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Archives - May 2009
NY Times features Ark. Shakespeare Theatre
Posted in Campus Life on May 19, 2009
UCA's Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre was profiled in the "Summer Stages" guide in the weekend Arts section in the May 10 edition of The New York Times.
UCA work shows at Little Rock Film Festival
Posted in Campus Life on May 19, 2009
Six of the seven films that played in the Arkansas Shorts program of the Little Rock Film Festival have ties to UCA.
They include Surfacing, written, directed and produced by faculty member Bruce Hutchinson; Memories of Viola, written, directed and produced by faculty member Mike Gunter; What Happened to My Brother, written, directed and produced by Levi Agee, a Master of Fine Arts student; Cosmic Legos, by Gabe Mayhan, UCA alumnus; Home Field Advantage, directed by Graham Gordy, UCA alumnus; and Death of the Reel, written, directed, and produced by Benjamin Meade, visiting lecturer at UCA in Fall 2008, featuring a number of UCA students and faculty.
They include Surfacing, written, directed and produced by faculty member Bruce Hutchinson; Memories of Viola, written, directed and produced by faculty member Mike Gunter; What Happened to My Brother, written, directed and produced by Levi Agee, a Master of Fine Arts student; Cosmic Legos, by Gabe Mayhan, UCA alumnus; Home Field Advantage, directed by Graham Gordy, UCA alumnus; and Death of the Reel, written, directed, and produced by Benjamin Meade, visiting lecturer at UCA in Fall 2008, featuring a number of UCA students and faculty.
UCA faculty award winners named
Posted in Campus Life on May 03, 2009
UCA Provost Lance Grahn recently presented the 2009 Faculty Excellence Awards to three UCA faculty members at a special campus ceremony.
Dr. Nolan Carter of the UCA Department of Chemistry won the Teaching Excellence Award. As an Assistant Professor teaching Organic Chemistry I and II, Dr. Carter believes he must convince those students, particularly the non-majors, that organic chemistry is relevant to their disciplines. He is noted for using an audience response system for instant feedback regarding student comprehension. One of the students who nominated Dr. Carter wrote from her perspective as a Pharmacy student the following: "I must attribute some of my academic success so far, to the skills that I learned from Dr. Carter’s classes…For the exceptional preparation that I received for graduate school, and for the amount of personal time and effort devoted to my education, I recommend Dr. Carter for this award." Another student who will be entering the University of Notre Dame in organic chemistry writes, "Organic Chemistry was difficult, but I felt like I had a better understanding ...due to Dr. Carter's ability to explain difficult concepts through illustration and models. He was able to synchronize laboratory time so that it reiterated lecture topics. The result of this careful coordination was reinforcement of potential test topics. In this way, Dr. Carter always set his student up for success."
Dr. Nolan Carter of the UCA Department of Chemistry won the Teaching Excellence Award. As an Assistant Professor teaching Organic Chemistry I and II, Dr. Carter believes he must convince those students, particularly the non-majors, that organic chemistry is relevant to their disciplines. He is noted for using an audience response system for instant feedback regarding student comprehension. One of the students who nominated Dr. Carter wrote from her perspective as a Pharmacy student the following: "I must attribute some of my academic success so far, to the skills that I learned from Dr. Carter’s classes…For the exceptional preparation that I received for graduate school, and for the amount of personal time and effort devoted to my education, I recommend Dr. Carter for this award." Another student who will be entering the University of Notre Dame in organic chemistry writes, "Organic Chemistry was difficult, but I felt like I had a better understanding ...due to Dr. Carter's ability to explain difficult concepts through illustration and models. He was able to synchronize laboratory time so that it reiterated lecture topics. The result of this careful coordination was reinforcement of potential test topics. In this way, Dr. Carter always set his student up for success."