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Dr. Polly Walter, an assistant professor in journalism, and two student editors were invited to present on yearbook issues at the College Media Association annual spring convention held in New York City on March 12-15, 2014.

Walter and 2014 Scroll Editor Taylor Woods and 2014 People Section Editor Elizabeth Souter presented Whose Personality is it Anyway? Do Yearbook Themes Reflect the Editor鈥檚 Style and Agendas or Trends?, on Thursday, March 13. This was Woods and Souter鈥檚 first presentation at a national convention; both are undergraduate journalism majors.

That same day, Walter also presented One Way or Another: Solving Digital Imaging Issues Using onOne Software鈥檚 Perfect Photo Suite. On Friday, she was invited to offer critiques to nationwide yearbook staffs and to judge 2- and 4-year college magazine cover designs for the David L. Adams Apple Awards that were awarded at the end of the convention.

Walter was also invited to present a session for the statewide student media on The Need for Speed and Sparkle: Adobe InDesign Tips and Tricks, for use in college newspapers, yearbooks and literary magazines, at the annual Arkansas College Media Association convention held April 4 at Central Baptist College in Conway.

Last fall, Walter was invited to present at the annual College Media Association and Association of Collegiate Press fall convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 23-27, 2013. She made two presentations, Newbie鈥檚 Guide to Design and The Need for Speed and Sparkle: Adobe InDesign Tips and Tricks, and was a member of a three-person panel on State College Media Association Checkup/Roundtable with Steve Wilkes, Media Adviser from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Bonnie Thrasher, Media Adviser from Arkansas State University.

 

Dr. Chenyi Hu, professor, is the featured reviewer of April 2014 for Computing Reviews. “Computing Reviews is the leading online review service for books and articles across all disciplines of computing. This collaboration between Reviews.com and the ACM is centered on an international community of over 1,000 reviewers, who provide timely commentaries and authoritative critiques.” It features one reviewer each month worldwide. From http://www.computingreviews.com/todaysissue/todaysissue_featured.cfm?reviewer_id=0, you may find his profile and other featured reviewers. From http://ieonline.typepad.com/reviews/, you may find Featured in Five: Chenyi Hu, which is a monthly section in which featured reviewers are posed with five questions.

 

An article written by Scott Isenga, director of fraternity life, was included in the winter edition of Perspectives magazine, a publication for members of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors.

 

Mark Spitzer, associate professor of Creative Writing, recently had his invited book review/essay “The Travesty of Louis XXX” accepted by the lit journal Oyster Boy. He was also invited to submit a chapter for a pedagogical book on writing theory to be published in Australia entitled Writing for the Curious: Why Study Writing (ISBN 9781925128420). His essay, “Why Study Creative Writing? Speaking in the Language of the Other to Sell Writing Programs to the State” (which examines how the Department of Writing marketed its new MFA program to UCA and ultimately the Arkansas Dept. of Higher Education) was accepted for publication.