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Page last updated: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:18

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:1/22/2010
Get a Team and Bowl for Kids' Sake With the University of Arkansas and Big Brothers Big Sisters

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Big Brothers Big Sisters is proud to announce its upcoming University of Arkansas Bowl for Kids’ Sake event. This annual fundraiser benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Arkansas consists of several bowling events that will take place throughout Northwest Arkansas from February through March.


Posted:1/20/2010
University of Arkansas to Trim Budgets, Use Reserve Funds and TV Revenue to Address State Funding Cut

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will make across the board budget cuts in all divisions, draw on reserve funds and television revenue from the athletic department, and implement a hiring freeze to make up a $3.2 million dollar reduction in state funding for the 2009-10 fiscal year.


Posted:1/21/2010
University of Arkansas Conference to Show Teachers Ways to Integrate Literacy with Arts

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Enriching literacy with arts and arts with literacy can give teachers additional tools in their arsenal to help students learn, and teachers will learn to use those tools at a conference Feb. 19 sponsored by the University of Arkansas.


Posted:1/21/2010
Walton College Professor in 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Ethisphere Institute of New York City announced that Jon Johnson, executive director of the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas, was among in the top 100 individuals who have had significant impact in the realm of business ethics in 2009.


Posted:1/19/2010
University of Arkansas Cost Containment Initiative Yields Millions in Savings

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, the University of Arkansas has been taking steps, large and small, to cut costs and operate more efficiently. These steps range from switching to energy efficient light bulbs to reorganizing the academic affairs division.


Posted:1/20/2010
Lemke Journalism Project Introduces High School Students to Reporting and Diversity Issues

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The ninth annual Lemke Journalism Project, a series of workshops for high school students from northwest Arkansas who are interested in writing about diversity issues, begins Saturday, Feb. 6. The workshops run for six weeks, concluding on March 13.


Posted:1/19/2010
Arkansas Newswire to Replace Daily Headlines, Adding Versatility, Agility to News Operation

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will update its dissemination of campus news with a new Web site and e-mail service, Arkansas Newswire, beginning Wednesday, Jan. 20.


Posted:1/19/2010
University of Arkansas Honored for Campus Preservation Plan

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas received a prestigious 2009 Arkansas Preservation Award from the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas at the alliance’s annual banquet in Little Rock on Jan. 15.


Posted:1/19/2010
NEA Grant Allows UA's Community Design Center to Explore Pedestrian-Oriented Planning in Farmington

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A modified, more pedestrian-oriented Farmington could serve as a planning model for other small towns in the state and beyond.


Posted:1/19/2010
Walton College Accounting Department Ranked in Top Programs

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Public Accounting Report, the independent newsletter of the accounting profession, has ranked the accounting department of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in 9th place in its 2009 Top 25 Undergraduate Programs – Group II Category and 10th place in its 2009 Top 25 Graduate Programs – Group II Category.


Posted:1/14/2010
How to Aid Those Affected by Haiti Earthquake

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas officials do not know of any students or faculty in Haiti, which sustained a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, Jan. 12. One graduate student who is attending the university is from Haiti.


Posted:1/15/2010
The University of Arkansas Pat Walker Health Center Receives AAAHC Accreditation

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Pat Walker Health Center has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC/Accreditation Association). Accreditation distinguishes this medical clinic from many other outpatient clinic facilities by providing a safe work environment and the highest quality of care to patients.


Posted:1/14/2010
University of Arkansas Lecture Series Focuses on Wide Range of Education Reform Topics

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Education reform lectures during the spring semester at the University of Arkansas will cover a variety of topics, including an analysis of Arkansas' Lake View school funding Supreme Court decision as well as how welfare payments could be used to improve school attendance.


Posted:1/12/2010
University Receives Notice of Second State Funding Cut; Appropriation Reductions Total $3,208,542

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has been notified that it will have another $3,208,542 reduced from its latest 2009-10 state appropriation, the second cut in state funding since the start of the fiscal year last July.


Posted:1/13/2010
Lecture by Son of Slain Civil Rights Leader Highlights Events Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Martin Luther King III and Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe are two of the featured speakers in a week of events marking the 2010 celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in northwest Arkansas.


Posted:1/12/2010
Nationally Recognized Economists to Be Featured at Walton College 2010 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 16th annual Business Forecast luncheon on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. 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 the World Trade Center District in Rogers, Ark.


Posted:1/11/2010
H1N1 Vaccine Available to Campus Community at Pat Walker Health Center

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Pat Walker Health Center starts the spring semester with a good supply of H1N1 vaccine, and shots are being given free of charge to members of the University of Arkansas community.


Posted:1/11/2010
'One Book, One Community' Committee Seeks Book Nominations for Fall 2010

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The “One Book, One Community” committee is in the process of selecting a book for the 2010 fall semester and welcomes nominations from interested parties on campus and throughout northwest Arkansas.


Posted:1/8/2010
St. Scholastica Music Library Donated to University of Arkansas Libraries

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Dr. James D. Mashburn Music Library, a division of the Mashburn Scholarship Foundation, will announce the donation of materials from the St. Scholastica Monastery music library to the University of Arkansas Libraries at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 14, at the University House on the University of Arkansas campus.


Posted:1/5/2010
University Apologizes for Erroneous Emergency Message

When inclement weather struck northwest Arkansas on Monday, Jan. 4, requiring the closing of university business offices and non-essential operations, an unfortunate error resulted in the university community receiving a dated emergency message that did not pertain to the current situation on campus. Although this error was quickly corrected with the proper message, the university sincerely regrets the inadvertent release of this dated information and the fact that students, faculty and staff were inconvenienced with receiving multiple early-morning telephone calls in order to correct the mistake.


Posted:12/22/2009
Two Candidates for Dean of College of Education and Health Professions to Return for Second Interview

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Michael Poliakoff and Tom Smith have been asked to come back for a second interview in January for the position of dean of the College of Education and Health Professions.


Posted:12/24/2009
2009 Holiday Trivia

December 2009 — UA Holiday Trivia Quiz


Posted:12/21/2009
Alumni Association and Athletics Department Host AutoZone Liberty Bowl Events for Arkansas Fans

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas Razorback fans are invited to a variety of events, many of them free, all leading up to the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis on Jan. 2.


Posted:12/18/2009
Worrell Reappointed as Dean of Walton College

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Dan Worrell, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, has been reappointed to serve as dean of the college through Aug. 15, 2012.


Posted:12/18/2009
Four Candidates to Be Interviewed for Dean of Graduate School and International Education

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Four candidates for the position of dean of the Graduate School and International Education at the University of Arkansas have been selected by the search committee for a campus interview.


Posted:12/16/2009
KUAF Open House Held at New Location

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas public radio station, KUAF 91.3 FM, held an open house in its new building, the Lynn and Joel Carver Center for Public Radio, from 2-5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 15. The new location is 9 S. School St., across the street from Blair Library, Fayetteville’s public library.


Posted:12/15/2009
Nationally Recognized Economists to Be Featured at Walton College 2010 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 16th annual Business Forecast luncheon on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. 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 the World Trade Center District in Rogers, Ark.


Posted:12/14/2009
University of Arkansas Registrar Retires After 37 Years of Service

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Alice Lacey, the University of Arkansas registrar for the past 11 years, plans to retire Feb. 1, 2010, after more than 37 years of service at the university. Dave Dawson, director of the Fulbright College advising office, will serve as interim registrar.


Posted:12/11/2009
Law Professor Gives Opening Presentation at International Trade Conference

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A University of Arkansas law professor’s presentation on foreign policy opened a recent international trade conference in Arusha, Tanzania.


Posted:12/10/2009
Go Off Before You Go On Vacation

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – As students, faculty and staff get ready to close up shop before the winter break, please consider doing these easy things to help with energy savings on campus.


Posted:12/9/2009
Razors EDGE Energy Saving Improvements Under Way at University of Arkansas

The first results of the Razors EDGE energy renovation project at the University of Arkansas can be both seen and used in many of the buildings undergoing improvements. Last December the university signed a $22.9 million contract with Energy Systems Group to make energy conservation improvements to 56 buildings on campus. The project, dubbed Razors EDGE, is guaranteed to pay for itself within 13 years through energy and water savings. The “EDGE” in the project’s name is an acronym for Efficiently Delivering Green Energy.


Posted:12/8/2009
University of Arkansas Press and the Blair Center Publish Book on the 2008 Presidential Election

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Developed with support from the Blair Center for Southern Politics at the University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas Press, A Paler Shade of Red: The 2008 Presidential Election in the South, edited by Branwell DuBose Kapeluck, Laurence W. Moreland and Robert P. Steed (paperback, $29.95), is a timely, in-depth, state-by-state look at the 2008 election as it played out in the South.


Posted:12/7/2009
Razorback Technology Challenge Draws Youth to University of Arkansas Campus on Dead Day

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Competitors from Arkansas and Oklahoma junior high schools and high schools will converge on the University of Arkansas campus on Wednesday, Dec. 9, for the Razorback Technology Challenge.


Posted:12/7/2009
Adnan Haydar Wins Lois Roth Award for Translation

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Modern Language Association of America announced it is presenting its sixth biennial Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work to Adnan Haydar of the University of Arkansas and Michael Beard of the University of North Dakota for their translation of Adonis’s Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs, published by BOA Editions.


Posted:12/3/2009
Martin Luther King III to Speak at University of Arkansas

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


Posted:12/3/2009
University of Arkansas Puts Emphasis on Teaching Moral Leadership to Improve Nation's Schools

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Principals, superintendents and other school leaders make decisions every day that require ethical judgments, and the University of Arkansas academic program charged with educating school leaders has strengthened its curriculum that teaches ethical decision-making.


Posted:12/3/2009
Tyson Foods Supports Enterprise Systems at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – An ongoing partnership between the information systems department in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas and Tyson Foods Inc. enables students to gain hands-on experience with real business enterprise software, greatly enhancing their opportunities for jobs after graduation.


Posted:12/2/2009
Student, Faculty Researchers Capturing History of Tibetans in Exile

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – On June 18, Sidney Burris and Geshe Thupten Dorjee, a Tibetan monk who teaches at the University of Arkansas, walked into the Dalai Lama’s compound in Dharamsala, India, with 15 students from the university. The students were traveling abroad to work on the TEXT Project, or “Tibetans in Exile Today,” an oral-history program designed to record the stories of Tibetans currently living in refugee settlements in India. The project focuses on the Tibetans who left their country in 1959, but still have vivid memories of traditional Tibetan culture.


Posted:11/30/2009
OLLI Receives Accolades and Extra Funds at National Conference

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arkansas recently received praise and a $25,000 bonus from its parent organization at the 6th Annual OLLI Conference in Park City, Utah.


Posted:11/30/2009
Sculptures On Display at Global Campus Reflect Artist's Ideas on World Peace

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Fayetteville artist Hank Kaminsky’s “World Peace Prayer Fountain,” at the Fayetteville Town Center, expressed his goal of creating sculpture to capture the idea of world peace. In the process, however, he created smaller “sculptural excerpts” that project the idea in different forms.


Posted:11/25/2009
Walton College to Hold IT Day for Parents and Educators

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Information Technology Research Institute and the department of information systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas are sponsoring IT Day for Parents and Educators.


Posted:11/23/2009
University of Arkansas Physicist Greg Salamo Named Arkansas Professor of the Year

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education has announced the national and state Professor of the Year Awards. Physicist Greg Salamo, the Joe N. Basore Professor in Nanotechnology and Innovation in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, was named Arkansas Professor of the Year.


Posted:11/23/2009
Community Design Center Project Among Winners of Top American Architecture Award

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Porchscapes: A LEED Neighborhood Development, a joint project by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, the Ecological Engineering Group and McClelland Consulting Engineers Inc., is a winner of a 2009 American Architecture Award.


Posted:11/23/2009
Department of Education Awards $192,000 Grant for Student Exchange Between the U.S. and Europe

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education has awarded a four-year, $192,000 grant to the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Arkansas for mathematics students at the master’s and doctoral levels to study at a consortium of U.S. and European institutions.


