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CAMPUS NEWS
| Current and timely news releases of wide interest to the media, campus community, and the general public about the U of A, its accomplishments and the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff. |
Posted:7/2/2009
Vendors FORE Education Golf Tournament
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The 13th annual Vendors FORE Education golf tournament, sponsored by Wal-Mart vendors, will be held Friday, July 17, at Stonebridge Meadows Golf Club, 3495 E. Goff Farms Road, Fayetteville. The Center for Retailing Excellence in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is hosting the tournament. |
Posted:7/1/2009
Teachers Focus on Writing Skills at Four-Week University of Arkansas Invitational
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Good writing skills are considered essential regardless of the career field a person enters. Eleven Arkansas teachers have been invited to learn new strategies to improve their students’ writing skills this summer during the Northwest Arkansas Writing Project invitational institute on the University of Arkansas campus. |
Posted:6/30/2009
University of Arkansas Appoints Executive Director of Academic Success
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Students First is not just a saying on the University of Arkansas campus. It’s the attitude with which faculty, staff and administrators approach their jobs. With the March announcement of the alignment of Academic and Student Affairs and the resurrection of a formal enrollment management structure, the university continues to develop new alignments supporting the goal of increased recruitment and retention. The university has made another move toward this goal with the appointment of Karen Hodges as the executive director of academic success. |
Posted:6/29/2009
Walton College Team and Faculty Win John A. White Award for Faculty-Student Collaboration
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Four students and a faculty mentor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas have won the 2009 John A. White Award for Faculty-Student Collaboration. The partnership between the Tears of Life team and faculty member Carol Reeves won or placed in five business plan competitions across the country, earning more than $85,000. |
Posted:6/25/2009
African Students Attend Summer Program at University of Arkansas to Study United States
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Spring International Language Center at the University of Arkansas will host a Study of the U.S. Institute program for 20 student leaders from Africa. The program runs from Sunday, June 28, to Tuesday, July 21. The institute is part of a broader U.S. State Department effort designed to promote a better understanding of the U.S. abroad and to help develop future world leaders. |
Posted:6/17/2009
University of Arkansas Press Distributes New Book Honoring the Life and Work of James T. Whitehead
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Moon City Press, based at Missouri State University, has just published For, From, About James T. Whitehead: Poems, Stories, Photographs, and Recollections (paper, $15.99), edited by Michael Burns and distributed by the University of Arkansas Press. |
Posted:6/17/2009
Hargis Papers Document Birth of Religious Right
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Researchers studying the history of political and religious ideologies will get a fresh look at the origins of the Religious Right through studying the papers of conservative Tulsa minister Billy James Hargis. The Hargis papers were recently processed and opened for research at the special collections department of the University of Arkansas Libraries in Fayetteville. |
Posted:6/16/2009
University of Arkansas Student Named Student Employee of the Year
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The National Association of College and University Food Services has selected Debby Chou as the national winner for Student Employee of the Year. Chou, an associate of Chartwells Campus Dining Services, was nominated by Jack Lim, director of the Arkansas Union Food Court & Catering. |
Posted:6/15/2009
Garvan Woodland Gardens to Dedicate Evans Children's Adventure Garden
 HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Garvan Woodland Gardens, the University of Arkansas’ botanical garden in Hot Springs, will unveil its newest development, the Evans Children’s Adventure Garden, on Thursday, June 18. The 210-acre Garvan Woodland Gardens, located on the shores of Lake Hamilton, is part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture’s department of landscape architecture. |
Posted:6/15/2009
Quarterly Business Analysis to Address Prospects for Recovery from the Current Recession
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Center for Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is partnering with the Northwest Arkansas Chambers of Commerce to host a Quarterly Business Analysis breakfast on Friday, July 10. The breakfast event will be held at 6:45 a.m. at the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center, 1500 South 48th Street, Springdale, Ark., 72762. |
Posted:6/11/2009
University Of Arkansas Student Receives $24,000 James Madison Scholarship
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas senior Alexander McKnight has been named a James Madison Scholar. He will receive a $24,000 Junior Fellowship for his future graduate work, as well as a four-week summer trip to Georgetown University. He plans to use his funds to pursue a Master of Arts in Teaching degree at the University of Arkansas. |
Posted:6/11/2009
Veterans Resource and Information Center to Open on University of Arkansas Campus
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Veterans of United States Armed Forces interested in attending college will have an easier time navigating the University of Arkansas starting this summer when the Veterans Resource and Information Center opens in the Arkansas Union. The center’s interim director, Erika Gamboa, is a veteran and an alumnus of the University of Arkansas, and is ready to help veterans make the transition to college life. |
Posted:6/9/2009
University of Arkansas Police Department Begins K9 Program With Two German Shepherds
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Police Department recently purchased two dogs trained in explosives ordinance detection for use on campus. The canines and their handlers will be utilized in pre-event sweeps of athletic events and other special events occurring on the campus as well as any explosives-related emergency occurring on campus. They will also be available to respond to assist other agencies for emergency situations. |
Posted:6/9/2009
University of Arkansas Council and Committees to Address Enhanced Diversity Efforts
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart has named 15 state, faculty, alumni and staff leaders as members of the new Chancellor’s Council on Diversity, which he will chair. The council members will assist in determining the university’s diversity agenda, formulating strategies to disseminate the diversity message, identifying funding sources to promote diversity plans and serving as statewide diversity ambassadors. |
Posted:6/5/2009
University Develops New Report Outlining Goals, Accountability Measures Through 2021
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In an effort to keep the people of Arkansas aware of the decisions of their flagship university and the choices affecting the students and educators of the school, the University of Arkansas administration has developed a document that outlines a vision, goals and measurable objectives for tracking improvement in a variety of key areas. |
Posted:6/5/2009
Trustees Approve Fiscal 2010 Budget for the University of Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees approved the $389,633,073 budget for fiscal year 2010 presented by University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart. The budget represents a 3.8 percent increase in spending over the previous year – but virtually all of that increase is for what are termed “unavoidable” costs, such as increases in utilities and insurance premiums. |
Posted:6/4/2009
Walton College Team Hits Jackpot in National Business Plan Competitions
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Even in a downturned economy, four students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas have turned an idea for a test using a woman’s tears for breast cancer into more than $85,000. Mentored by management professor Carol Reeves, the team found success this spring in five major business plan competitions. |
Posted:6/3/2009
University of Arkansas Press book chosen for University of Dayton 'First Year Read'
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –The University of Arkansas Press’s War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, by Melody Moezzi, has been selected by the University of Dayton as its First Year Read for the incoming class of 2009. The book was selected by a committee comprising college administrators, faculty, staff and students, according to Lori Phillips-Young, coordinator of the University of Dayton’s First Year Read Program. |
Posted:6/2/2009
Internationally Recognized Teacher to Address University of Arkansas Literacy Symposium
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The keynote speaker for this year’s University of Arkansas Literacy Symposium was made an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, but the recognition he has received in the United States for his work at an inner-city Los Angeles public elementary school is just as impressive. |
Posted:6/1/2009
Decades of Research on Native American Headpots Fill New Book from University of Arkansas Press
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In 1981, James F. Cherry began a quest to find any and every existing Native American headpot, a rare and mysterious pottery formed in the shape of a human head, from the Mississippian Indian Culture. The quest took him to museums throughout the country, including the Smithsonian, the Gilcrease in Tulsa and the Museum of Natural History in New York. He researched the collections at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Tennessee and Southern Illinois University, made use of the University of Arkansas Museum, and studied many private collections. For over 25 years, he followed up on any headpot lead that presented itself. |
Posted:5/28/2009
University of Arkansas College of Engineering Brings Solar Splash 2009 to Lake Fayetteville
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas College of Engineering will bring Solar Splash, the world championship of intercollegiate solar boating, to Lake Fayetteville from May 27 to 31. Spectators from across the region will be able to see the future of sustainable boating as 17 teams compete for top honors without burning a single drop of gas. |
Posted:5/28/2009
Teachers Can Make Big Impact by Instructing Students to 'Leave No Trace'
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Physical education teachers across the nation are lessening the emphasis on competitive sports in which only a few students participate fully and instead moving toward noncompetitive recreational activities that involve all students. This concept also introduces children to various recreational activities they can enjoy for life. At the same time, the public is more focused than ever before on going green – adopting sustainable practices to protect the environment. |
Posted:5/27/2009
Exhibit Celebrates Arkansas History and Diversity
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A new exhibit of artifacts on loan from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, the University of Arkansas Museum and the University of Arkansas Libraries celebrates the diverse cultural and natural resources of the state. |
Posted:5/25/2009
University of Arkansas Names New Band Director
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Dr. Christopher Knighten, director of the East Carolina University Marching Pirates, has been named director of the University of Arkansas Athletic Bands. Knighten comes to Arkansas from East Carolina University where he has led the band there since 1993. He will begin his duties July 1. |
Posted:5/21/2009
Blackwell Wins Regional Honors for Two Renovation Projects
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Marlon Blackwell, a professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas, has won two honor awards from the Gulf States Regional division of the American Institute of Architects. He won top honors for reinventing the Fulbright Building, a beloved mid-century modern landmark in Fayetteville, and for transforming a historic hardware store into the Gentry Public Library. |
Posted:5/21/2009
Research Demonstrates Potential for Liquid Water on Present-Day Mars
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Researchers at the University of Arkansas have shown that salts formed from perchlorates discovered at the Phoenix landing site have the potential to be found in liquid solution under the temperature and pressure conditions on present-day Mars. |
Posted:5/20/2009
Disney Institute Brings Professional Development Program to Little Rock
FAYETTVILLE, Ark. – Disney Institute is bringing its renowned professional development program, the “Disney Keys to Excellence,” to Little Rock on Thursday, Sept. 24. Sponsored locally by the Center for Executive Education and Development, Global Campus and the human resources office at the University of Arkansas, the full-day event will give professionals an opportunity to experience the business behind the Disney magic and explore topics of leadership, management, service and loyalty. |
Posted:5/14/2009
University of Arkansas Diversity Review Shows Progress, Opportunity
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – An independent panel charged with reviewing diversity at the University of Arkansas said in a recently completed report that it was impressed with the institution’s commitment to creating a welcoming and inclusive campus environment, and that the university’s infrastructure for diversity is still emerging. |
Posted:5/13/2009
Survey Research Center Launches Spring 2009 Northwest Arkansas Omnibus Survey
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Survey Research Center at the University of Arkansas has begun collecting data for the Northwest Arkansas Omnibus Survey, a short, service-oriented poll to measure local residents’ perceptions about topics of local importance. Via telephone interviews, the center will continue to gather data for another week. |
Posted:5/12/2009
University Development Names Director of Annual Programs
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Rachel Neeley of Winslow, Ark., has been named director of annual programs in the office of university development at the University of Arkansas. After a national search spanning many months, Neeley was promoted from her previous position as the department’s associate director. |
Posted:5/11/2009
RFID Research Center Director Receives National Award
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Bill Hardgrave, executive director of the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas, has been awarded the Ted Williams Award from AIM Global, the international trade association representing automatic identification and mobility technology solution providers. |
Posted:5/11/2009
University of Arkansas Librarian Wins Profession's Highest Award
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Tony Stankus, professor and life sciences librarian at the University of Arkansas Libraries, has been named a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association during its centennial year celebrations. The honor of Fellow of Special Libraries Association is given to recognize leadership in careers as information professionals or librarians. Fellowship in the Special Libraries Association is bestowed on mid-career professionals in recognition of past, present and future service to the association and the profession. The designation is presented annually to no more than five active professionals, and is the association’s highest award. |
Posted:5/7/2009
Architecture Students to Present Work to Ramay Junior High Students
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –Architecture students Virginia Boyd and Chase Pitner will show more than 300 eighth-grade math students how numbers and formulas shape real spaces in a series of presentations that will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, in the large group classroom at Ramay Junior High. The students, who are enrolled in the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas, will share models and sketches of their own projects, which range from a curvilinear beach house to plans for Fayetteville’s Walker Park. |
Posted:5/6/2009
National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission Names New Managing Director
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – T.A. Walton will serve as the new managing director of the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission. Walton will be in charge of the daily operations of the center and for the recruitment of students and member organizations. He will also build relationships with existing member organizations. |
Posted:5/5/2009
University of Arkansas Police Issues Theft and Scam Warning
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Police Department has received two reports since April 24 involving the theft of purses from buildings and a follow-up phone scam. In each case, the theft victim received a phone call from a person alleging to be with a local bank. The caller told both victims that their bank accounts had been accessed and then asked the victims for their PIN numbers, supposedly to verify the account information. The victims provided the numbers, and a short time later their accounts were actually used and multiple withdrawals were made. |
Posted:5/4/2009
University of Arkansas Graduate Wins Panama Presidential Election
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –University of Arkansas graduate Ricardo Martinelli won the presidential election in Panama on May 3 in a historic landslide vote. Martinelli, 57, of the opposition Alliance for Change, was declared the winner with 87 percent of the votes counted. |
Posted:4/30/2009
Walton College Students Take Five Governor's Cup Awards
 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Graduate students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas were rewarded for their Tears of Life business plan with the $20,000 first place award and the AT&T $5,000 Innovation Award in the 2009 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition. |
Posted:4/29/2009
University of Arkansas Intercollegiate Athletics Department Commits $1 Million for Academics
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas department of intercollegiate athletics will commit $1 million to support the university’s academic mission during the 2009-10 fiscal year. Chancellor G. David Gearhart made the announcement during a news conference with Jeff Long, vice chancellor for intercollegiate athletics and director of athletics. |
Posted:4/29/2009
Fay Jones Collection Opened for Research
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The papers of famed Arkansas Architect Fay Jones are now open for research at the University of Arkansas Libraries’ special collections department. The formal opening of the collection was announced by Carolyn Allen, dean of libraries, during the April 4 dedication and renaming of the Fay Jones School of Architecture. |
Posted:4/28/2009
University of Arkansas Health Officials Remain Vigilant for Swine Flu, Offer Prevention Advice
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – While no cases of swine flu had been identified in Arkansas as of Monday, April 27, University of Arkansas officials are dealing with the potential that swine flu could occur on campus. University officials have met with the Washington County Department of Health and all protocols set forth by the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control are being followed. The health organizations are currently monitoring for occurrences of swine flu in the state. |
Posted:4/28/2009
University of Arkansas Press, Secretary of State's Office Team Up to Publish 2008 Historical Report
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas General Assembly is required to issue a new edition of The Historical Report of the Secretary of State every 10 years. The University of Arkansas Press was contacted by Secretary of State Charlie Daniel’s office late last year to see if the press could assist in its publication. A publication plan was worked out and the Report is now available. |
Posted:4/27/2009
Junior Mac Stephen Named to USA Today's All-USA College Academic Second Team
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Mac Stephen, a junior majoring in biology, anthropology and Latin American studies, has been named one of 20 members of the USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team. Judges considered the grades, leadership activities and the ways in which students extend their intellectual talents beyond the classroom when choosing members from the thousands across the U.S. who apply for the honor each year. |
Posted:4/23/2009
New Jersey, Ohio Ask Arkansas Professor for Advice on Standards, Teacher Training
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas professor Sandra Stotsky, a nationally known expert on K-12 standards and teacher training, will take part in a panel discussion on reforming teacher recruitment and training at the Manhattan Institute in New York this week. The Center for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan Institute invited Stotsky to make a presentation at its April 23 conference on how improving teacher quality is the key to urban education reform. |
Posted:4/22/2009
Biological Sciences Professor Receives University's Top Teaching Honor
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Timothy A. Kral, professor of biological sciences in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, was named winner of the Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award for 2009. This is the university’s most prestigious teaching award. |
Posted:4/20/2009
Journalist Roy Reed to Lecture on History of Arkansas Gazette
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Renowned reporter, writer and teacher Roy Reed will speak on the history of the Arkansas Gazette on April 29 at Giffels Auditorium in Old Main at the University of Arkansas. The program, titled “The Life and Death of the Oldest Newspaper West of the Mississippi,” will begin with a reception at 3 p.m., followed by a lecture at 3:30 and a book signing immediately thereafter. Reed’s latest book, Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette: An Oral History, was recently published by the University of Arkansas Press and will be available for purchase. The program, co-sponsored by the special collections department of the University of Arkansas Libraries, the University of Arkansas Press and the university’s Walter J. Lemke department of journalism, is free and open to the public. |
Posted:4/20/2009
Two University of Arkansas Students Named as Goldwater Scholars; Two Get Honorable Mention
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two University of Arkansas students have been awarded prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, the top national award for students in mathematics, science and engineering. Rachel Lee of Siloam Springs and Matthew Naglak of Searcy are among the 278 students in the nation to be named Goldwater Scholars. They will each receive a $7,500 scholarship. Lee and Naglak are junior physics majors in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the Honors College. Professor Gregory Salamo is the research mentor to both. |
Posted:4/17/2009
University of Arkansas Press Issues Two New Books on Local and National Civil Rights Stories
