Fitness trainers, personal trainers, fitness enthusiasts, and school physical education teachers are invited to the UALR campus Saturday, March 18 and Sunday, March 19 for a workshop on Punk Rope, a total fitness program for kids and adults that uses simple jump rope moves.
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.
Business professionals looking to advance their careers are invited to a casual open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, at the Clinton Presidential Center’s Cafe 42 to learn about graduate programs and opportunities at the UALR College of Business.
A new book about how black culture is portrayed in opera, co-edited by UALR Department of Music chair Dr. Karen Bryan, is scheduled to be released March 1 by the University of Illinois Press.
A civil rights attorney and a representative of the National Organization for Marriage’s Ruth Institute will debate the issue of same-sex marriage at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law Friday Courtroom.
Mary Anne Garnett, chair of the Department of International and Second Languages Studies and professor of French at UALR, has been elected president of Women in French (WIF). WIF is an allied organization of the Modern Language Association whose purpose is to promote scholarship among women authors writing in French.
Dr. Gaurav Kumar, assistant professor of accounting in UALR’s College of Business, has won the 2012 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award from the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Dr. Amar Kanekar, assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences, had his article, “Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis,” published in The International Journal of Preventive Medicine.
UALR Vice Chancellor Charles Donaldson, one of the university’s most influential administrators in the life of UALR students, will be honored March 15 at the annual Taste of Argentina Alumni Association fundraiser.
The UALR Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will present “Criminal Hearts,” by Pulitzer Prize nominee Jane Martin, and “Visiting Mr. Green,” by Jeff Baron, in alternating performances from Wednesday, Feb. 22, through Sunday, Feb. 26, in the University Theatre in the Center for the Performing Arts.