AAUW to Host Arkansas First Lady Ginger Beebe

The Fayetteville Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) is pleased to announce the keynote speaker for the Feb. 9 meeting.  The First Lady of Arkansas, Ginger Beebe, will speak about the Women's Foundation of Arkansas' Girls of Promise Program that will be held on May 1 at the Northwest Arkansas Community College.   The Girls of Promise Program targets 8th grade girls and encourages them to enter careers in the fields of math, science, and technology.    The AAUW meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Pat and Willard Walker Room of the Fayetteville Public Library.  Networking time will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 6 p.m.  The public is invited.    For more information, please call Joyce Kennedy at 521-3898 or Berta Seitz at 442-6256.

Swarthmore Professor to Talk about Program Involving Welfare, Student Attendance

Thomas Dee, associate professor of economics and director of the public policy program at Swarthmore College, with give a lecture titled "Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare Experiment" at noon Friday, Jan. 22, in room 343 of the Graduate Education Building on the University of Arkansas campus.

The lecture is part of the series sponsored by the university's department of education reform. It is free and open to the public, but attendees should RSVP at http://www.uark.edu/ua/der/ for a light lunch.

Martin Luther King III to Speak at University of Arkansas

Martin Luther King III, human rights activist and oldest son of the slain civil rights icon, will speak at the University of Arkansas as part of the student-sponsored Distinguished Lecture Series. His lecture will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, in the Fayetteville Town Center, and coincides with the community’s week-long celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. The lecture is free, open to the public, and no tickets are necessary.

"Headliners" Photography Exhibit Opens at University of Arkansas

Scott Flanagin will showcase his concert photography at the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery in the Union through Friday, Feb. 12.  A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at the gallery.

The “Headliners” exhibit is a collection of photographs from concerts held at the University of Arkansas.  With an extensive background in photography, Flanagin’s exhibit combines his passion for photography and love for music.  Flanagin graduated with a photojournalism degree from the University of Missouri in 1990, but his work has appeared all over Northwest Arkansas by formerly working for The Arkansas Traveler, Northwest Arkansas Times, Tyson Foods and Bedford’s Camera and Video.

For the past four years, Flanagin has worked as the director of communications for Student Affairs at the University of Arkansas, allowing him to work with the Headliners Concerts Series and having the best seat in Barnhill Arena.  The “sweet spot,” as Flanagin calls it, is the position where photographers are allowed to shoot at a concert and capture the performer’s and audience’s energy.  “It is something I feel at every show and I attempt to portray that in my photography.”

The event is free to the students, faculty, staff and public.  The photos in the exhibit were printed at, and donated by, Bedford’s Camera and Video in Fayetteville. This event is put on by the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery of University Programs.  Information about University Programs events can be found at http://www.osa.edu or by calling (479) 575-INFO.  The Anne Kittrell Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Holiday Display on Front Lawn of Campus

Students in the Math 2033 class, Mathematics in Society, have installed a beautiful holiday math-art display on the front lawn of Old Main, hanging several brightly colored spheres and stars in a large ash tree. Math 2033 is taught by University of Arkansas professors Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Mark Arnold. The display will remain up until late January.

Lecture to Cover Classroom Management Strategies from Special Education

Kevin Curtain, clinical director of the Frost School in Rockville, Md., will give a lecture Friday, Dec. 4, titled “Classroom Management Strategies: Lessons from Special Ed” on the University of Arkansas campus.

The lecture, part of the series hosted by the university’s department of education reform, is free and open to the public. It will be held in the Graduate Education Building auditorium, room 166. RSVP online for a light lunch at www.uark.edu/ua/der.

The Frost School, established in 1976, is a school and therapeutic day program that serves emotionally troubled and autistic children and adolescents and their families, according to its Web site.

Austrian Professor to Discuss EU-US Student Exchange Program Nov. 19

Professor Anton Huber from the Institute of Chemistry at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, will give a presentation on the EU-US Programs in Biorenewables at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, in room 301A in the Agriculture Building.

Huber, who is co-director of the program with Andy Proctor, University of Arkansas food science professor, will discuss opportunities for University of Arkansas students to participate in "renewable resources" studies in Europe, with most expenses paid.

The University of Arkansas is the U.S. lead institution of a EU-US Consortium, with partners at Iowa State University and Kansas State University. The European partners are Ghent University, Belgium; Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria; and National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France. An important objective of the consortium is to facilitate graduate and senior transatlantic study in the area of biomaterial production and utilization.

The program funds up to $5,000 for participating students. Students enroll at the University of Arkansas and have their tuition waived at the EU institution. Students interested in studying at EU partner institutions should contact Professor Andy Proctor, department of food science, (aproctor@uark.edu).

