University.

Chenyi Hu, chair of UCA's computer science department, is listed as co-author of an article entitled "Studying interval valued matrix games with fuzzy logic" in the Journal of Soft Computing (12(2), 147-155, 2008) www.springerlink.com/content/l6311g0254n173r2/fulltext.pdf. The article was adapted from a thesis completed by UCA applied computing master's student Dwayne Collins, who was advised by Hu.

UCA will hold its tenth annual observance of Veterans Day on the UCA campus this Monday, Nov. 12 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon at the flag pole circle at Main Hall.

The event is co-sponsored by the UCA Staff Senate and the Department of Military Science/ROTC, and the speaker will be Dennis W. White, Lt. Col. (ret.), US Army Reserve, who is an instructor of oral communication in UCA's University College. White is former chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Arkansas State University and is an ASU professor emeritus. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War with service as a combat platoon leader in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. Following active duty, White served in various positions in the Army Reserve from 1976 to 1997. His military honors include service as Reserve Ambassador for the state of Arkansas to the Chief, Army Reserve, and he is currently a member of the state committee of the Employers in Support of the Guard and Reserve.

Commemorative flag pins will be distributed at the ceremony, and the UCA community is encouraged to pause for a few moments during the event to honor all American veterans.

UCA and the Arkansas Foodbank Network are sponsoring a food drive at this Saturday's UCA football game against Stephen F. Austin.

The game begins at 6 p.m. at Estes Stadium, and everyone who will be in attendance is encouraged to bring at least one canned good to benefit hungry Arkansans.

Meaghan Dellar, a UCA computer science major, is the UCA 2008 Intern of the Year in recognition of the Technology Development Internship she completed in Tsumeb, Namibia last summer. Her academic sponsor was UCA's Computer Science Department and her employer sponsor was World Teach.

Dellar will receive a $250 cash award and a plaque at the UCA Internship Banquet on March 13. She also will be UCA's nominee for National Intern of the Year, which will be selected next year by the Cooperative Education and Internship Association.

The University of Central Arkansas next year will become the only university in Arkansas and only the 23rd university in the nation to establish an officially sanctioned Confucius Institute.

The Confucius Institute is dedicated to the promotion and exchange of Chinese culture and language. UCA's Confucius Institute is a cooperative project involving UCA, the Office of Chinese Language Council International and East China Normal University, and it will be funded through a $100,000 gift from the Office of Chinese Language Council.

UCA already has a number of impressive China-related initiatives, including a federal Title VI grant, a musician exchange, guest Chinese scholars, Mandarin language classes, the Community Language School and study abroad programs in China. The UCA Confucius Institute will be able to provide support for these programs and provide opportunities for new projects.

The Confucius Institute is designed not only to benefit UCA but also to serve as a regional resource center for Chinese culture and language. Cultural programming, training and services will be available to area schools as well as Arkansas companies interested in doing business in China.

The UCA Confucius Institute will formally open in early 2008. Hui Wu, Associate Professor of Writing at UCA, has been named interim executive director, and Jim Brosam II will serve as associate director. The institute will be located within the Office of International Programs in Torreyson West.

UCA Theatre this week again hosts the Arkansas Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). Eight universities from Arkansas and Oklahoma will be presenting fully-staged productions through Saturday in the Bridges/Larson Theatre and Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall.

KCACTF encourages, recognizes and celebrates the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theatre programs across the country. Each production will be viewed by out-of-state respondents who will recommend at least one production be considered for entry in the Region VI festival to be held at Sam Houston State University in February 2008. The Region VI area includes colleges and universities from Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Seven plays will be chosen from this five state area to perform at the Region VI festival. The winner of the Region VI festival will be invited to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in April 2008.

Colleges and universities attending the Arkansas festival are UCA, Lyon College, Arkansas State University at Beebe, John Brown University, the University of Arkansas at Ft. Smith, Rogers State University of Claremore, Oklahoma, University of the Ozarks, and Henderson State University.

All performances are free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain. More information is available at UCA Theatre?s website at www.uca.edu/theatre or by telephone at 501-450-5092. Some material may not be suitable for children.

Play titles and curtain times are as follows:

The UCA Fall Career Fair, designed for business and general degree majors, will take place today from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom. For more information, contact Career Services at 450-3134.

The UCA Bears tonight begin their basketball season against Kentucky at legendary Rupp Arena in Lexington.

Tonight's game is another benchmark in UCA's recent move up to Division I athletics.

ESPN-U will broadcast the game live at 6 p.m. CST.

Sarah Slocum was crowned Miss University of Central Arkansas 2008 at the Miss UCA Pageant on Friday night. She was awarded over $8,000 in scholarships and $2,500 in prizes. Slocum won the preliminary talent competition with her song "The Prayer," as well as the preliminary awards for interview and evening gown. She was also awarded the Bear Spirit and Former Miss UCA Titleholders awards. She is a senior Political Science major and the daughter of David and Jane Slocum of Sheridan. She will spend her reign as Miss UCA promoting her platform, "Paving the Way: Encouraging Higher Education." Slocum will be the 43rd representative from the UCA to compete for the title of Miss Arkansas in July.

Other winners were Ashlen Batson of Newark, 1st runner up and preliminary swimsuit winner; Alicia Haflich of Mountain Home, 2nd runner up and Academic Excellence Award winner; Melissa Davis of Hot Springs, 3rd runner up; and Ashley Quinn of Searcy, 4th runner up. Leslie Bagwell of Vilonia was selected as Miss Congeniality and winner of the Early Bird Award, and Abby Taylor of Conway won the Producers Award. Other contestants included Rachel Brown of Jonesboro, Jessica Norris of Bryant and Cassie Jo Sanderlin of Hamburg. Over $10,000 in scholarships were awarded during the pageant, which is sponsored by Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority.