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In two new books from the University of Arkansas Press, a little known aspect of the Little Rock School Crisis is explored in Sondra Gordy’s Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed Its Public Schools (cloth, $29.95), while the tragic history of civil rights in the south is retold in Jim Crow America: A Documentary History by Catherine Lewis and J. Richard Lewis ($19.95, paper) |
Posted:4/17/2009
Original Watercolor Paintings by Springdale Centenarian on Display at the Global Campus
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Eighteen original watercolor paintings by Myrtle Laabs, age 104, will be on exhibit in the lobby of the Global Campus’ Center for Continuing Education, 2 E. Center St., Fayetteville, through June. The exhibit opens at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 23, with an art showcase and birthday party for Laabs, who will celebrate her 105th birthday on April 26. This event is being held in conjunction with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s spring 2009 membership meeting. |
Posted:4/16/2009
University of Arkansas Aligns Student Affairs Facilities
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In one of the first realignment moves within Student Affairs at the University of Arkansas, the Arkansas Union, residence halls and other auxiliary facilities in the division are being aligned. |
Posted:4/15/2009
Earth Week Events Announced
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Folks may be familiar with Earth Day, an annual springtime observance of the environment, but this year, the University of Arkansas is holding a week’s worth of earth-related events from April 18-25. All events are free and open to the public. |
Posted:4/14/2009
Hartman Hotz Speaker to Trace History of Islamic Political Vocabulary
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Fred Donner, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq and a leading scholar on the history of early Islam, will discuss “The Development of Early Islamic Political Vocabulary” at 4 p.m. Monday, April 27, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main, as part of the Hartman Hotz Lecture Series in Law and the Liberal Arts. The lecture is free and open to the public. |
Posted:4/13/2009
College of Education and Health Professions to Honor Faculty, Staff Members
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Education and Health Professions will honor faculty members for advising, teaching, research and service at its annual spring faculty and staff meeting on May 1 on the University of Arkansas campus. The college will also recognize staff members who won awards for their work. |
Posted:4/13/2009
Four University of Arkansas Alumni Win Prestigious $25,000 Fellowships
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Of the 42 creative writing fellowships of $25,000 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded in 2009 to poets across the United States, four were given to alumni of the University of Arkansas Creative Writing Program: Chelsea Rathburn, Bill Notter, Thom Satterlee and Charles Rafferty. |
Posted:4/13/2009
Lecture, Workshop Train Architecture Students in Cutting-Edge Computer Design
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Fay Jones School of Architecture is among the vanguard of U.S. schools offering students instruction in cutting-edge computational design software, used to create completely new forms such as the Water Cube featured at the Beijing Olympics. Some 25 of the school’s students, faculty and alumni will get a head start on the learning curve at TransFORM Architecture, a two-day workshop that will take place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, in Willard J. Walker Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. Marty Doscher, information technology director for Morphosis, the Los Angeles design firm headed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Thom Mayne, will launch the workshop with a public lecture, “Digitally Integrated Design-Build,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Shollmier Hall in Vol Walker Hall. |
Posted:4/10/2009
Boat Tours of Lake Fort Smith Prove to Be Effective Interpretive Programs
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A University of Arkansas professor is introducing the world to Lake Fort Smith State Park next month. At the international conference of the National Association for Interpretation in Athens, Greece, Gregory M. Benton will present a case study of the effectiveness of a boat tour as an interpretative program about Lake Fort Smith. |
Posted:4/9/2009
Literacy Initiative to Open New Facility in Rogers
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Students at the University of Arkansas will have the opportunity to learn about literacy and enroll in a service-learning course on literacy tutoring beginning in fall 2009 when the university’s Brown Chair in English Literacy Initiative opens a new, multi-client literacy office at the Nonprofit Center for Northwest Arkansas at the former Mercy Hospital in Rogers. |
Posted:4/8/2009
University of Arkansas Team Wins National Business Plan Competition
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business and a biological engineering student in the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas have taken first place and $4,000 in the University of Nebraska 22nd annual New Ventures World Competition. |
Posted:4/7/2009
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events Get Under Way
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and there will be a number of educational and awareness events during the month to address and speak out against sexual assault and violence, particularly violence against women. The awareness campaign ends with the Take Back the Night March, starting at 7 p.m. Friday, April 24. |
Posted:4/2/2009
Ferritor Lecture to Examine Social, Computer and Communication Networks
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Professor Barry Wellman, the S.D. Clarke Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, will deliver the 2009 Ferritor Community Lecture, “Connected Lives: The New Social Network Operating System,” at 6 p.m Monday, April 13, in Room E107 of the Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Building. The lecture is free and open to the public. |
Posted:3/31/2009
T. Boone Pickens to Bring Energy Independence Message to University of Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – T. Boone Pickens, oil man, billionaire, philanthropist, financier and outspoken advocate for energy independence, will hold a “town hall” meeting in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development Auditorium of the University of Arkansas, from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Monday, April 6. Pickens, who has become widely known for his “white board” presentations on the national energy crisis, will answer questions from the audience during the session. Denise Bode, president of the American Wind Energy Association and a partner in Pickens’ energy campaign, will also attend the presentation. |
Posted:3/31/2009
One of the Great Stories of 20th-Century Journalism Recounted in Book From University of Arkansas Press
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The legendary story of the Arkansas Gazette begins with a printing press floated up the Arkansas River in 1819. Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette: An Oral History (cloth, $34.95), knowledgeably and intimately edited by longtime Gazette and New York Times reporter Roy Reed, tells the newspaper’s story using interviews from over a hundred former Gazette staffers recalling the stories they reported on and the people they worked with from the late 1940s to the paper’s end. |
Posted:3/30/2009
New Name, Big Party: School of Architecture to Celebrate Fay Jones this Weekend
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The School of Architecture has organized a weekend of special events that will culminate in a formal dedication of its new name, the Fay Jones School of Architecture, in front of the school’s home, Vol Walker Hall, at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 4. The public is invited to participate in this event, which will celebrate Fay Jones’ legacy as an architect and professor and look forward to the school’s future. |
Posted:3/27/2009
Space Telescope Scientist to Speak on Campus
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Matthew Greenhouse, project scientist at the James Webb Space Telescope, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, at the Space Center Auditorium in the Old Museum Building on the University of Arkansas campus. Greenhouse has served on the senior staff as project scientist for the telescope science instrument payload since 1997. He specializes in infrared imaging spectroscopy and development of related instrumentation and technologies. |
Posted:3/26/2009
University of Arkansas Research: School Choice in Milwaukee Benefits Some Students, Saves Money
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas researchers presented information Thursday, March 26, that shows a school voucher program in Milwaukee appears to be having a positive effect on the achievement of boys using vouchers to attend private schools, although girls appear to be doing somewhat better in public schools. The voucher program also has led to increased achievement for the children who remain in Milwaukee’s public schools while saving the state millions of dollars, they report. |
Posted:3/17/2009
Whimsical 'Picture Boxes' on Display in Mullins Library
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Viewing artist Ben Strawn’s “Picture Boxes” exhibit in Mullins Library may provoke one to wonder what images drift through his dreams. The paintings are vivid and unusual enough to qualify for a first-rate dream state, the kind when all you can say after waking is “Wow.” |
Posted:3/16/2009
Nobel Physicist Joseph Taylor to Deliver 2009 Maurer Distinguished Lecture
 FAYETTEVILLE, AR — Nobel Laureate Joseph Taylor will speak on “Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity” as the 2009 Robert D. Maurer Distinguished Lecturer. The lecture series, sponsored by the department of physics in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, is named after alumnus Dr. Robert D. Maurer, co-inventor of the first telecommunications-grade optical fiber. |
Posted:3/16/2009
Quarterly Business Analysis to Focus on Current Economic Downturn
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Center for Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is partnering with the Northwest Arkansas Chambers of Commerce to host the Quarterly Business Analysis breakfast on Thursday, April 9. The breakfast event will be held at 6:45 a.m. at the Clarion Hotel, 211 SE Walton Blvd., Bentonville, Ark. |
Posted:3/16/2009
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Seeks Instructor Volunteers
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arkansas is currently recruiting instructor volunteers to teach its fall 2009 classes. The main areas of focus for these classes are the arts and humanities. |
Posted:3/11/2009
Former President George H.W. Bush to Speak at University of Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, will visit the University of Arkansas on Monday, April 6, as part of the university’s Distinguished Lecture Series. He will speak at 8 p.m. in Barnhill Arena. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required and seating is on a first come, first-seated basis. |
Posted:3/12/2009
Lecture to Focus on Edward Durell Stone's Role in Marketing Modernism to American Families
 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The internationally acclaimed architect and Fayetteville native son Edward Durell Stone is best known today as a victim of changing tastes, with a disproportionate number of his signature works lost or irrevocably altered. In a lecture titled “The House of Ideas and the Idea of the House: Edward Durell Stone and the Mid-Century American Home,” School of Architecture professor Ethel Goodstein-Murphree will explore a lesser-known aspect of Stone’s career – his role as an early torchbearer for the modern American home. |
Posted:3/11/2009
University of Arkansas Press Adds Two New Distribution Partners, New James T. Whitehead Books
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Beginning this spring the University of Arkansas Press will be the exclusive distributor for two new partners — Moon City Press and a DVD, The Buffalo Flows. The press has been very much interested in adding distribution partners since that can help raise the press’ visibility and income as well as assist regional universities and businesses. |
Posted:3/10/2009
University of Arkansas-Sponsored Conference Promotes Health Equity
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The presenters for this year’s Arkansas Health Disparities Conference on Friday, April 3 at the Holiday Inn in Springdale offer an array of compelling insights into the serious issues associated with health disparities in the state and beyond. With the theme of promoting health equity, the conference focuses on health disparities in children, the elderly, women and minorities. |
Posted:3/10/2009
Blair Legacy Conference to Focus on Unlocking the 'Key' to Southern Politics
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Political scientists and historians will gather April 1-3 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain to discuss the legacy of a seminal historian of Southern politics during“Unlocking V.O. Key Jr.,” the second Blair Legacy Series Conference, hosted by the University of Arkansas’ Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. |
Posted:3/10/2009
University of Arkansas Press Book Explores the Black Panther Party in New Orleans
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press’ Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans (cloth, $29.95) looks back at a powerful moment in New Orleans’ history. That powerful moment was the summer of 1970, a summer that included a shootout with the police on Piety Street, the creation of survival programs, and the daylong standoff between the Panthers and the police in the Desire housing development. |
Posted:3/9/2009
Architect Marlon Blackwell Wins National Honors for Gentry Library
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Marlon Blackwell, a professor in the School of Architecture, devoted seven years to the transformation of a 100-year-old hardware store into the Gentry Library. Recently the hard work has paid off: His sleek hybrid of contemporary design and historic artifact has won a 2009 National Library Design Award from the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association/Library Administration and Management Association. One of eight winners selected from more than 100 entrants, the Gentry Library is the first Arkansas library to win this award. The project also was featured in the October 2008 issue of Architectural Record devoted to “design with conscience.” |
Posted:3/6/2009
University of Arkansas Press Author to Appear on NPR's 'Talk of the Nation'
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas Press’ Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object, by Kathleen Rooney, has been receiving quite a bit of national attention. Rooney will be a guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation on Monday, March 9, to talk about her book. The show can be heard from 1 to 3 p.m. every day on the HD3 channel of radio station KUAF 91.3. |
Posted:3/6/2009
Go read GO!
Why can’t we recycle paper towels? Who is Gregory Norris? Where can we see videos showcasing the university’s sustainability efforts? |
Posted:3/5/2009
Totten on Symposium Agenda About Albright-Cohen Genocide-Prevention Report
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two former U.S. Cabinet members released a report late last year offering practical recommendations on how to prevent genocide and mass atrocities. Samuel Totten, professor of secondary education at the University of Arkansas, has been invited to discuss the report at a genocide prevention symposium March 13 in Washington. |
Posted:3/4/2009
ARE-ON Connection Creates Opportunities for Arkansas and Its Universities
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas and all of the state’s four-year public universities will soon be connected to the Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network, ARE-ON, a high-speed fiber-optic-based Internet communications network. ARE-ON will expand research, academic, health care and emergency preparedness capabilities throughout the state by providing the universities access to national and international high-speed Internet networks such as the National LambdaRail and Internet 2. |
Posted:3/4/2009
Speaker to Discuss Conflict in the Cosmos - the Life and Science of Fred Hoyle
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Sir Fred Hoyle, a Fellow of the Royal Society, was one of the greatest theoretical astronomers of the 20th century. Among his many achievements, he is remembered for coining the expression the Big Bang, to describe the expanding model of the universe, a model that he never accepted. Simon Mitton will describe Hoyle’s contributions to stellar evolution, the origin of the chemical elements, cosmology, the origin of life and science fiction. |
Posted:3/3/2009
University of Arkansas Unveils New Logo
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Old Main is getting a makeover – at least in terms of how it represents the university in graphic form to global audiences. |
Posted:3/3/2009
University of Arkansas Community Exceeds United Way Goal
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has surpassed its United Way fundraising goal of $148,000, the most ambitious United Way goal in the institution’s history. To date, University of Arkansas faculty, staff and students have raised a total of $150,108.64 for the United Way of Northwest Arkansas. |
Posted:3/2/2009
Stigler Lectureship to Feature a New Perspective on Norse Contact in Arctic Canada
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Patricia Sutherland, curator of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, is a widely known North American archaeologist who has undertaken pioneering research into the history of remote Northern regions of the continent. She will discuss “A New Perspective on Native/Norse Contact in Arctic Canada” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main. The lecture, the final Robert L. Stigler Jr. Lectureship in Archaeology of the academic year, is free and open to the public. |
Posted:3/2/2009
Poet Takes 'Reckoning' of Her Family's Slave-Owning Past in University of Arkansas Press Book
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Michelle Boisseau’s new poetry collection from the University of Arkansas Press, A Sunday in God-Years (paper $16), takes its title from the notion that if we consider ourselves inside the long stretch of geologic time, human history happens in the blink of God's eye as he rolls over during a Sunday nap. The book is centered around the long poem "A Reckoning" made up of 15 shorter poems/sections (some sections are documents like wills and runaway slave notices). This long poem tries to reckon and recognize the sticky webs that bind the heirs of those who were slaveholders (like the Boisseaus) and of those who were held as slaves. |
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David Pryor Hosts Celebration of KUAF's New Broadcast Center; Studio Naming Announced
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – When the University of Arkansas public radio station, KUAF 91.3 FM, moves into its new facility on School Street, the station will be outfitted with much-needed equipment and space to improve its services to listeners across northwest Arkansas. Former Sen. David Pryor hosted an event Thursday, Feb. 26, to celebrate the commencement of construction. The lead gift for the station’s new performance studio was also announced. |
Posted:2/26/2009
Earth: Publisher Creates Atlas of an Entire Planet
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Earth is a lavish atlas, as bold and ambitious as the name suggests. Weighing in at 62.2 pounds, nearly two feet tall, costing $3,500 for a leather-bound edition and featuring spectacular photography, this atlas may stand as a testament to a publisher’s faith in the endurance of books. |
Posted:2/25/2009
The Buffalo River: The Fight to Save a Land of Prehistoric Beauty
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Buffalo Flows, a one-hour documentary that tells the story of the country’s first national river and the efforts to preserve its flowing waters and majestic woodlands, will premiere on AETN in March 2009 and will be shown later in the year in conjunction with Ken Burns’s “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” |
Posted:2/25/2009
University of Arkansas Press Author to Read at Nightbird Books as Part of a 25-City Tour
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas Press author Kathleen Rooney will be appearing at Fayetteville’s Nightbird Books to promote her new book Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object, a memoir about Rooney’s experiences working as an artists’ model. Her reading will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at Nightbird Books, 557 S. School St. The event is free and open to the public. |
Posted:2/23/2009
Arkansas 180: Legislative Session's Impact on Higher Education
On Jan. 12, 2009 the Arkansas State legislature convened the 87th General Assembly. This legislative session will have a profound impact on the University of Arkansas. As a public university, nearly half of the institution’s funding comes from state appropriations. Any reduction of that funding affects the university’s ability to hold tuition and fees increases down. That’s why it’s important that the university and its stakeholders be actively involved in the legislative process. To hear more about the legislative session and its impact on the University of Arkansas, please go to http://www.uark.edu/home/14472.php. |
Posted:2/24/2009
Tibetan Sand Mandala to Be Constructed at Mullins Library
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – On March 2, Geshe Dorjee, instructor in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, and Gedun Pekar of Fayetteville's Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas will be joined by two visiting scholars of Tibetan culture, Zoepa Gyatso and Lama Agha, and the four will begin the creation of a Tibetan sand mandala in the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room of Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus. |
Posted:2/24/2009
University of Arkansas Housing Fair to Provide Options for Off-Campus Living
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –A student housing fair will be held on the University of Arkansas campus from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Arkansas Union Connections Lounge. Booth space is available for the 131 local properties that belong to the university’s Off-Campus Housing Web site. |
Posted:2/23/2009
Author Grif Stockley to Give Black History Month Lecture at University of Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In celebration of Black History Month, the special collections department of the University of Arkansas Libraries and the School of Law will co-host a lecture by Arkansas historian and author Grif Stockley. The lecture, titled “Jim Crow in the Natural State: A Look at White Supremacy in Arkansas History," will be given on Wednesday, Feb. 25. A reception honoring Stockley will begin at 3 p.m. in Room 342 of the School of Law and the lecture will follow at 3:30 p.m. |
Posted:2/19/2009
An Exhibit of Cultural Heritage on Display in Mullins Library
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Charles Criner’s artwork tells a story — a story intertwined with his own childhood experiences growing up in rural east Texas. Criner tells his story through an exhibit of lithographs and acrylic paintings titled “Reflections of Cultural Heritage” currently on display in Mullins Library in celebration of Black History Month. |
Posted:2/18/2009
KUAF Breaks Ground on New Facility