There are two types of programs available for seniors and graduate students. One provides opportunities to study at one of the EU partner institutions for one semester by completing coursework and/or research. The second are two-week intensive study programs consisting of lectures and field trips with a final exam.

Physics Colloquium Nov. 13

Zuzanna Liliental-Weber, Ph.D., materials science division at Lawrence Berekeley National Laboratory, will present "Structural Perfection of In-Rich III-Nitrides; Relation to Luminescence" at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in the Paul Sharrah Lecture Hall, PHYS 133. Refreshments will be served in the lobby at 3:30 p.m.

Abstract:

InxGa1-xN is used as active material in optical devices and gives the possibility of obtaining light emission with tunable wavelength, depending on In content. However, due to the large size difference between Ga, In and N, a miscibility gap was predicted theoretically and phase separation has been shown experimentally in this alloy system. Hence, the growth of single phase homogeneous InxGa1-xN is still challenging. Despite the general believe that only the growth of InGaN films with In content higher than 20% is difficult and thus hampers the development of long wavelength LEDs, we found that thick layers (>100 nm) of InGaN with low In contents (~10%) also have high density of structural defects that strongly affect their optical properties. Using a variety of analytical techniques (including TEM, x-ray studies, Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence performed on the same samples) we show for 10% In that the layers are sequestrated into sublayers with different In content when the film thickness exceeds a certain critical layer thickness. We find that only samples thinner than 100 nm are almost free of structural defects and these samples give single band edge PL peaks. CL studies on the thin samples confirm PL results with one band edge peak and give multiple peaks when an electron beam is placed in the defective parts of the layers. TEM studies show high density of planar defects in the thicker samples. These defective samples showed multiple PL peaks corresponding to layers with different In content. However, the presence of some low energy PL peaks (l ~ 4420 Å) required layers with much higher In content that was not detected by TEM, x-ray or RBS in the thick samples. We are suggesting that some of these PL and Cl peaks, especially from the structurally defective samples can originate from defects as well as regions with different atomic arrangements.

In this presentation p-doping of InN will be also discussed, since in order to apply InN to devices one needs to be sure that p doping in this material is possible. While undoped InN films are always n-type, p-type doping is still difficult to achieve. Transmission Electron Microscopy shows that the InN samples doped with either increasing or constant Mg concentration follow a cation or anion substrate polarity. In-polar samples change growth polarity when the Mg concentration is >1019cm-3. N-polar samples have much higher density of planar defects than In-polar samples and their presence leads to a decrease in dislocation density. In the N-polar samples equally spaced planar defects are observed for Mg concentration >1019cm-3.  It will be shown that three different polytypes (2H, 3C and 4H) are observed in this type of samples.

Liliental-Weber directs a research group interested in the characterization of thin films and interfaces with state-of-the art electron microscopy techniques. Her special interest is the influence of structural defects on the optical and electrical properties of semiconductor thin films and interfaces, such as dislocations and planar defects in III-nitrides, off-stoichiometric III-V thin film semiconductors, ordered structures and metal contacts to different type of semiconductors.

Skinner to Present CSES Seminar Nov. 9

The Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Fall Seminar Series will continue at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the Larry Coombes Auditorium, Plant Sciences 009, with a presentation by Vaughn Skinner, director of Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center, on Development and Use of Spatial Information Technologies to Manage an Agricultural Experiment Station.

Activities to Mark 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall

Two weeks of events are planned to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. From Nov. 5 through Nov. 20 in the display cases in the Fine Arts Building will be the works of professor Bryan Gott’s graphic design students and the historical maps of Dr. Fiona Davidson’s geography students, along with artifacts from the former East Germany.

• From 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in 421 Old Main — A discussion of “Inside Communism: Personal Recollections of Everyday Life behind the Iron Curtain” by Dr. Evan Bukey and Dr. Thomas Grischany. They will discuss their experiences living in the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union / Bulgaria, respectively, and share photos with the audience.
• From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in J.B. Hunt 207 — "Dinner and a Show: The East German Western Apachen (Apaches)." Bring your lunch and come see one of the many Westerns the East Germans made, in which the Indians are the good guys and the cowboys are the ruthless capitalists. Introduction by Dr. Kathleen Condray.
• From 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Kimpel 105 — Dr. Lisa Corrigan will discuss the rhetorical context surrounding the fall of the wall by looking at the public discourse of Ronald Reagan. This lecture will be followed by a question and answer session.
• From 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Kimpel 210 — “99 Red Balloons and the Youth of America” by Dr. Jennifer Hoyer. She will discuss how the only four West German pop songs to make it onto American charts were all about the conflict between East and West in the Cold War.
• From 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in Ozark 25 — A symposium "The West's Political Reaction to the Fall of the Wall" featuring Alessandro Brogi, Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, and Thomas Grischany. Each panelist will offer remarks for 15 to 20 minutes followed by questions and discussion.