Posted:11/19/2009
Morris Funds Five Access Arkansas Need-Based Scholarships

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – John H. Morris (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1969) of Fayetteville, Ark., spent his career teaching history at Wharton Community College in Wharton, Texas, 50 miles southwest of Houston. He returned to Fayetteville in 2000, and taught part-time at Northwest Arkansas Community College before retiring in 2008. Because of Morris’ dedication to education and a belief that every student has the potential to be successful, he has funded five Access Arkansas scholarships at the University of Arkansas for students who struggle to meet the financial obligations of higher education.


Posted:11/19/2009
University of Arkansas Press Book Helps Celebrate NAACP's 100th Anniversary this Year

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Celebrating its 100th anniversary in February 2009, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the leading and best-known African American civil rights organization in the United States. It has played a major, and at times decisive, role in most of the important developments in the 20th century civil rights struggle.


Posted:11/18/2009
'Finders Keepers': Graduate Student's Documentary to Air on AETN

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It’s not unusual for a University of Arkansas journalism graduate student to produce a documentary film. It is unusual for a student’s film to be broadcast on AETN, the Arkansas Education Television Network. That unusual event will happen twice: first at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20, and then again at the same time on Thursday, Nov. 26, Thanksgiving Day.


Posted:11/17/2009
RazALERT is University of Arkansas' Official Source for Inclement Weather Operating Status Information

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – When winter weather affects the operating status of the University of Arkansas, the fastest way for students, faculty and staff to get information is from RazALERT (pronounced raise-alert), the university’s official emergency notification system.


Posted:11/17/2009
Chancellor Gearhart Leads 'Academic Trade Mission' to Panama, Renews University Ties

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart led a delegation of alumni, administrators and state business leaders on an “academic trade mission” to Panama in October that included a visit with a distinguished university graduate: Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, class of 1973.


Posted:11/17/2009
Works by Michael J. Riha Exhibited at Mullins Library

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas drama professor Michael J. Riha struggles with the idea of being labeled an “artist.” He says, “I hold the word ‘artist’ in such high regard that I find it difficult to place myself in that category.” He prefers to think of himself as a “theatre designer” who takes the role of the student in the development of his artistic abilities.


Posted:11/13/2009
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Building a Topic of Governor's Arkansas Works Summit

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is in the process of constructing what is expected to become the nation’s leading nanoscale research center. The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Building has an estimated initial cost of $37 million, although estimates for the completed facility are as high as $50 million.


Posted:11/16/2009
Cleanup Preparations Begin at University of Arkansas SEFOR Facility

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A team of eight professionals from Energy Solutions, an international nuclear services company based in Salt Lake City, is at the University of Arkansas’ Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor, SEFOR, near the community of Strickler in south Washington County, to begin the first stages of planning for a complete cleanup of the facility.


Posted:11/16/2009
Geographic Information Systems Day Highlights Local Projects and a Heroic Dog

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Whether it’s plotting the threat of floodwaters to wildlife from the air or using a GPS-equipped dog for search and rescue, geographic information systems are making an impact in Arkansas. Each year the University Libraries and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies host a local celebration of Geographic Information Systems Day to give the public the opportunity to view real-world applications of GIS technology demonstrated by specialists from around the region. This year, in addition to the open house held on the second floor atrium area of the J.B. Hunt Transport Services Center for Academic Excellence, outdoor presentations will highlight the use of GIS technology in the field.


Posted:11/12/2009
Five Candidates to Interview on Campus for Dean of College of Education and Health Professions

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Five candidates for the position of dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas have been selected by the search committee for a campus interview.


Posted:11/12/2009
Lecture Features Research on Historic Southland College, Arkansas's First Black College

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Libraries' special collections department joins with the University of Arkansas Press to present "'We Surely Owe a Debt to These Long Downtrodden People': The Accidental Founding and Amazing Survival of Southland College, 1864-1925" by professor emeritus Thomas C. Kennedy on Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Giffels Auditorium in Old Main. A reception will begin at 3 p.m.; the lecture is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. followed by a book signing.


Posted:11/12/2009
Business Week Ranks Walton College Managerial MBA in Top 26 Public Programs

Business Week has ranked the Managerial Master of Business Administration program at at the University of Arkansas 26th among the top public M.B.A. programs. The Managerial M.B.A. in the Sam M. Walton College of Business attracts students from vendor companies and other corporate offices in a multistate region. 


Posted:11/11/2009
Hartman Hotz Speaker to "Take the Long View" on Immigration Reform

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Hiroshi Motomura, an influential scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship law, will present “Immigration Reform: Taking the Long View” at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom at the University of Arkansas School of Law. The presentation is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the lecture.


Posted:11/11/2009
Selected Speeches of Senator J. William Fulbright Now Online

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Fifty speeches delivered by Sen. James William Fulbright (1905-1995), one of the best-known Arkansans in the world, are now available on the University of Arkansas Libraries’ Web site. The digital library collection, titled “A Calm Voice in a Strident World: Senator J.W. Fulbright Speaks,” contains the text of selected speeches, ranging from comments he made regarding his dismissal as president of the University of Arkansas in 1941, to remarks censuring Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s far-ranging investigations, and criticisms of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. The Fulbright speeches are part of the University Libraries’ digital library collections.


Posted:11/10/2009
Global Campus Celebrates Distance Learning Week

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Global Campus is celebrating National Distance Learning Week Nov. 9-13 to recognize the growth of distance learning in Arkansas and nationwide.


Posted:11/10/2009
Donald Harington, Creator of Mythical Ozark Village of Stay More, Dies at 73

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Donald Douglas Harington, a distinguished professor emeritus of art, novelist and alumnus of the University of Arkansas, died at midnight Nov. 7, 2009. He was 73.


Posted:11/10/2009
Come Celebrate the World During International Education Week

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will celebrate International Education Week on Nov. 16-20, with many activities on campus. International Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate student knowledge and awareness of the cultures, people and languages around the world.


Posted:11/10/2009
Consul-General Hiroshi Sato to Speak on U.S.-Japan Relations in the 21st Century

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Consul-General Hiroshi Sato will speak on "U.S.-Japan Relations in the 21st Century" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main. The lecture is free and open to the public.


Posted:11/9/2009
First Arkansas Alumni Association Johnson Fellow to Visit University of Arkansas Campus

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Prominent alumnus Lt. Gen. Martin R. Steele, B.A.’74, U.S. Marine Corps (retired), will return to the University of Arkansas campus on Nov. 12-14 as the Arkansas Alumni Association’s inaugural Johnson Fellow.


Posted:11/6/2009
Fifteenth Annual Razorback Band Spectacular Tuesday, Nov. 10

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Razorback Marching Band, complete with university cheerleaders, mascots, majorettes, twirlers and flag line, will perform its 15th annual Band Spectacular at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Barnhill Arena. The concert is free to the public and will feature University of Arkansas spirit songs and highlights from this year’s halftime shows, such as music from the movie Back to the Future and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” In 2006, the band was awarded the Sudler Trophy, the nation's highest and most coveted award for college and university marching bands.


Posted:11/4/2009
Garrison Financial Institute to Host CNBC Commentator


Posted:10/27/2009
Lemke Journalism Department Hosts Forum on 'Future of the News Business'

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A panel of working “online” journalists will discuss “The Fog of New Media” during a three-day forum, Nov. 4-6, hosted by the Walter J. Lemke department of journalism in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas.


Posted:11/3/2009
Five Athletic Training Students Awarded Scholarships in Honor of Weber, Ferrell

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Five athletic training education students won scholarships honoring longtime Razorback trainers Dean Weber and the late Bill Ferrell, the University of Arkansas announced Saturday.


Posted:11/3/2009
Walton College Director Serves as Corporate Ambassador in Algeria

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Claudia Mobley, director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Arkansas, represented the Sam M. Walton College of Business as a corporate ambassador at the Association of Algerian Managers and Entrepreneurs conference on Oct. 29 in Algeria.


Posted:11/2/2009
CANstruction Project: Architecture Students Collecting Food, Getting Ready to Build

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Students in the Fay Jones School of Architecture are gathering canned foods and working up design schemes to prepare for their third annual CANstruction competition. The event will take place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at the Peace Fountain in front of Vol Walker Hall. In the event of rain, the competition will be held in the second floor gallery of Vol Walker.


Posted:10/29/2009
Sixteenth Annual Native American Symposium to Focus on Ecology and Sustainability: Dates Corrected

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The 16th annual Native American Symposium at the University of Arkansas is scheduled for the first week of November. The event will feature keynote speaker Winona LaDuke and a screening of the documentary The Silent Enemy. This year’s symposium will focus on ecology and sustainability.


Posted:10/29/2009
Transforming Higher Education Through Six Sigma: Impact to University Could Be Vast

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The adoption of Six Sigma principles by the University of Arkansas could help streamline many processes, resulting in increased efficiency and quality and decreased costs, saving money for the state and students. Guest speaker Pradeep B. Deshpande will cover these concepts in a lecture titled ‘Six Sigma Could Transform Higher Education’ from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in Bell Engineering Center, Room 2291.


Posted:10/29/2009
Walton College Hosts International Logistics Competition

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Top logistics students from the United States and Europe traveled to the Sam’s Club home offices in Bentonville, Ark., to compete in the annual Sam M. Walton College of Business International Graduate Logistics Case Competition on Oct. 22-24, 2009.


Posted:10/28/2009
Former First Minister of Scotland to Speak on U.S., Europe and Tomorrow's Economy

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The former First Minister of Scotland will present “Progress or Disaster: The U.S., Europe and Tomorrow's Economy,” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in Giffels Auditorium in Old Main. The lecture by the Right Honorable Henry McLeish is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.


Posted:10/23/2009
Security Arrangements Announced for Former Israeli Prime Minister's Lecture at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, will present a free public lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Barnhill Arena as part of the University of Arkansas Distinguished Lecture Series. The public is welcome and no tickets are required.


Posted:10/26/2009
World Food Day Drive Nets 75,000 Pounds of Food For Hungry People in Northwest Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE – The second annual University of Arkansas food drive, which ended Oct. 16, collected 15,000 pounds of nonperishable food items in acknowledgement of World Food Day. The donations were matched by a gift of 60,000 pounds from the event’s lead sponsor, Tyson Foods Inc., for a total of 75,000 pounds of food to be given to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank.


Posted:10/26/2009
Persuadable Voter Named Best Book in Political Psychology for 2008

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues and Presidential Campaigns by political scientist Todd Shields has been chosen the winner of the 2009 Robert E. Lane Award for the best book published in political psychology in 2009, given by the political psychology section of the American Political Science Association. 


Posted:10/26/2009
Walton College Logistics Faculty Member Wins National Award

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Supply Chain Managers Education Conference has awarded the E. Grosvenor Plowman Award to Matthew A. Waller, professor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and Brent Williams, assistant professor at Auburn University, for the best manuscript accepted for presentation at its 2009 conference, which was held Sept. 20 in Chicago, Ill.


Posted:10/22/2009
University of Arkansas 2009 Homecoming Celebration

The 2009 Homecoming Celebration theme is “A Red & White Affair: Celebrating 100 Years of Razorback Pride” playing off the 100th anniversary of the Razorback. The theme was selected by the Student Alumni Board Homecoming Committee, a group of students that help make this tradition possible each year.


Posted:10/22/2009
Author to Discuss Changing Diversity in Northwest Arkansas in Talk at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Marjorie Rosen, a writer and journalism professor from New York, will talk about her book, Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community, at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in the Multicultural Center of the Arkansas Union at the University of Arkansas.


Posted:10/21/2009
Walton College M.B.A. Program Selected in Global 100 List

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education has ranked the Master of Business Administration program in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in its 2009-2010 Beyond Grey Pinstripes/Global 100 List.


Posted:10/21/2009
C-SPAN Book TV Plans to Cover Professor's 'Judging Bush' Talk at Nightbird Books

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Intelligent, yet prone to making decisions without much thought. Moral and godly, yet with a tendency to vilify anyone who disagrees with him. A bold visionary unable to adjust to changing conditions.


Posted:10/20/2009
Historian Elliott West a Finalist for Baylor's $215,000 Cherry Award for Great Teaching

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – As one of three finalists for Baylor University’s 2010 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, professor Elliott West of the University of Arkansas' department of history will be giving a lecture on “The West Before Lewis and Clark: Three Lives” at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main. The lecture will be followed by a reception and book signing at the University House from 5:15 to 6:30.


