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• Christina Butterfield of Nuremberg, Germany, Katie Dunn of Mulberry, Jacquelynn Rupp of Mountainburg and Amanda Sexton and Jerry Wing, both of Cedarville, all students at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, have published their research in the Journal of the Fort Smith Historical Society.

• Fifty-seven seventh-grade students from the Fayetteville Public Schools have qualified for recognition in the 2015 Duke University Talent Identification Program.

Paris James, Grace Martin and Anshuman Nandy qualified for both state and grand recognition and will be invited to attend the National recognition ceremony in May at Duke University, N.C.

Fifty-four additional students qualified for state recognition:

Namrata Anand, Hunter Bailey, Robert Benafield, Jeffrey Bradford, Vivian Brantley, Isaiah Brown, Mitchell Bylak, Jenna Caudle, Sara Chaney, Jaden Crossfield, Abigail Davidson, Grant Devecsery, Max Dick, Bergen Franklin, Garren Graves, Mary Graves, Max Harbour, Margaret Hendrix, Peter Herman, Philip Hicky, Shiyin Hong, Samuel Huneycutt, Haley Jackson, Ian Jackson, Kennedy Johnson, Ethan Jones, James Joyce, Ella Kisor, Grace Li, Matthew Magre, August Meadors, Harrison Mehlburger, Anton Michna, Kendall Miller, Mackenzie Mollner, Justin Myers, Osamudiame Ogbeide, Luke Parisi, Benjamin Pierce, Earl Pittman, Ahmad Rawwagah, Ana Reif, Anna Roach, Thomas Rohrbach, Christine Shackelford, Evan Shirey, William Smith, Beau Stuckey, Isabelle Terminella, Rachel Thomas, Amanda Thomsen, Crystal Tidwell, Jason Tullis and Sydney Wingo.

• Weston Stepp of Fort Smith, Angie Dowdy of Fort Smith, Nicollette Milam of Fort Smith and Amanda McCain of Lavaca, all students of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith's radiography program, swept the three areas of competition at the annual conference of the Arkansas Society of Radiologic Technologists in Jonesboro.

A team of Fayetteville High School students won the grand prize in the first annual Arkansas Historic Film Prize competition of short documentaries focusing on historic properties throughout the state. Darcy Olmstead, Caroline Wetsell, Maggie Bell and Joshua Carpenter of Fayetteville were the grand prize winners for their film on the Headquarters House.

Other Arkansas Historic Film Prize winners were:

• First Prize: Austin Chitmon and Chanse Harp of Bentonville High School for "Battle of Prairie Grove"

• Second Prize: Jordan Thompson of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts for "Our Forgotten Lady"

• Third Prize (tie): Kelton McCarthy, Zaid Martinez and Andrew Trice of Fayetteville High School for "History of FHS" and Gracia Robison of Dardanelle High School for "Mount Nebo State Park"

• Fourth Prize: Tanis Taft of Conway High School for "Simon Brothers Dairy Farm"

The Arkansas Historic Film Prize is sponsored by the AHPP and the Arkansas Humanities Council in partnership with the Arkansas Educational Television Network's "Student Selects: A Young Filmmakers Showcase."

"Delta V," a production of the University of Arkansas Fort Smith, won a national award from The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in April. The show was created by the cast and is a 90-minute original devised production that utilized both text, imagery and movement to tell a story about what it means to be a youth in American and the world today. Cast included Alexander Zacarias, Alex Sanders, Brett Alexander, Brooke Banning, Candace Schomburg, Cassidy Black, Chaz Bratton, Christian Meurer, Cody Banning, Cory Wray, Daniel Eitzen, Dillon Mehelich, Dustin Rogers, Erin Decker, Ethan Womack, Hannah Lovins, Jacob Lensing, Jacob Webb, Jamie Gilliam, Jennifer Bradley, John Hall, John Smith, Kendra Carter, Leah Wineland, Lee Hartsock, Lynna Luff, Mason White, Molly Tennison, Patricia Lopez, Randall Marks, Sara Kincannon, Sasha Yedrysek, Stone Larrison, Suzi Wright, Thomas Dudley, Yessina Torres, Zeke Sidwell, Cameron Shell, Deidre Fears, Elizabeth Sampley, Tony Corbell and L.J. Luthringer.

The University of Arkansas-Fort Smith graduating class is the largest in the school's history. UAFS conferred 1,475 degrees and certificates to graduating students in the 2014-15 school years, a 16 percent incrase over last year's class. The numbers also reflect a 98 percent incrase in bachelor's degrees awarded compared to the 2009-10 school year.

In the last four years, UAFS has increased the number of four-year degree programs with the addition of degrees including international business, finance and media communications.

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NAN Our Town on 05/21/2015

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