Newsmakers: Spring 2019

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Errica Rivera received the 2019 Insurance Industry Leadership Award Feb. 9 at the “Pathways to Success” Scholarship Gala in Irving, Texas. The event was presented by the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National African American Insurance Association.

BOOKSTORE In January, Tracy Yarbrough was appointed textbook manager. She replaces Brenda Miller who served as the textbook and assistant manager of the bookstore since 1991.

CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Caitlin Denton was named events and communications coordinator in February.

Jenise Williams Hiles is the first student permitted by the U.S. Department of Education to be served by Harding’s Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program on the basis of being a woman engaging in a STEM field, where women have long been underrepresented. Hiles is pursuing a double major in mechanical engineering and art.

COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH Alice Henton successfully defended her dissertation in December 2018 at Nova Southeastern University and earned the Doctor of Speech Language Pathology. The title of her dissertation is “Long-Term Educational Outcomes in School-Aged Children with Craniosynostosis.”

Debbie Woodroof was appointed by the Educational Testing Service to serve on the Praxis National Advisory Committee for American Sign Language. The first meeting was in March in Princeton, New Jersey.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES Dr. Ginger Blackstone was elected to the Mid-America Emmys Board of Governors in December 2018. The Mid-America division is made up of television professionals in Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Illinois and Iowa. It is affiliated with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New York.

Senior Kaleb Turner won College Journalist of the Year — the top prize — at the Southeast Journalism Conference at Middle Tennessee State University Feb. 16. HU16 won Best College TV Station and Best College TV News Program.

The Bison and the Petit Jean both placed third for Best College Newspaper and Best Yearbook Layout, respectively, at the College Media Association Apple Awards in New York City March 9.

The Bison newspaper, the Petit Jean yearbook and the Link website each won the General Excellence Award for their respective categories at the Arkansas College Media Association conference at Arkansas Tech University April 5.

Dr. Terry Enge l had two stories selected for publication: “Dora the Explorer” and “Prayer.” “Dora the Explorer” was published in Adelaide Literary Magazine in January and “Prayer” in Dreamers Creative Writing in February.

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Dr. Marc Fager received the Rosenthal Award for Outstanding Counselor Educator of the Year at the Arkansas Association for Counselor Education and Supervision conference in February.

COLLEGE OF NURSING Kim Swenson successfully defended her dissertation in January at Chamberlain University and earned the Doctor of Nursing Practice. The title of her dissertation is “An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Provider Utilization and Patient Adherence to HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PReP).”