The 61st Annual Southwestern Energy Arkansas State Science and Engineering Fair for high school students was recently held at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø.
Student Resources
91³Ô¹ÏÍø Students Awarded Research Grants
Two undergraduates were awarded Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grants.
Ivana Ilic, sponsored by Dr. Ken Sobel was awarded a grant for $1,500 for her topic, “Does Color Influence the Appearance of Visually Ambiguous Motion?” and Zachery Stillman, sponsored by Dr. Shawn R. Charlton was awarded $1,500 for his topic, “Brain Drain: The Effects of Ego Depletion on Temporal Discounting”.
These grants are highly competitive and it says a lot about the caliber of 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s undergraduate students that two were awarded in the same round of reviews.
Marketing & Fashion Merchandising Class Took Field Trip To Texas With 91³Ô¹ÏÍø President
91³Ô¹ÏÍø professor Dr. Don Bradley’s Marketing/Fashion Merchandising class went to Dallas, Texas on a field trip in March of 2015. The 30+ students and accompanying faculty and administrators were treated to tours as well as question and answer sessions by top level executives at Dallas Cowboys Merchandising Complex, AT&T Stadium (Cowboys/Jerry Jones Stadium), Nordstrom, a high-end retail department store in the Dallas Galleria Mall, and the Dallas World Trade Center/Wholesale Market Complex.
Dr. Bradley’s marketing classes take field trips in both the Fall and Spring Semesters. 91³Ô¹ÏÍø students can leave their resume’s with the various organizations visited, and frequently internships and jobs have resulted. In Fact, a recent 91³Ô¹ÏÍø graduate, Lacey Edwards, was managing one of the wholesale spaces at the Dallas Trade Center.
 Accompanying Dr. Bradley and his class on the field trip were President Tom Courtway, Dr. Laci Lyons, Assistant Professor of Management, and Dr. Joe Cangelosi, Department Chair of Marketing & Management.
LOTS OF SOCKS Event Held At 91³Ô¹ÏÍø To Support World Down Syndrome Day
The Department of Occupational Therapy wore LOTS OF SOCKS on Thursday, March 19 to raise awareness of World Down Syndrome Day.
LOTS OF SOCKS is an international campaign presented by Down Syndrome International to increase advocacy and education regarding the rights, inclusion and well being of people with Down syndrome.
To celebrate and show their support for this event, the faculty, staff and students donned over 50 pairs of crazy socks!
The official World Down Syndrome Day is March 21, 2015. The Department of Occupational Therapy encourages everyone to wear LOTS OF SOCKS or attend one of the special events being held in the Central Arkansas area this Saturday in support of Down syndrome.
Additional information on World Down Syndrome Day events can be found at http://www.ardownsyndrome.org
91³Ô¹ÏÍø Students Win in Regional Conference
Thirteen students attended the 2015 Beta Alpha Psi Southwest Regional Conference on March 6th and 7th representing 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Theta Lambda chapter in the national honors organization.
Jered Bryan, Alex Hoyle, and Jessica Lasater (all junior accounting majors) won 1st place in the Best Practices Competition for Effective Chapter Operations. They presented the chapter’s Checklist for Success, which contains a variety of professional development activities we encourage our students to complete prior to graduation. The checklist allows officers to schedule the types of meetings current members need to check more items. As a result of their 1st place win, they will compete at the BAP Annual Meeting in Milwaukee in August.
Abby Perdue, Parker Somerfield, Rachel Street, and Tyler Stage (three junior and one senior accounting major, respectively) won 3rd place in the Best Practices Competition for Financial Literacy. They presented @91³Ô¹ÏÍøMoneyWhiz, the chapter’s efforts to improve financial literacy of college students using twitter. Weekly financial-tip tweets are sent to their followers who can win gift cards to local businesses by reading and retweeting. With 600 followers and retweets, some of their tips reached more than 30,000 twitter users.
All of the students including Melissa McDowell (senior accounting major), Brittany Ammons, Zhu Nim, Tyler Rogers, and Kevin Wan (junior accounting majors) enjoyed the opportunity to attend conference sessions on networking, career paths, and chapter operations.Â
Congratulations to these students on their performances in the competitions and their commitment to developing into a professional accountants. Thanks to BKD’s generous contribution to the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Accounting Department that funded our travel to Dallas. Also, thanks to the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Student Government Association for paying a portion of their registration fees.