All events are free and open to the public.

The Private Memory of Aggregate Shocks Lecture Topic

Carlos da Costa will present “The Private Memory of Aggregate Shocks” at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, in Walton College, room 431.  Dr. da Costa received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently a visitor at MIT.  He has recent publications in JPE (2008, 2005), JPub (2008), Review of Economic Dynamics (2009), among other top journals. More information can be found at http://epge.fgv.br/en/professor/carlos.eugenio.

University of Arkansas Hosts First Salute to Veterans Event

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will host A Salute to Veterans at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 in the Arkansas Union Ballroom. This is the first event of its kind, and the public is invited to attend.

Speakers will discuss the connection between the military and educational opportunities at the University of Arkansas, and attendees will be recognized for their service.

Speakers include:

• George Westmoreland, chair of the Governor’s Yellow Ribbon Task Force and civilian aide to the secretary of the Army for Arkansas
• Major General William D. Wofford, adjutant general, Arkansas National Guard
• Vaughn DeCoster, team leader, Fayetteville Vet Center
• Hunter Riley, Pat Tillman Foundation program director and University of Arkansas alumnus
• G. David Gearhart, University of Arkansas chancellor
• Josette Cline, chair, University of Arkansas Veterans Task Force

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Danielle Strickland, manager of advancement communications
Office of university relations
479-575-7346, strick@uark.edu

Chemistry/Biochemistry Lecture Oct. 19

Franklin Davis, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry, Temple University, will present "Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines (N-Sulfinyl Imines)" at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in CHEM 144.

Davis was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2009. He has received numerous honors and awards from the ACS and various institutions.

His research interests are focused on the development of new reagents and methodologies for the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles and natural products employing sulfur-nitrogen reagents.

A reception will take place after the seminar in CHEM 105. The event is open to the public.

For more information see http://chemistry.uark.edu/1690.htm, or contact seminar chair Matt McIntosh, mcintosh@uark.edu.

"Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover"

Students and employees are invited to participate in the University of Arkansas’ “Living Library.”  A living library functions similarly to a regular library, except that the books are real, diverse, human beings, who teach others about themselves and their experiences through interpersonal dialogue. 

For students, this is an excellent opportunity to interview someone different from themselves, and may help to fulfill a diversity requirement for a class.  (Please check with the instructor to be sure.) 

For employees, the time spent having a dialogue with a new book can count as one hour towards their UA diversity certificate.  Participants in the Professional Development Institute can also receive credit towards their certificate. 

For everyone, this is an opportunity to learn from and better understand one another and our cultures.

You may visit http://libinfo.uark.edu/diversity/livinglibrary/faq.asp to learn more about the program, including a list of books and information on how to schedule your session. 

Please e-mail Mary Honoré Tucker at mhonore@uark.edu, or call Mary at 575-7096, to reserve your 45-minute session with a “living” book.  

All sessions with books at the Living Library will be held in the living room of Holcombe Hall, located at Garland and Maple.

The Living Library Program is organized and sponsored by the University Ombuds Office, the University Libraries' Diversity Committee, and the International Students and Scholars Office.

Immigration Basics: General Information and Common Misconceptions

Elizabeth Young, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the School of Law and Roy Petty, attorney with the Petty Law Office in Fayetteville, will lead a Brown Bag discussion of frequently asked questions and hot topics in immigration, as part of the One Book, One Community program from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in room 326 in the School of Law.

Campus Clothesline Project on Display

The Campus Clothesline Project is scheduled to be on display at the Central Quad, the mall area in front of the Arkansas Union, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, and Tuesday, Oct. 6; and from 9 a.m. to about 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. The project is scheduled for extended hours on Wednesday to coincide with the second annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, a march to bring greater awareness and to speak out against violence against women. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes begins at 6 p.m. in the Arkansas Union mall area and is co-sponsored by RESPECT, White Ribbon, Greek Life and SARPA. The public is invited.

Middle East Experts Discuss Future of Israel and Palestine at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two noted experts on the Palestinian and Israeli conflict will lead a roundtable discussion at the University of Arkansas from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, in Room 105 of Kimpel Hall. Roane Carey and Yoram Meital will discuss “Palestine/Israel After Gaza: Futility or Hope?” The event is sponsored by the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. It is free and open to the public.

