- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/faculty/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:43:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock welcomes 24 new faculty members /news-archive/2019/08/23/new-faculty-members/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:43:04 +0000 /news/?p=74926 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock welcomes 24 new faculty members]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock introduced 24 new faculty members to campus during the Faculty and Staff Convocation Aug. 16 in the University Theatre.听 Interim Provost Christina Drale welcomed the new faculty by recalling how faculty are often described as research- and community-engaged faculty members who serve as great student mentors and help students to build cultural and social capital while also serving the communities of听 Little Rock and Arkansas. 鈥淭he identity that emerged from that discussion describes an institution that recognizes that as we strive for distinction in our research profile, our public service, and our educational programs, we also understand the life-changing responsibility that we hold for our students and our community,鈥 Drale said. 鈥淎ll of us recognize that our students are counting on us to help them grow and reach their potential. As we welcome the new members of our campus community, as we celebrate the beginning of a new year, and contemplate our challenges ahead, remember that we have the capacity to do amazing things.鈥听 The new 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty members include:听
  • 听 听 John Barbuto, instructor in the Department of Counseling, Human Performance, and Rehabilitation
  • 听 听 Justin Bunting, assistant professor of music
  • 听 听 Lindsey Clark, instructor of nursing
  • 听 听 Jennifer Dostert, instructor of nursing
  • 听 听 Kenneth Goff, assistant professor of music
  • 听 听 SeRena Hill, visiting assistant professor of public affairs
  • 听 听 Philip Huff, assistant professor of computer science and cybersecurity
  • 听 听 Kailash Jajam, assistant professor of engineering technology
  • 听 听 William Jergins, assistant professor of economics and finance
  • 听 听 Whitney Johnson-Freeman, data services librarian
  • 听 听 William Kerns, assistant professor of education
  • 听 听 Seunghyun Kim, assistant professor of marketing and advertising
  • 听 听 Stephanie Leacock, instructor of biology
  • 听 听 Lorissa Mason, assistant professor of music
  • 听 听 Brittany Mathis, instructor of nursing
  • 听 听 Farren Moore, assistant professor of nursing
  • 听 听 Ivan Rodriguez Conde, assistant professor of computer science
  • 听 听 Stuart Scheiderer, instructor in the Department of Construction Management and Civil and Construction Engineering
  • 听 听 Derek Slagle, assistant professor of public administration and director of the Survey Research Center
  • 听 听 Glenys Spence, visiting assistant professor of law
  • 听 听 Johni Beth Teague, instructor of nursing
  • 听 听 Frank Thurmond, visiting instructor of English
  • 听 听 Christopher Trudeau, visiting assistant professor, Bowen School of Law
  • 听 听 Brian Walker, visiting instructor of chemistry
  • 听 听 Kensuke Yamada, assistant professor of art
]]> Faculty, staff invited to brown bag with the chancellor /news-archive/2017/03/14/brown-bag-chancellor-2/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:58:54 +0000 /news/?p=66580 ... Faculty, staff invited to brown bag with the chancellor]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host a brown bag lunch and open discussion with Chancellor Andrew Rogerson for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty and staff on Friday, March 17.

鈥淏rown Bag with the Chancellor鈥 will take place at 1 p.m. in Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Room C.

Faculty and staff are invited to bring their lunches and participate in a conversation with Rogerson and colleagues from throughout campus.

]]> Faculty, staff invited to brown bag lunch with chancellor /news-archive/2016/11/29/brown-bag-chancellor/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:50:44 +0000 /news/?p=65840 ... Faculty, staff invited to brown bag lunch with chancellor]]> 鈥淏rown Bag with the Chancellor鈥 will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Room A. Faculty and staff are invited to bring their lunches and participate in a conversation with Rogerson and colleagues from throughout campus. ]]> 糖心Vlog传媒LR announces winners of 2016 Faculty Excellence Awards /news-archive/2016/04/14/ualr-names-top-faculty-at-28th-annual-faculty-excellence-awards-ceremony/ Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:52:45 +0000 /news/?p=64073 ... 糖心Vlog传媒LR announces winners of 2016 Faculty Excellence Awards]]> Drs. Gary Geissler, Adjoa Aiyetoro, and Shucheng Yu have been named the top faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The three professors were named the recipients of the 2016 Faculty Excellence Awards in the categories of teaching, public service, and research and creative endeavors at a ceremony held April 14 at the 糖心Vlog传媒LR George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology. 糖心Vlog传媒LR colleges nominated a faculty member in each of the three categories, and an independent selection committee chose the three university-wide winners. Geissler, a professor of marketing and advertising, will receive a $10,000 award from the Bailey Foundation as the winner of the Bailey Teaching Award. Aiyetoro, a professor of law, received the award for Faculty Excellence in Public Service, and Yu, an assistant professor of computer science, garnered the Faculty Excellence in Research award. They each will receive $5,000. Since 1988, the Faculty Excellence Awards have provided a way to recognize outstanding 糖心Vlog传媒LR faculty. The awards program is made possible through the contributions of the Bailey Foundation, Pepsi Beverages Co., and the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Chancellor鈥檚 Circle. More information about the winners: Dr. Gary Geissler is known for his learning-centered approach that focuses on utilizing the most effective teaching tools, techniques, and technology. He has taught more than 20 different marketing and advertising courses. His teaching method includes the client-based class project. To date, he has directed more than 150 of these semester-long projects, greatly benefitting thousands of students and well over 100 businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Besides his client-based project teaching method, Geissler has also demonstrated his teaching quality by mentoring and sponsoring student teams in marketing competitions. Geissler has a bachelor鈥檚 degree in general business administration and a master鈥檚 degree in business administration from Louisiana State University-Shreveport and a doctorate in marketing from the University of Georgia. Dr. Adjoa Aiyetoro has been a leading voice in ending racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Her public service centers on researching and resolving racism and its effects in the United States, particularly raising awareness of the need for racial justice. In 2011, she served as the inaugural director of 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Institute on Race and Ethnicity. As director of the Racial Disparities in the Arkansas Criminal Justice System Research Project, Aiyetoro developed a team and began researching records of hundreds of Arkansas prisoners to determine the reasons for significant racial disparities within the state鈥檚 criminal justice system. Aiyetoro鈥檚鈥 work on this project resulted in a conference in August 2015 sponsored by鈥 the Racial Disparities Project鈥檚 Steering Committee and has contributed to legislation to obtain support for racial impact. She has also worked as a board member of the Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Aiyetoro has a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Clark University, a master鈥檚 degree in social work from Washington University, and a juris doctor from Saint Louis University. Dr. Shucheng Yu鈥檚 main research areas include data security, privacy in cloud computing, applied cryptography, and wireless network security. His most influential work, 鈥淎chieving 鈥⊿ecure, Stable, and Fine-grained Data Access鈥 Control in Cloud Computing,鈥 represents鈥 a milestone in the field of cloud computing 鈥╯ecurity and has been cited over 1,000鈥 times. In the past five鈥 years, Yu and his graduate students 鈥╬ublished 37 research articles. Yu has also been awarded six grants that total more than $1 million. In his National Science Foundation-funded grant, 鈥淢RI: Acquisition of a Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education,鈥 Yu successfully built the first private cloud in the state 鈥╫f Arkansas. This cloud has served as a critical platform for researchers as well as others outside鈥 the university on various research and education projects. Yu has a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.]]>