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		<title>1,500 expected to graduate Saturday, May 18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 1,500 students are expected to participate in UALR’s Spring Commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 18, at the Jack Stephens Center. Among them are graduates like Azure Yarbrough, Bethany Hodges, and Dawn Teer, who attribute hard work and family support as reasons for their success.

Ceremonies will begin at 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Both events [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/14/1500-expected-to-graduate-saturday-may-18/</link>
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		<title>Undaunted biology student among leading grads this Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senior biology major Azure Yarbrough is among the more than 1,500 students who  are expected to participate in UALR’s Spring Commencement  on Saturday, May 18, at the  Jack Stephens Center.

Yarbrough, 35, knows a thing or two about diligence. She is graduating after a 17-year gap since she first enrolled as a full-time  college [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/14/persistence-pays-off-for-soon-to-be-graduate/</link>
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		<title>Science leadership winners desire to serve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Danielle Kemmer and Saad Azam, the most recent recipients of the UALR College of Science Leadership Endowed Scholarship, both said that their desire to serve is the reason they chose to major in science.
The scholarship is funded to assist undergraduate studies in health, mathematics, and science.
Kemmer and Azam received their awards at a reception honoring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/04/16/science-leadership-winners-have-desire-to-serve/</link>
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		<title>Journal Publishes Recent UALR Grad’s Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vanessa Young, a recent graduate of UALR’s masters program in biology, will see her research on the capacity for physiological adjustment of salamanders published in the international Journal of Comparative Physiology, Part B.
The research, conducted under the supervision of UALR Biology Professor Matthew Gifford, tests whether stream salamanders can adjust their physiological capacities to variation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/11/13/journal-publishes-recent-ualr-grad%e2%80%99s-research/</link>
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		<title>Senior’s Photo Lands on National Journal Cover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A photograph taken by UALR biology senior Katherine F. Simmons of Little Rock graces the cover of the September issue of the journal BioScience, the heavily cited journal covering all biological disciplines.
The photo of a hispid cotton rat as it appears under mixed ultraviolet and visible light after it has been dusted with nontoxic fluorescent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/09/11/senior%e2%80%99s-photo-lands-on-national-journal-cover/</link>
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		<title>Ecology Group Awards Prof for Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Janet Lanza, a professor in the UALR Department of Biology, has received the Distinguished Service Citation from the Ecological Society of America. She has served the society for two decades as Book Review Editor of its flagship journal, Ecology.
As book editor, Lanza selects the books to review from those sent by publishers, finds appropriate reviewers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/08/20/ecology-group-awards-prof-for-service/</link>
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		<title>Alum, State&#8217;s First Female General Officer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brigadier General Patricia Anslow, a 1997 graduate of UALR, has earned a promotion making her the first female general officer in the Arkansas National Guard.

 
“I think if you are true to yourself, true to your country, and your fellow soldiers, you will go far.” Anslow said during her promotion ceremony.
Anslow, a graduate of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/08/15/alum-states-first-female-general-officer/</link>
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		<title>Biology Senior Named UALR’s Whitbeck Scholar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryne Ramaker of Bentonville has been named the 2012 winner of the Edward L. Whitbeck Memorial Award, UALR’s top academic prize.
The senior, who graduates this month with a B.S. degree in biology, will wear the silver robe and medallion at UALR&#8217;s May 19 commencement ceremony. His regalia signifies his selection for the Whitbeck award, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/08/biology-senior-named-ualr%e2%80%99s-whitbeck-scholar/</link>
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		<title>Grad Students Present to Entomology Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two UALR biology graduate students presented their research Monday, March 5, at the Southeast and Southwest Branches of the Entomology Society of America. The society is meeting through Wednesday at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock.

Dana Frederick of Little Rock presented her work on arthropod “rain” in tropical forests. Robin Verble of Little Rock presented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/03/06/grad-students-present-to-entomology-society/</link>
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		<title>British Journal Publishes Student’s Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryne Ramaker, a senior UALR Donaghey Scholar and University Science Scholar with a double major in biology and chemistry, is a co-author of a cancer research paper creating excitement among other researchers.
The article published in the January 2012 issue of the British Journal of Cancer became the most commonly downloaded article from the journal within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/02/10/british-journal-publishes-senior%e2%80%99s-research/</link>
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