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas public radio station, KUAF 91.3 FM, broke ground Tuesday, Feb. 17, at its new location, 9 S. School St., across the street from Blair Library, Fayetteville’s public library. |
Posted:2/16/2009
The Civil Rights Reader: Capturing the Ties Between Art and Social Justice
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas doctoral student Amy Schmidt is associate editor for The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation, a newly published anthology that draws upon the inspiration of poets and writers from the 1890s to the present to redefine the emotional, political and spiritual process of the tumultuous Civil Rights struggle in America. |
Posted:2/13/2009
First 'Razorback Day at the Capitol' a Rousing Success
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas students, officials, alumni and supporters journeyed to Little Rock Wednesday, Feb. 11, to visit with lawmakers and bring a blast of Razorback spirit to the state Capitol. |
Posted:2/12/2009
Initiative to Significantly Increase Outdoor Art on the University of Arkansas Campus
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has long been known as a quintessential college campus, endowed with stately historic buildings, majestic foliage and unique landmarks and traditions. Under a new initiative spearheaded by the chancellor, outdoor art will be added to this list of elements that enrich the aesthetic qualities of the Fayetteville campus. |
Posted:2/11/2009
Federal Funding for University of Arkansas Linked to Student, Faculty and Staff Diversity Reporting
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The U.S. Department of Education and Department of Labor recently issued new standards for the way that colleges and universities are required to collect, maintain and report race, ethnicity and other protected data for their students, faculty and staff. The information will continue to be used to report diversity information for the campus as a whole to federal and state agencies. All individual information will remain confidential, and no individual information will be reported. The new reporting standards will give the university a more comprehensive picture of the diversity of the students, faculty and staff on campus. |
Posted:2/9/2009
Sustainability Expert Joins University of Arkansas Research Center
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Gregory Norris, an expert in the sustainability of projects, process and capital, has joined the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas, effective Jan. 1, 2009. Although the center is a multidisciplinary organization, it is housed in the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Norris holds an 80 percent appointment as an adjunct professor with the college. |
Posted:2/9/2009
University of Arkansas Press Memoir Delves Into What It's Like to Be a Nude Art Model
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Kathleen Rooney’s Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object, published by the University of Arkansas Press (cloth, $22.50), is a lively meditation on the profession of nude modeling – that “spine-tingling combination of power and vulnerability, submission and dominance” – as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. |
Posted:2/9/2009
Search Committee Formed for Fulbright Dean
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Chancellor G. David Gearhart has appointed Robert McMath, interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, as chair of a committee to identify the next dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. |
Posted:2/6/2009
Director of Economic Development Institute to Discuss Change and the Emerging Chaos
The Arkansas World Trade Center will host Otto J. Loewer, University of Arkansas professor and founding director of the university’s Economic Development Institute, in a program titled “Understanding Change and the Emerging Chaos: The Linkages among Technology, Economics and Societal Values” as part of the center’s Brown Bag luncheon series. |
Posted:2/4/2009
Ice Storm Heroes at the University of Arkansas: Part I
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas never really closes. When a record-breaking, catastrophic ice storm hit northwest Arkansas during the night of Monday, Jan. 26, and morning of Tuesday, Jan. 27, the university cancelled classes and closed offices and business operations for an unprecedented four days. |
Posted:2/3/2009
Blasting to Occur on Campus for Construction Project
The contractor for the Garland Avenue Parking Garage project has encountered and will need to remove a section of rock formation as part of the utility excavation. Facilities Management expects the process to begin on Wednesday Feb. 4, and continue for approximately two weeks. The removal procedure will require blasting two or three times per day using an “Anfo” type explosive. This is a very modern explosive that can only be activated with a special blasting cap. Blasting hours are planned between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday by professional blasting personnel and will include the following warning procedures: |
Posted:2/3/2009
Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition Explores Inspiration of Rembrandt and Dürer
_rdax_102x145.jpg) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – “The Inspired Line: Selected Prints of Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt Van Rijn” opens Feb. 4 and runs through March 13 at the Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Arkansas. The Inspired Line explores the respective and shared religious, technical and cultural inspiration of Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669) and German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). |
Posted:1/25/2009
Weather Emergency Procedures and Notifications
When winter weather impacts the operating status of the University of Arkansas, students, faculty and staff have a number of ways to find out if classes will be delayed or if offices will be open – including via a new system designed for instant notification of emergency information. |
Posted:1/29/2009
Crews Begin Cutting Campus Out of Ice
 Workers from the University of Arkansas department of facilities management and contracted tree-trimming companies began cutting paths through the campus on Thursday, Jan. 29, and Friday, Jan. 30, as northwest Arkansas tried to dig out of the ice storm. |
Posted:1/28/2009
Scenes Across Campus From Ice Storm
 An ice storm shut down classes at the University of Arkansas beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 27, after freezing rain and sleet pelted the northern region of Arkansas. It was the 19th time during its history that the university has cancelled classes as a result of weather. |
Posted:1/22/2009
The Global Campus Expands Collaborative Connections
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Linda Beene Ballard, dean of the University of Arkansas Global Campus, spoke to The Rotary Club of Fayetteville Thursday, Jan. 22 about innovative new outreach programs and also unveiled the Global Campus’ new informational video. The Global Campus is the new descriptive name for the university’s School of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach. |
Posted:1/22/2009
'Green' Habitat Neighborhood Garners More National Honors
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the School of Architecture, has won three national awards for a sustainable neighborhood that they designed for the Washington Co. chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Porchscapes has won a 2009 American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design; a Progressive Architecture Award in the 56th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards program, sponsored by Architect magazine; and a 2008-09 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects. These latest awards bring recognition for the project to a total of seven regional and national awards. The Progressive Architecture Awards and the American Institute of Architects Honor Awards are considered the top awards programs in planning and design in the nation. |
Posted:1/22/2009
Supply Chain in Tough Economy Key Topic at Logistics Conference
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Supply Chain Management Research Center in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is sponsoring a one-day conference for the supply chain/logistics industry: “The Service vs. Cost Conundrum: Creating Supply Chain Value in a Tough Economic Environment.” |
Posted:1/15/2009
University of Arkansas Organizations to Honor Martin Luther King through Service Project
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Three organizations at the University of Arkansas are partnering to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. through a service project called Blankets for Warmth. The Sam M. Walton College of Business, the department of intercollegiate athletics and the Multicutural Center will be collecting blankets from Jan. 21 to 30 to distribute toSeven Hills Homeless Shelter, Salvation Army,Highland Towers andAbused Women and Children’s Shelter. |
Posted:1/15/2009
Visiting Artist Blends Social Activism, Art to Rejuvenate Communities
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Conceptual artist Mel Chin will be bringing his blend of environmental commitment and transformational art and alchemy to the University of Arkansas in the spring, when from Jan. 12 through Feb. 9 he will teach an intensive one-month course in the Fulbright College department of art under the sponsorship of the McIlroy Family Visiting Professorship in the Performing and Visual Arts. |
Posted:1/14/2009
University of Arkansas Students Compete for Cash in RecycleMania 2009
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas students have a chance to win cash prizes for their residence hall, fraternity or sorority by taking part in the 2009 RecycleMania competition, which is set to begin Sunday, Jan. 18. At the same time they’ll be competing with students from about 200 colleges and universities to see which school can recycle the most and create the least waste. |
Posted:1/14/2009
World Bank Economist to Speak at Walton College
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Philip Keefer, a lead research economist in the World Bank Development Research Group, will make a presentation Thursday, Jan. 22, on the University of Arkansas campus. His talk, “Politics and Economic Development: Latin America and the World,” will be held in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development Auditorium at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. |
Posted:1/13/2009
University of Arkansas Ranks Among Top 50 Schools for Number of National Merit Scholars
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is 50th among higher education institutions for the number of National Merit Scholars admitted in the current academic year, according to the National Merit Corp., which has released its report on the National Merit Scholars for 2007-08. Forty-six National Merit Scholars enrolled in the University of Arkansas this fall as part of the incoming freshman class. The University of Arkansas is tied with Georgetown University and California Technical Institute in the number of its freshman National Merit Scholars. |
Posted:1/12/2009
Celebrating the Gift of Pop: Original Warhol Paintings, Photographs on Exhibit
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Eleven paintings by the late pop artist Andy Warhol will be on exhibit in the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery in the Walton Arts Center from Jan. 20 through Jan. 31, 2009, along with 16 of 159 original Warhol photographs donated to the department of art at the University of Arkansas by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. |
Posted:1/12/2009
Community Design Center's Light Rail Book Awarded NEA Funding
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the School of Architecture, makes the case for light rail – primarily in pictures – in a book to be published this spring, Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas: Lifestyles and Ecologies. Thanks in part to a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2,000 copies of the book will be distributed for free to stakeholders, which Stephen Luoni, director of the Community Design Center, defines as “everybody in northwest Arkansas – from commuters who travel back and forth between cities every day to urban planners, business leaders and government officials.” |
Posted:1/8/2009
School of Architecture Ranked 20th in Nation and Included in List of World-Class Schools
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas School of Architecture ranked 20th in the nation in the 10th Annual Survey of America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools, a study conducted by the Design Futures Council and published in the November/December 2008 issue of Design Intelligence. The School of Architecture ranked 20th among the top 20 undergraduate architecture programs, sharing this honor with Cooper Union, Oklahoma State University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
Posted:1/7/2009
Chancellor Appoints Task Force to Study Structure of University of Arkansas Student Affairs Division
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –Chancellor G. David Gearhart has appointed a task force to closely examine the structure of the division of student affairs at the University of Arkansas, in an effort to ensure that this significant component of the university’s administration is operating at the highest possible levels of efficiency, service to students, collaboration with academic affairs and cost effectiveness. |
Posted:12/24/2008
Holiday Trivia
In anticipation of the holidays, the office of university relations offers this trivia quiz for your amusement and edification about the university. Our caveats are that we have intentionally tried to fool you into choosing the wrong answer, and when you think you know which wrong answer is right, it will be the question in which the right answer is right, thus fooling you again. To see the answer to each question, roll your cursor over the box beneath each question. |
Posted:12/17/2008
UA President Endorses Stimulus Funding for Higher Education
University of Arkansas System President B. Alan Sugg has joined more than 40 higher education leaders in endorsing a proposal for America’s colleges and universities to be included in any national economic stimulus plan. |
Posted:12/18/2008
Results From the Razorback Technology Challenge Competition
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Close to 350 students from middle schools, junior high schools and high schools in Arkansas and Oklahoma arrived at the University of Arkansas campus on Dead Day last week to compete in events that showcased their technological skills and problem-solving abilities. |
Posted:12/16/2008
University of Arkansas Police Traffic Stop Leads to Major Drug Arrest
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It began as a routine traffic stop for Officer Paul Edwards of the University of Arkansas Police. At about 9:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, he stopped a car for a traffic violation on Stadium Drive. After getting permission to search the car, Edwards found approximately four pounds of marijuana. He and UAPD officers Crandall Edwards and Bobby Ingle and Cpl. Sid Ramirez arrested Brandon Oren Armstrong, 22, of Fayetteville, and Christopher Lee Summers, 19, of Elkins, for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Armstrong and Summers are not affiliated with the University of Arkansas. |
Posted:12/17/2008
Energy Savings, Building Upgrades Are Part of New Program at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has awarded a $20.9 million contract to Energy Systems Group of Evansville, Ind., to design and install facility improvements that reduce energy consumption and address deferred maintenance issues in 56 buildings on the Fayetteville campus. The contract marks the first phase of a campuswide energy savings and facility modernization program. The energy performance agreement between ESG and the university guarantees that energy savings over a 13-year period will cover the cost of building improvements. ESG will reduce the university’s total annual energy consumption on campus by 30 percent. |
Posted:12/16/2008
University of Arkansas Planetarium Hosting Holiday 'Star of Bethlehem' Program
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The legendary “Star of Bethlehem” provides the focus for two holiday presentations at the University of Arkansas planetarium at 5 and 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18. The planetarium is located at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences in Room 201 of the former University Museum on Garland Avenue, next to the Arkansas Union. |
Posted:12/8/2008
Nationally Recognized Economists to Be Featured at Walton College 2009 Business Forecast Luncheon
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- The Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will host a panel of nationally recognized economists for its 15th annual Business Forecast luncheon to be held Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. The event, coordinated by the Walton College Center for Business and Economic Research, will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the John Q. Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Ark. |
Posted:12/11/2008
Faculty, Students to Complete & Light Starseeds Installation at 5 p.m. Wed., Dec. 17
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A glowing assemblage of sculptures crafted from white oak and river cane will grace the University of Arkansas’ front lawn this holiday season thanks to the efforts of university faculty, students and alumni. Though collaborators joke that Starseeds “is a gift from above” no extraterrestrial intervention is expected; instead, nearly 30 faculty members and students taking a break from final exams will work through the weekend to construct the pieces. The team will install the project in front of Old Main Wednesday, Dec. 17, weather permitting, and will light the sculptures for the first time at dusk – close to 5 p.m. |
Posted:12/10/2008
Leading Sustainability Economist to Conduct Forum at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Applied Sustainability Center in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas — in partnership with Tyson Foods Inc. — is sponsoring a half-day forum on global agriculture, featuring John McArthur, chief executive officer of Millennium Promise, Wednesday, Dec. 17. |
Posted:12/5/2008
University of Arkansas Creates Veterans Scholarship
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is in the process of creating 20 non-renewable scholarship awards, valued at $3,000 each, to be awarded to U.S. veterans who attend the university full time, beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year. Details for the application process and eligibility are still being worked out. |
Posted:12/4/2008
Architecture Professor Expanding Architecture with Modular Design-Build Project
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Architecture professor Gregory Herman discusses the creation of a custom-designed $60,000 home with hardwood floors, built-in storage and a deck in the new book Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism. Herman’s chapter, “Market Modular,” explores how he and 15 students made low-cost, high-design housing in Fayetteville a reality thanks to an innovative partnership with Taylor Made Homes, a modular home company formerly based in Anderson, Mo. |
Posted:11/25/2008
Atkinson Memorial Courtyard Sculptor Awarded 2008 National Medal of the Arts
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Jesus Moroles, the artist whose large-scale sculpture arrangement “Dreamscape” graces the Richard B. Atkinson Memorial Courtyard at the University of Arkansas School of Law, was awarded the 2008 National Medal of the Arts on Monday, Nov. 17, at a White House ceremony attended by President George W. Bush. The medal was given to Moroles “for his enduring achievements as a sculptor of stone. His granite monuments grace America's landscape.” Other recipients of this year’s Medal of the Arts include actress Olivia de Havilland and comic book writer and illustrator Stan Lee. |
Posted:11/25/2008
University of Arkansas National Pan-Hellenic Council Wins Four Regional Awards
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The National Pan-Hellenic Council at the University of Arkansas received four regional awards during the NPHC Southwestern Regional Conference, recently held in San Antonio, Texas. The University of Arkansas NPHC was recognized as the Outstanding Collegiate Council in the region. |
Posted:11/21/2008
University of Arkansas Board of Trustees Approves Energy Savings Contract for Fayetteville Campus
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas board of trustees approved a $22.9 million contract Friday, Nov. 21, to make energy conservation improvements to 56 buildings on the Fayetteville campus. The energy performance agreement with Energy Systems Group, an award-winning energy services provider, guarantees that energy savings over a 13-year period will cover the cost of the building improvements. |
Posted:11/20/2008
Architecture Professor's Project Published in World Atlas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Architecture professor Marlon Blackwell has put Northwest Arkansas on the map – again. His Blessings Golf Clubhouse in Johnson, Ark., completed for John Tyson in 2006, is one of 1,037 projects from 89 countries showcased in the recently published Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. The new atlas focuses on the best buildings of the new millennium, and builds on the success of the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture (2004), which also featured Blackwell’s work. |
Posted:11/18/2008
Cyrus Sutherland, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Preservationist, Dies at 88
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Cyrus Arden Sutherland, professor emeritus of architecture and leader in the movement to preserve Arkansas’ historic buildings, died Saturday, Nov. 15, after a long illness. In addition to teaching and mentoring many students during his 32 years at the School of Architecture, Sutherland was instrumental in saving and preserving some 40 historically significant buildings in Arkansas and also designed homes, churches and libraries in northwest Arkansas. |
Posted:11/17/2008
UATV to Air Fayetteville Mayoral Candidates in Run-off Debate
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – UATV, the student-run television station at the University of Arkansas, will broadcast Election ’08 – The Run-off from 7-8:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 20. The broadcast will feature a debate between Fayetteville Mayor Dan Coody and Fayetteville Alderman Lioneld Jordan, the two candidates in the run-off election for Fayetteville mayor. The debate will be moderated by Tina Korbe, managing editor for the Arkansas Traveler. |
Posted:11/18/2008
The Soul of a Tiger: In Color and 3-D
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The first thing a viewer might appreciate about Tony Tiger’s exhibit, “The Subjective History of a Tiger,” currently on display in Mullins Library, are the colors. Not just black and orange, as one might expect from a tiger, but vibrant and deep crimson reds, yellow ochres, and turquoise blues — all colors that resonate in the American Indian artistic heritage. But that is appropriate, since this particular Tiger is a member of the Sac and Fox Tribe of Oklahoma, and his exhibit is being shown in celebration of American Indian Heritage Month in November. |
Posted:11/17/2008
Explore Geographic Information Systems with the University Libraries and CAST