Posted:10/20/2009
Sirens, RazALERT and Emergency Web Site to Give Warnings If Tornado Threatens Campus

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Violent thunderstorms are common in northwest Arkansas during the early fall and these can sometimes spawn tornadoes. If a tornado threatens the University of Arkansas the campus community will receive timely warnings through the university’s warning sirens, the RazALERT system and the university’s emergency Web site.


Posted:10/19/2009
Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon Appointed to Cleveland C. Burton Professorship in International Studies

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Dean William Schwab of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas has appointed Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon the inaugural holder of the Cleveland C. Burton Professorship in International Studies.


Posted:10/19/2009
Archives Month Open House Features Local History Author

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – October is American Archives Month, and the University Libraries special collections department is commemorating the month by hosting an open house from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in special collections, Mullins Library Room 130.


Posted:10/15/2009
University of Arkansas Headliner Concerts Committee Brings Third Eye Blind to Barnhill Arena

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Headliner Concerts Committee will present Third Eye Blind live in concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Barnhill Arena.


Posted:10/15/2009
Wedding Planners Showcase Planned for Reynolds Center

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development, managed by the Center for Management and Executive Education, is sponsoring the “Wedding Planners’ Showcase” from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20.


Posted:10/14/2009
Hartman Hotz Lecturer to Examine Street Life of the Homeless in Four Global Cities

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Professor David Snow, the Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Irvine, will discuss “The Sidewalks of Globalization: Living on the Streets in Los Angeles, Paris, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo” at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in Giffels Auditorium at the University of Arkansas. A reception will follow his lecture, which is free and open to the public.


Posted:10/13/2009
Former Israeli Prime Minister to Speak at University of Arkansas in Distinguished Lecture Series

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ehud Olmert, controversial former prime minister of Israel, will present a public lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Barnhill Arena as part of the University of Arkansas Distinguished Lecture Series.


Posted:10/13/2009
Garrison Financial Institute to Host "How Can I Afford Retirement?" Workshops at Public Libraries

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Research shows that individuals in the 50- to 70-year age group believe they are prepared for a comfortable retirement, but many may have not saved enough to achieve that goal. The Garrison Financial Institute in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is collaborating with the Fayetteville Public Library and the Adolphine Fletcher Terry Library and John Gould Fletcher Library, both of Little Rock, Ark., to host the “How Can I Afford Retirement?” series of workshops.


Posted:10/9/2009
Biographer of Judge Richard Arnold to Give Reading

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The biographer of Judge Richard S. Arnold will give a reading and presentation at noon on Thursday, Oct. 15, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom in the Leflar Law Center. The reading by Emory law professor Polly Price is free and open to the public.


Posted:10/12/2009
Augusta Community to Celebrate a Literacy Program That Gets Results, Earns National Attention

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A 3-year-old community literacy project in the city of Augusta, Ark., will be celebrated on the National Day of Writing, Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 10:30 a.m. at the Little Rock Club, on the 30th floor of the Regions Bank Building in Little Rock.


Posted:10/12/2009
University of Arkansas Press Publishes New Edition of Award-Winning Anthology of Arab American Fiction

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – When Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction was originally published in 2004, the groundbreaking book was very well received. It won a Silver Award from ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards in the anthologies category and received a Starred Review in Library Journal, describing it as “a moving and important anthology ... invaluable. ... [and] highly recommended.”


Posted:10/8/2009
University of Arkansas to Host 2009 World Food Day

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –The Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas will host a 2009 World Food Day teleconference and faculty presentation from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16. The event, which is open to the public, will be held in the First Security Auditorium at Willard J. Walker Hall in the Sam M. Walton College of Business.


Posted:10/8/2009
University of Arkansas Commemorates Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Day on the Trail of Tears

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Day on the University of Arkansas campus will focus on one of America’s greatest tragedies, the forced removal of American Indians in the 1830s over what has come to be known as the Trail of Tears.


Posted:10/6/2009
University of Arkansas Historic District Listed on National Register of Historic Places

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Campus Historic District in Fayetteville is one of eight Arkansas properties that have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of historically significant properties. Frances McSwain, program director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation, announced the listing Tuesday, Oct. 6.


Posted:10/6/2009
Best-Selling Author Visits University of Arkansas for First 'One Book, One Community' Program

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Luis Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway, will meet with readers from the university and northwest Arkansas communities Thursday, Oct. 15, and Friday, Oct. 16, as part of the first “One Book, One Community” program. One Book, One Community is designed to engage readers in a year-long conversation about the book and the issues it raises.


Posted:10/6/2009
Supply Chain Research Center to Host International Logistics Case Competition

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Supply Chain Management Research Center in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, along with several corporate sponsors, is hosting an international graduate logistics case competition from Oct. 21-24. The event will take place at the Clarion Hotel in Fayetteville and the headquarters of Sam’s Club in Bentonville, Ark.


Posted:10/2/2009
University of Arkansas Community Warned to Beware of Computer Phishing Scams

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Computer phishing scams are nothing new: Since November 2007, University of Arkansas computer users have been under constant attack from Internet scam artists. Everyone in the university community should be aware of the threat of criminals trying to trick them into revealing their usernames and passwords.


Posted:10/5/2009
New Boyer Fellows Selected for University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Brinkley Cook-Campbell, son of Ronnie Campbell and Judy Cook-Campbell of Mount Judea, Ark., and Joseph Rossetti, the son of Manuel and Amy Rossetti of Fayetteville, have been selected as Boyer Fellows in the Sam M. Walton College at the University of Arkansas.


Posted:10/2/2009
Health Care Reform Debate Taken Apart by University of Arkansas Expert

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A University of Arkansas public health care expert will give a presentation on health care reform at noon Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom at the School of Law. The presentation, “Health Care Reform: Predicaments, Politics, and Prognosis,” is free and open to the public.


Posted:9/30/2009
Middle East Experts Discuss Future of Israel and Palestine at University of Arkansas

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


Posted:9/30/2009
University of Arkansas Press Book Tackles Head-On Arkansas' Long History of Negative Stereotypes

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State, by Brooks Blevins (cloth $29.95), is the first book to explain how Arkansas’ negative image began and how the popular culture stereotypes have been perpetuated and altered through succeeding generations.


Posted:9/29/2009
University of Arkansas Calls on Faculty, Staff, Students to Log 1,000 Miles on Oct. 9

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Attention University of Arkansas faculty, staff and students: bring your running or walking shoes to work on Friday, Oct. 9. Intramural/Recreational Sports wants your help in logging 1,000 miles that day.


Posted:9/29/2009
Architecture Students Design Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit of the Future

Amanda Cross, an architecture student in the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas, finished explaining why she and her partner, Krystina Tacchi, designed a neonatal intensive-care unit with a fan-like layout of patient alcoves and shared family spaces. Someone responded that the pod-like arrangement would provide families with a sense of privacy while allowing good visibility of infants by the nursing staff.


Posted:9/29/2009
University of Arkansas Filmmakers Score Six Regional Emmy Nominations

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Three films produced by faculty, students and staff at the University of Arkansas have collected a total of six Emmy nominations from the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.


Posted:9/28/2009
Pianist to Deliver Rousing Rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Jura Margulis will take center stage during halftime of the Oct. 10 Auburn-Arkansas football game to play Stars and Stripes Forever, offering a rendition by V. Horowitz so difficult to play it is jokingly referred to as a piece for three hands.


Posted:9/24/2009
Arkansas Alumni Association Announces Distinguished Alumni and Faculty Awards

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas Alumni Association proudly announces its 2009 award recipients, all of whom personify the University of Arkansas’ tradition of excellence through service and leadership. All 11 honorees will be recognized during the 65th annual Alumni Awards Celebration on Oct. 30 at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House.


Posted:9/24/2009
Co-Founder to Discuss Principles KIPP Schools Share; Arkansas Director to Speak

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Mike Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP, short for the Knowledge is Power Program, will speak about the five operating pillars of KIPP schools during a lecture at noon Friday, Sept. 25, on the University of Arkansas campus.


Posted:9/23/2009
University of Arkansas Police Detective Finishes Training, Ready to Investigate Computer Crime

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas Police investigator Kimberly Bertschy recently completed a course of study at the National Computer Forensics Institute in Hoover, Ala., designed to train officers to conduct basic electronic-crime investigations, respond to network intrusion incidents and conduct computer forensics examinations.


Posted:9/23/2009
Student Affairs Restructuring Emphasizes Learning, Collaboration, Retention and Emergency Operations

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – New alignments in the University of Arkansas Division of Student Affairs will help emphasize student learning and retention, and emergency operations.


Posted:9/23/2009
University of Arkansas Press Publishes a Young Union Soldier's Civil War Memoir

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Army Life: From a Soldier’s Journal, by A.O. Marshall, edited by Robert G. Schultz (paperback, $29.95) and published in the University of Arkansas Press’ Civil War in the West series, is an engaging account of a young Union soldier’s life in the Civil War.


Posted:9/22/2009
Graduate School Enrollment at University of Arkansas Grows, Sets Record

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Graduate School enrollment at the University of Arkansas totaled 3,407 students for the fall 2009 semester, an increase of 6.7 percent, and the highest number of graduate students in the university’s history. An additional 157 students are seeking a master’s degree, a 7.4 percent increase, and 67 more students enrolled to pursue doctoral degrees, an increase of 6.4 percent. In addition, 209 students are enrolled and taking graduate courses but are not seeking a degree, a 17.4 percent increase compared to the fall of 2008.


Posted:9/22/2009
University of Arkansas Walton College Announces 2010 Arkansas Business Hall of Fame Inductees

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Four exceptional business leaders, including two former Razorback football players, will be inducted into the 2010 Arkansas Business Hall of Fame. Since its founding in 1999, 46 individuals have been honored for their accomplishments and lasting impact on the state.


Posted:9/21/2009
Unsung University Staff Providing First Line of Protection in Battle Against H1N1 Virus

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Health care professionals at the University of Arkansas are leading the campaign to prevent the H1N1 virus from spreading on campus, but several hundred often overlooked university staff are also playing an important role.


Posted:9/21/2009
NSF Grant to Fund Student Research in Thailand

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has been awarded a $147,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Studies of Fungal Biodiversity in Northern Thailand.” The NSF funding will support a research program that provides the opportunity over three summers for four undergraduate or graduate students to spend a month carrying out biodiversity studies of fungi and fungus-like organisms associated with tropical forests in northern Thailand as research projects.


Posted:9/18/2009
Colleges Reflect Growth as University of Arkansas Posts Record Enrollment

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas set a new fall enrollment record of 19,849 students, an increase of 655 students over fall 2008. Almost half that increase came in the College of Education and Health Professions, which led all colleges with an increase of 323 students.


Posted:9/17/2009
University of Arkansas Seeks New Graduate School Dean, Chief Research Officer

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is conducting a national search for a new dean of the Graduate School and International Education to replace Collis Geren, who will retire in June 2010.


Posted:9/17/2009
Nationally Renowned Architect to Lecture at Fay Jones School of Architecture

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Deborah Berke, whose architectural vision is described as “the philosophy of the everyday,” will deliver the Ernie Jacks Distinguished Lecture for the Fay Jones School of Architecture at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, in the Shollmeyer Lecture Hall in Vol Walker Hall. The public is invited.


Posted:9/16/2009
Food Drive for World Food Day Kicks Off Saturday on University of Arkansas Campus

FAYETTEVILLE – The University of Arkansas is holding its second annual food drive in recognition of World Food Day. The drive kicks off at the Arkansas-Georgia game Saturday, Sept. 19, and will continue through Oct. 16, World Food Day.


Posted:9/16/2009
Hartman Hotz Lecturer to Examine Abraham Lincoln's Views on Slavery

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Professor Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will speak on “Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and Slavery” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom in the Leflar Law Center as part of the University of Arkansas Hartman Hotz Lectures in Law and Liberal Arts.


Posted:9/15/2009
Arkansas Economic Issues Breakfast Series Provides Statewide Look at Trends

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Center for Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is hosting a statewide business and economic discussion on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Via videoconferencing, the Arkansas Economic Breakfast Series links seven locations throughout the state of Arkansas and provides an interactive setting for learning about the latest economic trends that affect businesses in the state.


