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Several art students presented their senior shows this fall. Grace Dane’s exhibit was entitled “The Cure,” Rikki Bethea’s “Slice of Life,” Jeremy Freeman’s “In My Head,” Katie Nix’s “Looking Deeper,” Destiny Lepard’s, “Moments to Remember,” Lauren Lollies’ “The Looking Glass,” Allison Wright’s “Tending the Fire,” and Samantha Deloney’s, “Fear.”

Students from the Oracle, KSWH, HTV, The Star, and Innovative Media traveled to Louisville to attend the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention. Those students were: Cortez Akins (Mass Media), Destiny Amos (Psychology), Kabryn Grayson (Mass Media), Leighton Hall (Computer Science), Diominique McKissick (Innovative Media), Kamisha Murray (Family and Consumer Sci), Ashley Smith (Communication), Karen Villeda Perez (Psychology), Zac Walthall (MLA), and Markayla Wyatt (Management).  HTV students Leighton Hall, Rebekah Teel (Mass Media), Victoria Garibay (Mass Media), and Corey Howell (Innovative Media) won third place in the Best News Feature. Leighton Hall won 2nd place for Best On-Site Video Promotion. KSWH 102.5 FM The Pulse station Manager Diominique McKissick, won 3rd place for Best Audio Creative and 1st place for Best On-site Audio Promotion at the College Media Association in Louisville, Kentucky.

Andy Arnold (Social Science Education), Jacob McNeill (Social Science Education), Bailey McBride (Family & Consumer Sci),  Ben Parnell (History), Shanika Smith (MLA), and Jake Yates (Social Science Education) traveled to New Mexico for fall break in conjunction with Dr. Doug Heffington’s GEO 4203 New Mexico: Landscapes of the American Indian. They explored Bandelier National Monument located outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Ancestral Pueblo site complex with peak population dates between roughly 800 to 600 years ago.  The site consists of the main pueblo, Tyuonyi, and associated cliff dwellings along Frijoles Canyon.

Several students presented papers or posters at the 17th South Central Historical Archaeology Conference hosted by Henderson State University. Ben Parnell (History) presented “Radnor Lake: Initial Survey of Historic Rock Features.” Elizabeth Hoyle (Social Science Education) presented “’Talking Walls’: Are They Always Walls?” Troy Vance (Social Science Education) presented “A Brief Overview of Historic Highway 67 and The Old US 67 Rest Area in Clark County.” The Fall 2018 Human Geography Class presented a poster titled, “US Highway 67: Gas Stations And Commercial Archeology.”

Art Education Students Allisha Bates, Samantha Cox, Erica Hamilton, Lauren Lollies, Julie Myers, Katie Nix, Catherine Wachob, and Allison Wright attended the Arkansas Art Education Association Conference in North Little Rock.

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Henderson State University ROTC cadet Carolyn “Josie” Kelley was awarded the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Scholarship at a ceremony Nov. 3.

Kelley is a senior from Monticello who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. She will commission in May 2019 as an Army National Guard officer.

The scholarship was established in memory of nine Henderson State ROTC graduates who were killed in action in Vietnam.

The presentation was one of several events held during Henderson’s Military Appreciation Day.

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Henderson State fishing team members Bryce Boatright, left, and Fletcher Nutt earned third place at a fishing tournament Nov. 3 at Toledo Bend Lake in Louisiana.

They received a plaque and qualified for the Yeti College Fishing National Championship next June on the Potamac River in Maryland.

Henderson students Reid Hellums and Dustin Forsythe also partipated in the tournament.

A group of Henderson State University students from the Communications and Theatre Arts department brought home awards from the National college Media Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, last month. The convention was sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers.

Students representing the Oracle newspaper, Star yearbook, KSWH radio, Henderson Television, and Innovative Media participated in workshops led by professional journalists. They also toured various media outlets, including WLKY, a CBS affiliate where the tour was led by station reporter and recent Henderson graduate Alex Durham.

Several broadcast students won awards in multiple categories:

• Diominique McKissick of Wynne – First place in “Onside Promotional Audio”

• McKissick and Leighton Hall of Hot Springs – Second place for “Onside Promotional Audio”

• McKissick placed third in the “Audio Creative” category

• Hall, Victoria Garibay of Hot Springs, Rebekah Teel of Azle, Texas, and Corey Howell of Bauxite – Third place for “Best Video News Package.”

Henderson faculty members Paul Glover and Michael Taylor received Distinguished Adviser Awards for their work advising student media in broadcast and in print.

The team of Henderson State students Dustin Foresythe and Reid Hellums placed fourth recently in a fishing tournament on Lake Dardanelle. The Henderson fishing team of Bryce Boatright and Fletcher Nutt placed 10th.