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University Libraries and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies are hosting a local celebration of Geographic Information Systems Day for the campus and community. The GIS Day Open House will showcase real-world applications of GIS technology by students, faculty and other specialists from the University of Arkansas and the region. The open house will be on the second floor atrium area of the J.B. Hunt Transport Services Center for Academic Excellence from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19. |
Posted:11/14/2008
University of Arkansas Teaching Academy Names Top Faculty Members
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Teaching Academy awarded the fourth annual John and Lois Imhoff Award for Outstanding Teaching and Student Mentorship at its annual banquet Thursday, Nov. 13. The academy also inducted six new members from the university faculty. |
Posted:11/13/2008
Final Provost Candidate to Make Public Presentation at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Sharon L. Gaber, one of four candidates for the position of provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, will visit the campus Tuesday, Nov. 18. She will be interviewed by the 20-member search committee for the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, which is made up of administrators, faculty, staff and student representatives. University Chancellor G. David Gearhart is the committee chair. |
Posted:11/13/2008
University of Arkansas Celebrates International Education Week
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will celebrate International Education Week on Nov. 17-21. There will be many activities on campus, giving students and the community the opportunity to gain knowledge and awareness about cultures, peoples and languages from different parts of the globe. |
Posted:11/11/2008
Open Forums Set for First-Year Review of Fulbright College Curriculum
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Interim Dean William A. Schwab has appointed a committee chaired by David Jolliffe, the Brown Chair in English Literacy, to undertake a three-year review of the core curriculum in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. |
Posted:11/11/2008
Graduate Certificate Gives Teachers Information, Skills to Help Students with Autism
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – When Brenda Myles, international expert on autism spectrum disorders, visited the University of Arkansas to address an autism symposium earlier this year, she said every Arkansas special education teacher is likely to work with a student who has autism. At the same time, faculty members here were already developing a graduate certificate in autism spectrum disorders. |
Posted:11/11/2008
University of Arkansas Global Campus, Chamber to Host Debate Between Mayoral Candidates
FAYETTEVILLE, AR. – The University of Arkansas Global Campus and the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce will host a debate between the two run-off candidates in the Fayetteville mayoral election. This event will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, at the Center for Continuing Education at 2 E. Center St. on the downtown Fayetteville square. |
Posted:11/10/2008
University of Arkansas Press Book Explores Texas's Role in the Civil War
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press’s The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State, edited by Charles D. Grear (cloth, $37.50), examines a state too often neglected by Civil War historians. The eleven essays in this book present Texas as a decidedly Southern, yet in many ways unusual, state seriously committed to and deeply affected by the Confederate war in many ways. |
Posted:11/6/2008
Supply Chain Research Center to Sponsor FedEx Freight Logistics Case Competition
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- The Supply Chain Management Research Center in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, in alliance with FedEx Freight and a group of corporate sponsors, is hosting an international graduate logistics case competition from Nov. 13 to 15. The event will take place at the Holiday Inn of Northwest Arkansas in Springdale. |
Posted:11/3/2008
Results of University of Arkansas Canned Food Drive Announced
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A canned food drive at the University of Arkansas collected 600 pounds of food for the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank. Tyson Foods Inc. has agreed to match the donations from university students, faculty and staff on a 100-to-1 basis and will donate an additional 60,000 pounds of food for distribution throughout northwest Arkansas. |
Posted:11/3/2008
Third Provost Candidate to Make Public Presentation at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Stuart Bell, one of four candidates for the position of provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, will visit the campus Thursday, Nov. 6. He will be interviewed by the 20-member search committee for the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, which is made up of administrators, faculty, staff and student representatives. University Chancellor G. David Gearhart is the committee chair. |
Posted:10/31/2008
National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission Dedicates New Building
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Rep. John Boozman helped the University of Arkansas National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission dedicate its new facility on Friday, Oct. 31, at the university’s Engineering Research Center in south Fayetteville. During the dedication, the university announced receipt of a $1 million gift from the American Electric Power Foundation to enhance the center’s research into new applications to improve the nation’s electricity distribution. |
Posted:10/30/2008
Second Provost Candidate to Make Public Presentation at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Robert McMath, one of four candidates for the position of provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, will interview for the position on Tuesday, Nov. 4. He will meet with the 20-member search committee for the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, which is made up of administrators, faculty, staff and student representatives. University Chancellor G. David Gearhart is the committee chair. |
Posted:10/29/2008
Community Partners Release Findings of Northwest Arkansas Community Indicators Report
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In May, the United Way of Northwest Arkansas, along with the Northwest Arkansas Community Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation and the University of Arkansas’ Community and Family Institute, met with community members to ask for their expertise and input in developing a report assessing the quality of life in Northwest Arkansas, a region defined as Benton, Carroll, Madison and Washington counties. The result, the Northwest Arkansas Community Indicators Report, was released Wednesday, Oct. 29. |
Posted:10/28/2008
University of Arkansas Press and The Oxford American Host Party to Launch Book
 The book’s launch party will start at 8:00, after the University of Arkansas Homecoming football game. There will be music by Ocie Fisher & The Hipp Dogs. Copies of the book will be available. All proceeds benefit The Oxford American Literary Project. Tickets are $50.00 and are tax-deductible. They can be purchased at Sound Warehouse in Fayetteville, or call 501-450-5376, www.oxfordamericanmag.com, or at the door. The UARK Bowl is at 644 W. Dickson Street. |
Posted:10/27/2008
Provost Candidate to Make Public Presentation at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Alan F.J. Artibise, one of four candidates for the position of provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, will visit the campus Tuesday, Oct. 28. He will be interviewed by the 20-member search committee for the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, which is made up of administrators, faculty, staff and student representatives. University Chancellor G. David Gearhart is the committee chair. |
Posted:10/27/2008
Kevin Brockmeier Concludes Special Collections' Lecture Series on Arkansas Writers
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – October is American Archives Month, and the University of Arkansas Libraries’ special collections department is commemorating the month by hosting a series of lectures titled “Mysteries, Mistresses and Murder: Celebrating Three Arkansas Authors.” The third and last lecture in the series will present Kevin Brockmeier of Little Rock, who will read from his recent work, followed by a question and answer session with the audience, from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Giffels Auditorium in Old Main. A welcome reception will begin at 3 p.m. with the program following at 3:30 p.m. |
Posted:10/23/2008
University of Arkansas Instructor, Student Group, Awarded 'Héroes de Corazón' Medals
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Katherine Shurlds, University of Arkansas journalism instructor and director of the Lemke Journalism Project; Jose Valdez, a senior offensive tackle with the Arkansas Razorback football team; and the university student chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens, LULAC Council 761, were honored Oct. 17 as “Héroes de Corazón”. The award recognizes “the heroes among us that serve as an inspiration by their dedication to the Hispanic community, in their service, sacrifice, overcoming spirit, and visionary work.”Héroes de Corazón (Heroes of the Heart) is sponsored by the Hispanic Latino Associate Resource Group at Wal-Mart. Each year, the program receives nominations from the community and awards medals to 10 winners. There were 29 nominations this year. |
Posted:10/23/2008
University of Arkansas Press Poet Wins Prize; Writer's Almanac to Read Press Author Two Days in a Row
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Library of Virginia and the Library of Virginia Foundation awarded their poetry prize to a University of Arkansas Press author for the second year in a row. At their 11th annual book awards, the Library of Virginia announced that Virginia poet R.T. Smith had won the poetry prize for his collection Outlaw Style, published by the University of Arkansas Press (paper, $16.00). Smith was presented his $3,500 award and a crystal replica of a book at a gala ceremony in Richmond that honored Virginia authors. Last year’s poetry winner was Elizabeth Hadaway for her collection, Fire Baton, also published by the Press. |
Posted:10/22/2008
University of Arkansas Global Campus Plans Grand Opening for Rogers Facility
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Global Campus will have a grand opening and ribbon cutting at its new facility in Rogers from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, at 3300 Market Street, Suite 402, Rogers, Arkansas. University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart and Linda Beene Ballard, dean and associate provost for the School of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach will attend. Remarks will begin at 2:15 p.m., and everyone is invited to attend. |
Posted:10/21/2008
Wallace Forbes Visits College of Engineering
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Mack-Blackwell World Transportation Center will present guest lecturer Wallace Forbes, the president of the Forbes Investors Advisory Institute, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 in Bell Engineering Center, room 2282. Forbes will present a brief talk titled “Engineers Have a World Full of Opportunity.” Following the presentation, he will open the floor to questions on topics ranging from engineering opportunities to the current global economic situation. |
Posted:10/21/2008
Walton College Student Awarded Royster Scholarship
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Whitnee Boyd, a senior in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, has received the Nola Holt Royster Scholarship worth $1,000. Boyd is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Boyd of Pine Bluff, Ark. |
Posted:10/20/2008
Provost Candidates to Visit University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart announced that four candidates for the position of provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs will visit the campus for interviews beginning Oct. 28. |
Posted:10/20/2008
Unique Student Documentaries to Premier at Arkansas Union Theater
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – 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. |
Posted:10/20/2008
University Choral Ensembles to Present Fauré's Requiem
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Choral Ensembles at the University of Arkansas will present Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in a performance featuring the Schola Cantorum, the Concert Choir, the Chamber Singers and the Master Chorale, with orchestra. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at the Walton Arts Center. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and $1 for students. |
Posted:10/16/2008
University of Arkansas Press and The Oxford American Host Book Launch Party
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – On Nov. 1 the University of Arkansas Press and The Oxford American will host a book launch at the UARK Bowl in Fayetteville to celebrate the publication of The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing (cloth, $34.95), edited by Marc Smirnoff, the magazine’s editor and founder. To celebrate 10 years of Southern music issues, most of which are sold-out or very hard to find, the 55 pieces collected by Smirnoff for this dynamic, wide-ranging and vast anthology will appeal to both music fans and fans of great writing. |
Posted:10/14/2008
Leadership in Education Focus for New Holder of Endowed Chair
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Education and Health Professions believes the development of high-quality leaders in schools is as important as the preparation of leaders for business, industry and government. The college announces the appointment of Robert Maranto to the Twenty-First Century Chair in Leadership at the University of Arkansas as part of a continuing effort to support schools and help develop the leaders they need. |
Posted:10/13/2008
Architecture Professor's Projects Featured in Current Issue of Architectural Record
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two projects by School of Architecture professor Marlon Blackwell are published in the October 2008 issue of Architectural Record, the nation’s premier architecture magazine, which focuses this month on “Design with Conscience.” The Gentry Library, a 100-year-plus former hardware store that Blackwell has transformed into a social linchpin for downtown Gentry, is documented in a six-page article while his Porchdog house, a hurricane-resistant prototype, is included in a round-up article on architectural response to rebuilding the Gulf Coast, post-Katrina. |
Posted:10/10/2008
University of Arkansas Police Open First Campus Substation at Reid Hall
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A population equivalent to a small city, 2,400 students live in six University of Arkansas residence halls on the north side of campus. University of Arkansas Police opened the department’s first substation in one of those halls, Reid Hall, on Thursday, Oct. 9, in an effort to provide students greater security and more convenient access to police services. |
Posted:10/10/2008
World Food Day Canned Food Drive Gets Under Way
The Arkansas World Trade Center in conjunction with the University of Arkansas, the University of Arkansas Global Campus, the city of Fayetteville and Tyson Foods Inc. will sponsor a canned food drive in acknowledgement of World Food Day. |
Posted:10/10/2008
University of Arkansas Hosts Engineering Expo Job Fair
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – While the national and global economies are slumping, the Engineering Expo job fair attracted over 120 potential engineering employers and hundreds of students who are interested in pursuing internships, co-op experiences and post-graduation employment. |
Posted:10/2/2008
Jupiter's Galilean Satellites Lecture Postponed
The Fall 2008 Barringer Lecture on Jupiter’s Galilean satellites, originally scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, has been postponed. For information, please contact the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences at 479-575-7625 or csaps@uark.edu. |
Posted:10/2/2008
Laura Parker Castoro Kicks Off Special Collections' Lecture Series on Arkansas Writers
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – October is American Archives Month, and the University of Arkansas Libraries’ special collections department is commemorating the month by hosting a series of lectures titled “Mysteries, Mistresses and Murder: Celebrating Three Arkansas Authors.” Laura Parker Castoro of Pine Bluff, Ark., will be the first speaker in the series, in a lecture scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Special Collections Reading Room in Mullins Library (MULN 130). A welcome reception will begin at 3 p.m. with the program following at 3:30 p.m. The event is free and the public is welcome to attend. |
Posted:10/1/2008
Berkeley Literacy Expert to Address Forum on Youth, Digital Technology
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A professor from the University of California, Berkeley, will visit to discuss how the literacy practices of today’s youth are transformed by digital technology. He will speak at a forum Oct. 7 sponsored by the Brown Chair in English Literacy at the University of Arkansas. |
Posted:9/30/2008
Walton College Student Receives McGowan Fellowship
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Joy Ibanga, a senior in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, has received a scholarship grant worth $18,000 from the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund Inc. of Washington, D.C. |
Posted:9/30/2008
Arkansas Writers on Writing: Special Collections to Host Lecture Series in October
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an award-winning writer living in Arkansas? If so, an upcoming series of lectures titled “Mysteries, Mistresses and Murder: Celebrating Three Arkansas Authors” is for you. October is American Archives Month, and the University Libraries’ special collections department is commemorating the month by hosting lectures featuring Arkansas authors talking about writing in the Natural State. All lectures are free and open to the public. |
Posted:9/30/2008
Award-Winning Chicano Author Sergio Troncoso to Visit University of Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –Award-winning Chicano author Sergio Troncoso will visit the University of Arkansas to share his stories and experience with students. He will present a talk and reading titled “New Perspectives on Latino Literature and the Role of the Writer: An Evening with Sergio Troncoso,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in Old Main’s Giffels Auditorium. A reception and book signing will follow this event, which is free and open to the public. |
Posted:9/29/2008
University of Arkansas Will Lead Alliance to Improve Science Education in Public Schools
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Arkansas researchers Gay Stewart and Bernard Madison a five-year, $7 million grant for the “College Ready In Math and Physics Partnership,” an initiative that creates alliances between university faculty in the science, technology, engineering and math fields and K-12 teachers. |
Posted:9/26/2008
Report Card: University of Arkansas Improves in Sustainable Practices
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has increased its sustainability score in just two short years from a D to a B minus, according to the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card, an organization that evaluates campus and endowment sustainability activities at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. In the Southeastern Conference, Arkansas was tied for second along with Auburn University in scoring. Only the University of Florida scored higher at a B plus. |
Posted:9/26/2008
Slots Open for New Doctoral Program in Education Policy at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Students can begin applying now for a place in a new doctoral program at the University of Arkansas that is expected to compete with the top education policy academic programs in the nation. The program will offer 10 doctoral fellowships that pay tuition and an annual stipend to qualified applicants. |
Posted:9/25/2008
RazALERT System Informs Campus Community of Emergency Situations
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ensuring the safety of students on the University of Arkansas campus is a top priority for the institution. University officials have been working on a method to quickly inform all people in the university community of emergency situations as they occur, and the answer is RazALERT. |
Posted:9/25/2008
Walton College Dean Selected to International Accreditation Board
_rdax_104x145.jpg) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Dan L. Worrell, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, had been appointed to the maintenance of accreditation committee for the AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. |
Posted:9/24/2008
University of Arkansas Cost, Standards Place it on List of America's 100 Best College Buys
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas once again is the only higher education institution in the state listed in America’s 100 Best College Buys, the annual report published by Institutional Research and Evaluation Inc., an independent research and consulting organization. This is the eighth straight year that the university has been named to the list. |
Posted:9/23/2008
Quarterly Business Analysis to Focus on Current Economic Crisis
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- The Center for Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is partnering with the Northwest Arkansas Chambers of Commerce to host a Quarterly Business Analysis breakfast on Friday, Oct. 24. The breakfast event will be held at 6:45 a.m. at the Clarion Hotel, 1255 S. Shiloh Drive, Fayetteville. |
Posted:9/18/2008
Fall Classes for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Beginning in Fayetteville and Hot Springs
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Classes are set to begin Friday, Sept. 19, for those participating in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arkansas Global Campus. Adults over 50 are encouraged to call for more information and begin pursuing their intellectual interests, both old and new, right away. Topics for the first week of classes include: Petra – The Lost City of Stone, and Memoir Writing About Yourself and Others. Future classes in Fayetteville and Hot Springs will include: Overland Mail Along the Butterfield Trail, Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum History, and Survey of Islamic Civilization. |
Posted:9/16/2008
University of Arkansas Press Distributes New David Pryor Autobiography
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Former Arkansas Gov. and Sen. David Pryor tells his life story in his new autobiography, A Pryor Commitment (with Don Harrell, cloth $29.95), published by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and distributed by the University of Arkansas Press. |
Posted:9/17/2008
School of Law to Host Panel on Hispanic Community in the Legal Profession
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Hispanic Student Bar Association of the University of Arkansas School of Law will host a panel discussion about the importance of the Hispanic community in the legal profession. The event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, in the E. J. Ball Courtroom at the law school building. The panel will feature guest speakers Victor Marquez, outgoing president of the Hispanic National Bar Association; Cynthia Carrasco, newly appointed executive director of the Hispanic National Bar Association; and Janine Friede, associate general counsel for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The discussion is open to the public and the university community. Refreshments will be served, and a question and answer session will take place immediately following the panel discussion.
