Department of Construction Management and Civil and Construction Engineering JANUARY 11, 2021
The Department of Construction Management and Civil and Construction Engineering is excited to welcome Professor Gozde Gursoy to the faculty of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. According to past department chair, Mike Tramel, Professor Gursoy “is the classic definition of the Renaissance woman. She is an artistic scholar who is also an excellent teacher and all around wonderful person.”
Gursoy will be teaching Building Information Modeling (BIM) this spring. She has served as an adjunct professor for eight years at UA Little Rock teaching BIM. She says serving as an adjunct professor gave her great opportunities and experiences in teaching and learning. “Being a part of this family, I have developed in my character, eagerness, passion and commitment to life-long learning.”
UCA HOSTS WEEK OF ACTION COMMEMORATING MLK DAY
The University of Central Arkansas will host a week of volunteer, awareness and advocacy opportunities from Monday, Jan. 18 through Friday, Jan. 22, as part of the national observation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
The annual Day of Service event honors King’s legacy and is an opportunity for Americans to renew their own personal vows of citizenship through service to others and engage in conversations to advance community goals.
UCA’s BearsServe Leaders, an AmeriCorps program, will partner with the Community Action Program for Central Arkansas (CAPCA) to pack kits for homeless individuals for Project Homeless Connect. Community members are invited to submit notes of encouragement for homeless community members, which AmeriCorps members will include in the kits to be distributed throughout the week of Jan. 18. Handwritten notes can be dropped off in Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center, Suite 102, on the UCA campus or
UCA ANNOUNCES BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2021 MEETING SCHEDULE
The University of Central Arkansas will hold its regularly scheduled Board of Trustees meetings on the dates listed below. Meetings will either be held in the Board of Trustees Conference Room in Wingo Hall and/or via Zoom; media will be notified of the format prior to each meeting.
February 19
What Merpeople Say About Us
How changing perceptions of mermaids and mermen reveal deeper understandings of myth, religion, science, wonder and capitalism.
By Vaughn Scribner
Merpeople’s hybridity has helped them maintain a presence in both scientific and mythological camps. In many people’s minds, mermaids and mermen remain mythical creatures more suitable for bedtime stories than scientific tracts. Yet for others merpeople symbolize the outer limits of our scientific and mythological investigations.
Just as the evolution of science has not done away with lingering notions of wonder and myth, so too has our innate need to push boundaries of knowledge led humanity into strange often mind-blowing frontiers of research and self-reflection. Humanity’s interaction with merpeople demonstrates our ongoing need for discovery as much as our attempts at regulation and classification. Like the hybrid monstrosities with which humankind has always grappled, humanity maintains a tenuo