Posted:9/14/2009
University of Arkansas Submits Climate Action Plan to Become 'Carbon Neutral'

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is among the first institutions in the country to submit a long-range plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on campus to zero by the year 2040. The university’s Climate Action Plan was submitted as part of the agreement the university made when it signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment document in February 2007.


Posted:9/14/2009
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month on Campus and in Northwest Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas and the Hispanic Heritage Month Committee announce the 2009 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:9/14/2009
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Book by 'Current Champ in Boxing Literature'

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press has just published An Unforgiving Sport: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing (paper, $22.50), by veteran boxing chronicler Thomas Hauser, a past winner of the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism.


Posted:9/11/2009
University of Arkansas Enrollment Sets New Record, Approaches 20,000 Students

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Nearly 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled for the fall semester at the University of Arkansas, a new record for the state’s largest institution of higher education.


Posted:9/10/2009
University of Arkansas Community Design Center Earns Four Awards

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Community Design Center has received four prestigious awards for its design work.


Posted:9/10/2009
University to Boost Mental Health Services for Student Veterans

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – As campuses across the country prepare to serve an influx of students who are veterans, the University of Arkansas continues to take stock of programs and services to meet the varied needs of these students as outlined by the University of Arkansas Veterans Task Force.


Posted:9/10/2009
University of Arkansas Rehabilitation Program Garners Funds to Support Students

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The nationally ranked rehabilitation counseling program at the University of Arkansas will once again be able to fund graduate students’ education through a traineeship award from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Education.


Posted:9/8/2009
As We Wish It Were: John Bell Jr. Exhibits Paintings in Mullins Library

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Turn of the century scenes, places and activities are the focus of an exhibit of oil paintings and giclées titled “Scenes of Early Northwest Arkansas” by John Bell Jr., currently on display in Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus. Although place might seem at first glance the attention-grabber for each painting, the real effect on the viewer lies with how Bell tells the story in each painting.


Posted:9/4/2009
Noted Food Safety Lawyer to Speak at School of Law

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – William Marler, a noted food safety lawyer who has secured more than $300 million for victims of food-borne illness, will make a presentation to the law school’s Food Law & Policy class from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, in Room 342 of the School of Law. His presentation is free and open to the public.


Posted:9/4/2009
Tribute to James T. Whitehead to be Held at Nightbird Books

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – When James T. Whitehead passed away in 2003, Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas lost one of its finest poets and beloved teachers. On Wednesday, September 9, from 7:00-9:00, Whitehead will be remembered at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas.


Posted:9/2/2009
RazALERT Test a Success

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The test of the University of Arkansas RazALERT Emergency Notification System was a complete success. A test message was sent by e-mail, voice mail, text message and teletype message to every e-mail and phone account registered in the system at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1. Students, faculty and staff members reported receiving text and cell phone messages at 3:02 p.m., e-mail messages at 3:05 p.m., and land line phone messages beginning at 3:12 p.m.


Posted:9/3/2009
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Book on Nationally Competitive Academic Awards

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In association with the National Association for Fellowships Advisors, the University of Arkansas Press has just published Leading the Way: Student Engagement and Nationally Competitive Awards, edited by Suzanne McCray (paperback $19.95).


Posted:9/3/2009
Disney Institute Brings Professional Development Program to Little Rock

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Disney Institute is bringing its renowned professional development program, Disney Keys to Business Excellence, to Little Rock, Ark., on Thursday, Sept. 24. Sponsored by the Center for Management and Executive Education in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, the 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:9/2/2009
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Two New Poetry Books

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press has published two new books in its Arkansas Poetry Series, Weapons Grade by Terese Svoboda (Paperback $16.00) and Start with the Trouble by Daniel Donaghy.


Posted:9/1/2009
Researcher Briefs Congress on Climate Change Initiatives in Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas researcher Cindy Sagers, professor of biological sciences, will represent Arkansas at a congressional briefing Tuesday, Sept. 1, regarding the influence of state-level climate change initiatives on federal policy. Sagers will talk in part about the work of the Arkansas Commission on Global Warming convened by Gov. Mike Beebe in 2007. The commission included academic researchers, conservationists and representatives of energy interests, and it created a report with many recommendations to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the state of Arkansas.


Posted:9/1/2009
Biomechanics Research Gives Insight Into Preventing Baseball, Softball Pitching Injuries

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A University of Arkansas professor and four of her students presented their research on the athletic performance of pitchers in August at an international conference on the biomechanics of sports.


Posted:9/1/2009
Walton College Information Systems Department Selected 'Core School'

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The department of information systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business has been selected as one of 10 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Information Systems Division’s “core schools.”


Posted:8/31/2009
Conference to Focus on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –According to the United Nations, 2.5 million people are victims of human trafficking around the world; the U.S. government estimates that between 14,000 and 18,000 people are victims of human trafficking in the United States.


Posted:8/31/2009
Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, Washington Regional Recognize Clinical Nurse Specialists

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Three clinical nurse specialists who earned master’s degrees in nursing from the University of Arkansas are advancing nursing practice by providing inter-professional, systemwide leadership.


Posted:8/27/2009
University of Arkansas Prepares Campus for Flu Season, Possible H1N1 Cases

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas students, faculty and staff who are concerned about what health officials are calling “the novel H1N1 influenza,” and is commonly known as “swine flu,” can find the most current information at the university’s Web site for emergency information: http://emergency.uark.edu/15497.php.


Posted:8/26/2009
University, Northwest Arkansas Communities Join for First 'One Book' Reading Program

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas students, faculty and staff are joining reading groups across northwest Arkansas for the first “One Book, One Community” project, which is planned as an annual event intended to focus local attention on the themes and issues raised in a single book.


Posted:8/26/2009
Project Runway Finalist Korto Momolu Shows Fashions on Runway at the University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It will be fierce when Korto Momolu presents some of her fashion designs including handbags, clothing and jewelry on the runway in the Alltel Ballroom in the Arkansas Union on the University of Arkansas campus at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2.


Posted:8/25/2009
University of Arkansas Launches 'Razors EDGE' Web Site

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas and Energy Systems Group announced today the launch of the Razors EDGE Web site. The trademarked Web site can be found through the university's department of facilities management, the university's sustainability page or the Energy Systems Group Web site.


Posted:8/25/2009
Student-Run Art Exhibition Space Opening in Bentonville

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has established an interdepartmental exhibition space in downtown Bentonville, named the University of Arkansas Student Gallery (sUgAr). The gallery will be open to the public Wednesday, Sept. 16, and the first reception will be held 5-8 p.m. Oct. 2 during downtown Bentonville’s First Friday of Oktoberfest.


Posted:8/23/2009
Chancellor Offers Welcome Message to Campus Community, Lends a Hand In Settling Into a New Academic Year

With the start of the fall semester and the 2009-2010 academic year today, University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart has produced a welcome message for the university community in the form of a short video, available at http://chancellor.uark.edu/15522.php  online.


Posted:8/24/2009
Walton College Ranks 24th in U.S. News for Third Year

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –For the third year in a row, the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has placed in a tie for 24th among the nation’s top public undergraduate business schools, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2010 America’s Best Colleges.


Posted:8/21/2009
Chancellor Gearhart Ends 'Move-In' With Night at Holcombe Hall

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart met dozens of students and their families this week while working as a volunteer during the “Assisted Move-In” at campus residence halls, then got a first-hand experience of on-campus living when he spent the night at Holcombe Hall.


Posted:8/20/2009
SEC Launches Academic Network to Promote All 12 Institutions

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas joins with the 11 other Southeastern Conference universities today to launch the SEC Academic Network, a Website designed to promote academic endeavors of SEC universities that is being established by the SEC in partnership with ESPN and the member universities.


Posted:8/20/2009
University of Arkansas Maintains Top Tier Ranking in U.S. News Survey

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is ranked in the top tier of national universities in the 2010 edition of America’s Best Colleges, the annual consumer survey prepared by U.S. News and World Report. The university is the only higher education institution in Arkansas ranked in the top tier.


Posted:8/20/2009
How Buildings Affect Student Achievement to Be Focus of First Lecture in 2009-10 Series

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The fall’s first speaker in an education reform lecture series at the University of Arkansas will address whether money spent on school buildings tends to affect student achievement. Locally, the topic is particularly timely as Fayetteville voters consider a millage proposal to raise funds for the construction of a new high school. With the recent release of federal stimulus money to help schools, though, the question has national ramifications, too.


Posted:8/20/2009
University of Arkansas to Open New Museum With Exhibit on Rocks, Rivers, Roadcuts

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – While she may be cool and calm as she prepares for the opening of a new museum at the University of Arkansas, the little girl in Lynne Hehr is jumping up and down with excitement.


Posted:8/19/2009
Operations Management Graduate Program Celebrates 35th Anniversary

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Engineering’s operations management graduate program is celebrating its 35th year of educating students in Arkansas and around the world. 


Posted:8/18/2009
RazALERT System Informs Campus Community of Emergency Situations; Update Your Account Now

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A single, integrated system now provides University of Arkansas students, faculty and staff with all the emergency information they need, both immediate and long-term.


Posted:8/18/2009
Academic Convocation Welcomes First-Year Students

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas officially welcomes home thousands of first-year students with an academic convocation, to be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, in Bud Walton Arena. This year’s event includes a keynote speech by Dave Van Horn, a University of Arkansas alumnus who coached the university’s baseball team to the College World Series this past year. Burger Bash, a party with food and entertainment, will follow convocation in The Gardens near Bud Walton.


Posted:8/17/2009
RazorRock to Launch With Petrino, Finish With Junction Bridge Pep Rally

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – On Monday, Aug. 17, community leaders from the Little Rock region and University of Arkansas officials announced plans for RazorRock, billed as Central Arkansas’ week-long Razorback football rally. The series of events will lead into Arkansas’ Sept. 5 home opener against Missouri State in Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium.


Posted:8/17/2009
University of Arkansas Waives Senior Citizen Tuition

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It is never too late to join the University of Arkansas 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:8/14/2009
Public Input Sought for Campus Climate Plan

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Members of the community are invited to join Nick Brown, the executive assistant for sustainability on the University of Arkansas campus, and the University of Arkansas Sustainability Council for a public input session regarding the Campus Climate Action Plan. Two sessions will be held this coming Tuesday at the Fayetteville Public Library: The first session will be held from noon until 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. The second session will be held from 6:30-7:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18.


Posted:8/17/2009
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 ninth annual full-day conference for the retail industry, titled “World Trends in Retailing.”


Posted:8/13/2009
Chancellor, Volunteers to Help University of Arkansas Students With 'Move-in'

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Between 50 and 100 volunteers – including Chancellor G. David Gearhart – will be on hand each day to help with the heavy lifting when University of Arkansas students arrive at their residence halls for the annual “move-in” week.


Posted:8/13/2009
Yellow Ribbon Program Provides Tuition Assistance to Veterans Attending the University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Those who have served in the United States Armed Forces after Sept. 10, 2001, may be eligible for tuition assistance thanks to the University of Arkansas’ participation in the Department of Veterans Affairs Yellow Ribbon Program.


Posted:8/11/2009
Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace to Hold Lunch and Learn

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace, Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, is holding a lunch and learn session on the emerging role of faith and spirituality in the workplace from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20.


Posted:8/10/2009
Photographs Documenting Jazz Diplomacy Program Touring the World

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Renowned jazz clarinetist Alvin Batiste teaching musicians from Togo in 1973. Jazz pianist and composer Randy Weston autographing album jackets for students in Gabon in 1967. Duke Ellington waving to audience members from the back of a vintage convertible automobile before a 1972 concert in Sri Lanka. These images are among photographs from the University of Arkansas Libraries’ special collections department that are traveling the world in an exhibition titled “Jam Sessions: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World.”


Posted:8/6/2009
Threepeat: Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women Wins Highest Honor Three Years in a Row

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women at the University of Arkansas recently received the fraternity’s highest and most prestigious honor, the Balfour Cup, for the third year in a row at the fraternity’s 67th biennial convention held in Grapevine, Texas.


Posted:8/5/2009
Top High School Students Named Honors College Fellows

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – From a field of 493 applicants, 75 outstanding high school seniors have been chosen to join the eighth 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:8/4/2009
Razorback Transit Awarded $1,260,500 Federal 'Stimulus' Grant

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Razorback Transit at the University of Arkansas has been awarded $1,261,500 in federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Federal Transit Administration and the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department determined the award amount.