Roane Carey is managing editor of The Nation, co-editor of The Other Israel (2004) and editor of The New Intifada (2001). Carey was resident scholar this spring at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He traveled to Gaza in June with a group led by Code Pink: Women for Peace, the U.S.-based anti-war and social justice organization.

Yoram Meital is professor of Middle Eastern studies and director of the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East studies and diplomacy at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He is author of Peace in Tatters (2006) and Egypt’s Struggle for Peace (1997). He is currently resident scholar at Northeastern University in Boston.

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Joel Gordon, director
King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
479-575-4157, joelg@uark.edu

Steve Voorhies, manager, media relations
University Relations
479-575-3583, voorhies@uark.edu

Chemistry Lecture Sept. 18

Alumnus Howard Hendrickson, Ph.D. ’96, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at UAMS, will present a seminar “Targeted Metabolomics: Looking for Hay in a Haystack,” at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, in CHEM 144.

An open discussion will take place after his talk in CHEM 144 for undergraduate and graduate students interested in his research or study in pharmacy.

The event is open to the public

Hendrickson’s research is aimed toward the discovery and validation of new biomarkers of disease using “targeted-metabolomics.” The aim of targeted-metabolomics is to correlate the concentration of an endogenous small molecule (e.g., amino acid, lipid) to the pathology of a disease state. His laboratory works with a team of physician-scientists and scientists to identify new biomarkers of disease, including, radiation-induced organ damage, diabetes, and drug abuse.

Chemistry/Biochemistry Lecture Sept. 14

Professor David B. Collum, Cornell University, will present “LDA-Mediated Ortholithiations: Salt Effects and Autocatalysis,” at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, in CHEM 144. His research involves the mechanistic basis of organolithium reactivity and selectivity, always with the synthetic organic community in mind. Among the awards he has received are the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and a National Institutes of Health MERIT Award.  He has collaborated with and consulted for a number of pharmaceutical companies and has published more than 100 research papers.

A reception will take place after the seminar in CHEM 105.

The event is open to the public.

For more information see http://chemistry.uark.edu/1690.htm, or contact seminar chair Matt McIntosh, mcintosh@uark.edu.

Akhmadullin to Perform Guest Recital

Natalia Bolshakova and Iskander Akhmadullin

The Fulbright College department of music will feature guest artist Iskander Akhmadullin on trumpet in a recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, in the newly renovated Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center on the University of Arkansas campus. Akhmadullin will be accompanied on piano by Natalia Bolshakova in a program consisting of works by Giuseppe Torelli, J.G.B. Neruda, Joseph Turrin, Richard Peaslee, Bert Truax, and Bernardino Bautista Monterde.

Iskander Akhmadullin is the assistant professor of trumpet at the University of Missouri and holds degrees from the Kazan Music College, the Moscow State Conservatory, and the University of North Texas. He has been a co-principal trumpet with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra for several seasons and has been a member of the National Trumpet Competition Faculty, as well as performed at numerous festivals and conferences, including the Moscow Autumn Festivals, the Russian Trumpet Guild Conferences, and the International Trumpet Guild Conferences. Together with his wife, pianist Natalia Bolshakova, Akhmadullin has given recitals and master-classes in the United States, Germany and Russia. He was among the first Russian trumpet players to perform on the baroque trumpet.

Natalia Bolshakova studied at the Moscow Conservatory and the University of North Texas. She has been a prizewinner in many competitions, including the New Orleans International Piano Competitions and the Ima Hogg Young Artist International Competition. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras across the United States and in Europe. In 1997, she was cited by the BBC Music Magazine as “one of the most promising musicians of the younger generation.” Bolshakova is on the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Missouri.

The Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall is located in the Fine Arts Building on the UA campus. Free parking is available in the parking deck, which can be accessed from Stadium Drive and is located directly to the west of the Fine Arts Building. The admission is free and the public is cordially invited to attend. For more information, please call the department of music at 479-575-4701 or see the Web at http://music.uark.edu/.

Morris Dees, Founder of Southern Poverty Law Center, to Speak at School of Law

Morris Dees. (Photo by Kevin Glackmeyer.)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Morris Dees, pioneering civil rights attorney and founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will give a presentation at the University of Arkansas School of Law at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. The talk is open to the public and will take place in Leflar Law Center in the E.J. Ball Courtroom.

“I am thrilled to welcome Morris Dees – a great, personal hero to me and so many others, to the School of Law,” said Cynthia Nance, dean and professor of law. “Truly, I can think of no better person to exemplify the monumental positive difference our profession can make than Morris Dees. I have no doubt he will inspire and educate us all.”

