/news-archive/tag/zachary-hagins/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:51:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/08/13/emily-fendley-teaching-assistant/ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:51:10 +0000 /news/?p=74869 ... Recent grad lands international teaching position in France]]> A recent graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been accepted into a prestigious international teaching program and will spend the next year gaining valuable professional experience teaching in France.听 Emily Fendley, a Monticello native, graduated from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in May with a double major in French and anthropology and a minor in nonprofit leadership studies. After spending her senior year studying abroad at the Universit茅 d’Orl茅ans in Orl茅ans, France, Fendley decided to put her new language and cultural skills to work through the . Each year, more than 1,500 American citizens and permanent residents teach English to French students in elementary and secondary schools across France and the overseas departments of French such as Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and R茅union. 鈥�I am looking forward to continuing living in France. I鈥檝e never had an in-classroom experience teaching, but I was a conversation teacher at the university this past year,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t will be a learning and growing experience for me. I think of this as a challenge I want to step up to.鈥� Fendley will spend Oct. 1, 2019, to April 30, 2020, teaching in Laval, a town in western France. Her duties will include serving as a resource person in conversation groups, providing small group tutorials, facilitating English-language clubs, and giving talks related to American studies. In return, Fendley will receive a stipend and health insurance, but she鈥檚 most excited about the opportunity to learn more about the French language and culture. 鈥�I鈥檓 excited to live in the north of France and learn about the region,鈥� she said. 鈥淓ven though France is smaller than Texas, you wouldn鈥檛 know it by how different the regions are.鈥� Fendley鈥檚 love of the French language started in high school while taking a language class in the ninth grade. Her interest rekindled at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock and grew into a second major. 鈥淚 had to take a foreign language in high school, and the only choices were Spanish and French. I wanted to be different so I took French for one semester,鈥� she said. 鈥淎t 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, I decided to take French again, and I really enjoyed the classes and was picking up the language well. Eventually, the department asked me if I wanted to major in French as well, and the more I learned, the more I enjoyed the language.鈥� While at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, Fendley was active in student life, serving as president of both the Anthropology Club and the Nonprofit Student Leadership Association. She credits her 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professors for giving her invaluable advice and guidance for the future. 鈥淎ll of my professors were amazing,鈥� she said. 鈥淵ou don鈥檛 know how many times I sat in their office and asked them for advice on my future and my degree program.鈥� Professors like Dr. Zachary Hagins say that Fendley鈥檚 success is all down to her hard work and tenacious spirit. “Emily has taken advantage of the wealth of opportunities available for students studying French at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, and she exemplifies the benefits of language immersion through study abroad,鈥� Hagins said. 鈥淭he first time I had Emily in class, she had just finished Intermediate French and was still like most students at that level: a bit timid in her speaking abilities. Then, she participated in our five-week, faculty-led Summer Language Program in France. Upon her return, her language skills had improved, but more importantly, her confidence in speaking French had skyrocketed. Given her summer experience in France, I was not surprised when she decided to return to France for a full academic year, taking advantage of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock’s consortium agreement with the Universit茅 d’Orl茅ans. The reports we have received from her professors in France reflect what we already knew: Emily is hard-working, dynamic, and very motivated. I am certain that we will continue to hear about great achievements from her in the future!” As for her future after the completion of the teaching program, Fendley sees many possibilities. She wants to continue to travel and work internationally at nonprofit organizations and go to graduate school.听 鈥淪ince I studied three different areas at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, there are a lot of different graduate school programs I could go into. Choosing is the hardest part,鈥� Fendley said. Alumni of the Teaching Assistant Program in France often pursue global careers in education, international business, public health, international policy and development, and arts and culture administration, as well as are regularly recruited by top graduate schools who value language proficiency and intercultural competency, according to the program鈥檚 website.听]]> /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.听 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听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,听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/2018/03/09/summer-language-programs-study-abroad/ Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:57:08 +0000 /news/?p=69736 ... Summer language programs available in Costa Rica, France, and Spain]]> The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of World Languages is offering three opportunities for students to improve their language skills while studying abroad in Costa Rica, France, and Spain.听 With each program, students can earn six credit hours while learning about the language and culture of the country through homestays with local residents and cultural excursions. Applications for the trips are due March 15. Participants can stay in San Jose, Costa Rica, from May 30 to June 30. The cost is $4,050 plus airfare. Participants will also visit El Escorial, Madrid, and Toledo. Contact Maria Rodriguez at mmrodriguez@uarl.edu for more information. The June 17 to July 21 trip to Orleans, France, costs $4,850, which includes airfare. Students will also spend a week in Paris and take a day trip to Versailles. Contact Zachary Hagins at zrhagins@ualr.edu for more information. Finally, students can visit Granada, Spain, from June 25 to Aug. 1 for $5,150 plus airfare. Contact Andrew Deiser at ajdeiser@ualr.edu for more information. ]]>