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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:12:33 CST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is There a 'Mozart Effect'? Ask a Neuroscientist AND a Musicologist]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; Neuroscientists and musicians have learned that looking at the brain on music can yield valuable insights into how the mind works. Yet, University of Arkansas music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis cautions that such research has produced some unintended consequences, such as the mistaken notion that listening to Mozart in particular boosts brainpower.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ronnie Brewer Makes Gift to Fulbright College]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; Former University of Arkansas Razorbacks standout basketball player Ronnie Brewer, currently playing for the Utah Jazz, gave $50,000 to the African American studies program in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. The gift will support scholarships for students enrolled in the program who are also interested in the journalism field.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[$900,000 Grant Will Allow Researchers to Take the Pulse of Northwest Arkansas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash;The face of northwest Arkansas is changing &mdash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Boyer Fellow Selected in Walton College]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Public Invited to Discuss Education of Boys]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; The popular media have investigated what&rsquo;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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Silas Hunt Scholars Welcomed to the University of Arkansas in Fifth Year of Program]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Arkansas Centers to Offer Disney Keys to Excellence]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; Two organizations at the University of Arkansas have joined together to bring the Disney Institute&rsquo;s renowned professional development program to northwest Arkansas.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Grant Will Fund Expanded Offerings in Asian Studies ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash;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&rsquo;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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University to Experience Electric Bill Shock; Conservation Needed in Coming Year]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jeannine Durdik Named Associate Dean for Research in Fulbright College]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Modeling Health Care Logistics in a Virtual World ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; Inefficient health care delivery &ndash; not patient care but business and support operations, including logistics and supply-chain networks, database- and inventory-management systems and patient-information systems &ndash; contributes significantly to rising costs and compromised quality of care and patient safety. To address this problem, University  of Arkansas researchers are using Second Life, the popular three-dimensional virtual world in which people work and play online, as a platform for modeling efficient health care delivery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Arkansas Appoints Pontious as Associate Vice Chancellor for Development]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Walton College Student to Appear on CNBC]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; An MBA student in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the &nbsp;University of Arkansas will appear on the CNBC program, <em>Squawk on the Street</em>, broadcast from the New York Stock Exchange, at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26.&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Grant Goes to Study Supermassive Black Holes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; A group of astronomers from the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences now has $1.4 million to study supermassive black holes and their role in the evolution of galaxies.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Arkansas Ranked in Top-Tier by U.S. News and World Report]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; The 2009 edition of <em>America&rsquo;s Best Colleges,</em> theannual consumer survey prepared by <em>U.S. News and World Report,</em> lists the University of Arkansas in the top tier of national universities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Arkansas Withdraws Offer for Fayetteville High School Property]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Volunteers Help University Housing with Student Move-in]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Arkansas Pi Beta Phi Chapter Receives Highest Fraternity Honor Two Years in a Row]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; The Arkansas Alpha chapter of Pi Beta Phi fraternity for women at the University of Arkansas recently received the fraternity&rsquo;s highest and most prestigious honor, the Balfour Cup, for the second year in a row.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fall Classes - and Welcome Weeks - begin Monday, Aug. 25]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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. &ldquo;Hog Wild&rdquo; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Walton College Faculty to Work with Economics Nobel Prize Winner at Chapman University ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Academic Convocation, Burger Bash Welcomes First-Year Students]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Research Center Sponsors Item-Level RFID Forum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash;&nbsp;The RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas &mdash; in partnership with the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals &mdash; is hosting a two-day forum on item-level RFID (radio frequency identification) tagging on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 9-10.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University Police and Parking to Enforce Scooter Rules]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; The popularity of motor scooters on the University of Arkansas campus is easy to understand: they&rsquo;re inexpensive, fun to ride, easy to park and they can go practically anywhere.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Show, Not Tell: UACDC Wins National Honors For Place-Based Planning]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; The University of Arkansas Community Design Center shows cities how to plan for the future in a project for <span style="line-height: 150%;">Monticello, Ark., that has won a 2008 Unbuilt <br />
Architecture Design Award sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects</span><span style="">. Instead of dictating the usual laundry list of zoning codes, </span><em><span style="line-height: 150%;">Monticello: Place-Based Planning in the Five Urbanisms of Every American Town</span></em><span style="">addresses all parts of the typical American city with a single rule and some guiding principles.</span>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Prestigious National Board Elects University of Arkansas Law Professor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Arkansas Names Bodenhamer Fellows, Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Program ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; <span style="line-height: 150%;">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.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEC and CBS Extend Multi-Media Contract ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; The Southeastern Conference and CBS Sports announced a 15 year extension of the network&rsquo;s contract to broadcast SEC football and basketball games. The new agreement begins with the 2009-2010 season.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at University of Arkansas Announces Retirement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; After a decade of service to the University of Arkansas, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Johnetta Cross Brazzell, will retire effective Jan.31, 2009.<o:p></o:p>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[President Bush Nominates University of Arkansas Professor for Panel]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Arkansas Professor Named to National Panel]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. &ndash; 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.]]></description>
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