Contemporary media artist Edie Tsong tonight will open her exhibit at UCA's Baum Gallery with an artist's talk from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in McCastlain Hall room 143 (the Art Lecture hall). Prior to her talk, an interactive opening reception will be held in the Baum Gallery Foyer from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tsong's work will be displayed in the Baum Gallery through Nov. 29.

Also tonight, poet and essayist Naomi Shihab Nye will give a 7:30 p.m. reading of her work in UCA's Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center and sign books afterward as part of the Artist in Residence program. Nye, an award-winning poet, writer, anthologist and educator who grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem and San Antonio as the daughter of a Palestinian father and American mother, attests to shared humanity through her writing.

Tsong's and Nye's appearances are presented by UCA's College of Fine Arts and Communication.

As part of this year's activities commemorating the 100th anniversary of the University of Central Arkansas, the UCA Centennial 5K race will take place Nov. 10 in Conway.

Runners will line up at 8 a.m. on Bruce Street between Donaghey Avenue and Farris Road for a certified, flat and fast race through the UCA campus and the surrounding residential neighborhood. Refreshments will be available immediately after the race at the Crafton Alumni Pavilion, where the awards ceremony will also take place.

Awards will be presented to the top three male and female finishers in the following divisions (no multiple awards to the same individual): Overall, Masters (age 40 and over), UCA Alumni, UCA Student, and Walker.

Race t-shirts given to all registered participants. Visit www.uca.edu/5KMap.pdf for a map of the course and directions.

Monday, Nov. 5 was the last day registrations were accepted for the race. No race-day registrations will be accepted.

For more information, contact Race Director Penny Hatfield at 501-450-3406 or pennye@uca.edu.

The University of Central Arkansas English department has established a scholarship fund to honor recently-retired professors Rebecca Williams and Linda Arnold.

Both Williams, who joined the faculty in 1975, and Arnold, who arrived in 1985, taught English classes at all levels and devoted most of their college teaching careers to the preparation of Arkansas public school teachers. During their tenure at UCA, both were recipients of the university's Teaching Excellence Award.

When fully endowed, the fund will be used to award scholarships to outstanding English majors who show promise as future teachers. Contributions to the scholarship fund may be made to the Williams/Arnold Scholarship Fund through the UCA Foundation or the UCA English Department.

Don B. Bradley III, Executive Director of UCA's Small Business Advancement National Center, has been named Editor of the Small Business Institute Journal, a new journal that will launch on April 1, 2008.

Bradley previously co-founded the Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, which has been housed at Northwestern State University in Louisiana, New Mexico State University, and Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He also was instrumental in the start of the Journal of Small Business Strategy at Bradley University, and he served as editor for the Journal of Family Business at Western Carolina University. Currently Bradley serves as editor of the Small Business Advancement National Center weekly electronic newsletter (www.sbaer.uca.edu).

The primary purpose of the Small Business Institute Journal is to publish scholarly research articles and cases in the fields of small business management, entrepreneurship, and field-based learning. As one of the official journals of the Small Business Institute? (SBI), SBIJ is recognized as the applied and pedagogical instrument for projecting and supporting the goals and objectives of SBI?. The journal will be published electronically twice a year (April and October) to be available to its members, small business owners, entrepreneurs, government officials, and community/economic development officers, policy makers and researchers.

Michael Rubach, associate professor of Management and chair of the Marketing and Management Department, recently had an article entitled "Restricted Stock Transactions May Not Add Value" published in the Journal of Academy of Business and Economics. The article was co-authored with Armand Picou, an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.

Susan Epperson, the key figure in the landmark Arkansas evolution education case Epperson vs. Arkansas, tomorrow will speak at 3 p.m. in Doyne Health Science Center, Room 141. Her lecture, entitled "Reflections on Epperson vs. Arkansas and Science Education," is presented by the UCA Honors College.

In 1965, Epperson was a tenth grade biology teacher at Little Rock Central High School when the Arkansas Education Association asked her to be the plaintiff in a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of Arkansas's 1928 anti-evolution law.

In addition to recounting her experiences with the lawsuit, Epperson will discuss the range of opinions about evolution and how it relates to faith. She maintains, "I am a Christian and my beliefs are not in conflict with science." She will also talk briefly about other lawsuits in the ongoing battle for good science teaching.

Epperson graduated from The University of the Ozarks in Clarksville in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She received her Masters of Science in Zoology from the University of Illinois in Urbana in 1964.

A dedication ceremony for the new UCA Student Health Center will take place tomorrow at 1 p.m. in front of the building.

Shortly thereafter, the UCA Board of Trustees will convene for its regularly scheduled meeting tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Board of Trustees Conference Room in Wingo Hall. An agenda for the meeting is available at: www.uca.edu/divisions/admin/board/documents/071102botagenda.pdf.

Every Spring semester, the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures offers a Presidential Scholarship to a native speaker of French, German, or Spanish.

For the Spring 2008 award, the department is inviting native Spanish speakers on campus to apply to work in the language lab to tutor Spanish students and to provide cultural enrichment activities for Spanish students. Applicants must be full-time UCA students and will be expected to work 15 hours a week. The deadline for submitting applications is Nov. 14. Please call 450-3168 or visit Irby Hall 207 for more information and an application. Applications are also available online at www.uca.edu/wlan.