Posted:8/3/2009
University of Arkansas Announces 2009 Sturgis Fellows

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas is pleased to announce the 2009 Sturgis Fellowship selections. The incoming freshman class for fall 2009 is comprised of four Arkansans and one out-of-state student from Mississippi. Those from Arkansas include Preston Caldwell of Batesville, Bobby Howard of Mountain Home, Katie Soerens of Fayetteville, and Lydia Thompson of Bentonville. Christopher Peterson is from Ocean Springs, Miss.


Posted:7/30/2009
University of Arkansas Names Bodenhamer Fellows for 2009

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Six entering freshmen at the University of Arkansas have been awarded the prestigious Bodenhamer Fellowships. This brings the total number of Bodenhamer Fellows to 85 since the establishment of the program in 1998.


Posted:7/30/2009
Global Campus Features Fantasy Clay Sculpture Exhibit

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Art enthusiasts can view playful fantasy characters smiling up from enclosed showcases and Neptune raising his head above glistening waves at an exhibit in the lobby of the Center for Continuing Education, 2 E. Center St., the University of Arkansas Global Campus facility in Fayetteville.


Posted:7/30/2009
Survey Reports University of Arkansas Graduates Earn More Than Peers in State

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas graduates’ salaries rank the highest among Arkansas institutions of higher education, according to figures compiled by the online service PayScale, for its “2009 College Salary Report.”


Posted:7/29/2009
University of Arkansas Honors College Hosts College Board Advanced Placement Summer Institute

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Honors College is hosting approximately 300 teachers and consultants from the state and region from Monday, July 27, to Thursday, July 30, for the university's 11th annual College Board approved Advanced Placement Summer Institute.


Posted:7/29/2009
Engineering Team Receives John A. White Award for Faculty-Student Collaboration

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Engineering students and faculty members who comprised the 2009 Solar Splash intercollegiate solar boating team have won the 2009 John A. White Award for Faculty-Student Collaboration. The students and faculty designed and built two solar boat entries, competing with teams from around the world.


Posted:7/28/2009
Joel Gordon Appointed Director of Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Dean William Schwab has appointed Joel Gordon, professor of history in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, as the director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies. Effective July 1, Gordon replaced Tom Paradise, professor of geology, who served as director for three years.


Posted:7/28/2009
University of Arkansas Hosts National Workshop to Increase Faculty Diversity


Posted:7/27/2009
Conference Focuses on Future of U.S. Origin Products

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Producers, retailers, government agency representatives and researchers met at the University of Arkansas for a day-long conference on July 2 to discuss what the future holds for products that originate in the United States such as Kona coffee, Idaho potatoes, Napa Valley wine and Missouri northern pecans.


Posted:7/24/2009
University of Arkansas Music Camp Concludes with Concerts

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Junior and senior high school musicians will perform in concerts Saturday, July 25, at the Walton Arts Center, sounding the final note of a week-long music camp sponsored by the University of Arkansas music department and administered by the Global Campus.


Posted:7/23/2009
Architecture Student's Designs for Fayetteville High School on Display

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The proposed master plan for a new Fayetteville High School gave students from the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas the opportunity to explore new trends in educational design. The results may help Fayetteville voters decide whether to approve a proposed 4.9-mill increase in property tax to fund construction of a new high school complex.


Posted:7/22/2009
Department of Energy Funding to Enable University to Begin SEFOR Clean-Up

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is receiving $1.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to determine exactly what needs to be done to clean up SEFOR, the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor. 


Posted:7/20/2009
University of Arkansas Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development Unveils Renovations

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will announce state-of-the-art renovations to the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development. The announcement will take place at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 21.


Posted:7/20/2009
Community Design Center Shares National Urban Design Citation for Little Rock Plan

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Boston Society of Architects has awarded a Citation of Urban Design for the MacArthur Park District Master Plan. The plan was designed by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, working with architect William Conway of Conway and Schulte Architects in Minneapolis and landscape architect Tom Oslund of Oslund and Associates, also in Minneapolis. Conway and Oslund are both former visiting professors at the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas. The Community Design Center is an outreach program of the school.


Posted:7/16/2009
University of Arkansas Community Design Center Receives Federal Stimulus Grant

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The National Endowment for the Arts is awarding a $50,000 grant to the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the Fay Jones School of Architecture. The funding comes as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly referred to as the federal “economic stimulus” program.


Posted:7/14/2009
Division of Student Affairs Announces Organizational Changes to Better Serve Students

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Putting “Students First” is something that the Division of Student Affairs has always practiced. In this time of change at the university, the Division of Student Affairs has created an organizational structure that will better address the needs of students across campus in the spirit of the division’s motto “connecting students to success.”


Posted:7/13/2009
Amy Edgington's Collages Turn World Topsy-Turvy in Mullins Library Exhibit

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – You’ve probably heard the phrase, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Artist Amy Edgington takes that topsy-turvy view both literally and metaphorically in “Scissors, Paper, Cloth,” an exhibit of her “found art” collages currently on display in Mullins Library.


Posted:7/9/2009
Edwards Receives U.S. Faculty Scholar Grant From Vietnam Education Foundation

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Findlay Edwards, associate professor in civil engineering, has been awarded the 2009-2010 U.S. Faculty Scholar Grant from the Vietnam Education Foundation following a highly competitive selection process.


Posted:7/8/2009
University of Arkansas MBA Grads See Impressive Employment Outcomes

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Despite the current economic conditions, the spring 2009 class of M.B.A. students from the Sam M. Walton College of Business have seen positive employment outcomes since graduation.


Posted:7/8/2009
University of Arkansas Distance Education Task Force to Design Plan to Attract More Students

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The recently created University of Arkansas Distance Education Task Force is devising a plan this summer to attract more students to the university by expanding its academic offerings through distance delivery, including online courses.


Posted:7/7/2009
New Book Explores History and Future of Rail in Northwest Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Faculty, staff and students at the Fay Jones School of Architecture’s award-winning Community Design Center visualize a greener, more urban future for the Northwest Arkansas region in the new book NWA Rail: Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas. Steve Luoni, director of the University of Arkansas Community Design   Center, has met with various civic groups to discuss the possibility of light rail in northwest Arkansas and will lead a public presentation and discussion at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30, in the Walker Community Room of the Fayetteville Public Library. A companion exhibition will be on display in the library’s reading room from mid-July through August.


Posted:7/6/2009
University of Arkansas Press Announces Winner and Finalists of the Inaugural Miller Williams Poetry Prize

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Michael Walsh of Minneapolis has won the University of Arkansas Press’ inaugural $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize for his poetry collection, The Dirt Riddles. The book will be published in the spring of next year. Walsh will give a featured reading at the 2010 Arkansas Festival of Writers, sponsored by the university’s programs in creative writing and translation.


Posted:7/3/2009
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Renewed For Third Year After Achieving 2009 Membership Goal

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.


Posted:7/2/2009
Multicultural Center Aligns with Vice Provost for Diversity

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In another “Students First” move the University of Arkansas Multicultural Center will now be aligned with the vice provost for diversity.


Posted:7/2/2009
Small Business Center to Add Three NWA Counties to Service Area

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Arkansas is expanding its territory in Northwest Arkansas.


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
New Logo for University of Arkansas in Use Starting Today

Official departments, centers and units of the University of Arkansas may start using the university's new logo as of today.


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
KUAF Announces New Building Name in Honor of Long-Time Patrons, Lynn and Joel Carver

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas public radio station, KUAF 91.3 FM, announced the official name of its new building: the Lynn and Joel Carver Center for Public Radio.


Posted:6/24/2009
Faculty Artist Commissioned to Produce Mural of Historic Kansas Township

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.


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:6/26/2009
University of Arkansas Appoints Gattis as Associate Dean of the Honors College

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Carol Schubert Gattis, currently director of engineering recruitment, retention, honors, international programs and diversity, has been named associate dean of the Honors College at the University of Arkansas.


Posted:6/25/2009
Governor Beebe Releases $1.5 Million to University of Arkansas for Nanotech Research Center

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is receiving an additional $1.5 million toward construction of a new Nanotechnology Research Center, thanks to a decision by Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe. Last month the governor released the money from the state’s General Improvement Fund.


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:6/23/2009
University of Arkansas Appoints Smith as Interim Dean of College of Education and Health Professions

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas professor Tom Smith has been appointed interim dean of the College of Education and Health Professions.


Posted:6/23/2009
Collis Geren, Dean of Graduate School, to Retire After 34 Years at University of Arkansas

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.


Posted:6/18/2009
Three University of Arkansas Press Books in Music and Poetry Receive Awards

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – At this year’s big Book Expo America fair held in New York City in late May a number of organizations announced their annual book awards and University of Arkansas Press books picked up two of them.


Posted:6/17/2009
Schwab Named Dean of J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas professor William Schwab, interim dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences since July 2008, has been named dean of the Fulbright College, effective July 1. He will serve in that capacity for two years.


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:6/8/2009
New University of Arkansas Press Book Explores Politics and Government in the Natural State

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, edited by Janine A. Perry and Richard P. Wang (paperback, $39.95), brings together in one place some of the best available scholarly research, both new and not so new, on a wide range of topics and issues of interest to students of politics and government in the Natural State.


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:6/5/2009
University of Arkansas Students Will See No Tuition Increase for 2009-10 Academic Year

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees has approved a tuition request from University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart that will leave tuition unchanged for the next academic year – the first time in 24 years that the university has not implemented a tuition increase.


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:6/4/2009
Blogging Presents Challenge for Sport Organizations, University of Arkansas Researcher Finds

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Sport organizations are grappling with what to do about bloggers, according to research by a University of Arkansas professor. Issues center on whether to grant access to bloggers and what requirements to set to grant credentials for this new media form.


Posted:6/2/2009
University of Arkansas Solar Splash Teams Gather Awards

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Solar Splash boating teams earned several awards during the 2009 competition on Lake Fayetteville.


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:5/1/2009
No H1N1 Flu Cases at University of Arkansas; Health Center Offers Information and Prevention Tips

 


Posted:5/19/2009
University of Arkansas Staff Celebrates Staff, Hosts Appreciation Picnic

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Staff Senate is hosting its 11th annual staff appreciation picnic and vendor fair from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21, at the Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.


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:5/20/2009
Students Compete, Match Keywords to Brand in Google Competition

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – An international marketing competition with more than 1,500 teams is giving students real-life experiences as they work together for businesses.


Posted:5/14/2009
University of Arkansas Recognized With Governor's Work-Life Balance Gold Award

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.


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:5/14/2009
Nomination Deadline for Arkansas Business Hall of Fame

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Business and community leaders throughout the state are invited to submit nominations for the 2010 Arkansas Business Hall of Fame by July 1, 2009.


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:5/13/2009
Noted Lawyer to Give Commencement Speech at University of Arkansas School of Law

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.


Posted:5/13/2009
Walton College Team First Runner-Up in Superbowl of Business Plan Competitions

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.  


Posted:5/12/2009
Education Reform Professor to Testify Before Congress About Washington, D.C., Voucher Program


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
Walton College to Establish Center in Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

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.


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
Three Candidates to Interview on Campus for Dean of College of Education and Health Professions

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Three candidates for the position of dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas have been selected by the search committee to visit the campus for interviews.


Posted:5/6/2009
Business Week Ranks Walton College Accounting in Top 20 Public Programs

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Business Week has ranked the accounting specialty at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in a tie for 19th place among the top public undergraduate business schools.


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:5/5/2009
Chemical Engineering Receives University of Arkansas Departmental Gold Medal

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Engineering’s Ralph E. Martin department of chemical engineering received the 2009 Departmental Gold Medal from the University of Arkansas.


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
No Swine Flu Cases at University of Arkansas; Health Center Vigilant, Offers Prevention Tips

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Up-to-the-minute information about the H1N1 “swine” flu, its symptoms and ways to prevent the disease can be found on the Pat Walker Health Center Web site at: http://health.uark.edu/.


Posted:4/30/2009
Aslin, Communication Disorders Instructor, Adds National Award for Advising to His Honors

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.


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:4/29/2009
University of Arkansas Press Poetry Title Garners Acclaim

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.


Posted:4/29/2009
School of Law Names Director of Development and External Relations

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Patti Cox has been named director of development and external relations for the University of Arkansas School of Law, effective June 1.