Victor M. Marquez is the outgoing president of the Hispanic National Bar Association. He is the founder and principal of The Marquez Law Group, a boutique firm in downtown San Francisco, Calif. Marquez has expertise in assisting investor groups with developing commercial, residential and mixed-use properties. His practice works with municipalities and represents private, nonprofit and public interests in the finance and construction of mixed-use private/public joint venture development projects. He also is approved counsel for the community development banking departments of Bank of America, Citigroup Global Markets and Silicon Valley Bank.
Marquez earned his Bachelor of Arts in law and society from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1987 and his Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1990. He was named “Top 100 Most Influential Latinos in the Country” by Hispanic Magazine and “Top 20 Most Influential Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area” by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Earlier this year, he received the Santa Clara University Social Justice and Human Rights Award. An immigrant from a small mining town in Mexico, Marquez has served as executive director of the San Francisco La Raza Centro Legal, where he started a law program to assist seniors with consumer fraud, elder abuse, social security and other issues.
Cynthia N. Carrasco is the newly appointed executive director for the Hispanic National Bar Foundation. Carrasco has been involved with the organization for years through her work as program coordinator for the Future Latino Law Leaders Camp and as law camp counselor. Prior to her appointment, Carrasco served as model court liaison with the Permanency Planning for Children Department of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to several jurisdictions across the country. Carrasco authored “Colorado’s Model Courts: Innovation in the Juvenile Court System” for The Colorado Lawyer, which highlights her work with juvenile and family courts handling child abuse and neglect cases.
Carrasco, the daughter of Ecuadorean immigrants, was born in Pasadena, Calif. She received her Bachelor of Arts in communication and political science in 2000 from Syracuse University. Carrasco then attended the Duke University School of Law Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law in 2004 and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of La Verne College of Law in 2005.
Janine Friede is associate general counsel for the health and wellness section in the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. legal department. Friede received her Bachelor of Science in business administration with a concentration in finance from Colorado State University. She went on to receive her Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1995. Friede practiced commercial litigation and health care in a law firm setting until 1999, when she became in-house counsel for an integrated health care delivery system in New Mexico. In 2007, she began working with Wal-Mart. Friede is a member of the New Mexico bar, American Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association.
The Hispanic Student Bar Association is honored to host these distinguished guests and invites everyone to attend. For more information, contact Hispanic Student Bar Association President Joe Bussell at jbussell@uark.edu. |
Posted:9/15/2008
Students, Faculty, Staff Generally Satisfied with University 'Climate' But See Room for Improvement
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas students responding to a university campus climate survey last year said they often experienced cross-racial interactions in the classroom, but less often elsewhere on campus. As a whole, faculty and staff members in the survey believed the university gave enough attention to diversity issues; however, female and minority faculty and staff indicated more focus on diversity was needed. |
Posted:9/12/2008
Enrollment at University of Arkansas Sets Records for Freshmen, Minorities and Total Students
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Enrollment at the University of Arkansas has reached another milestone with more than 19,000 students enrolling at the state’s largest institution of higher education. Total enrollment at the end of the 11th day of classes was 19,191 students, a new campus record. There was an increase of 543 students overall, which represents a 2.9 percent growth over the fall 2007 semester. A total of 3,010 full and part-time degree-seeking freshmen are enrolled this year, the largest freshman class in university history. Minority enrollment also hit an all-time high in every category, with Hispanic American, Asian American and international students showing the largest percentage increases. |
Posted:9/15/2008
Researchers Create Charter School Information Site
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Education researchers at the University of Arkansas have created a new Web site to provide information about charter schools, a relatively new type of public school. |
Posted:9/11/2008
Press Helps Celebrate Mosaic Templars Cultural Center's Grand Opening With New Book
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press has reprinted a long out of print history of an important African American organization. History of the Mosaic Templars of America: Its Founders and Officialsby A.E. Bush and P.L. Dorman(cloth, $24.95) was originally published in 1924. It tells the story of Little Rock’s Mosaic Templars of America, a black fraternal organization that was founded by two former slaves in Little Rock in the late 19th century. |
Posted:9/10/2008
Replacing Bottled Water on Campus First Project of University Sustainability Council
The project of the University of Arkansas Sustainability Council 1) requests that deans and heads of other campus organizations consider serving municipal or filtered water at their events, 2) encourages student groups to join a public education effort that informs the campus about the energy and environmental impacts of bottled water use, 3) seeks means to provide additional filtered water outlets on campus and 4) will develop a knowledge base about water quality and water filters. |
Posted:9/10/2008
A Gentle Eye: Early Fayetteville Photographer Exhibited in Mullins Library
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Some of the most outstanding soft-focus images of the early 20th century were created by Julius Herman Field (1869-1936), a noted photographer who lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Field was producing these delicate images at a time when other photographers were turning to the razor-sharp prints in the style of Edward Steichen and Ansel Adams. |
Posted:9/9/2008
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas and the Hispanic Heritage Month Committee announce the 2008 Hispanic Heritage Month schedule of events on the university campus. Combining academic lectures, distinguished speakers and cultural events, Hispanic Heritage Month is an exciting opportunity to create greater awareness of the heritage and contemporary achievement of Hispanic and Latino cultures. |
Posted:9/8/2008
Fascinating Story of Free Woman of Color Recounted in University of Arkansas Press Book
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In this intriguing biography set in 19th-century Savannah, Ga., Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lost to historical memory. The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia(hardback, $29.95)is a story that informs our understanding of the antebellum South as this widowed matriarch navigates social, economic and political complexities to create a legacy for her family. |
Posted:9/3/2008
$900,000 Grant Will Allow Researchers to Take the Pulse of Northwest Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –The face of northwest Arkansas is changing — and it is changing quickly. In this climate, assessing the quality of life in the region as well as its needs and challenges is vital. Such information can guide mayors, city planners, funders, service providers and business leaders as they face complex planning and zoning decisions, try to decide how best to address the changing social needs in their communities or allocate scarce resources. |
Posted:9/2/2008
New Boyer Fellow Selected in Walton College
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Forrest Roth, the son of Richard and Cary Roth, Rogers, Ark., has been selected as the ninth Boyer Fellow in the Sam M. Walton College at the University of Arkansas. |
Posted:9/3/2008
Public Invited to Discuss Education of Boys
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The popular media have investigated what’s been termed a crisis in the education of boys over the past few years, and researchers have argued about whether data back up the concern. The University of Arkansas has scheduled two events next week to examine the issue. |
Posted:9/2/2008
Silas Hunt Scholars Welcomed to the University of Arkansas in Fifth Year of Program
_rdax_105x145.jpg) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas administrators and staff, including Chancellor G. David Gearhart, recently welcomed the new recipients of the Silas Hunt Scholarship to campus at a reception held Friday, Aug. 29, on campus. The Silas Hunt Scholarship Program is a four-year academic scholarship that includes a comprehensive academic support program involving monthly meetings, peer mentoring and social resources for the scholarship recipients. |
Posted:9/2/2008
Grant Will Fund Expanded Offerings in Asian Studies
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –Ka Zeng, an associate professor of political science and the director of Asian studies in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, has won a grant of $113,575 from the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen Asian studies at the University of Arkansas. The grant, awarded under the Department of Education’s 2008 Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language program competition, will be used to create a minor in Chinese with a business concentration and to develop the existing Asian studies minor into a major. |
Posted:8/27/2008
Jeannine Durdik Named Associate Dean for Research in Fulbright College
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Interim Dean William A. Schwab has appointed Jeannine Durdik associate dean for research in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. She will be responsible for mentoring faculty members and helping them obtain funding from various agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. |
Posted:8/25/2008
Walton College Student to Appear on CNBC
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – An MBA student in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will appear on the CNBC program, Squawk on the Street, broadcast from the New York Stock Exchange, at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26. |
Posted:8/22/2008
Walton College Ranks 24th in U.S. News Rankings
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has once again placed in a tie for 24th among the nation’s top public undergraduate business schools, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2009 America’s Best Colleges. |
Posted:8/20/2008
Volunteers Help University Housing with Student Move-in
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – This week approximately 4,500 University of Arkansas students are moving into the 12 residence halls on campus. The university housing department coordinates the annual move-in, getting help from the transit and parking department as well as a host of volunteers. This year students, and in many cases their parents, are getting help from close to 350 volunteers from across the campus and community, including Chancellor G. David Gearhart, who helped students on Sunday and Tuesday morning. |
Posted:8/21/2008
Fall Classes - and Welcome Weeks - begin Monday, Aug. 25
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas students will have plenty of activities to take part in as classes begin for the 2008 fall semester on Monday, Aug. 25. The majority of students living on campus are moving in this week. “Hog Wild” Friday Night Live will be held Friday, Aug. 22, to welcome student to their first late night event of the year in the Arkansas Union. |
Posted:8/20/2008
Academic Convocation, Burger Bash Welcomes First-Year Students
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will welcome thousands of new faces to campus when first-year students start their university careers with academic convocation, to be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, in Barnhill Arena. The convocation will introduce first-year students to upper level faculty, staff and administrators. It is also designed to get students excited about opportunities outside of the classroom such as faculty-student team research. Burger Bash, a party with food and entertainment, will follow in the south end zone food court of Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. |
Posted:8/20/2008
Research Center Sponsors Item-Level RFID Forum
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas — in partnership with the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals — is hosting a two-day forum on item-level RFID (radio frequency identification) tagging on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 9-10. |
Posted:8/19/2008
Show, Not Tell: UACDC Wins National Honors For Place-Based Planning
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Community Design Center shows cities how to plan for the future in a project for Monticello, Ark., that has won a 2008 Unbuilt
Architecture Design Award sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects. Instead of dictating the usual laundry list of zoning codes, Monticello: Place-Based Planning in the Five Urbanisms of Every American Townaddresses all parts of the typical American city with a single rule and some guiding principles. |
Posted:8/19/2008
Prestigious National Board Elects University of Arkansas Law Professor
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The National Academy of Arbitrators has elected Robert B. Moberly to its Board of Governors and five-member executive committee at its annual meeting in Ottawa, Ontario. Moberly, University of Arkansas School of Law dean emeritus and professor, also served as program chair for the 2008 annual meeting of the academy. |
Posted:8/18/2008
University of Arkansas Names Bodenhamer Fellows, Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Program
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Six incoming University of Arkansas freshmen have been chosen to receive prestigious Bodenhamer Fellowships. They will each receive up to $50,000 for four years of study or up to $62,500 for five years if the student is pursuing an accredited five-year degree program. The fellowship covers tuition and fees, room and board, the purchase of books and supplies and can help cover costs for study abroad, attendance at professional and educational conferences, research and special equipment. |
Posted:8/15/2008
SEC and CBS Extend Multi-Media Contract
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Southeastern Conference and CBS Sports announced a 15 year extension of the network’s contract to broadcast SEC football and basketball games. The new agreement begins with the 2009-2010 season. |
Posted:8/15/2008
President Bush Nominates University of Arkansas Professor for Panel
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Patrick Wolf, holder of an endowed chair in school choice at the University of Arkansas, has been nominated by President Bush to serve on the National Board for Education Sciences, a federal advisory board to the U.S. Department of Education. |
Posted:8/15/2008
University of Arkansas Professor Named to National Panel
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Robert Costrell, holder of an endowed chair in education accountability at the University of Arkansas, has been appointed to the National Technical Advisory Council, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced Wednesday. |
Posted:8/13/2008
Ceramics Classes Offered in an Academic Setting at the University of Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Global Campus is offering noncredit ceramics classes in an academic setting in order to provide students an exciting growth opportunity with regular feedback. Two 8-week sessions are scheduled to be held at the Department of Art ceramic studio located at 326 Eastern Avenue in Fayetteville. Both will be taught by Amanda Salov, artist in residence, studio technician and adjunct professor MFA in Ceramics from the University of Missouri. |
Posted:8/12/2008
Senior Citizen Tuition Waiver at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It is never too late to join the Razorback family. Senior citizens are welcome on the University of Arkansas campus. In fact, they’re so welcome that they may attend courses and earn degrees tuition free. |
Posted:8/11/2008
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Plans Open House on Fayetteville Square
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arkansas will host an open house Tuesday, Aug. 26, from 10 a.m. to noon at the University of Arkansas Global Campus , 2 E. Center St. on the Fayetteville Square. Current Osher Institute members and adults over 50 seeking information about the popular Osher Institute program are encouraged to attend. Fall classes will begin Sept. 2 and include “Study Groups,” a “Dine & Discover” series, and “Out & About Thursdays.” |
Posted:8/7/2008
FedEx Freight Sponsors Five Logistics Scholarships
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – FedEx Freight of Harrison, Ark., has provided five scholarships to students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas through the Supply Chain Management Research Center. |
Posted:8/6/2008
University of Arkansas to Auction Former Chancellor's Home
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The house that served as the University of Arkansas Chancellor’s official residence from 1997 until July 2008 will be sold next month through a public auction. Open house tours of the building at 611 N. Razorback Road will be held for prospective bidders from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, and Wednesday, Aug. 20, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 31. Bidding will begin at 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 15, and is expected to conclude some time in early September. |
Posted:8/5/2008
University of Arkansas Researchers Earn Ford Foundation Grant to Study Impact of Anti-Poverty Initiative
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Ford Foundation awarded a $195,000 grant in 2006 and another $50,000 grant in 2007 to University of Arkansas researchers Kameri Christy-McMullin, Marcia Shobe and Yvette Murphy-Erby so they could help people with low incomes build their assets. Impressed by the researchers’ progress and effectiveness, the Ford Foundation awarded a new $250,000, two-year grant in July 2008 to help evaluate the outcomes of Individual Development Accounts for low-income individuals. |
Posted:7/28/2008
Walton College Retail Research Center to Hold Industry Conference
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Center for Retailing Excellence in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is sponsoring its eighth annual full-day conference for the retail industry, titled “Growing in Today’s Retail Environment.” |
Posted:7/23/2008
Indy Driver Sarah Fisher Encourages Boys & Girls Club Members
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Center for Retail Excellence in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas hosted Sarah Fisher, the youngest woman to ever compete in the Indianapolis 500, at the Donald W. Reynolds Boys & Girls Club in Fayetteville on July 17. |
Posted:7/22/2008
Study Pinpoints Reasons for Principal Shortage
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas’ educational leadership program has released a major study titled “The Status of School Leadership in Arkansas” that found the No. 1 reason teacher leaders do not want to become principals is the pressures of testing and accountability. |
Posted:7/22/2008
University of Arkansas Hires Four New Admissions Counselors for Recruitment
Arkansas and area high school seniors and transfer students will meet four new admissions personnel as recruitment efforts for the entering class of 2009 begin in late August. Sonia Williford-Gill, Jeffery Adam Kearney, Michelle Ryel and Brooke Flemister were recently appointed admissions counselors and join seven other recruitment professionals. Annually, these admissions counselors meet with more than 4,000 students on campus, place 12,000 phone calls to prospective transfer students and freshmen, and staff hundreds of college fairs and visits to schools. |
Posted:7/21/2008
University of Arkansas Hosts 4-H Centennial Event
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Hundreds of Arkansas 4-H club members will trek to the University of Arkansas for the annual 4-H O-Rama Wednesday, July 23, through Friday, July 25. The theme this year, “Arkansas 4-H Extravaganza: 100 Years in the Making” is in recognition of the centennial celebration of 4-H in Arkansas. |
Posted:7/17/2008
Top High School Students Receive Honors College Fellowships From University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – From a field of 600 applicants, 81 outstanding high school seniors have been chosen to join the seventh class of Honors College Fellows at the University of Arkansas. Each student will receive a total of $50,000 over four years to cover tuition, room and board, as well as the cost of books and a computer. The funds can also be combined with Honors College research and study abroad grants to broaden educational opportunities. |
Posted:7/15/2008
Razorbikes Now Available on University of Arkansas Campus
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The parking and transit department and Associated Student Government of the University of Arkansas are making bicycles available to the campus community on a “borrow, ride and return” basis, thanks to a donation of seven bicycles by Regions Bank. |
Posted:7/8/2008
Advanced Placement Teachers Learn at Honors College Summer Institute
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Honors College is hosting approximately 300 teachers and consultants from the state and region for the university's 10th annual College Board approved Advanced Placement Summer Institute. The institute runs from Monday, July 7, through Friday, July 11, and provides training for Advanced Placement teachers, who will receive more than 30 hours of instruction. The intensive program features 14 "super teachers,” trained by the College Board, who instruct teachers on ways to help students get the most from their high school Advanced Placement courses. These instructors work with University of Arkansas faculty and graduate assistants to provide teachers with strategies that help students succeed at the college level. |
Posted:7/1/2008
Garrison Financial Institute Receives Educational Grant
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – As part of its mission to enhance student financial literacy, the Garrison Financial Institute at the University of Arkansas is offering three summer programs for pre-college students. |
Posted:6/30/2008
University of Arkansas Students Face Loan Changes
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas students will not be facing a “student loan crisis” when they prepare to enroll for the fall semester. They will, however, have to deal with additional paperwork, ideally before school starts in August. |
Posted:6/27/2008
Maintenance and Repair Planned on University Cooling System
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Some buildings on the University of Arkansas campus may be slightly warmer than normal on Tuesday, July 1. Utility operations and maintenance crews have scheduled a repair on one of the chillers in the chilled water cooling system that provides air conditioning to many campus buildings. Technical consultants have confirmed that a bearing in the system’s Chiller No. 4 is over-heating and must be replaced before it causes more serious damage. |
Posted:6/27/2008
Two Engineering Teams to Compete in Gunlogson National Design Competition
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Engineering is well represented at the 2008 American Society for Biological and Agricultural Engineering’s Gunlogson National Student Design Competition. Three teams from across the nation are invited to the competition each year. This year, two of the three teams invited to the competition are from the College of Engineering’s biological and agricultural engineering department. These teams will present their projects at the American Society for Biological and Agricultural Engineering’s annual international meeting on June 30 in Providence, R.I. |
Posted:6/26/2008
University of Arkansas Graduate Wins National Singing Competitions
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Sarah Mesko, a 2008 graduate of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, is emerging as a promising young artist on both operatic and concert stages. During the spring 2008 semester, she won first place in two prestigious national singing competitions. In March she was declared the winner of the Franco-American Vocal Academy’s Grands Concours de Chant, singing both concert and operatic literature in French. She received a $5,000 award. In May, Sarah won the $10,000 first prize at the national singing competition of the National Society of Arts and Letters at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. |
Posted:6/23/2008
University of Arkansas Places Third in 2008 Solar Splash Competition
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas solar boat team won first place in the sprint competition and third place in the overall Solar Splash world championship. Cedarville University won first place in the overall competition for the second year in a row. The team from Istanbul Technical University traveled from Turkey to place second in the event. |
