/news-archive/tag/heather-hummel/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:13:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/07/18/cals-summer-research-grants/ Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:13:54 +0000 /news/?p=71075 ... College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences awards four Summer Research Fellowship Grants]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences awarded $10,480 in Summer Research Fellowship Grants to four professors who are spending their summer breaks performing unique research.聽 The grant winners include Michael Warrick, professor of sculpture from the Department of Art and Design; Shanzhi Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry; Heather Hummel, assistant professor in the Department of English; and Zachary Hagins, professor in the Department of World Languages. Warrick received $2,480 to enlarge his traditional clay portraits of contemporary architects of peace in his project, 鈥淧ortraits of Peace.鈥� Utilizing contemporary 3D scanning and scaling technology, he plans to produce monumentally scaled portraits reflecting the benefits of meditation and spiritual centeredness. Additional long-term prospects for the project include a touring exhibition and a lecture series titled 鈥淧ortraits of Peace in Clay and Bronze.鈥� In his project, 鈥�Enzymatic studies of BbI06 from Lyme disease causing Borrelia聽burgdorferi,鈥� Wang has received $4,000 to fund an early step of a larger research project that has a long-term goal to eliminate Borrelia burgdorferi, bacteria that causes Lyme Disease, by inhibiting all three isoforms of methylthioadenosine nucleosidases of Borrelia burgdorferi (pfs, bgp and BbI06). Hummel has received $1,650 for a research trip that follows the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. She will visit historic sites and museums on her week-long, 1,300-mile loop through Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The information gathered along the way will be used to write a collection of poems that reconsiders the historic civil rights narratives against the urgency of social justice issues today. The final grant recipient, Hagins, received $2,350 to travel to Arles and Paris, France, to gather primary sources to finish drafting two chapters of his book manuscript. 鈥淰isualizing Diversity in the Republic: Contemporary Photography and the French Urban Periphery鈥� explores how engaged photography can show how underprivileged social actors in France negotiate political, social, and cultural obstacles in their everyday lives. After completing the research, Hagins will be able to submit the manuscript for publication. In the upper right photo,聽Michael Warrick stands by his sculpture, 鈥淪traight Lines on a Round World,鈥� in front of the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock, which commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase Survey.]]> /news-archive/2018/01/22/visiting-writers-series/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:51:54 +0000 /news/?p=69034 ... Visiting Writers Series kicks off with award-winning authors Jan. 23]]> Join award-winning environmental writers Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins for a special literary reading and discussion during their visit to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Friday, Jan. 26. The event will take place at 2 p.m. in Donaghey Student Center Room 205G and is sponsored by the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock English Department鈥檚 Visiting Writers Series and the William G. Coopers Honors Program. Prentiss, a Vermont resident and associate professor of English at Norwich University, has received several awards for his novel 鈥淔inding Abbey: A Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave,鈥� including the 2015 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography, the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Biography. He is also the co-author of an environmental writing textbook and editor of the Bloomsbury Publishing Writer Series Guide. Wilkins lives in western Oregon with his family and serves as the director of the creative writing program at Linfield College. His latest full-length collection, 鈥淲hen We Were Birds,鈥� was recently named the winner of the 2017 Stafford/Hall Prize in Poetry from the Oregon Book Awards. His memoir, 鈥淭he Mountain and the Fathers鈥� also received several awards and honorary recognition. Wilkins has also written books of poetry and has published a variety of literary work in notable publications, such as The Southern Review, Ecotone, and Slate. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Heather Hummel, assistant professor in the Department of English, at hkhummel@ualr.edu.]]>