Dale Melgaard (Film) has received the "Best Writer" award for the script, The Phatman, at the Thilsri International Film Festival.

Amy Brown (Music) recently presented at the Silver State Tech Conference. The session's title was "AI and Music: Student Creativity Using a Hands-On Approach." Attendees participated from the point of view of their high school or college students and wrote down facts they must recall for tests or exams. Using Generative AI, these points were used…

Amy Brown (Music) recently presented at the Silver State Tech Conference. The session's title was "AI and Music: Exploring Creativity and Pedagogy." Participants used AI to create cognitive integrated song parodies to reinforce specific learning intentions in their English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science content areas. A few…

Amy Brown's (Music) article, "Student-to-Student Discourse in the Orff Schulwerk Classroom," was published in the fall 2025 issue of the Orff Echo. 

Part-time professor Diana Eden’s (Film) first memoir, Stars in Their Underwear, recounts her storied career as a Broadway dancer, actress, and three-time Emmy nominated costume designer working with some of the world's biggest celebrities such as George Clooney, Reba McEntire, Diana Ross, and Betty White. In her second book, Getting Old and…

Assistant professor Jung-Hwa Kim (Architecture), student Adam King (Landscape Architecture), and alumna Jacel Zeres Avila (Landscape Architecture '25) have earned first place in the 2025 Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) Challenge. Results were announced at the ASLA Annual Conference on Oct. 11, 2025. Working in partnership with the…

Hikmet Loe's (Art) was interviewed by The Post and Courier 's editor-at-large Autumn Phillips, then cited in Phillips's published article, "In the secluded Nevada desert, the largest piece of land art in the world offers a pilgrimage."   

Hikmet Loe (Art History) presented to graduate students in the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. Her lecture, "Robert Smithson’s Nonhierarchical Approach to Knowledge," explored ways that discovery can be enhanced through employing nonlinear, nonhierarchical modes of research.

Amy Brown (Music) has published a new book for K–5 music specialists, Magical Moments: Through the Eyes of the Diverse Learner. This 16-song collection features both original and arranged compositions, with specific accommodations included to support all learners in the elementary music classroom.    

Christina Watanabe (Theatre) is the lighting designer for Arkansas Rep's production of The Glass Menagerie, which the Arkansas Times calls "raw, poetic and devastating" and highlights the moment when "[Tom and Laura] share a sweet extended scene by the light of a candelabra that’s perhaps my favorite moment of The Rep’s whole summer season."…

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" for "The Phatman" script from the Seoul International AI Film Festival.

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published three items in the A-R Music Anthology, a peer-reviewed, online collection of articles, essays, scores, and commentaries praised by critics as "rich and nimble" and "the music resource of the future." Lee is a frequent contributor to this publication; his recent essays provide commentaries…