Posted:6/10/2008
New Book Chronicles History of Dickson Street Released; Raises Money for Special Collections
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ask anyone in the region, and they will most likely have a story to tell about Dickson Street in Fayetteville. A new book by Anthony J. Wappel, Once upon Dickson: An Illustrated History, 1868-2000, describes the evolution of this vibrant, historic thoroughfare. To celebrate the publication, Jose’s Restaurant, 324 W. Dickson Street, will host an autograph party from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 17. |
Posted:6/9/2008
Fulbright College Announces 2008 Sturgis Fellows
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The 2008 class of Sturgis Fellows boasts an average of a 33 composite score on the ACT and a 4.0 high school grade point average. Five are National Merit semifinalists. They are Ethan Latimer of Searcy, Ark.; Marie Morris of Little Rock, Ark.; Preston Scrape of Jonesboro, Ark.; Jeanne Vockroth of Fayetteville, Ark.; Kate Thompson of Mankato, Minn.; and Meenakshi Prajapati of Trinidad and Tobago. |
Posted:6/5/2008
University of Arkansas Press Sweeps Civil War Book Awards
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Military Order of the Stars and Bars announced its three annual book awards for 2008, and the University of Arkansas Press won all three. According to the organization, this has never happened before. |
Posted:6/3/2008
Literacy Symposium Features Leading Educators
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ruby Payne, author of A Framework for Understanding Poverty, will speak to about 600 teachers, literacy coaches and school administrators during the third annual University of Arkansas Literacy Symposium on June 5-6. |
Posted:5/27/2008
Dispatches From Belize
This week, University Relations science and research writer Matt McGowan is working in Belize with students, faculty members and a few alumni who are part of the Belize Community Development Program. The program is a partnership between the University of Arkansas and Peacework, an international humanitarian organization founded by UA alumnus Stephen Darr. |
Posted:5/28/2008
Nelson's Art Transforms Language; On Exhibit at Mullins Library
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Did you ever wonder what a grid filled with colors described in a novel, say, War and Peace, might look like? Or what mental images might be evoked when viewing a naval signal flag? Art professor Marilyn Nelson did, and the results are currently on display in Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus. |
Posted:5/21/2008
University Begins Sidewalk and Tree-Planting Project on McIlroy Avenue
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Construction crews have started work on an improvement project on the north side of McIlroy Avenue where it borders the Greek Theatre. As a first step, parking areas along the sidewalks have been blocked off and about two dozen juniper trees were removed. |
Posted:5/20/2008
Verma Named Interim Dean for Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - University of Arkansas professor Lalit Verma, head of the department of
biological and agricultural engineering, has been named interim dean of the
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. He will also
serve as associate vice president for academic programs in the University of
Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. His appointment is effective July 1. |
Posted:5/16/2008
State Approves Original Salary Plan for University of Arkansas Classified Employees
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas announced Friday, May 16, it will, in fact, be able to go ahead with the classified pay increase plan originally outlined by administrators earlier this month. The plan will provide classified employees with a 2 percent cost of living increase and merit increases averaging 1 percent. |
Posted:5/19/2008
Walton College Graduate Students Take Top Governor's Cup Awards
 LAS
VEGAS - Students in
the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas won big
last week in Las Vegas, but not by gambling. MerchantEyes LLC, the name of the
students' fictional company, took first place in the first Tri-State Donald W.
Reynolds Cup business plan competition, earning $25,000. |
Posted:5/19/2008
University Professor's Math Podcast Added to National Web Site
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Professor Chaim Goodman-Strauss will become the new chair of the mathematical sciences department in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences in July, but at the moment what he’s really excited about is a new development for his podcast, The Math Factor. Goodman-Strauss has produced the podcast for more than 3 years, posting it on his own Web site. This month, however, The Math Factor was accepted as a regular column on the Web site of the Mathematics Association of America. Goodman-Strauss is now sharing cyberspace with prominent math writers like Keith Devlin, David Bressoud and Ivars Peterson. |
Posted:5/15/2008
Arkansas World Trade Center to Host Trade Mission to Mexico City
ROGERS,
Ark. - The Arkansas World Trade Center has organized a business trade mission
to Mexico City, June 23-27, in conjunction with the Consulate General of
Mexico, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, the Arkansas Farm Bureau
and the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. |
Posted:5/13/2008
St. Louis Federal Reserve President to Speak at Quarterly Business Analysis
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- The Center for
Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the
University of Arkansas is partnering with the Northwest Arkansas Chambers of
Commerce to host a Quarterly Business Analysis breakfast at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday,
June 4. The breakfast event will be at the Embassy Suites Northwest Arkansas,
3303 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Rogers, Ark. |
Posted:5/8/2008
University of Arkansas Committee Named to Seek New Provost
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - University of Arkansas Chancellor-elect G. David Gearhart announced
today the appointment of a committee to conduct a national search for a provost
and vice chancellor for academic affairs to replace Bob Smith, who will join
the faculty full-time on July 1.. |
Posted:5/8/2008
Three Upward Bound Students to Receive Dell Foundation Scholarships
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation's Dell Scholars Program awarded
254 new Dell Scholars this month with $5 million in scholarship funds. Three local
participants in the University of Arkansas Upward Bound programs will receive
part of that money. They are Jennifer Garcia of Rogers High School; Maegan
Huffman of Lincoln High School; and Sierra McCabe of Van Buren High School. |
Posted:5/7/2008
School of Law Professor's Play Scheduled to Open in Minneapolis
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - As part of his life-long interest in human
communication and motivation, Donald P. Judges, the E.J. Ball professor of law at the University of
Arkansas School of Law, co-wrote the three-act play Radio Traffic with Stephen J. Cribari, distinguished visiting
professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School. |
Posted:5/7/2008
Spanish Lawyer to Teach Spring Intersession Course
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Mercedes Caral, a partner in the Jausas law firm in
Barcelona, Spain, will visit the University of Arkansas School of Law to teach
an intersession course on international commercial arbitration May 12-16. |
Posted:5/1/2008
From Slides to Bytes: National Service Award Recognizes Hilker's Service in Changing Profession
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.
- When School of Architecture students contemplate a crisp image of the sacred
circle at Stonehenge glowing on a screen in a dark auditorium, they benefit
from the knowledge and organizational prowess of Christine Hilker, director of
the school's C. Murray Smart Media Center. Her work is both visual and largely
invisible (only a fraction of the school's students have found the center,
perched high in the former stacks of Vol Walker Hall), but it has not gone
unnoticed. Recently Hilker was honored with the 2008 Distinguished Service
Award from the Visual Resources Association in recognition of her 27 years of
service in the profession. |
Posted:4/29/2008
Applied Sustainability Center to Offer Workshops
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Applied Sustainability Center, housed in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, is offering two sustainability workshops for area business people on Thursday, May 8. |
Posted:4/28/2008
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Anthology of Arab American Poets
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - At no other time in American history has our imagination been so
engrossed with the Arab experience. An indispensable and historic volume, Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poets, edited by Hayan
Charra, and published by the University of Arkansas Press (paperback $24.95)
gathers together poems, from the most important contemporary Arab American
poets, that shape and alter our understanding of this experience. These poems
also challenge us to reconsider what it means to be American. |
Posted:4/24/2008
Member of 'Little Rock Nine' to Speak at University of Arkansas Commencement
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Terrence J. Roberts, one of the civil rights pioneers known as the "Little Rock Nine," will receive an honorary degree and address graduating students at the University of Arkansas 2008 All-University Commencement. The ceremony will begin at 8:45 a.m. Saturday, May 10, in Bud Walton Arena. Roberts will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. |
Posted:4/23/2008
University Holds Campus Day for Thousands of Potential Students
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - On Friday, May 2, the Talent Search programs at the University of
Arkansas will be hosting "Campus Day 2008: Your Story Begins." Approximately 2,200
students, in grades 6-12, representing schools from northwest Arkansas, northeast
Oklahoma and southwest Missouri, will attend. |
Posted:4/23/2008
'Green' Habitat Neighborhood Wins National Award
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The
University of Arkansas Community Design Center has developed a radical new
vision of neighborhood for the Washington Co. chapter of Habitat for Humanity:
no sidewalks, no curbs, no gutters and no flooding, even after torrential rain.
Instead, residents will benefit from a "shared street" - on track to be the
first of its kind in the United States - that promotes community, slows down
cars and soaks up stormwater like a sponge. |
Posted:4/21/2008
Defining the State of Black and Brown Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Latinos and African Americans in Arkansas face many of the same difficulties: limited access to health care and education as well as a lack of political representation. |
Posted:4/21/2008
Journalism Professors Win Top Honors for University of Arkansas Documentary
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - University of Arkansas journalism professors Dale Carpenter and Larry Foley have received the Best of Festival Award from the Broadcast Education Association for their documentary film, Beacon of Hope, the story of the University of Arkansas. The award was presented at the annual BEA Festival of Arts competition this week in Las Vegas. |
Posted:4/18/2008
University of Arkansas Names Parice Bowser New Director of Greek Life
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The University of Arkansas and the Division of Student Affairs are
pleased to announce that Parice S. Bowser has been named the new director of
Greek Life, effective April 21. Bowser currently serves as the associate
director of Greek Life at the University of Arkansas. |
Posted:4/17/2008
Walton College Students Place First in Global Investment Portfolio Competition
_rdax_193x145.jpg) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - More than 2,300 students from 257 schools in 69 countries attended the eighth annual Redefining Investment Strategy Education (RISE) Forum held at the University of Dayton in Ohio, March 27-29. The University of Arkansas' M.B.A. Shollmier Portfolio Management Team in the Sam M. Walton College of Business won first place in the Graduate Hybrid Funds Class in the student-run portfolio competition. The Shollmier Fund was established in 2000 with a $250,000 investment from Dudley and Ken Shollmier. It was valued at more than $380,000 at the end of 2007. |
Posted:4/16/2008
'Blink' Author to Speak at University of Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Malcolm Gladwell, best selling author of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, will give a lecture
based on his book at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at the Fayetteville Town Center.
Gladwell will speak as part of the University of Arkansas Distinguished Lecture
Series. There will be a question and answer period after his lecture. |
Posted:4/16/2008
Architecture Professor's Home Wins National Awards
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.
- East meets West in the Fayetteville home that School of Architecture
professor Marlon Blackwell and his wife, architect Ati Johari, designed for
their family. The Zen-like calm and indoor-outdoor flow reflect Johari's roots
in Malaysia, while Blackwell, raised on Air Force bases stateside and abroad,
is responsible for the muscular brio of the house's stacked and hinged forms. |
Posted:4/15/2008
Art Students Create Virtual Candidates
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The first android candidates for 2048 President of the United States who are campaigning in Second Life invite everyone at the University of Arkansas to visit their new campaign booths. |
Posted:4/15/2008
Landscape Architecture Professor Shares Top Ten Tips for 'Green' Gardens
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Face it: the classic suburban lawn is an ecological disaster. Grooming that expanse of velvety green grass typically involves pesticides, herbicides and plenty of water through summer’s hottest months, not to mention the oil and gasoline needed to fuel the lawn mower. Now, just in time for Earth Day, there’s help for eco-warrior wannabes who want some green space at home (and time to enjoy it). |
Posted:4/11/2008
John G. Williams, Founder of School of Architecture, Dies at 92
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - John Gilbert
Williams, professor emeritus of architecture and founder of the architecture
program at the University of Arkansas, died at home on Friday, April 11. Williams came
to the University of Arkansas in 1946, when a post-war housing shortage created
a demand for architects. Under his leadership, the program grew from two
architecture courses offered within the College of Engineering into a school
offering the only accredited program in architecture in the state. |
Posted:4/14/2008
College of Education and Health Professions Honors Students, Faculty
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The College of Education and Health Professions will honor students who
have won scholarships and college and departmental awards at its annual Honors
Convocation on Wednesday, April 16, at the Center for Continuing Education. The
ceremony also gives the college the opportunity to recognize benefactors for
their private gift support that funds scholarships. |
Posted:4/11/2008
University of Arkansas a Winner in 'RecycleMania 2008'
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The University of Arkansas has run a recycling program on campus since
1991, but this year was the first time the school went in for competitive
recycling. For 10 weeks, from Jan. 27
through April 5, the university took part in "RecycleMania," a national
competition among college and university recycling programs. The contest was to
find out who could collect the most recyclable material per person, the largest
total amount of recyclables, the least trash per person, or have the highest
recycling rate. |
Posted:4/9/2008
University Responds to State Budget Outlook for 2009
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The University
of Arkansas is likely to face a significant cut of approximately $4.7 million
in state funding in the 2008-09 fiscal year based on state revenue figures
released by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education this week. |
Posted:4/10/2008
University of Arkansas Appoints McMath to Serve as Interim Provost
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Robert C. McMath, dean of the Honors College and professor of history at the University of Arkansas, has been named interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs by Chancellor Elect G. David Gearhart and Chancellor John A. White. |
Posted:4/10/2008
Free Speech Expert to Talk About Effect of Globalism on Rules, Norms of Speech
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., professor of law at Washington & Lee University School of Law and visiting John S. Stone chair in law at the University of Alabama School of Law, will present “The Perils and the Promise of Comparative Constitutional Law: A Comparative Perspective on Freedom of Speech” at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom at the University of Arkansas Leflar Law Center. |
Posted:4/9/2008
Pornography and Intimacy in America
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In the past two decades, pornography has become increasingly a part of mainstream U.S. culture, while at the same time the content of the material has become more and more overtly cruel and degrading to women. How do we explain this apparent paradox? |
Posted:4/9/2008
Professor Serves on National Panel Offering Blueprint for Success in Math
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Civics and, in particular, the constitution and democracy, have been special interests of educational researcher Sandra Stotsky for many years. So it should come as no surprise that, when charged with evaluating the state of mathematics education in the United States, Stotsky looked through the lens of democracy. |
Posted:4/7/2008
Festival to Celebrate University of Arkansas Writing Program
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – This year’s Arkansas Festival of Writers will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Masters of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. Distinguished alumni from around the nation will present readings, relate their experiences at the university and celebrate the legacy of the program in their lives and in literature. |
Posted:4/4/2008
Centers to Host Meeting Planner Open House
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The Center
for Management and Executive Education and the Donald W. Reynolds Center for
Enterprise Development in the Sam M. Walton College of Business are sponsoring
the Meeting Planners Showcase from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, April 10. |
Posted:4/4/2008
KUAF Public Radio Launches Spring Fundraiser
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - National
Public Radio affiliate, KUAF 91.3 FM, will launch its spring on-air fundraiser
Saturday, April 5. In addition to an eight-day goal of $140,000, the station
hopes to bring in 500 new members. The spring fundraiser is one of two annual
on-air campaigns. |
Posted:4/3/2008
Three University of Arkansas Students Named as Goldwater Scholars
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – For the sixth consecutive year, three University of Arkansas students have been awarded prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. Rachel Thomas of Fort Smith, Whitney Gammill of Maumelle and Jordan Greenlee of Oak Ridge, Tenn., are among 321 students in the nation to be named Goldwater Scholars. They will each receive a $7,500 scholarship. All three are juniors and students in the university Honors College. |
Posted:4/3/2008
School of Law to Recognize Student Volunteers
Fifty-four law students participated in the Pro Bono Program this year through volunteer work in northwest Arkansas and their home communities. Together, they donated 1,987 service hours over the course of the 2007-08 academic year. |
Posted:4/2/2008
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events Get Under Way at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - A "Day of Action Rally," starting at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the
Greek Theatre on the University of Arkansas campus, will be the first event for
Sexual Assault Awareness month. There will be a number of educational and
awareness events during the month of April to address and speak out against
sexual assault and violence, particularly violence against women. The awareness
campaign ends with the Take Back the Night March, starting at 7 p.m. Friday,
April 25. |
Posted:4/2/2008
University of Arkansas Press Celebrates National Poetry Month
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - April is national poetry month, and the University of Arkansas Press is celebrating, along with poetry lovers nationwide, by including a poetry sale on its Web site. Customers are invited to visit http://www.uapress.com to take advantage of the offer. |
Posted:4/2/2008
Arizona State Nursing Professor to Speak About Evidence-Based Practice
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Alyce Schultz, clinical professor at Arizona State University's College
of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation, will share her experiences and research
from four decades of nursing practice and teaching at the University of
Arkansas' 17th annual nursing research conference April 7. |
Posted:4/1/2008
Arkansas World Trade Center Hosts China Town Hall
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The Arkansas World Trade Center will join in a virtual, national town
hall meeting about the opportunities and challenges posed by China's growing
economic and military power, and the roll these issues will play in the 2008
elections. |
Posted:3/27/2008
School of Architecture Offers Computational Design Workshop, a First in This Region
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Imagine skyscrapers that spiral
into clouds and office towers that harvest breezes and daylight to cut energy
costs. The University of Arkansas School of Architecture will show design
professionals and students how to make these ideas concrete in a workshop
titled "TransFORM Architecture" that will take place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, April 4-5, in Willard J. Walker Hall on the University of
Arkansas campus. |
Posted:3/27/2008
Medical Historian to Speak on Secret Weapons of the South
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -
Margaret Humphreys, the Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of
Medicine and an associate clinical professor of medicine at Duke University,
will speak on "The South's Secret Weapons: Disease, Environment and the Civil
War" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, in Giffels Auditorium at the University of
Arkansas. |
Posted:3/26/2008
University of Arkansas Student Chosen as Truman Scholar
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Olivia Meeks of Hot Springs is
the latest University of Arkansas student chosen as a Truman Scholar by the
members of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Meeks is an Honors College Fellow,
Economics Honors Scholar and a senior majoring in economics and political
science in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. |
Posted:3/26/2008
University of Arkansas Pre-College Programs to Host Engineering Challenge Competition
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - More than 120 high school students will be on the University of Arkansas
campus Saturday, March 29, to participate in the annual Engineering Challenge
competition sponsored by the University of Arkansas pre-college programs office
and the College of Engineering. Students in this year's event will compete in
four individual categories that include a Styrofoam boat race, mousetrap car
race, egg drop competition and balsa wood bridge design. Individual
competitions begin at 10:15 a.m. in the Health Physical Education and Recreation
Building (gym 1, gym 3 and natatorium). |
Posted:3/26/2008
Political Science Expert to Discuss Effects of Political Fragmentation
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Mark A. Graber, professor of law
and government at the University of Maryland, will present "James Buchanan as
Savior? Political Power, Political Fragmentation and the Failed 1831 Repeal of
Section 25" at 8:30 a.m. Friday,
April 4, in E.J. Ball Courtroom in the Leflar Law Center at the University of
Arkansas. The event, sponsored the Thomas F. Butt Legal Excellence Fund and the
University of Arkansas School of Law, is free and
open to the public. |
Posted:3/25/2008
Star of Coffee and Trade Documentary to Attend Showing at University of Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The star of
the documentary Black Gold, Tadesse
Meskela, will be on the University of Arkansas campus as the film is shown at
7:00 p.m. Thursday, April 3. The event is free and open to faculty, staff,
students and the public. The showing will take place in the First Security
Auditorium in Willard J. Walker Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. |
Posted:3/24/2008
Clinton School and Walton College Announce Dual Master's Degree
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and the Sam
M. Walton College of Business today announced a new
dual degree program in which students can receive both a Master of
Public Service and a Master of Business Administration. |
Posted:3/10/2008
Chemist to Explore Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Henry F.