The son of an Alabama farmer, Dees achieved remarkable success as a lawyer and publisher in the 1960s. While snowed in at an airport in 1967, Dees decided to change course in his life and devote himself to helping others.

As he wrote in his autobiography, A Season for Justice, “I was ready to take that step, to speak out for my black friends who were still 'disenfranchised' even after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Little had changed in the South. Whites held the power and had no intention of voluntarily sharing it. ... I had made up my mind. I would sell the company as soon as possible and specialize in civil rights law. All the things in my life that had brought me to this point, all the pulls and tugs of my conscience, found a singular peace. It did not matter what my neighbors would think, or the judges, the bankers, or even my relatives."

Following this epiphany, Dees began taking on highly controversial civil rights cases across Alabama and the South, including, in 1969, filing suit to integrate the Montgomery YMCA. In 1971, he and his law partner Joseph J. Levin Jr. founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. Civil rights activist Julian Bond was the center’s first president.

The Southern Poverty Law Center works to educate the public about tolerance while its legal team fights discrimination and hate groups. The center’s Intelligence Project tracks and monitors hate groups and provides updates to law enforcement and the public. Its Teaching Tolerance program is one of the world’s most comprehensive resources for anti-bias information and education.

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Andy Albertson, director of communications
School of Law
479-575-6111, aalbert@uark.edu

Turf Crowd Turns Out for Field Day at Division of Agriculture Center

Graduate student Tara Wood discusses research on managing white grubs, which are Japanese beetle larvae, in different varieties of grass.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It’s a turf crowd that scientists and their graduate students perform for at the Turfgrass Field Day, but attendance has grown each year of the annual event at the Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center 2.5 miles north of the University of Arkansas campus on Arkansas Highway 112.

The turfgrass research area includes the largest putting green in Arkansas. It’s used for bentgrass research and is part of a horticultural research, extension and teaching complex provided by the University of Arkansas System’s statewide Division of Agriculture.

Assistant professor Aaron Patton, who coordinates the event, said most of the approximately 260 field day visitors work in the lawn care, golf course, athletic field and sod farm industries. The field day was held every other year until 2007 when it became a yearly event.

“I think we are meeting a real need by providing updates on research, demonstrations of recommended practices and new technology, and a trade show, which had 20 vendors this year,” Patton said. “It’s also good for networking with other turf people, vendors and university people.”

The field day includes pesticide recertification training for turf managers in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

A tour of research projects and demonstrations included a range of topics, such as grass variety trials, variety selection for various purposes including drought tolerance, managing putting greens, fertilization, and control of plant diseases, insect pests and weeds.

Reports on turf research and extension projects are provided in the “Arkansas Turfgrass Report” published annually by the division’s Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. To see the report online and event announcements, visit the Turfgrass Science Web site at turf.uark.edu.

Results of turfgrass variety trials in Arkansas and other states in the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program are online at www.ntep.org.

Bachelor’s and graduate degree programs in “horticulture, landscape and turf science” are offered by the horticulture department (hort.uark.edu) in Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas.

West Fork Watershed Celebration & River Cleanup on June 13

The 4th annual West Fork Watershed Celebration and River Cleanup will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at Riverside Park, located off state Hwy. 170 in downtown West Fork. Volunteers will check in from 8-9:30 a.m. at the park, then fan out to stations along the river and clean up targeted areas. The cleanup will end at 11 a.m., when a free chicken lunch will served to the first 150 people. Door prize drawings are scheduled for noon. In addition, there will be live music and educational booths. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

The West Fork of the White River flows into Beaver Lake, which is our supply of drinking water.  Each year, a clean-up of our river is conducted as part of protecting our source of safe drinking water and protecting wildlife habitats.

The event is being coordinated by the West Fork Environmental Protection Association. Sponsors and partners include the Watershed Conservation Resource Center, the City of Fayetteville, the City of West Fork, Kiwanis Club, Audubon Arkansas, Washington County Environmental Affairs, the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, Arkansas Stream Team, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, Arvest Bank, Bank of Fayetteville, Tyson Foods, the Arkansas Canoe Club and Beaver Water District.

For more information, call 225-1611 or visit www.wfepa.org.

Toastmaster Club Meeting

Worried about your next presentation? The Razorback Toastmasters Club meets from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of the month (June 3 and June 17). This month they will meet in room 104 in Mullins Library. Whatever your skills - learn to be ready for any public speeking situation, to think quickly and clearly on your feet and build strong leadership abilities.  Everyone is invited to visit.

