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(continued from page 5) Honored with a Charlie Award by the Florida Magazine Association for their article “Coping with Millennials on Campus,” which appeared in the international business magazine BizEd in 2011, Dr. Steve Williams, dean of the College of Business; Dr. Jim Beard, head of the Business Administration Department; and Dr. Margaret Tanner, head of the Accounting, Economics and Finance Department. The Charlie is the top award in the competition.
Big Beauties Art, science, and history come together in Arkansas Champion Trees: An Artist’s Journey, an exhibit by alumna Linda Williams Palmer opening Sept. 8 on the UAFS campus. Palmer, a longtime Fort Smith resident who now lives and works in Hot Springs, has traveled 7,000 miles since 2007 to research Arkansas’s “champion” trees—the biggest specimens of their respective species in the state—later creating vivid coloredpencil drawings from selected photographs. Among them are images of a soaring shortleaf pine near Hamburg, the biggest in the country; a bald cypress standing in a dry swamp with its knees exposed, the biggest known tree of any specie in Arkansas; and a massive white oak in Dardanelle, in whose shade state and Cherokee leaders signed a treaty in the early 1820s. —Wanda Freeman
Selected as the new chair of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Lynn Lisk, program director and associate professor in the UAFS Legal Assistance/Paralegal program. The committee oversees the certification of continuing legal education programs in the state. Printed in the Autumn 2012 issue of The Musical Times, Dr. Stephen Husarik’s “Musical Direction and the Wedge in Beethoven’s High Comedy, Grosse Fuge Op. 133.” Husarik’s work argues that the famously esoteric work is in fact intended as a spoof. The project involved a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and travel to Krakow and Vienna in order to see sketches and manuscripts associated with the work.
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Lauded at the state, regional, and national levels of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, the UAFS production of the the original play Drømnium, written by theatre director Bob Stevenson, which won national-level awards for Outstanding Production of a Devised Work, Distinguished Lead Deviser/Director of a Devised Work, Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Lighting Design, Distinguished Performance by an Actress, Outstanding Sound Design, and Outstanding Performance and Production Ensemble.
Awarded a whopping 47 ADDYs by the Fort Smith chapter of the American Advertising Federation, UAFS students, who won Special Judge’s Awards, several professional-level medals, and many more in student categories, and UAFS staff members Carl Hulsey, Laura Wattles, Jessica Martin, Champ Williams, and Peter Cullum, who took home medals for the Season of Entertainment brochure, the UAFS Traditions Book, the UAFS Viewbook, and a series of television commercials. Graphic design assistant professor Colin McClain won the Outstanding Educator Award, and Kelby Franklin of Mansfield won the Best of Show award in the student category.
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