Meet the New Alumni Advisory Council

We didn't have room in the print edition to run the complete bios of the eight members of the new Alumni Advisory Council. You can find them on the Alumni Association's website, here. The new, eight-member council met in late April in Fort Smith to elect officers and discuss the mission and vision of the Alumni Association.

More "Day in the Life" Photos

For the "Day in the Life" photo essay in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue, we edited more than 1,000 frames down to just 38. It wasn't an easy task. Here are a few that didn't quite make the cut (photos by Steven Jones unless otherwise noted):

Tuning Up Your Own PC

In the Spring/Summer 2012 issue, Information Technology Chair Dr. Rick Massengale talked about "tuning up" your own PC rather than paying to have it done. We promised to post his step-by-step instructions online, so here they are:

More About Huaca Pucllana

Last May, a team of UAFS students and faculty traveled to Peru to help explore and map the massive, Pre-Inca adobe pyramid called Huaca Pucllana. Using ground-penetrating radar along with GPS and GIS technologies, they marked "hotspots" likely to hold not only artifacts but also human remains. Our brief story on the expedition concentrated on the likely discovery of those mummies, but the team did much more in Peru. Check out The City Wire's longer story on the trip, as well as a computer animation of the site created by students.

More About Miranda Martinez '92 and The Ouija Experiment

In the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Bell Tower, we ran a short piece about actress Miranda Martinez '92, who had recently appeared in The Ouija Experiment, a fun, low-budget horror film produced by Josey Wells, a Northside High graduate like Martinez. The movie was screened in Fort Smith in April. See the trailer here and more about Martinez--who went by Susan Miranda when she was a at Westark--on her web site.