Rhetoric and Writing

UALR’s River Market Press has published its first book, a memoir centered on the actions of a British Expeditionary Force member during World War I.

She spoke French to him. Now they are married and co-authoring a paper together. Maybe it’s the nerd in us, but we think Ben and Annie’s story is just right for this day.

Quills & Pixels, the peer-reviewed, student publication of the UALR Writers’ Network, is accepting submissions for the 2014 edition.

When many students are hoping to wave hello to mom at UALR’s Spring Commencement Saturday morning, Bethany Hodges won’t have to look too far for hers.

More than 1,500 students are expected to participate in UALR’s Spring Commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 18, at the Jack Stephens Center. Among them are graduates like Azure Yarbrough, Bethany Hodges, and Dawn Teer, who attribute hard work and family support as reasons for their success.

Karin Bara, a professional and technical writing graduate student, secured a $13,260 grant for the the Pulaski County Single Parent Scholarship Fund from Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s Blue & You Foundation that will be used to encourage central Arkansas families to make healthy food choices. The Single Parent Scholarship Fund’s Healthy Eating on … Grad Student Lands $13K Grant for Health Initiative

“Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story,” a critically acclaimed documentary, will be screened at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at UALR’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Film critic Roger Ebert called the film a must-see documentary, and Indiewire named it the best documentary this year so far.

UALR Professor George H. Jensen Jr., chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing, and Frank Thurmond, UALR adjunct professor in English, will analyze their experiences of being abandoned by their fathers at an early age, being raised by their mothers, and then coming to know their fathers as adults, at the Arkansas Literary Festival … Literary Fest Features UALR Writers

Adora Curry-Nicholson, a UALR graduate student in the Professional and Technical Writing program, has received a $2,000 Heritage Grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

Author and UALR graduate Stephanie Bayless will read excerpts from her book, “Obliged to Help: Adolphine Fletcher Terry and the Progressive South,” at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in room 122 in Ross Hall. The event is free and open to the public.