University of Central Arkansas News

Ride 'em Cowboy: Rodeo continues at 7:30 tonight, Don Owen Sports Complex, Lower Ridge Road.

Tony and Annette Thompson of Conway wish to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Heather Annette Thompson, to Michael Damon Borchert, son of Susan Borchert of Stuttgart.

"Faulkner County at Work" is a visual and oral history of the Faulkner County people who have lived and dreamed and worked here for the last 60 years.

A small number of voters turned out during the primary election Tuesday to decide who will be on the ballot for Election Day in November.

Secretary of State Mark Martin said 89,000 people voted early in today's primary.

The College of Education at the University of Central Arkansas plans to host a workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 30 and June 15 to help teachers integrate mobile devices into their classrooms.

She will assist in providing education and training, and in coordinating Arkansas FireWise grants for local fire departments across the state.

Cadron Post Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, honored a Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet at the University of Central Arkansas on April 19 at the Hole in the Wall restaurant in Conway.

Bunny Adcock is an excellent choice to become the newest member of the University of Central Arkansas' Board of Trustees.

A Louisiana appellate court has upheld a lower court's ruling that the owner of a Bossier City, Louisiana taxi cab company can not be held liable in the death of a Stonewall, Louisiana teen at the hands of a sex offender.

Police have cleared a downtown Little Rock parking lot of Occupy demonstrators to get it ready for use this summer.

A signal honor was paid Dr. E.P.J. Garrott, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Conway in his election to deliver the annual sermon at the meeting of the next Southern Baptist convention in Richmond, Va., May 1938, at the closing session of the convention in New Orleans Friday night.

Robert "Bunny" Adcock, of Conway, will be the new trustee on the University of Central Arkansas Board of Trustees, according to a news release from Gov.

As the United States continues to mark 150 years since the Civil War, a group in Arkansas is remembering the conflict's history in the Natural State.

Those of us living in the liberal bastions of central Little Rock will occupy ourselves, thank you, with our own little isolated left-wing battle royal.

Elsewhere in arts and entertainment this week: UCA season Fashion expert Tim Gunn, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Capitol Steps will kick off the Distinguished Lecture, Night Out at Reynolds and Broadway series, respectively - all part of the University of Central Arkansas' 2012-13 Public Appearances season.

The University of Central Arkansas's Vortex earned the General Excellence award for literary magazines in the recent Arkansas College Media Association awards.

Dr. Joseph Anderson, the former chair of the Department of Mass Communication and Theatre, was named Distinguished Professor Emeritus during commencement Saturday at the University of Central Arkansas.

Amy Browning of Conway and Phillip Scholtes of Fort Smith, both residing in Chicago, Ill., have announced their engagement and forthcoming marriage.

The bride-elect is the daughter of Timothy and Donna McKittrick Gunter of Conway.