Schaefer III, a chemist whose research has been cited more than 39,000 times by
other scientists, will deliver a lecture on "The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and
God" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the E. J. Ball Courtroom in the Leflar
Law Center at the University of Arkansas. A book signing and reception will
follow in the Six Pioneers Room. |
Posted:3/12/2008
School of Law, School of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach Earn National Award
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Legal
e-Source, a multimedia online resource for nonprofit leaders and a collaboration
between the University of Arkansas School of Law, the School of Continuing
Education and Academic Outreach, and the Survey Research Center, recently won
the Innovations in Outreach and Engagement Award from the University Continuing
Education Association. |
Posted:3/12/2008
Edward Wade Jr. Transforms Moments
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - "A Diversity of Shape, Color and Design" is an exhibit of drawings and watercolors by Edward Wade Jr. currently on display in Mullins Library. Wade began drawing when he was three years old, a love that carried him through career stints as a shoe salesman, a firefighter, a substitute teacher, a correctional officer, a police officer and a pastor. Although Wade also works in pen and ink, graphite and creative digital photography, it is his love of the transparent medium of watercolor that gently glows through "Moments in Time." |
Posted:3/11/2008
University of Arkansas Press Author Featured in ESPN Documentary 'Black Magic'
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Historian Milton S. Katz, whose biography Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer was published by the University of Arkansas Press in the fall of 2007, is featured prominently in the ESPN two-part, four-hour documentary Black Magic. Directed by Dan Klores (Crazy Love), it chronicles the Civil Rights Movement from the perspectives of players and coaches at historically black colleges and universities before integration. |
Posted:3/11/2008
Arkansas Newspaper Research Made Easy
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Researchers seeking
newspaper articles about historic Arkansas events and people now have an easier
task. Arkansas newspaper indexing has recently been added to Index Arkansas, an online database for
publications dealing with Arkansas topics. Sponsored by the special collections
department of the University of Arkansas Libraries, the index now contains
nearly 30,000 citations from Arkansas statewide and regional newspapers,
joining more than 60,000 citations from other historical and biographical
sources. |
Posted:3/6/2008
'Recycling with the Razorbacks' Keeps Tons of Material Out of the Landfill
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - University of Arkansas fans are doing their part for campus sustainability while they cheer for the Razorbacks this school year. Thanks to a new program called 'Recycling with the Razorbacks,' fans at home football and basketball games were able to provide more than 45 tons of recyclable material, more than a third of all the trash picked up after the games. |
Posted:3/4/2008
Arkansas Research and Optical Education Network Appoints Executive Director
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.
- Michael Abbiatti, the associate commissioner of information and learning technology
for the Louisiana Board of Regents, has been appointed as executive director of
the Arkansas Research and Optical Education Network at the University of Arkansas. He
will begin his duties on July 1, 2008. |
Posted:3/3/2008
University of Arkansas Press Issues New Edition of Its History of Oprah's Book Club
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been
at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it
began in 1996. Reading with Oprah: The
Book Club that Changed America, by Kathleen Rooney, was originally published
by the University of Arkansas Press in 2005. The book explores the club's
revolutionary fusion of books, television and commerce and tells the engaging
and in-depth story of the OBC phenomenon. A new, updated paperback edition of
the book has just been published to cover the many events related to the book
club that have taken place in the past three years. |
Posted:2/28/2008
Arkansas World Trade Center Leads Trade
The Arkansas
World Trade Center led a week-long trade mission to India that began on
Tuesday, Feb. 5. Delegates returned on
Wednesday, Feb. 13. Representatives from
the ARWTC, the University of Arkansas Economic Development Institute, and Arkansas business owners attended the "Innovative
Technologies for Manufacturing Expo" hosted by the Mumbai, India World Trade
Center. Ram Chandrasakaran, a MBA graduate assistant from the Sam M. Walton
College of Business and an ARWTC intern accompanied the mission. |
Posted:2/27/2008
Groundbreaking History of the Slave Trade Published by University of Arkansas Press
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - A new book from the University of Arkansas Press sheds light on an
important topic that has been largely overlooked in the history of the slave
trade. Freebooters and Smugglers: The
Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808, by Ernest Obadele-Starks,
shows the extent to which slave smuggling and trafficking persisted after the
government passed the Abolition Act in 1808. |
Posted:2/27/2008
Journalist to Speak on History of Hip-Hop Generation
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Jeff Chang, author of Can't
Stop, Won't Stop, the definitive history of the hip-hop generation, will
speak about hip-hop as a voice for marginalized populations as a part of the
Difficult Dialogues series funded by a Ford Foundation grant. He will offer an
informal question and answer session at 3:30 p.m. and a lecture with questions
afterward at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in the auditorium of Willard J. Walker
Hall. Both events are free and open to the public. |
Posted:2/25/2008
Research Expected to Answer Questions About School Choice in Milwaukee
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The first in a series of research findings on the Milwaukee Parental
Choice Program will be released Monday, Feb. 25. Eventually, that longitudinal
research may answer many questions about whether a school voucher program can
improve student outcomes. The reports being released are baseline reports in a
five-year study. |
Posted:2/26/2008
VHA Inc. Becomes Strategic Partner in Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - VHA Inc., the national health care
alliance that serves more than 1,400 hospitals nationwide, has become a
strategic partner in the University of Arkansas Center for Innovation in
Healthcare Logistics. As a strategic partner, VHA has agreed to contribute
$1,000,000 over five years to fund the center's work to develop innovative
solutions to increase efficiency in the health care supply chain. |
Posted:2/25/2008
Supply Chain Research Center to Sponsor FedEx Freight Logistics Case Competition
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- The Supply Chain Management Research
Center in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas,
in alliance with FedEx Freight and a group of corporate sponsors, is hosting an
international graduate logistics case competition from Feb. 28 to March 1. The
event will take place at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Fayetteville. |
Posted:2/21/2008
Associated Student Government Holds Town Hall Meeting Regarding the Tobacco-Free Campus Policy
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Students and others on the University of Arkansas campus will get a
chance to voice their opinion and hear discussion regarding the University of
Arkansas Tobacco-Free Campus policy at a town hall meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday,
Feb. 27, in the Arkansas Union Connections Lounge. The event is being hosted by
the university's Associated Student Government. |
Posted:2/21/2008
Traveler Editor Wins Coveted Dow Jones Internship
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Amanda
Wells, a senior journalism major in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts
and Sciences, has won a competitive Dow Jones Internship to support her work as
a copy editor this summer at The San
Antonio Express-News, the biggest paper in the seventh-largest city in the
United States. |
Posted:2/21/2008
University of Arkansas Press's New Poetry Prize and Two New Collections
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Arkansas Press has established a new poetry prize to honor the Press's co-founder and first director, Miller Williams. The Miller Williams Poetry Prize is a $5,000 prize to be awarded to the best poetry manuscript submitted to the Press in September and October of 2008, for publication in 2010. In addition to publishing the finalist, three semi-finalists will also be published in 2010. All books will be published in the Press's long-time Poetry Series, edited by Enid Shomer. Four new books of poetry have been published every year as part of this series. |
Posted:2/19/2008
Director of University of Arkansas Psychological Services to Assist in Aftermath of Northern Illinois University Tragedy
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Jonathan Perry, director of Counseling and Psychological Services at the
Pat Walker Health Center at the University of Arkansas, has been asked to
assist with counseling and training for faculty members at Northern Illinois
University as they prepare for classes to resume on Monday, Feb. 25. Classes at
Northern Illinois were canceled Feb. 14, after a former graduate student shot
and killed five students, wounded another 18, and then killed himself during a
geology class. |
Posted:2/20/2008
University of Arkansas Installing Supercomputer; 'Star of Arkansas' to Be State's Fastest
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Scientists and engineers at the University of Arkansas will soon be able
to conduct complex research projects using a new supercomputer system, dubbed
the "Star of Arkansas." Once it is installed later this spring, the Star of
Arkansas will be the fastest and most powerful computer in the state, allowing
researchers to design vastly more complicated experiments, models and
simulations than previously possible. The supercomputer will let scientists and
engineers push the boundaries of knowledge in subjects ranging from bird flu to
weather prediction. |
Posted:2/20/2008
CNN Anchor to Speak in University of Arkansas Distinguished Lecture Series
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Anderson Cooper, one of the most highly regarded television journalists
in America, will speak at the University of Arkansas at 8 p.m. Friday, March 7,
at Barnhill Arena as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture is
free and open to the public; no tickets are needed. |
Posted:2/18/2008
Molecules Have Hands? Center for Space and Planetary Sciences Hosts Lecture on the Importance of 'Handedness'
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Arkansas Center
for Space and Planetary Sciences will host its first public lecture of 2008 at
7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.
20, in the Space Center Theater. Bob Gawley, a member of the center and a Distinguished
Professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, will present a
lecture titled "Why Did Alice Say to Kitty 'Perhaps Looking-Glass Milk Isn't
Good to Drink?' A Brief Explanation of Handedness, From Weak Bosons to the
Double Helix." |
Posted:2/18/2008
Walton College Launches Executive MBA
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - A group of Chinese and U.S. nationals, working for American companies in
China, will travel to Fayetteville on Thursday, Feb. 21, to begin classes in an
innovative new Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA). The program
was recently launched by the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the
University of Arkansas |
Posted:2/12/2008
'Category 5 General' Russel Honoré to Speak Tonight on Leadership in Crisis
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Mayor Ray Nagin told reporters that when Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré stepped
off the helicopter in New Orleans, he "started cussing and people started
moving." Described by some as the "ragin' Cajun" and a "John Wayne dude,"
Honoré won wide praise from the public and the media for his leadership in
overseeing the military's efforts to secure the Gulf Coast and help residents
there recover after Hurricane Katrina. |
Posted:2/12/2008
University of Arkansas Students Awarded Burlsworth Scholarships
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The ninth class of Burlsworth Scholars at the University of Arkansas was
honored on Saturday, Feb. 9, in a celebration during half-time of the
Arkansas-Ole Miss basketball game. In all, 18 students were selected as
Burlsworth Scholars. |
Posted:2/7/2008
Documentary History of University of Arkansas to Air This Month on UATV
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Anyone interested in the University of Arkansas will have three
opportunities this month to see "Beacon of Hope: The Story of the University of
Arkansas," thanks to UATV, the student-run television station. The documentary
will be shown in prime time, at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, on Cox Communications
cable channel 14. It will be re-broadcast again at noon on Sunday, Feb. 17, and
Sunday, Feb. 24. The film will also be shown in streaming video at these times
on the UATV Web site http://uatv.uark.edu. |
Posted:2/7/2008
Arkansas Judge to Address 'Call to Law'
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Judge
Wendell Griffen of the Arkansas Court of Appeals will present "A View from
the Woods" at noon Monday, Feb. 11, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom in the Leflar
Law Center on the University of Arkansas campus. |
Posted:2/7/2008
Meteorites, Comets, and the Origins of Life on Earth
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - George W. Cooper from NASA-Ames Research
Center will talk about the origins of life on Earth when he delivers the first
Barringer Lecture for the spring 2008 semester. The lecture will be held
at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, in the Space Center Theater, Room 201 of the old University
Museum building. Admission is free and open to all members of the university
community and the public. |
Posted:2/4/2008
Economic Research Center to Hold Quarterly Business Analysis
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- The Center for
Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the
University of Arkansas is partnering with the Northwest Arkansas Chambers of
Commerce to host the Quarterly Business Analysis on Wednesday, March 5. The
breakfast event will be held at 6:45 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Northwest
Arkansas, 1500 S. 48th St., Springdale, Ark. |
Posted:2/1/2008
University of Arkansas Announces Black History Month Celebrations
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The
University of Arkansas community will celebrate the heritage and contemporary
achievement of African Americans during Black History Month in February. The
Black History Month Planning Committee released the schedule of events on the
university campus, which include academic lectures, distinguished speakers and
cultural events. |
Posted:1/28/2008
School of Law to Recognize Integration Anniversary, Celebrate Six Decades of Success
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Silas Hunt, the
first African American student admitted to a Southern public university without
litigation in the modern era, registered to attend the University of Arkansas
School of Law Feb. 2, 1948. To
celebrate the 60th anniversary of Hunt's enrollment, the School of
Law will host a panel discussion titled "Sixty Since Silas: A Celebration of
Pioneering Excellence" at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom
in the Leflar Law Center. The event is open to the public, and a reception will
follow. |
Posted:1/31/2008
Arkansas Civil Rights History Internet Database Launched
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Historical materials documenting the changing
nature of civil rights in Arkansas will be available free to the public through
the Internet on Friday, February 1. Sponsored by the special collections
department at the University of Arkansas Libraries, "Land of (Unequal)
Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas" is an online
resource of documents and images that trace the history of civil rights in the
state. The Web site contains more than 2,000 pages of documents, photographs,
broadsides, pamphlets, drawings, cartoons and other images. |
Posted:1/31/2008
Accounting Professor Appointed to Influential National Council
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Carolyn M.