Math Colloquium April 23

Dr. Kei Nakamura, Oklahoma State University, will present "Incompressible one-sided Heegaard splittings for hyperbolic once-punctured torus bundles" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in SCEN 322. Refreshments will be available in SCEN 350 from 3 to 3:30 p.m.  All are invited.

NPR Deputy GM to Lecture at University of Arkansas April 22

Philip Bruce, deputy general manager of NPR West at National Public Radio, will present the 2009 Roy Reed Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, at the Arkansas Alumni Association House. Bruce is a journalism honors graduate from the University of Arkansas, class of 1980. He has spent more than 25 years as a correspondent and bureau chief for network television affiliates in Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Little Rock and Fayetteville. His lecture is sponsored by the Lemke department of journalism.

Physics Fantastic Fun and Follies Fair April 4

The University of Arkansas Society of Physics Students in association with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers presents "Physics Fantastic Fun and Follies Fair" from 2 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Physics Building, 825 West Dickson Street. Everyone is invited for amazing demonstrations and liquid nitrogen ice cream! Admission is free. Fun for all ages. Come enjoy the wonders of science!

Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism Workshop

The Quality Writing Center (QWC), the Enhanced Learning Center, and the Office of Community Standards and Student Ethics will present the fourth and final spring installment of the Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism Workshop at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in Kimpel 206 B.

The two-hour workshop has three parts. First, the program defines plagiarism, describes consequences, and explains when students need to cite source materials. Second, the workshop teaches approaches to summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting, along with techniques for making proper in-text and bibliographic entries. The workshop culminates in a series of exercises that challenge students to practice the strategies and techniques learned.

Seats are limited. Interested students should reserve a spot online by clicking on the “Workshops” link at www.uark.edu/write. Questions about the workshop can be answered by QWC Director Bob Haslam at writcent@uark.edu. The workshop series will resume in the fall.

Biological Sciences Seminar March 26

Dr. Heidi Kluess, department of health science, kinesiology, recreation and dance, University of Arkansas, will talk about "Environmental modulation of sympathetic neurotransmission" at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in SCEN-604. Coffee and cookies will be available at 3:30 p.m. in SCEN-502.

Web Conference set to Examine Renewable Energy Projects

Join the University Libraries in exploring the possibilities of renewable energy projects on campuses nationwide by attending a Web conference titled "Onsite Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar, and Geothermal" at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in room 472B in the west side of the Mullins library. The conference, a part of the National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology program, features speakers in the field of renewable energy, and provides a question and answer session to encourage discussion among the participants and speakers. For more information please contact Patricia Kirkwood pkirkwo@uark.edu  or Joanna Person at ggg73@hotmail.com.

University of Arkansas Professor to Lecture on Rwandan Genocide Feb. 26

Professor Samuel Totten will give a lecture titled "The Suffering Doesn’t End Once the Killing has Stopped: The Plight and Fate of the Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" from 2 to 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room of Mullins Library. Copies of Totten's recent book The Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide will be available for sale on site by the University of Arkansas Bookstore.

Totten, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Arkansas, received a Fulbright Fellowship last year to work in Rwanda, where he helped establish a genocide studies program at the National University of Rwanda and interviewed survivors of the 1994 "machete genocide" there. He is writing a book from the interviews. He and a colleague have established a scholarship fund to raise money for survivors of genocide around the world to attend college. The Post Genocide Education Fund can be found at http://www.postgen.org/. Totten has written and edited numerous books about genocide and is the editor or co-editor of several journals on the subject.

This lecture is co-hosted by the University of Arkansas Bookstore, the university chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), the department of curriculum and instruction and the University of Arkansas Libraries.

University of Arkansas School of Social Work Celebrating Black History Month

During the month of February, the School of Social Work (SCWK) at the University of Arkansas is celebrating Black History Month. All UA faculty, staff and students are invited to visit the SCWK lobby to view "Silas Hunt: A Documentary". Hunt was the first African American student to attend the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1948. Law classes were held in the current School of Social Work building. This documentary was produced and directed by Chris Erwin and has received the following awards: Aegis Winner's Award, Aurora Gold Award,and Telly Bronze Award. The School also has on display a number of posters of notable African American social activists throughout history.

Nadi Cinema/Middle East Film Club to Meet Feb. 11

Nadi Cinema/Middle East Film Club at the University of Arkansas will present the film “Camur/Mud” (Dervis Zaim, Turkey 2003) 82 minutes, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in 104 Mullins. The film is free and open to the public.

