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(continued from page 5) personal hygiene products for foster children. Accepted to graduate or professional school, over 90 percent of UAFS biology majors who applied. Students were accepted into medical schools in Arkansas and Oklahoma, pharmacy school, chiropractic school, and numerous other graduate schools. In addition, all three of last year’s Biology with Teaching Licensure graduates secured teaching positions—two in Arkansas and one in Oklahoma. Ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation, nine UAFS business students who took the Major Field Test last academic year as seniors. The test is administered at business schools nationally to measure student mastery of key concepts and principles as well as knowledge expected of students at the conclusion of their majors. The nine students’ names are now displayed in the College of Business Student Hall of Fame.
Discussion between Two New York Businessmen, 1920, pen and ink on paper
Drawing from Life Figure Study, early 1900s, charcoal on paper
Decorated with numerous medals at the Fort Smith ADDY Awards, 14 UAFS students, who brought home a total of 18 awards, including nine golds. Most of the awards were in the student category, but several students actually won awards in the professional category for work done while completing internships. The ADDYs are the advertising industry’s annual awards ceremony to recognize excellence in advertising.
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AMONG THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS ABOUT the work of Otto Lang is the simple fact that until “Drawing from Life” opened in February at UAFS, it had never before been exhibited publicly. Given to the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock by his son’s wife, Lang’s drawings and watercolors recall an era before the use of photography in magazines and newspapers outmoded professional illustrators. But “Drawing from Life” included much more than Lang’s sharply observed illustrations; the exhibit also encompassed masterful academic figure studies, evocative sketches of land- and cityscapes, and direct-observation drawings of a universe of characters. Born in Ohio in 1866, Lang died in Little Rock in 1940.
Selected to participate in the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, biology professor Ragupathy Kannan, who, as a part of the project, observed dozens of high school and junior high biology lessons and scored each using a rubric developed by Stanford University’s Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity. The MET project’s goal is to determine ways in which effective teaching can be measured fairly and consistently.
Named to the principal clarinet position with the Tulsa Symphony, assistant music professor David Carter, who was selected after a blind audition followed by a main stage concert. Carter, who came to UAFS in 2009 and has played with the Tulsa Symphony since 2006, has also been principal clarinetist of the Dearborn, Michigan, Symphony Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra.
Pau-Ko-Tuk, Wisconsin, 1895, pencil on board
Willow Creek Trout, early 1900s, watercolor on paper
Reprinted as part of Missouri’s observance of the Civil War sesquicentennial, “Killed by Rebels: A Civil War Massacre and Its Aftermath,” a scholarly article by Bob Frizzell, director of library services at UAFS. The article, originally published in 1977 in the Missouri Historical Review, appears this year in A Rough Business: Fighting the Civil War in Missouri, a book of selected articles on the Civil War from that publication. UAFS BELL TOWER
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