UCA Mental Health Counseling student Katelyn Bates-Coney was awarded the Arkansas Mental Health Counselors Association Scholarship. Â She is currently in her second year, working on her Masters of Science in Mental Health Counseling and she is working on a National Institute of Health grant with UCA studying bullying.
http://www.armhca.org/2014/10/katelyn-bates-coney-armhca-2014-scholarship-winner/
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, at the inaugural installment of the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures’ Faculty Symposium, Associate Professor of Spanish Dr. John Parrack raised some provocative questions:  “How can (and should) language teachers respond when students make astute observations about the language and ask “why”? Do they tell the truth?”
He argued that despite objections that giving a “truthful” answer takes away valuable class time better spent on activities in the target language, responding truthfully can, in fact, positively impact learner motivation, intuition, confidence, and interest. He presented some of the preliminary findings from a quantitative study he is conducting alongside UCA Assistant Professor of Spanish, Dr. Travis Sorenson, to an audience of 20 students and 11 faculty members.  His study offers an intriguing suggestion: non-communicative historical linguistic activities, when incorporated in a structured and deliberate manner, can have communicative outcomes.
Ultimately, Dr. Parrack’s presentation, “Telling the Truth: Historical Linguistics, Learner Motivation and Outcomes in Beginning Spanish,” sparked larger, fruitful discussions between students and faculty regarding both students’ and instructors’ considerations in the language classroom—discussions that will, no doubt, continue to shape how UCA faculty approach language teaching.
For more information concerning the events in the World Languages Department, contact Phillip Bailey at phillipb@uca.edu or at (501) 450-5645.
Senior ATS, Wilson McKnight received a $500 undergraduate scholarship. The scholarship is the  W. B. Carrell Clinic Sports Medicine Dr. Robert Vandermeer Scholarship.  He was recognized on July 18, 2014at the South West Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium in Frisco, Texas.
Wilson is currently in the 2015 Athletic Training class. He has been a Presidential Scholar award winner and on the Dean’s List in the Spring of 2013 while attending UCA. He has demonstrated great leadership qualities during his time in the program.  He has also volunteered his time to the AAA All-star week and assisted in providing medical coverage to the high school athletes competing.
Stephanie Vanderslice, professor in the Department of Writing, kicked off the Living Writer’s series 2014-2015 at the State University of New York at Oswego September 8, 2014with a talk on Literary Citizenship.
For more information, visit http://oswego.edu/arts/ai1ec_event/living-writers-series-stephanie-slice-literary-citizenship/?instance_id=
Dr. Darla Cathcart of the Department of Physical Therapy taught the course “Fundamentals of Pregnancy and Postpartum Physical Therapy” to Chilean physical therapists in Santiago, Chile, on October 4-6, 2014. The course, sponsored through the Section on Women’s Health of the American Physical Therapy Association, had a full cohort of 40 participants.
In addition, Physical Therapy faculty members at Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile, for the second year in a row, expressed interest in establishing a physical therapy student exchange with the 51ÇŕÂĄ.