Both teams qualified for the championship tournament in December on Millwood Lake.

Henderson’s fishing team competes in the Arkansas Collegiate Series and the FLW YETI Collegiate series. Members must attend meetings if their schedules permit, and can fish whichever trails they are interested in.

The club will host approximately five benefit tournaments.

Membership is $30. Call 870-917-9520 or go to www.facebook.com/hsufishingteam/ for more information.

An exhibition featuring the digital photography of Henderson State University senior Katie Nix will be on display Nov. 1-9 in the Huie Library student gallery.

Nix has studied under professors David Warren, Katherine Strause, and Margo Duvall.

Her exhibition, entitled Looking Deeper, “encourages people to stop and investigate a scene or image, and search for deeper meaning than simply viewing what’s on the surface.”

Nix will host a reception in the gallery Nov. 6 from 1-3 p.m.

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Jeremy Freeman, a senior digital design major at Henderson State University, will present his senior art exhibition Oct. 20-28 in the Huie Library second floor gallery.

Freeman will host a reception Oct. 23 from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the gallery.

The art show is entitled In My Head, which captures Freeman’s “personal visualization of certain feelings, emotions, or sensations.”

Freeman has studied under the guidance of professors Kasten Searles and David Stoddard.

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Homecoming activities at Henderson State University begin Oct. 15 when the student body begins voting for Henderson’s 2018 homecoming queen. Twenty-four students are nominated for the homecoming court.

The 10 finalists will be announced Oct. 19 during the annual homecoming pep rally and bonfire. The court will be introduced and the queen crowned during football pre-game festivities on Oct. 20 when the Reddies host Southeast Oklahoma University.

The 2018 homecoming court candidates are: Hope Smith, Nicole Scoggins, Jessica Horn, Keanna Peck, Adrienne Prince, Kally Tran, Dinah Russell, Amy Westbrook, Mirela Tornatore, Suzanne Sorrells, Candy Bruno Estrada, Keira Bates, Madison Newton, Savannah Moore, Peyton Bradshaw, Viola Simmons, Jordan Bridges, Susana Loarca, Ashley Zeiler, Paige Elizabeth Powell, Brooke Roberson, Emily Green, Cynthia Perez, and Chandler Simmons.

Rikki Bethea, a senior BFA digital art and design student at Henderson State University, will present her senior exhibition show, entitled Slice of Life, Oct. 6 through Oct. 16.

The exhibit can be viewed  at the second floor gallery of Huie Library. A reception is planned Oct. 16 from 2-4 p.m.

Bethea has studied with art professors Katherine Strause, David Stoddard, and Mike Taylor. Slice of Life is a mixture of traditional hand-lettering, watercolor, and digital editing.

“It’s all about me,” Bethea said. “Slice of Life includes snippets of my daily life and the things I enjoy doing in a graphic novel format.”

• Shiloh Goecke, Biology, spent 10 weeks in a summer research program (Aspirnaut) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  The program is administered by Henderson alum Dr. Billy Hudson and by Dr. Julie Hudson. Goecke’s work was titled  “Membrane Targeted YFP Sensor of  Volume Regulated Anion Channels.”  After presenting her work at Vanderbilt, she presented at Harvard University. Subsequently, she was selected to present her work at the American Society of Nephrology meeting, this October in San Diego. Goecke plans to attend medical school next year. 

• Ashley Hennessee, Integrated Studies, was awarded the first Hester A. Davis Training Program Scholarship by the Arkansas Archeological Society. Ashley used the award to attend the Society’s Training Program at Pea Ridge National Military Park in June as part of her ANT 4083 “Readings and Research in Anthropology” course in archeological research methods with Professor Mary Beth Trubitt.

• Theatre majors Dakota Mansfield, Colin Perry, Savannah Reynolds, and Jacey Russell presented their Senior Showcase Performances in April in Arkansas Hall Studio Theater.

• LaTaschya Harris, MLA, presented on her thesis, “Conversation of the Century: The Black Lived Experience from W.E.B. Du Bois to Kendrick Lamar.” Her study focuses on the plight of the black man in America through African American literature going as far back as slavery and ending with Kendrick Lamar, with  W. E. B. Du Bois’ Souls of Black Folk as the central text.  Through her research of the history of race relations, the history of riots, and the history of Hip Hop, she develops a conversation between Du Bois and Kendrick Lamar which answers Du Bois’ question of 1903. 

• Taylor Henry, MLA,  presented on his creative project, a magical-realist/neo-noir novel titled Honeybee. In his novel, Henry focuses on on the effects of nostalgia and its relative value in society.  [Read more…] about Ellis College student achievements highlighted