This spring, Professor Stanley Palmer (History) retired after 41 years of teaching at UT Arlington. Since his arrival in 1973, Palmer has won numerous teaching awards, including the President’s Award for Undergraduate Teaching (1994), membership into the UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1996), a Minnie Piper Stevens Foundation Piper Professor nominee (1999) and the Gertrude…
FROM THE DEAN: Excellence Abounds in COLA
This has been a whirlwind semester, and a momentous one. On May 9, we will have our graduation ceremony in the College Park Center, recognizing more than 700 graduating students. How wonderful that their friends and family will be able to celebrate that wonderful milestone together, in an arena that holds 7,000 cheering people. Last…
Students Hone Skills in Model Arab League
In a conference room in Washington, D.C., voices rise and tensions mount. Delegation members debate global policy, argue procedure and challenge one another on facts. Alliances are formed and destroyed in a single morning as parties work to out-position one another. Sitting amidst the frenzy is political science and French double-major Hanna Barakat. And she…
COLA Notes for May 2014
News and notes from around the College of Liberal Arts… ART & ART HISTORY: Several students were recently announced as winners of Creative Quarterly 35: Elena Chudoba, Mary Gibson, Ayla Haynes, Brand’ee Milton, Alexander Reyher, Kevin Bradford and Cindy Breslauer. Their work will be included in the Summer 2014 issue of the art journal. ……
UTA Hosts Linguistics Event CoLang 2014
UT Arlington will host a major international workshop this summer, training linguists, anthropologists and indigenous community members to document and revitalize their languages. CoLang 2014, an annual meeting for the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, is a six-week workshop that kicks off June 16. The event is directed by Professor Colleen Fitzgerald (Linguistics & TESOL)….
CTEC Students Design, Launch New Apps
Students in Senior Lecturer Brian Horton’s User Experience Design and Research class have been working in groups over the spring semester to develop a variety of mobile apps. “Individuals were assigned to groups based on their expertise for particular skills, including database development, visual design, research/planning, and social media strategy,” Horton explained. “The only requirement…
COMM Students Take on Social Projects
Department of Communication students get hands-on experience by initiating and implementing projects each semester. The classroom assignments take learning to a new level and allow students to gain practical, real-world experience in their respective majors. Students in Assistant Professor Shelley Wigley’s strategic social media course (PREL 3320) wrapped up a semester-long social media project this…
Pre-Law Students Inspired by Clinic Work
As Angelica Reyes makes her way to West Dallas, she is nervous. She has never driven to this part of town before, let alone by herself. Rundown homes and boarded-up shops pepper the neighborhood. She pulls into the parking lot of the Wesley Rankin Community Center and walks inside. The hall is lined with dozens…
Linguistic Students Tackle Language Project
In April, Professor Colleen Fitzgerald (Linguistics & TESOL) took six students to Tahlequah, Okla., to participant in the Symposium on the American Indian at Northeastern State University. The trip allowed students to work with Cherokee language and traditional knowledge experts in town for the annual Cherokee Language Consortium. Students participated in hands on language revitalization…
English Senior Wins UT Regents Award
Senior English major Samantha J. Jones has won The UT System Board of Regents’ Outstanding Student Award in Creative Writing. Jones will receive the award May 15 in a reception in Austin. She is one of three students to win the award, including Catherine Cleary of The University of Texas at Austin and Alison Ochoa…
Students Set for Study Abroad Trip to Germany
For four weeks this summer, 20 UT Arlington students will explore the culture, history and language of Germany. Senior Lecturer Sabine Harvey, coordinator for German studies in the Department of Modern Languages, is leading the group on a study abroad trip to Berlin and Erfurt. Harvey, a German native who has spent most of her…
Q&A: English’s Faris Closes Chapter on UTA
Veteran Professor Wendy Faris will retire at the end of this semester after 30 years of teaching at UT Arlington. Faris joined the UT Arlington family in 1984 as a visiting assistant professor after short teaching stints at Colgate University, the University of Texas at Dallas and Harvard University. She completed her bachelor’s of arts…
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