University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb,
Forgotten Women and their Unforgettable Ideas.
Wednesday, March 5 • 7:00 PM
Donaghey Student Center Meeting Rooms A, B & C

Ethlie Ann Vare, co-author of Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and their Breakthrough Ideas, presents an entertaining and eye-opening account of the “hidden” women behind familiar products, discoveries and innovations. Vare demonstrates conclusively that women have been inventing and discovering since the beginning of time, from mundane but useful things like drip coffee and the windshield wiper to transforming inventions like COBOL computer language and the cellular phone.
Ms. Vare also co-authored the award-winning Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb, Forgotten Women and their Unforgettable Ideas.
She is also familiar as a broadcast journalist from her years on the E! Channel, music critic for the Hollywood Reporter, and has written and produced episodes of such popular television shows as CSI, Silk Stalkings, Renegade, and Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda.
She has also written the young people’s biography Adventurous Spirit: A Story About Ellen Swallow Richards, and numerous biographies including Diva: Barbara Streisand and the Making of a Superstar Legend: Frank Sinatra and the American Dream.

Celebrate Black History Month
The Generation Gap: Building Bridges between Civil Rights and Hip Hop
February 28, 2008 6:00 pm
DSC Rooms A, B, & C
Bakari Kitwana is the executive editor of The Source, the editorial director at 3rd World Press, and a music reviewer for NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He has lectured extensively on rap music and black youth culture, and his work has appeared in the Village Voice, The Source, and The Progressive.

Celebrate Black History Month
February 27, 2008 12:00 pm
DSC Leadership Lounge

Celebrate Black History Month
February 26, 2008 7:00 pm
DSC Room B

Celebrate Black History Month
February 20, 2008 12:00 pm
DSC Leadership Lounge
Comedian and motivational speaker Andrew Guy brings laughs from a wholesome, historical perspective.

www.datphunnyguy.com

Celebrate Black History Month
February 19, 2008   7:00 pm
DSC Rooms B & C
Featured on Showtime at the Apollo, this funk and jazz brass band packs a powerful combination of talent and highly danceable and energized music. The Inner City All Stars may be considered the new leaders of their musical genre.

UALR vs. New Orleans
Saturday, February 16
Jack Stephens Center
Free Hot Dog & Pepsi to all students. Students receive a chance to win $100.

4:30 pm • Women’s Game
Come early to receive your free Maroon Madness T-shirt! (must show ID to receive t-shirt).

7:00 pm • Men’s Game
Come see who will be Mr. & Ms. UALR 2008 at the halftime show. Also, the most spirited organization and the most spirited fan will be awarded $250 each!

Anti-Valentine’s Day: Celebrating Being a Single Woman
Thursday, February 14, 2008 • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Donaghey Student Center Meeting Rooms A & B
Single on Valentine’s Day? So What! Come find out why it is Fabulous to be single!

“Are There More Black Men in College or Prison?”
February 13, 2008 • 12:00 pm (Tentative may change to evening.)
DSC Leadership Lounge
Guests: Dr. David Montague, UALR Criminal Justice Department and Dr. Pearl Ford, Political Science Professor at John C. Smith University will discuss this elusive question.

Celebrate Black History Month
February 11, 2008
Monday Movie: The Stories We Tell
6:00 pm UALR Residence Hall Commons
See and discuss this groundbreaking documentary on Race and Ethnicity.
Documentary uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination.
Facilitator: Dr. Pat Wilkerson, UALR Social Work Department