/news-archive/tag/kristin-mann/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:30:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/06/05/ben-bowers-alum-story/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:30:52 +0000 /news/?p=74494 ... Veteran, alum making a difference through Medicaid fraud investigations]]> A veteran and 2018 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is helping to uncover Medicaid fraud as part of his journey to become a lawyer.聽 Ben Bowers, 31, of North Little Rock, graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in political science in December 2018.聽With the ultimate goal of becoming a lawyer, Bowers put his degree to good use by gaining experience in state politics. He served as a senatorial aide for state Sen. Kim Hammer from December 2018 to April 2019. 鈥淎s Sen. Hammer鈥檚 aide, I would read and summarize proposed legislation and report any issues that might counter his ideology,鈥� Bowers said. 鈥淲hen Sen. Hammer would present a bill in committee, other representatives and members of the community would voice their concerns. I would write reports on their concerns so he could address them.鈥� After the spring 2019 legislative session closed, Bowers began work as a legal support analyst with the Arkansas Office of the Medicaid Inspector General. 鈥淢y job is similar to paralegal work with a lot of research involved,鈥� Bowers said. 鈥淚 do the initial phase of investigation when someone calls and reports a provider or homecare aid cheating on Medicaid. I also prepare exhibits for use in court.鈥� Bowers graduated from Benton High School in 2006 and joined the U.S. Army. During his four years in service, Bowers earned two Army Commendation Medals and the Iraq Campaign Medal for his deployments in Iraq and Kuwait. Upon his return to Arkansas, Bowers joined University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College, having always wanted to complete his college education. Unfortunately, Bowers struggled during his first post-service years and faced bouts of unemployment, homelessness, and legal problems. He earned his Associate of Arts degree in general studies from Pulaski Tech in 2017 and transferred to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, where he participated in the Model Arab League and the Little Rock Congregations Study. 鈥淢y 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professors that stand out the most for me are Dr. Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm and 聽Dr. Rebecca Glazier of the Department of Political Science and Dr. Kristin Mann of the Department of History,鈥� Bowers said. 鈥淒r. Brahm was willing to meet with me and helped me craft my personal letter for law school. Dr. Glazier does the Model Arab League, and you can really tell she cares about her students.鈥� In 2017, Bowers also become a volunteer with Sheep Dog Impact Assistance, a national nonprofit organization that engages, assists, and empowers members of the military, law enforcement, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and first responders. Bowers is applying to law schools for the fall and is grateful for a job where he feels like he is making a difference. 鈥淚 feel like I am contributing to society and doing something meaningful,鈥� Bowers said. 鈥淭he Medicaid program provides good help to many low-income people. We try to stop people from abusing the system and to pay back what they have stolen so there are funds available for the people who really need it.鈥�]]> /news-archive/2018/03/02/20k-grant-digitize-historical-records-k-12-education/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:22:11 +0000 /news/?p=69630 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock receives 20K grant to digitize historical records for K-12 education]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture has received a nearly $20,000 grant to digitize historical materials related to Arkansas for use in K-12 social studies education.聽 The $19,997 grant is sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Midwest Region located at Illinois State University. The center is joined in the grant by the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of History and its Social Studies Education program and the Little Rock School District. The center and its partners will use the grant to create sets of digitized historical materials related to Arkansas and tied to Arkansas State Social Studies Frameworks and the Arkansas Disciplinary Literacy Frameworks for use in elementary, middle, and high schools. 鈥淲hen teachers have easy online access to primary sources about Arkansas, they can create engaging activities and lessons that connect local events and places to national and international events and places,鈥� said Dr. Kristin Mann, professor of history who will serve as the project鈥檚 director. 鈥淲orking with primary sources helps students ask historical questions, think critically, and write analytically while developing the skills they need for civic life, college, and the workplace.鈥� With these and matching funds, the partners will host workshops for master teachers to identify digitized photographs and documents from the Library of Congress and from the center鈥檚 own collections to be combined into primary source sets tailored to state education frameworks. Teachers will field test the sets during the fall 2018 semester. The partners will also build a website to serve as a portal for teachers to find and download the materials. This project combines the strength of the center鈥檚 rich archival collections with its commitment to making primary source materials easily accessible and meaningful to students from elementary to graduate school. 鈥淲e value the preservation of the materials of history, but we are equally committed to making sure those materials are used to answer important questions and to understand how past events have shaped our story,鈥� said Dr. Deborah Baldwin, associate provost of the center.]]> /news-archive/2017/11/22/mann-franciscan-bells/ Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:17:50 +0000 /news/?p=68624 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professor explores role of Franciscan bells in history of New Spain]]> Since visiting 18th-century Franciscan missions in Texas as a child, Kristin Dutcher Mann, professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been fascinated by the role of sound and music in the history of New Spain.聽 New Spain was a colonial territory of the Spanish Empire in the Americas that was made up of Mexico, Central America, the Southwestern and Central United States, Spanish Florida, and several island nations. Mann presented her research, 鈥�Bells as Markers of Time and Space in the Missions of Northern New Spain,鈥� during the held Oct. 12-15 in Washington, D.C. The conference explored 500 years of Franciscan presence in Mexico and featured specialists on colonial Mexico, both Mexican and American, who study the influence of the Catholic church as an institution and its role in the colonization of the Americas. Mann鈥檚 research explored how bells were used as part of the Franciscan missionary evangelization efforts in the northern part of New Spain, which consists of the northern part of Mexico, the southwestern United States, and Florida. Her paper explored how bells conveyed information about religious accommodation, economic connections between the empire and frontier areas, conflicts within and between groups, and outward forms of Catholicism and interior spirituality and devotion. 鈥淏ells profoundly changed the soundscape in the borderlands region I study, and they structured time, space, religious and political interactions, as well as interior religious devotion,鈥� Mann said. 鈥淭his research is significant in that it helps us to better understand cultural and political change and the role of sound in shaping history.鈥� The paper is a chapter of an upcoming book Mann is writing that will be published by the Academy of American Franciscan History. Mann joined the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of History in 2002. She is also coordinator of Social Studies Education and co-director of the Academy of Teaching and Learning Excellence. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Northern Arizona University, where she wrote her dissertation on the power of song in the missions of Northern New Spain. Her book, 鈥�,鈥� was published by Stanford University Press in 2010.]]>