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 Appoints McCray as Vice Provost for Enrollment Management

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.


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
Colleges Partner on Grant to Improve Middle Level Teachers' Math Content Knowledge

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.  


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
U.S. News Ranks University of Arkansas School of Law in Top Tier

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – U.S. News and World Report’s 2010 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools has ranked the University of Arkansas School of Law in the top tier of the nation’s law schools.


Posted:4/24/2009
University of Arkansas Students Recognized During the Student Involvement and Leadership Awards

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Student Involvement and Leadership Awards ceremony was held last week in the Arkansas Union Alltel Ballroom. The awards acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of university students and organizations in the areas of academic and co-curricular activities.


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:4/23/2009
University of Arkansas Team Takes Top Prize in Wal-Mart Better Living Business Plan Challenge

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.


Posted:4/22/2009
University of Arkansas Recognized for First Green Globes-Rated Apartments in the Country

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.


Posted:4/22/2009
Center for Math and Science Education Receives Grant to Offer Summer Teachers' Institutes

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – For the 14th consecutive year, the Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Arkansas has received federal funding to offer one or more summer institutes for 30 to 60 teachers, this time receiving the largest grant award for this particular program through the state of Arkansas.


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:4/22/2009
University of Arkansas Commencement 2009: Schedule, Security and Parking Information

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas and most of its colleges and schools will hold 2009 commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 9. The University of Arkansas School of Law commencement ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 16. Additional graduation information can be found at: http://www.uark.edu/home/commencement.php.  


Posted:4/21/2009
Walton College Director Elected to American Association of Blacks in Higher Education Leadership

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Barbara A. Lofton, director of diversity programs for the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, was elected to vice president/president-elect for the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education.


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
Judge Morris Arnold, Johnelle Hunt Among Speakers at University of Arkansas Commencement 2009

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Federal Appeals Court Judge Morris S. Arnold and noted businesswoman and philanthropist Johnelle DeBusk Hunt will receive honorary degrees from the University of Arkansas and speak at the 2009 All-University Commencement Saturday, May 9, at Walton Arena. The ceremony begins at 8:45 a.m.


Posted:4/16/2009
University of Arkansas Conference to Explore Issues of Teacher Quality

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – State Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, will be the featured speaker at a daylong state conference titled “Preparing Highly Qualified Teachers for Arkansas” on April 28 in Little Rock.


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.


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Posted:4/15/2009
University of Arkansas's Walton College to Partner with Vietnamese University

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.


Posted:4/15/2009
College of Engineering Receives Three-Year Grant to Boost Teachers' Knowledge of Physical Science

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Engineering, partnering with the College of Education and Health Professions and nine public school districts throughout northwest Arkansas, received a $488,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund a two-week summer program designed to increase 40 middle school science teachers’ knowledge in physical science.


Posted:4/14/2009
College of Education and Health Professions at University of Arkansas to Honor Top Students

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas will honor top students and scholarship winners at its annual Honors Convocation on Thursday, April 16, at the Center for Continuing Education.


Posted:4/14/2009
University of Arkansas School of Law Professor Wins 2009 International Human Rights Essay Award

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.


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:4/8/2009
State Supreme Court Justices to Lead Judges Day Program at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two Arkansas Supreme Court justices will join fellow judges, attorneys, professors and journalists at the University of Arkansas for Judges Day, a seminar to focus on the inherent conflicts between the media and the judiciary.


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:4/7/2009
National Media Commentator to Look at Obama's First 100 Days in Office

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.


Posted:4/6/2009
University of Arkansas Press Celebrates National Poetry Month With Book Sale

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It’s April again, and for some poetry lovers it’s the “cruelest month,” to quote T. S. Eliot, but for most poetry lovers across the country April means National Poetry Month, and the University of Arkansas Press is celebrating with a poetry sale.


Posted:4/2/2009
Bush, Pickens Appearances to Make for a 'Big Day on Campus' at the University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Any time the University of Arkansas can host a former president it is a major event. The opportunity for the university to present a town hall meeting with the main figure in a nationwide campaign for energy independence is equally significant.


Posted:4/1/2009
George H.W. Bush to Speak at University of Arkansas; Parking, Security and Program Information

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Former president George H.W. Bush will deliver a free lecture at Barnhill Arena on the University of Arkansas campus at 8 p.m. Monday, April 6, as part of the university’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The public is welcome and no tickets are required.


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:4/1/2009
University of Arkansas Teaching Center Welcomes New Co-Director

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.


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 Aligns Student Affairs With Provost's Office to Bring Students Closer to Academic Mission

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.


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:3/25/2009
A 'Clean House': University of Arkansas Completes Cleanup of Three Hazardous Waste Sites

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.


Posted:3/24/2009
University Refocuses on Minority Recruitment; Robinson to Lead Diversity Enhancement Effort

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.


Posted:3/17/2009
Nationally Known Nurse-Educator to Address University of Arkansas Conference

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.”


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:3/12/2009
University of Arkansas to Recommend No Tuition Increase for 2009-10 Academic Year

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas is developing a budget for the 2009-10 academic year that would result in no increase in tuition over the current year’s level.


Posted:3/13/2009
Original Pottery by Jennifer Pease on Exhibit at University of Arkansas Global Campus

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Thirty original works by functional potter Jennifer Pease are on exhibit through April 24 in the lobby of the University of Arkansas Global Campus Center for Continuing Education at 2 E. Center St. in Fayetteville.


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:3/11/2009
State Board Gives Continued Approval to Nursing School's Degree Program

The Arkansas State Board of Nursing voted in January to grant continued full approval to the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for its Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program until 2013.


Posted:3/12/2009
Walton College Team Turns UAMS Breast-Cancer Test into Winning National Business Plan

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.


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
Business Week Ranks Walton College in Top 50 Public Programs

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Business Week has ranked the undergraduate business program at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas at 43rd among the top public undergraduate programs.


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
University of Arkansas Press Book Digs into Old Washington's Past

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – An uncommon view of an antebellum town in Arkansas is explored in the University of Arkansas Press’ Digging for History at Old Washington (cloth, $34.95) by Mary L. Kwas, with a Foreword by Jay S. Miller.


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:2/20/2009
Gunter Steps Down as Director of Athletic Bands at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Timothy Gunter, director of athletic bands at the University of Arkansas for the past nine years, has announced that he will be leaving the university effective June 30.


Posted:2/19/2009
Two Prominent Arkansans to Receive Honorary Degrees From the University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Federal Appeals Court Judge Morris S. Arnold and noted businesswoman and philanthropist Johnelle DeBusk Hunt will receive honorary degrees from the University of Arkansas and speak at the All-University Commencement Saturday, May 9.


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
University of Arkansas Estimates Ice Storm Damage and Cleanup at $700,000

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.


Posted:2/19/2009
Speaker to Explain How Rocks With Rhythm Help Determine Changes in Earth-Moon Distance

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A certain type of rock that records the changing distance between the Earth and the Moon will be the topic of a talk at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in the Space Center Theater in the Old Museum Building on the University of Arkansas campus.


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:2/18/2009
National Initiative to Address Shortages in Science, Mathematics Teachers

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.


Posted:2/18/2009
University of Arkansas ESL Symposium Features Nationally Recognized Speakers

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas announces the first symposium covering English as a second language for educators April 3 at the Fayetteville Town Center with two sessions featuring nationally renowned experts on English language learners.


Posted:2/17/2009
Arkansas Professor: Employer Contributions for Teacher Pensions Higher Than in Private Sector

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Analysis of new data from the U.S. Department of Labor shows that employer contributions to retirement benefits for public school teachers in 2008 were substantially higher than for private professionals, a group that includes lawyers, physicians, financial managers, engineers, computer programmers and others.


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:2/16/2009
UA Information Technology Research Institute Presents Conference for Women

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. The Information Technology Research Institute, a research unit in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, is sponsoring a day-long conference for women in technology on Friday, March 13.


Posted:2/16/2009
Energy Expert to Discuss America's Dependence and the Heightened Competition for Global Resources.

ROGERS, Ark. -- The Arkansas World Trade Center will host Wendell Cox, principal of Demographia, a St. Louis-based public policy firm specializing in demographics, urban policy and transportation, as part of the center’s Brown Bag luncheon series, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Arkansas World Trade Center.


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:2/12/2009
University of Arkansas Autism Symposium Offers Tools to Educators, Health Practitioners

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Organizers of the University of Arkansas’ second annual Symposium on Autism Spectrum Disorders in March represent several professions, and they hope to increase the knowledge of educators and health practitioners from various fields who share a common goal of helping children with autism.


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:2/11/2009
The Play's the Thing: 'Discovery Arkansas' to Promote Talents of Area High School Playwrights

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Southern white sharecroppers, an uptight reporter who meets a ghostly thug from Al Capone’s gang and a family separated during the great Mississippi flood are among the characters four young playwrights will bring to life and to the stage during the New Play Festival this spring.


Posted:2/10/2009
'Say Go College Week' at University of Arkansas Introduces Prospective Students to Campus

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has joined other colleges in the state and the Arkansas Department of Higher Education to support “Say Go College Week,” Feb. 16-22.


Posted:2/9/2009
Ice Storm Heroes at the University of Arkansas: Parts V and VI

Editor’s Note: This is the final part of an ongoing series of stories about the university staff who worked through Ice Storm 2009. This and other installments may also be found at http://icestorm2009.uark.edu/.


Posted:2/9/2009
University of Arkansas Presents Campus Preservation Master Plan

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will offer a public presentation of its new Campus Preservation Master Plan at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, in Carnall Hall, Room 142, on the University of Arkansas 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
Ice Storm Heroes at the University of Arkansas: Part IV

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth part of an ongoing series of stories about the university staff who worked through Ice Storm 2009. This and other installments may also be found at http://icestorm2009.uark.edu/


Posted:2/5/2009
Ice Storm Heroes at the University of Arkansas: Part III

Editor’s Note: This is the third part of an ongoing series of stories about the university staff who worked through Ice Storm 2009. This and other installments may also be found at http://www.uark.edu/rd_vcad/urel/iceStorm2009.


Posted:2/5/2009
Ice Storm Heroes at the University of Arkansas: Part II

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of an ongoing series of stories about the university staff who worked through Ice Storm 2009. This and other installments may be found at http://www.uark.edu/rd_vcad/urel/iceStorm2009.


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:2/5/2009
Razorback Day at the Capitol: Putting Higher Education Front and Center

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Alumni and friends of the University of Arkansas will take higher education’s most critical issues to the state’s legislators during Razorback Day at the Capitol, a new initiative, to be held Wednesday, Feb. 11.


Posted:2/4/2009
University Days Offers Invigorating, Hands-On Science Education

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.


Posted:2/5/2009
Headliner Concerts Committee to Bring Grammy-Nominated Rap Artist T.I. to Barnhill Arena

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Headliner Concerts Committee will bring rap artist T.I. to Barnhill Arena at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, as the spring concert. University students may pick up their tickets beginning at 7 a.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in the Arkansas Union Alltel Ballroom.


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
University of Arkansas Student Government Organizes 'Campus Restoration Day'

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Associated Student Government of the University of Arkansas is working with the department of facilities management and the Volunteer Action Center to organize a campuswide cleanup event to help remove the tree limbs and other debris from last week’s ice storm.


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

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:1/26/2009
Local Sculptor's Work Part of University of Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration


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
Acclaimed Sociologist Invites Arkansas Professor to Contribute to Inaugural Issue of New Journal


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:1/21/2009
Agreement Provides for Exchange of Students between Arkansas, Sweden

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.


Posted:1/21/2009
University Programs to Host 'Water Works' by Artist Jack Brumbaugh

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas’ University Programs will host a reception featuring artist Jack Brumbaugh from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, at the Anne Kittrell Art Gallery on the fourth floor of the Arkansas Union.


Posted:1/16/2009
University of Arkansas School of Architecture Named in Honor of Late Architect, Professor Fay Jones

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.


Posted:1/20/2009
University of Arkansas Press Book Honors the Life of the State's Greatest Archaeologist

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press’s Sam Dellinger: Raiders of the Lost Arkansas (cloth $39.95) by Robert C. Mainfort Jr. tells the story of one man’s quest to save Arkansas’ past.