Callahan, holder of the Doris M. Cook Chair in Accounting in the Sam M. Walton
College of Business at the University of Arkansas, has been elected as one of
the two new faculty members nationally to represent the academic community on the
Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council. She will serve a four-year
term beginning in 2008. |
Posted:1/30/2008
ROHM Co. Ltd. Joins College of Engineering to Develop High Power Silicon-Carbide Integrated Power Modules
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- ROHM Co. Ltd. has signed an agreement with the University
of Arkansas' National Center
for Reliable Electric Power Transmission and Arkansas Power Electronics
International Inc. for a collaborative project that will result in the
development of high power silicon-carbide integrated power modules. In addition
to this agreement, ROHM has signed a separate agreement to become a full
industry-member of the center. |
Posted:1/28/2008
SEC Universities Collaborate to Study Abroad
FAYETTEVILLE, AR
- The Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium has been awarded an Institute for Study Abroad
Foundation grant of $94,000 to provide scholarship support for Southeastern
Conference students to study abroad together. The joint program focuses on community service
and will be hosted by Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland. |
Posted:1/22/2008
University of Arkansas Undergraduates and Their Mentors Earn State Research Grants
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The University of Arkansas once again leads all state institutions in
the number and value of State Undergraduate Research Fellowships awarded to its
students. A total of 55 students, representing five of the university's
colleges, received SURF awards for the 2007-2008 academic year. The fellowships
total just over $115,000. |
Posted:1/18/2008
Dillard Receives 2008 'Salute to Greatness' Award from Arkansas MLK Commission
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Tom W. Dillard,
Arkansas historian and head of the special collections department at the
University of Arkansas Libraries, will receive a 2008 "Salute to Greatness"
Community Award from the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission. Given to
individuals and organizations displaying extraordinary commitment to Rev.
King's humanitarian ideals, the "Salute to Greatness" awards will be presented
on Friday, Jan. 18, in Little Rock. |
Posted:1/17/2008
The Blues in Many Colors
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - In "Vision of Blues Icons," an exhibit currently on display in Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus, George Hunt's "vision" of the blues is actually polychromatic, reveling in the brightest hues of the rainbow. |
Posted:1/16/2008
World-Class Violin Maker, Based in Fayetteville, to Speak at University of Arkansas
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Terry Borman, one of the
leading violin makers in the world, will give two lectures at the University
of Arkansas this spring. At 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Giffels
Auditorium, he will speak about the history of the violin family of
instruments. His second lecture, on modern acoustical advancements in stringed
instruments will be held at 2:30 p.m.
Friday, March 7, in Giffels Auditorium. |
Posted:1/16/2008
Architecture Professor Coauthors Concise Guide to Science of Lighting
 FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. - Like the proverbial cobbler
whose children need new shoes, architecture professor and lighting expert Tahar
Messadi has the know-how but lacks the time to take care of business at home -
or in his case, the office. Co-author of the new Field Guide to Illumination, which promises to be the go-to
reference on lighting for building industry professionals, Messadi deals daily
with a textbook example of bad lighting. A large window behind his desk casts
him into gloom and floods his computer screen with glare; for a man keenly
aware of the optimal ratios between task, ambient and outdoor lighting, you
know this set-up has to hurt. |
Posted:1/15/2008
University of Arkansas Launches Campuswide Sustainability Initiative
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The University of Arkansas' first
long-range, comprehensive and coordinated sustainability effort is under way
and will pick up speed early in the spring 2008 semester. The university is in
the early stages of developing a 12-part Environmental Stewardship Mission and
is establishing a University of Arkansas
Sustainability Council to oversee and implement
that mission. |
Posted:1/15/2008
Magazine Names University of Arkansas One of the Best Colleges for Hispanic Students
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The University of Arkansas is the
best place for Hispanic students to attend college in the state. The University
of Arkansas is the only Arkansas
college or university named in The
Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education's Publisher's Pick issue, which was
sent to 3,500 high school counselors across the nation, as well as the
magazine's regular subscribers. |
Posted:1/14/2008
University of Arkansas Moves up on Kiplinger's 'Best Value' List
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - An education at the University
of Arkansas is among the "best
values" in the country for Arkansas
students, and an even better value for non-residents, according to an annual
survey published by Kiplinger's Personal
Finance magazine. The University
of Arkansas placed 59th
on the list of 100 Best Values in Public Colleges for 2008, a substantial
improvement from last year, when the university placed 95th on the
list. The university was ranked in 50th place for out-of-state
students. No other Arkansas
school was included in the list. The University
of Arkansas placed 5th
on the list among Southeastern Conference schools. |
Posted:1/10/2008
University of Arkansas Community Design Center Dominates 2008 AIA Urban Design Awards
 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Here's one list with Arkansas at the top: the American Institute of Architects has selected three projects by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center to receive 2008 national honor awards for regional and urban design. A release by the American Institute of Architects noted that the Community Design Center "won three of the five awards in this category, displaying an unprecedented concern and devotion for improving the quality of their urban environment." Only a handful of organizations have matched the near-sweep by the design center in the award program's 59-year-history, winning three or more honor awards in one category in a single year (they include Chicago powerhouse firms Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, which won multiple awards in 1967, 1998 and 2000, and Murphy/Jahn, which won three architecture honor awards in 2004). The Community Design Center, an outreach of the University of Arkansas School of Architecture, is the only entity from Arkansas to win a national honor award in regional and urban design from the AIA (the design center also won national AIA honors in this category in 2005). |
Posted:1/9/2008
Genocide Dictionary Provides Comprehensive Look
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Samuel Totten, a University
of Arkansas professor and genocide
scholar, began work five years ago with an Australian colleague, historian Paul
Bartrop, on a dictionary of genocide. Sadly, between the many incidents of
genocide throughout history and the current state of world affairs, the project
turned out to be more like an encyclopedia - covering well over 600 terms in
more than 500 pages. |
Posted:1/8/2008
Events Planned to Celebrate and Remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at University of Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of
Arkansas and Fayetteville communities will celebrate the life, work and legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the annual "Days of Recommitment." Two
weeks of events are scheduled around the national Martin Luther King holiday,
Monday, Jan. 21. The events, planned on
the theme "Living the Dream in the 21st Century: Where do You
Stand?" were organized by the University of Arkansas MLK Committee and the
Northwest Arkansas MLK Planning Committee. |
Posted:1/7/2008
University of Arkansas Hires First Sustainability Coordinator for Campus
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. -Nick Brown, a Helena
native, has been appointed as the first executive assistant for sustainability
in the facilities management department at the University
of Arkansas. He will report to Mike
Johnson, associate vice chancellor for facilities. Brown is filling a new position,
created to co-ordinate sustainability efforts for facilities management, but
with broad responsibilities across the entire Fayetteville
campus. These include coordinating the campus sustainability speaker series
with Jon Johnson, executive director of the newly established Applied
Sustainability Center
in the Sam Walton College of Business. |
Posted:1/3/2008
Mayan Mystery Hosted by University of Arkansas Center for Math and Science Education
 FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - An
archeological team has disappeared from a dig site at an ancient Mayan temple
in Palenque, Mexico. The scientists were investigating rumors of a priceless
jade medallion buried in the ruins. Something horrifying apparently scared them
off, but they managed to leave behind a video with clues and a warning to all
who come after. Who can solve the puzzle, find the treasure and avoid the fate
of the unfortunate archeologists? |
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arkansas Global Campus has secured an extension of its funding for the 2010 fiscal year by reaching its membership goal before the June 30 deadline.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Kansas City, Kan., Community College Board of Trustees has awarded John Newman a commission to produce a mural depicting the historic Quindaro township of Kansas City and its relationship to slavery and the famed Underground Railroad.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas professor Tom Smith has been appointed interim dean of the College of Education and Health Professions.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Collis Geren, longtime dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for research at the University of Arkansas, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, 2010.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas earned the highest award possible among the state’s largest employers when winners of the Governor’s Work-Life Balance Awards were announced this week in Little Rock.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – William H. “Buddy” Sutton will be the featured speaker at the 2009 University of Arkansas School of Law Commencement on Saturday, May 16, at the Fayetteville Town Center. The graduation procession will begin at 2 p.m.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The business plan for a simple breast cancer screening test has helped business students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas take a top place in a business plan competition for the fourth time this spring.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Through a $2 million gift from the Tyson Family Foundation and Tyson Foods Inc., the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is establishing the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Larry Aslin, an instructor of communication disorders at the University of Arkansas, won three awards for advising this year, most recently the Outstanding Advising Award for 2009 in the faculty category from the National Academic Advising Association.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – James Hall’s poetry collection Now You’re the Enemy, published in theUniversity of Arkansas Press’s Poetry Series in 2008 (paper $16), has been receiving quite a bit of attention recently.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Patti Cox has been named director of development and external relations for the University of Arkansas School of Law, effective June 1.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –Suzanne McCray, currently the interim dean of the university’s Honors College and director of the office of post-graduate fellowships, has been appointed vice provost for enrollment management and dean of admissions at the University of Arkansas.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas, in a partnership with six public school districts in northwest Arkansas, recently received a $350,000 grant from the Arkansas Department of Education for a three-year project designed to improve teachers’ mathematics content knowledge. 
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A plan to introduce sustainable recycling for municipalities and poultry farms has taken first place and $20,000 in the Wal-Mart Better Living Business Plan Challenge. The final rounds were held April 16 at the home office in Bentonville, Ark.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas’ Duncan Avenue Apartments and Duncan Avenue Community Center received Green Globe awards from the Green Building Initiative for achievements in sustainable design and construction.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – State Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, will be the featured speaker at a daylong state conference titled 
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, to exchange students in doctoral and master of information systems programs.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A University of Arkansas School of Law professor is the winner of the 2009 Human Rights Essay Award. Uche Ewelukwa bested legal scholars from around the world to earn the award sponsored by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Michael Fauntroy, national media commentator and civil rights analyst, will discuss “Obama’s First 100 Days” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main. His lecture is free and open to the public.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Nursing professor Marianne Neighbors has accepted a three-year appointment as the newest co-director of the Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center at the University of Arkansas.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –The University of Arkansas is moving forward with plans to realign its student affairs operations within the Division of Academic Affairs in an effort to better address the needs of students both inside and outside the classroom, increase efficiency and streamline the administrative structure of the university.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Environmental Health and Safety Office of the University of Arkansas recently completed three “cleanup” projects that required more than eight years of work and almost $6 million.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has embarked on a philosophical shift in its efforts to foster multiculturalism on campus through the appointment of a vice provost for diversity.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The keynote speaker at this year’s nursing research conference at the University of Arkansas will tell nursing students and practicing nurses how to keep “the passion in compassion.”
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A simple breast cancer screening test that uses a woman’s tears and is being patented by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has helped business students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas win a national business competition.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – An uncommon view of an antebellum town in Arkansas is explored in the University of Arkansas Press’ 
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A preliminary estimate by University of Arkansas administrators puts the cost of repairs and cleanup from the Jan. 27 ice storm at approximately $700,000, but that figure is expected to increase.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The shortage of highly qualified science and mathematics teachers in middle and high school classrooms across America is a crisis that leaders of universities are addressing through the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Researchers and staff in laboratories at the University of Arkansas will welcome students and teachers of science, math and technology during University Days on Feb. 13 at the Fayetteville campus.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A new exchange agreement between a Swedish university and the University of Arkansas grew from an effort to strengthen students’ understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of health care, according to one of its architects.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted Friday, Jan. 16, to name the School of Architecture in honor of the late architect Fay Jones. The naming of the school is made possible by a multimillion-dollar gift, announced in February 2008, by Don and Ellen Edmondson of Forrest City, former clients of Jones.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – G. David Gearhart, chancellor of the University of Arkansas, will forego a formal inaugural celebration and investiture of office, instead using the funds that would be used for such an event to create new scholarships for deserving undergraduate students who enter the university this fall.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press’s Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review, edited by James Smith and with a Foreword by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins (paperback $24.95; cloth $54.95), brings together the best poems published in this influential literary journal.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The American Association for the Advancement of Science has awarded J. Michael Plavcan the distinction of AAAS Fellow, an honor that members of the association bestow upon their peers.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press’ Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present, by long-time Arkansas writer Grif Stockley (cloth, $34.95), describes the ways that race has been at the center of much of the state’s formation and image since its founding.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Sharon L. Gaber, currently the senior associate provost at Auburn University, has been appointed as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, effective May 1, 2009.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano, With Accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon, edited by Kay Sloan and published by the University of Arkansas Press (cloth $29.95), recounts Carano’s imprisonment in the infamous Stalag 17b camp.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Lyrique Quintette at the University of Arkansas will present a concert at 8 p.m. We
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two visiting scholars, Eman Abdel-Sabour and Hamoda Youssef, have come from Cairo via graduate studies in Italy to the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, where they have jumped right into a master planning study for Little Rock’s historic McArthur Park.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Supply Chain Management Research Center in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has awarded the 2008 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award toMatthew Douglas, a student from the University of North Texas.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Following a 35-year career with the University of Arkansas, Reed Greenwood will retire as dean of the College of Education and Health Professions effective June 30, 2009. At that time, Greenwood will have led the college for eight years, a time of significant growth in the college’s history.
As a new semester begins today, University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart has offered a welcome message for the university community, in the form of a short video available at 
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Bruce E. Pontious, who has served as a fund-raising executive at The Ohio State University for the past 21 years, has been appointed associate vice chancellor for university development at the University of Arkansas. He will begin his new role on Sept. 15, 2008.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The popularity of motor scooters on the University of Arkansas campus is easy to understand: they’re inexpensive, fun to ride, easy to park and they can go practically anywhere.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – After a decade of service to the University of Arkansas, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Johnetta Cross Brazzell, will retire effective Jan.31, 2009.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A University of Arkansas delegation visited higher education institutions in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in April, meeting with leaders there to explore opportunities for collaborative partnerships.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Faces tell a story. It follows, then, that many faces tell many stories. Visitors to Mullins Library can browse through several such stories in a photography exhibit currently on display titled “Strangers & Not So Strange” by Fayetteville photographer Craig E. Nelson.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Soaring gas prices are putting a squeeze on the budgets of boating enthusiasts across northwest Arkansas. Wouldn’t it be nice if power boats could run without the expense of gasoline? Well, they can.
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. -- Norm Dennis, professor of civil engineering, was named winner of the
Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award for 2008 at the General
Commencement Ceremony on May 10. This is the university's most prestigious
teaching award.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A
University of Arkansas National Science Foundation program designed to improve
math and science education for middle school students in northwest Arkansas has
earned an award from the National Science Foundation.
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Christopher Lacy, visiting assistant professor of music and director of
Opera Theater at the University of Arkansas, has signed contracts with two
music publishers.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Recently, Harvard University instituted a controversial new policy that prohibited men from visiting one of its on-campus gyms during certain hours to accommodate women who have cultural objections to exercising in mixed-gender environments.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In telling the story of her family farm in Desha County in the Arkansas Delta, Margaret Jones Bolsterli brings together her own research, historical perspective and family lore as it reaches her from the days of her great-grandfather down to her nephew.
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - A couple of University of Arkansas students majoring in recreation will
extend their spring semester after classes this year, attending a five-day
course to certify them in an educational curriculum that emphasizes respect for
the environment.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Bradford E.
Choate, vice president of university advancement at the University of South
Carolina and regarded as one of the nation's top fundraising executives, has
been appointed vice chancellor for university advancement at the University of
Arkansas after a national search.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The man who shared a Nobel Prize in physics for causing atoms to “sing in unison” and discovering a new state of matter will speak on campus April 3.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In 1907, shortly after Einstein published his theory of relativity, the University of Arkansas created its physics department.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas School of Law will dedicate one of its classrooms in honor of alumnus Bobby McDaniel, a longtime Jonesboro attorney, at 12:15 p.m. Monday, April 7, in Room 342 of the Leflar Law Center.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Teachers can learn “Earth lessons” to use in their classrooms at a workshop March 29 presented by the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks and the University of Arkansas.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The National Center for Reliable Electric Power
Transmission, the College of Engineering and American Electric Power are
sponsoring AEP's "The Future of Energy" University Listening Tour. Michael G.
Morris, AEP's chairman, president and chief executive officer, will lead a
discussion about the future of America's
energy sources from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Monday, March 10, at the Willard Walker Hall
Auditorium.
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Bob Smith, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the
University of Arkansas, has announced his intention to resign his position
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The United States
Supreme Court last week cited the research of Robert B. Leflar, Arkansas
Bar Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. 
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - The world view of four Arab sects in 8th and 9th
century Iraq and Iran is powerful centuries later, influencing revolutionary
Shiites and their religious leaders in today's volatile Middle East. 
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Edward A. Pohl, associate professor in
industrial engineering, was named as the second recipient of the John L. Imhoff
Chair in Industrial Engineering at a recognition ceremony on Jan. 18 at Bell Engineering
Center. 
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Dr. John A. White, who has led the University of Arkansas through a period of unprecedented growth over the past 11 years, will step down as chancellor effective June 30, 2008.
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - Tickets are now on sale for the 12th
annual Recommitment Banquet to commemorate and celebrate Martin Luther King Day
in northwest Arkansas. The
banquet will be held at 7 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 21, the Fayetteville Town
Center on the Fayetteville
Square.