Near the border between Turkish and Greek Cyprus, where black mud is believed to carry miraculous healing abilities, four Turkish friends deal with teenage memories of the Greek-Turkish war and, at the same time, try to strike it rich on the antiquities market.  A black comedy mixing surrealism with reality, “Camur” is a film about ‘rebirth.’  Turkish w/English subtitles

Scott Carrell Piano Recital Guest Artist set for Feb. 24

Pianist Scott Carrell will present a guest artist recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall at the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center. A reception will follow the performance.

Carrell has captivated audiences in the U.S. and Europe with his virtuosic flair, expressive playing and informative comments, by presenting innovative programs of both classical and jazz works, including discussion of the works and the composers.

A native of Texas, Carrell has performed numerous recitals as soloist and as collaborator, including concerto appearances with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Pine Bluff Symphony Orchestra, the Southwestern University Orchestra, the Plainview Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Civic Orchestra, the Little Rock Wind Symphony and twice with the Harding University/Community Orchestra.  An active chamber musician, he co-founded the Searcy Chamber Music Series and has performed on many of its concerts. 

Receiving degrees from Southwestern University, the University of Illinois and the D.M.A. from the University of North Texas, he studied with internationally-known artists Drusilla Huffmaster, Ian Hobson and Vladimir Viardo and participated in master classes with Abbey Simon, Gail Delente and Dominique Merlet.  The French Piano Institute awarded him a prize for the best performance of a work by Henri Dutilleux at the 1996 FPI Festival in Paris, France.  He was also honored with the Distinguished Teacher Award from Harding University for the 2003-2004 academic year. 

In 2007, Carrell released a new compact disc, Ragtime Memories, which consists of pieces in various ragtime style -- classic, novelty and player piano styles.  Composers represented include Joplin, Scott, Lamb, Confrey, Berlin and others, plus two original rags.  His previous disc, Crossings was released in 2005, including works by Chopin, Debussy, Haydn, Schulz-Evler and Carrell.  It features the world premiere recording of the title work, an original composition based on a painting by an Arkansas artist.

An active member of the Arkansas State Music Teachers, he has presented sessions at both regional and state conferences and served as the state coordinator for the student composition competition; he began serving as the MTNA South Central Division coordinator in 2004.  His judging activities include students at all levels, from local festivals to national competitions. Currently teaching piano, music theory and composition at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, Carrell is in demand as a soloist, collaborative artist, teacher and adjudicator.

Math Colloquium Nov. 20 at University of Arkansas

Professor Mikhail Feldman from the University of Wisconsin will present "Shock Reflection, Free Boundary Problems and Degenerate Elliptic Equations" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in SCEN 322.  Refreshments will be served from 3 to 3:30 p.m. in SCEN 350.  All are invited.

Lt. Governor to Answer Questions about Lottery

Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter will talk with University of Arkansas students and answer questions about Proposed Constitutional Amendment 3, the Scholarship Lottery Amendment. He will speak in room 510 of the Arkansas Union at 2:30 p.m., Monday, October 27. The talk is being sponsored by the Young Democrats in cooperation with the Hope for Arkansas Committee.

Unique Student Documentaries to Premier at Arkansas Union Theater

Four student-produced documentary films will premier at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at the Arkansas Union Theatre. The students made the films in graduate-level classes taught by two award-winning University of Arkansas journalism professors, Larry Foley and Dale Carpenter, who have collaborated on documentary films for more than 25 years. Each documentary presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the student filmmakers. The premiere is free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public.

The documentaries include:

•    Bridge to a New Life: the Story of Miss Malen and the Couchsurfers (filmmakers Sarah Moore and Cheryl Sybrant). Synopsis: The film takes a look at the lives of homeless young adults, age 18-22, in Northwest Arkansas who are given a second chance in life when they enter Youth Bridge Transitional Living Program, run by the witty, and sometimes exasperated, Miss Malen Gardner.

•    Dogpatch USA (filmmakers Dixie Kline and Matthew Rowe) Synopsis: Arkansas built a theme park around Al Capp’s popular comic strip, Lil’ Abner, in the heart of the Ozarks. In spite of warning signs that it might fail, Dogpatch USA entertained a generation of people. A mountain of challenges finally crushed the park, but its ghost is still hanging around.

•    KURM RADIO: The Soapbox of the Air (filmmakers Kelly Millar, Hayot Tuychiev and Nikki Wise) Synopsis: There are only a handful of independent radio stations left in the United States. The film follows Colonel Kermit Womack and his staff as they show just how much a day at KURM radio differs from the average, conglomerate programming.

•    What Can Happen in Three Weeks (filmmakers Kevin Estes and Michelle Conty-deGroat) Synopsis: Each semester, the University of Arkansas hosts approximately 20 Japanese students from Shimane University for an intensive crash-course in American language and culture. The film documents the Japanese students and their experiences.