Posted:1/15/2009
Gearhart to Create New Student Scholarship Funds In Lieu Of Formal Inaugural Ceremony

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.


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:1/14/2009
University of Arkansas Press Anthology Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Influential Literary Journal

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.


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
University of Arkansas to Launch 'Razors EDGE' Energy Savings Program

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas and Energy Systems Group will kick off the Razors EDGE energy savings program at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, with a presentation at the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building, Room 311.


Posted:1/13/2009
University of Arkansas Study of Voucher Program Finds Parents Satisfied, Say They Are More Involved

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Parents report that having a choice of where to send their children to school boosts their satisfaction with and involvement in schools, a study of the publicly funded school voucher program in Washington, D.C., has found.


Posted:1/13/2009
University of Arkansas RFID Research Center Receives National Recognition

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The RFID (radio frequency identification) Research Center at the University of Arkansas has been listed by Network World in the top “10 really cool university networking labs.” The article appeared on Dec. 15, 2008.


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
University of Arkansas Creates Commission to Focus on College Affordability, Efficiency of Operations

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – To increase efficiency in all aspects of operations at the University of Arkansas with an eye toward affordability, Chancellor G. David Gearhart has created a commission charged with reviewing spending practices and eliminating duplication of services at the university.


Posted:1/8/2009
'Recommitment' and 'Change' Highlight Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A veteran of the civil rights movement, an Arkansas district judge and the first African American dean of the School of Law at the University of Arkansas will join in the northwest Arkansas celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.


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:12/23/2008
Conference on Nanotechnology in Health Care to Be Held at Winthrop Rockefeller Institute

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Leading researchers from Arkansas and around the nation will convene Jan. 8-10, 2009, for the Statewide Conference on Nanotechnology for Healthcare to be held at the University of Arkansas Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain.


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:12/22/2008
Anthropologist Wins National Recognition for Research, Education

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.


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
University of Arkansas Press Publishes First Comprehensive History of Arkansas' Race Relations

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.


Posted:12/18/2008
University of Arkansas Study of Voucher Program Finds Parents Satisfied, Say They Are More Involved

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Parents report that having a choice of where to send their children to school boosts their satisfaction with and involvement in schools, a study of the publicly funded school voucher program in Washington, D.C., has found.


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:12/15/2008
University Has New Official Source for Inclement Weather Operating Status Information

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – 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:12/11/2008
Razorback Fans Can Vote Again for Game Winning Play and Veterans Scholarships

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –University of Arkansas Razorback fans can vote again for Arkansas to win the Pontiac Game Changing Performance of the Year and to support scholarships for U.S. veterans at the university.


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
University of Arkansas Professors Advise President-elect to Put Children First in Reform

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Three University of Arkansas professors have written a paper offering advice to President-elect Obama on what education reform measures he should pursue during his administration.


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:11/26/2008
University of Arkansas Appoints Sharon Gaber as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

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.


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:11/24/2008
University of Arkansas Task Force to Study Needs of Student Veterans

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A newly formed University of Arkansas Veterans Task Force convened last week to begin assessing the needs of student veterans on campus, and of students who are currently serving in the military.


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:11/19/2008
University of Arkansas Team Finishes Third in FedEx Freight International Logistics Competition

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Top logistics students from the United States and Europe traveled to Fayetteville to compete in the annual FedEx Freight International Graduate Logistics Case Competition, Nov. 11-15. The event was managed by the Supply Chain Management Research Center in the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business.


Posted:11/19/2008
Walton College to Hold IT Day for Parents and Educators

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Information Technology Research Institute and the department of information systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is sponsoring its first IT Day for Parents and Educators.


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:11/13/2008
Professing an Interest in Higher Education: Graduate School Courses Prepare Next Generation of Professors

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Rob Sleezer wanted a peek behind the curtain, he says, evoking images of Toto exposing the man operating the machinery in the Wizard of Oz. In this case, Sleezer was referring to what it’s like to be a college professor.


Posted:11/12/2008
University of Arkansas Kicks Off Student Sustainability Competition, Offers $30,000 in Prizes

Editor's note: Competition rules and regulations document updated Jan. 14, 2009, and is available for download.


Posted:11/11/2008
Nadine Strossen, ACLU President for 17 Years, to Speak at University of Arkansas School of Law


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
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Powerful World War II Prisoner of War Memoir

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.


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:11/6/2008
University of Arkansas Sponsors Conference to Discuss How History Will Judge Bush

VILLANOVA, Pa. – How will history judge President Bush?


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:11/4/2008
Students in Free Enterprise to Hold Case Study Competition

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas’ Students In Free Enterprise will sponsor GlassCo Fiasco, a seminar for area sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students to learn business ethics on Friday, Nov. 14.


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:11/1/2008
Scholarships Created by Lindsey, Razorback Foundation, 1979 Football Seniors Awarded

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Five students from the College of Education and Health Professions’ athletic training graduate program at the University of Arkansas have received scholarships created in honor of Dean Weber and Bill Ferrell. The awards were presented Saturday, Nov. 1.


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
State's Premier Business Assistance Program Announces New Name and Focus

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Innovation and technology businesses sprout up in the fertile fields and research labs of Arkansas, not just in Seattle and the Silicon Valley. The Arkansas Small Business Development Center, the state’s largest and most comprehensive business assistance program, is changing its name to underscore its commitment to help Arkansas science and technology entrepreneurs.


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:10/30/2008
University of Arkansas' Free Fall Festival of the Arts Kicks Off Nov. 3

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Free Fall Festival of the Arts committee is pleased to present this year’s fall programming with a kickoff event in the Arkansas Union Connections Lounge with live art, free food and more, 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 3.


Posted:10/29/2008
Premiere of Silent Film Score to Highlight 15th Annual University of Arkansas Native American Symposium

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A new score written by silent film musicologist Rodney Sauer for the classic 1929 Paramount Technicolor feature Redskin, will have its premiere in a live performance by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main.


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
University of Arkansas Students and Professors Debate 'The Meaning of McCain v. Obama'

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas professors and the student leaders of the College Republicans and the Young Democrats will debate and discuss “The Meaning of McCain v. Obama” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Room 338 of the Leflar Law Center. The debate is free and open to the public.


Posted:10/27/2008
Lyrique Quintette Concert to Feature Premiere Performance, Famous Paintings

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Lyrique Quintette at the University of Arkansas will present a concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the university campus. Admission is free and open to the public.


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 Family Weekend Kicks-Off Friday; Honorary Family of the Year Announced


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
Egyptian Scholars Visit University of Arkansas Community Design Center, Plan Little Rock Park

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.


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:10/15/2008
Grant of $4 Million Funds Rehabilitation Training, Technical Assistance at Hot Springs-Based Center

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A new $4 million federal grant allows a rehabilitation technical assistance and training center based in the University of Arkansas to continue its support of professionals working with people with disabilities.


Posted:10/15/2008
University of Arkansas Supply Chain Research Center Awards Doctoral Prize

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.


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:10/8/2008
University of Arkansas Celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day; Show Time Corrected on Film

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Indigenous Peoples Day is designed to celebrate and honor the traditions and history of indigenous groups of the world. The University of Arkansas indigenous peoples committee has chosen Columbus Day, Oct. 12 through 13, to celebrate indigenous people.


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:10/8/2008
University of Arkansas Walton College Announces 2009 Arkansas Business Hall of Fame Inductees

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas Business Hall of Fame celebrates its 11th year with the induction of four exceptional Arkansas business leaders. Since its founding in 1999, 42 individuals have been honored for their accomplishments and lasting impact on the state.


Posted:10/6/2008
Jackson Cothren Appointed New Director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – William Schwab, interim dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, has appointed Jackson Cothren as the next director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas.


Posted:10/6/2008
Business Week Ranks Walton College Marketing and Corporate Strategy in Top 20

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Business Week has ranked two of the Sam M. Walton College of Business undergraduate specialties in the top 20 programs in the nation.


Posted:10/6/2008
University Headliner Concerts Committee Brings O.A.R. to Barnhill Arena on Nov. 10

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Headliner Concerts Committee is proud to bring O.A.R. to Barnhill Arena at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, as the fall concert. University students may pick up their tickets beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in the Arkansas Union Alltel Ballroom.


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
Residential Dining Halls at University of Arkansas Now Trayless to Help Reduce Carbon Footprint

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The three dining halls on the University of Arkansas campus have put away their trays. Brough Commons and the Northwest Quad officially removed trays during the week of Aug. 20. Pomfret dining hall hurdled a dish-washing equipment barrier and made the trayless move during the week of Aug. 25.


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:9/30/2008
Learn 'Occupation-Specific' Spanish at Your Own Pace With Command Spanish e-Training Programs

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Global Campus now offers Command Spanish e-Training courses online for those seeking to improve their communication skills in the work environment or provide better service to persons in the Hispanic community. These one-of-a-kind programs are designed to be efficient, reliable and extremely effective. Participants may register online by visiting www.globalcampus.uark.edu, clicking on Online Courses and then Command Spanish.


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

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:9/24/2008
Students in Free Enterprise to Sponsor Program for Area Realtors

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) at the University of Arkansas is offering an entrepreneurship program design specifically for the needs of area real estate agents in today’s market.


Posted:9/24/2008
Health Insurance Premium Increase to Affect University Budget, But Not Employee Paychecks

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will be paying more than $600,000 extra cost for faculty and staff health coverage, the university announced at its most recent board of trustees meeting.


Posted:9/23/2008
College of Engineering Exceeds Enrollment Hopes for Freshmen and Underrepresented Students

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Engineering made large gains in enrollment this year with increases in the overall number of freshmen and the number of underrepresented students. These increases are the result of recruitment strategies enacted by the college in recent years.


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:9/18/2008
Little Shop of Horrors: Artist Wins National Fellowship to Study and Paint Invasive Species

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Snakehead fish, honeybees, kudzu and feral pigs — also called razorbacks — are all invasive species. Some scientists think such invaders are among the top two or three forces driving other species into extinction. Kristin Musgnug finds in them the potential for art and for a different way of looking at the natural world.


Posted:9/17/2008
'Magic' Johnson to Speak in University of Arkansas Distinguished Lecture Series

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Earvin “Magic” Johnson – entrepreneur, philanthropist, HIV/AIDS activist, and one of the National Basketball Association’s “50 Greatest Players” – will speak at the University of Arkansas as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series for the 2008-09 academic year.


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:9/15/2008
New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof to Speak at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Renowned New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will speak at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in the Arkansas Union Ballroom. The presentation is sponsored by the University Programs’ Cultures & Concepts Committee.


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:9/8/2008
Reed Greenwood, Dean of College of Education and Health Professions, Announces Retirement

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.


Posted:9/9/2008
University of Arkansas Researcher Part of National Initiative to Reduce Cost of Mapping Human Genome

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –Some researchers are calling it the largest biology project ever undertaken by scientists: mapping out the DNA sequence of the human genome. The mapping that once took years is now taking months, but the cost is astronomical — producing a high quality sequence of a mammal-sized genome can cost from $10 to $50 million dollars.


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

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
University of Arkansas Centers to Offer Disney Keys to Excellence

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two organizations at the University of Arkansas have joined together to bring the Disney Institute’s renowned professional development program to northwest Arkansas.


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:8/28/2008
University to Experience Electric Bill Shock; Conservation Needed in Coming Year

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will be paying more for electricity over the next 12 months: $1.2 million more than last year, which is also $1.2 million more than the university budgeted.


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
Chancellor Puts Students First at the Heart of His First Day of Classes Greeting

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 http://chancellor.uark.edu/13315.php.


Posted:8/25/2008
University of Arkansas Appoints Pontious as Associate Vice Chancellor for Development

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.


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
University of Arkansas Ranked in Top-Tier by U.S. News and World Report

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The 2009 edition of America’s Best Colleges, theannual consumer survey prepared by U.S. News and World Report, lists the University of Arkansas in the top tier of national universities.


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:8/21/2008
University of Arkansas Withdraws Offer for Fayetteville High School Property

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has withdrawn its offer to the Fayetteville Board of Education to purchase the adjacent 40-acre property containing the buildings and grounds of Fayetteville High School.


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
University of Arkansas Pi Beta Phi Chapter Receives Highest Fraternity Honor Two Years in a Row

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas Alpha chapter of Pi Beta Phi fraternity for women at the University of Arkansas recently received the fraternity’s highest and most prestigious honor, the Balfour Cup, for the second year in a row.


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:8/21/2008
Walton College Faculty to Work with Economics Nobel Prize Winner at Chapman University

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Cary Deck, associate professor of economics in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, will be a visiting professor at the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University for the 2008-2009 academic year.


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
University Police and Parking to Enforce Scooter Rules

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.


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
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at University of Arkansas Announces Retirement

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.


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
School of Law Awarded Grant to Host Ukrainian Law Professors, Law Deans and Judges

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas School of Law and Freedom House have been awarded an Open World Program grant to host delegations of Ukrainian law professors, law deans and judges this fall.


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:7/30/2008
University of Arkansas Ranked Among 'Greenest' Schools by Princeton Review

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Any prospective student reading the 2009 edition of The Princeton Review’s The Best 368 Colleges will find essentially the same information about the University of Arkansas they found in the last two editions, with one significant difference.


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
Education, Engineering Officials Explore Collaboration with United Arab Emirates

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.


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:7/14/2008
University of Arkansas Engineering Students Take First Place in Design Contest

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two 2008 electrical engineering graduates took first place in Texas Instruments’ University Analog Design Contest. Derik Trowler and Bret Whitaker will split the $10,000 prize money. The students competed against teams from more than 16 universities.


Posted:7/10/2008
Up Close and Personal: Portraits by Craig E. Nelson on Display at Mullins Library

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.


Posted:7/9/2008
Bringing It All Together: K-12 Education Web Portal Created for Educators and Researchers

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Teachers and students in the state of Arkansas now have one easy stop for education resources, thanks to a new Web portal created by the Council of University of Arkansas Research Libraries. The K-12 Education Portal Web site is designed to help Arkansas teachers and students locate and use K-12 learning resources throughout the state.


Posted:7/9/2008
University of Arkansas Centers to Offer Disney Keys to Excellence

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two organizations at the University of Arkansas have joined together to bring the Disney Institute’s renowned professional development program to Northwest Arkansas.


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:7/3/2008
Five Graduates Named Fulbright Scholars; Six Undergraduates Earn Study Abroad Scholarships

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Five recent graduates from the University of Arkansas were awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarships to study abroad during the next academic year. Their studies will range from advanced international studies in Vienna to the study of language and culture in Malaysia.


Posted:7/7/2008
Vendors FORE Education Golf Tournament to Feature Indy Driver Sarah Fisher

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The 12th annual Vendors FORE Education golf tournament, sponsored by Wal-Mart vendors, will be held Friday, July 18, at Stonebridge Meadows Golf Club, 3495 East Goff Farms Road, Fayetteville.


Posted:7/1/2008
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Two New Poetry Collections

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series, edited by Enid Shomer, has two new additions to its lengthy and distinguished list. 


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:6/24/2008
University of Arkansas Tobacco-Free Policy Goes into Effect July 1

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will become one of the first major universities in the country to be completely tobacco-free when the policy prohibiting use of all tobacco products goes into effect on July 1.


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:6/12/2008
University of Arkansas Brings Solar Splash 2008 to Lake Fayetteville

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.


Posted:6/12/2008
University of Arkansas Researcher Finds Bibles' Subtext in Design and Fonts


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:6/9/2008
Undergraduates Do Advanced Research at University of Arkansas This Summer

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – College undergraduates from Arkansas and across the country are spending their summer getting a taste of the graduate school experience, thanks to three programs at the University of Arkansas.


Posted:6/6/2008
University of Arkansas to Tender $50 Million Offer for Fayetteville High School Property

MORRILTON, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will tender an offer of $50 million to the Fayetteville Board of Education to acquire the adjacent Fayetteville High School property, based upon a recommendation approved today by the university’s Board of Trustees.


Posted:6/6/2008
Recommendation to University of Arkansas Board of Trustees Regarding Fayetteville High School Property

– Presented by Dr. G. David Gearhart, chancellor-elect


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:6/4/2008
University Advancement's 'Green' Publication Going Campus-wide


Posted:6/3/2008
Fowler House Construction by Flintco Wins Top Award in the State


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:5/27/2008
Nomination Deadline for Arkansas Business Hall of Fame

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Business and community leaders throughout the state are invited to submit nominations for the 2009 Arkansas Business Hall of Fame by July 1, 2008.


Posted:5/22/2008
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Collection of Tales by Arkansas Biologists


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:5/21/2008
Loewer Named to Hall of Distinction at Louisiana State University


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:5/20/2008
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Three New Books on Civil Rights History

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Three new books from the University of Arkansas Press demonstrate the press's long-time commitment to publishing important books in the field of civil rights history.


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:5/15/2008
Civil Engineering Professor Receives University's Top Teaching Honor

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.


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:5/12/2008
University of Arkansas Program Wins National Science Foundation Media 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.


Posted:5/7/2008
University Revises Budget, Proposes Salary Increases for Faculty and Staff in 2008-09

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Arkansas expects to offer modest raises to faculty and staff under a new budget model for the 2008-09 fiscal year, despite initial concerns that a proposed cut of nearly $5 million in state funding for the university might hinder its ability to offer pay increases.


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:5/8/2008
National Agricultural Law Center Creates Historical Farm Bill Database

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The National Agricultural Law Center at the University of Arkansas School of Law recently published a comprehensive digitized compilation of U.S. Farm Bills and their legislative history. The information is available free of charge on the center's Web site at http://NationalAgLawCenter.org/farmbills/.


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:5/6/2008
Composer to Have Works Published, Available to an International Audience

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.


Posted:5/1/2008
University of Arkansas to Open Global Campus Location in Rogers

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Arkansas Global Campus will open a new location in Rogers to offer courses leading to degree completion programs for students pursuing University of Arkansas baccalaureate degrees.


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
Schwab Named Interim Dean for J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - University of Arkansas professor William Schwab, chair of the department of sociology and criminal justice in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, has been named interim dean of Fulbright College, effective July 1.


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
International Students on Campus: Rich Opportunities Plus Complex Cultural Issues

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.


Posted:4/28/2008
Schedule, Security and Parking Information for 2008 Commencement

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Arkansas and most of its colleges and schools will hold commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 10. The University of Arkansas School of Law commencement ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 17.


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:4/22/2008
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Memoir of Five Generations Working Arkansas Delta Farm

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.


Posted:4/22/2008
Law Students to Host Fashion Benefit


Posted:4/22/2008
Jerry Rose Wins International Award for Mentorship


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

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
University of Arkansas Offers Five-Day Back Country Course to Instill Respect for Land

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.


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
Study: School Financing System Improved Following Lake View


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:4/15/2008
SEC Academic Consortium Officially Opens Fayetteville Headquarters

More information about the consortium can be found at www.secac.uark.edu


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 Engineering, Division of Agriculture Host Conference on Renewable, Efficient Energy

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -The College of Engineering and the Division of Agriculture will host the Conference for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 21 at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development on the campus of the University of Arkansas.


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:4/14/2008
Walton College Students to Compete in Wal-Mart's Better Living Business Plan Challenge

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Students from Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will travel to the home office of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, Ark., to compete in the Better Living Business Plan Challenge on Friday, April 18.


Posted:4/11/2008
University of Arkansas Appoints Choate as Vice Chancellor for University Advancement

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.


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:4/9/2008
School of Law Professor Updates Famous Legal Education Book


Posted:4/8/2008
Sen. Argue to Assess State Educational System After Lake View Lawsuit

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – State Sen. Jim Argue, D-Little Rock, will speak about “Lake View and Beyond” at a daylong conference April 22 in Little Rock examining the current status of Arkansas public education.


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:3/27/2008
Maurer Lecture by Nobel Winner to Highlight Celebration of Physics Centennial

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.


Posted:3/31/2008
Physics Department to Unveil an Audiokinetic Sculpture During Centennial Celebration

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In 1907, shortly after Einstein published his theory of relativity, the University of Arkansas created its physics department.


Posted:4/3/2008
School of Law to Dedicate Bobby McDaniel Trial Practice Classroom

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.


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:4/3/2008
David Williams Finds New Home at University of Arkansas


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:4/2/2008
University of Arkansas Bookstore 'Going Green' with Sustainability Initiative

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - This April, as the campus foliage turns green, the University Bookstore is launching a series of "green" initiatives to help the campus work toward environmental sustainability.


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:4/1/2008
Global Supply Chain Key Topic at Logistics Conference

Featured topics include:


Posted:4/1/2008
Ferritor Lecturer to Focus on Immigrant Children in Arkansas


Posted:3/28/2008
Trustees Approve Tuition and Fee Increases at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees approved on Friday, March 28, a request for an increase of tuition and fees for the University of Arkansas campus.


Posted:3/31/2008
Ambassador Mark Dybul to Discuss America's Response to Worldwide AIDS Crisis

 


Posted:3/31/2008
Sustainable Suburbs: Professor's New Book Creates Checklist for 'Green' Residential Development

Trees rate high, as well.


Posted:3/28/2008
School of Law to Host USDA General Counsel


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:3/20/2008
Olympic Medalist, Best-Selling Author Next Distinguished Lecturers at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Apolo Ohno, winner of two Olympic gold medals in short distance speed skating, and Malcolm Gladwell, best selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, will be the next speakers in the University of Arkansas Distinguished Lecture Series.


Posted:3/20/2008
University of Arkansas Teams with Botanical Garden to Offer Series of Environmental Workshops for Teachers

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.


Posted:3/13/2008
Updated Fayetteville Shale Study Projects $17.9 Billion Economic Impact, 11,000 Jobs, $1.8 Billion in State Taxes in Arkansas Over Next Five Years

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Within a few short years, the Fayetteville Shale has become one of the state's most significant new economic engines and is projected to continue making a substantial economic impact on Arkansas over the next five years. A study released Thursday, March 13, provided updated economic impact figures generated by the thriving natural gas industry concentrated in the north central region of Arkansas projecting its impact from 2008 to 2012 to include:


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:3/6/2008
College of Engineering and National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission to Host AEP Discussion on Future of Energy Sources in America

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.


Posted:3/6/2008
University of Arkansas Office of Admissions Receives Three Admissions Advertising Awards

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Arkansas Office of Admissions was recognized in several categories in the 23rd Annual Admissions Advertising Awards.


Posted:3/4/2008
Children's Health and Safety Conference at the Center for Continuing Education

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The 2008 Children's Health and Safety conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at the University of Arkansas Center for Continuing Education located at 2 East Center Street on the downtown Fayetteville square.


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:2/29/2008
UA Q&A: Chancellor-Elect Gearhart Shares His Thoughts on Academic Leadership and Job He Assumes July 1

Gearhart, 55, was approved by the board on Jan. 25, 2008, to become the fifth chancellor of the University of Arkansas. He will succeed Chancellor John A. White on July 1, 2008. For more information on Gearhart's selection as chancellor, visit http://www.uark.edu/home/gearhart.php.


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:2/29/2008
Chief Academic Officer at University of Arkansas Stepping Down, Returning Full-Time to Faculty

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Bob Smith, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, has announced his intention to resign his position effective June 30, 2008.


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:2/28/2008
National Expert to Headline University of Arkansas Symposium on Autism Disorders

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Every Arkansas special education teacher is likely to work with a child who has autism.


Posted:2/28/2008
University of Arkansas School of Law Professor's Research Cited in Supreme Court Decision

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.


Posted:2/28/2008
Violin Maker to Discuss the Sound Secrets of the Instrument at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Terry Borman, a world-renowned violin maker now based in Fayetteville, will present a lecture, "Innovation in a Timeless Art - Science of the Stradivarius" at 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 7, in Room 132 of the Chemistry Building.


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
School of Architecture Plans Bicultural Brainstorm Session, Public Symposium on Cultural Landscape Preservation

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - How do you develop tourism in a richly historic, 74,000-acre mountain valley without sacrificing pure air, clean water, animal habitats and unsullied views? The University of Arkansas School of Architecture has organized a two-week, bicultural brainstorm session to explore this question. Beginning on March 3, a delegation of five Italian city and park officials will travel throughout Arkansas to discuss sustainable development ideas for Italy's Monti Simbruini Natural Regional Park.


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.