For more information, contact: Larry Foley, professor, Walter J. Lemke department of journalism, 479-575-6307, lfoley@uark.edu

Workshop for Teaching Assistants and TA Advisors

The Teaching Assistant Effectiveness Advisory Committee, a standing committee of the Graduate Council, strives to support teaching assistant preparedness on the UA campus. The committee will host two upcoming workshops for teaching assistants for TA's and TA advisors in all disciplines across the university.  “Online Communication Resources for Teaching Assistants” will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 or from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, both in Kimpel Hall 206B. The workshops will demonstrate for faculty and teaching assistants how they can use “wikis” and Facebook to create online discussion areas where teaching assistants can share ideas, problems, and resources.

For information contact Dr. Patrick Slattery at pslatter@uark.edu

Landscape Architect to Lecture on "Beyond Green"

An entry monument to High Desert in Albuquerque, N.M., one of several stylized images of blue grama grass, a drought-resistant plant native to the area. Courtesy Design Workshop, Inc.

Kurt Culbertson, who is the School of Architecture's 2008 John G. Williams Distinguished Professor, will launch the school’s 2008 – 2009 lecture series at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8, with a talk titled "Beyond Green: Toward Social Justice and Equity Through Design." The lecture will take place in Shollmier Hall.

Culbertson is principal, shareholder and chairman of the board for Design Workshop Inc., a landscape architecture, land-planning and urban-design firm with offices in Aspen, Colo., and Asheville, N.C. The firm, which the ASLA named Landscape Architecture Firm of the Year for 2008, is renowned for using sustainable development and design strategies to reconcile economic needs with the preservation of scenic, cultural and community values. Culbertson took a lead role on two key projects for Design Workshop: the master planning process for Flathead County, Montana, a 3.8-million-acre community experiencing rapid growth, and the design of High Desert, a residential development in Albuquerque, N.M. that uses open space planning to preserve natural drainage systems and views. These and other projects are discussed in depth in the 2007 monograph on Design Workshop, Toward Legacy.

A native of Shreveport, La., Kurt Culbertson received his undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree in business administration in real estate from Southern Methodist University. He has won more than 20 regional and national awards for design work that ranges from secluded sanctuaries to national parks. In addition to design work, he has conducted extensive research on the contributions of German-American landscape designers to the profession of landscape architecture and authored an award-winning biography, The Life and Times of George Edward Kessler.

Students In Free Enterprise Cook-Out Rescheduled

The Students In Free Enterprise cook-out has been postponed until Wednesday, Sept. 10, due to rain. Everyone is invited to attend to learn more about becoming involved in one of the greatest student organizations at the University of Arkansas!

Chemistry Seminar Sept. 5

Professor John Mclean of Vanderbilt University will present "Structural Separations by ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry: New Prospects for Complex Biological Systems," from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, in CHEM 144.

The event is open to the public.

Abstract:  Following the paradigm of the human genome project, much of current systems biology research entails characterizing, quantifying, and cataloging the biomolecular inventory of a sample at specific dimensions of space (e.g. cellular, tissue, or organism level) and time (e.g. point in the life cycle, healthy vs. Diseased state). In support of high throughput systems biology research, new measurement strategies are necessary that incorporate simultaneous “omics” data. Rapid (us-ms) two-dimensional separations based-on ion mobility-mass spectrometry (im-ms) techniques have demonstrated great utility in characterizing complex biological samples, primarily because different biomolecular classes (e.g. peptides, carbohydrates, oligonucleotides, lipids, etc.) Adopt structures in conformation space (correlation of structures vs. M/z), which are predictable based on prevailing intramolecular folding forces. This report describes recent results for a variety of biomolecular classes including those of interest in metabolomics, proteomics, lipidomics, glycomics and genomics. The aim of this work is to define the conformation space in which different classes of biomolecules are observed. Furthermore, we report molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate structural differences within a given molecular class. For example, structural differences for carbohydrates and glycans are observed in a predictable manner for different isobaric (same mass) positional and structural isomers. Analogously, isobaric lipids of different classes (e.g. sphingolipids and glycerophospholipids) adopt distinct structures owing to differences in the degree of coordination that the anhydrous molecules can achieve with alkali metals in competition with intramolecular hydrogen bonding forces. Based on these studies, we describe how the general position of signals in conformation space can yield information about which biomolecular class a particular signal belongs, and within a biomolecular class, what additional information can be interpreted from experimental structural determination.

For more information contact Charlie Wilkins, cwilkins@uark.edu.