Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will offer the keynote address at the close of a two-day conference on poverty in Arkansas taking place Tuesday and Wednesday, May 29 and 30, and co-hosted by the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law.
Lashun Burton of Crossett, Ark., and Lindsay Kuehn of Minneapolis have been selected as the first summer interns in UALR’s Shepherd Poverty Studies Program, according to program director Dr. David Sink.
UALR Chancellor Joel E. Anderson has urged members of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority Board to consider other potential sites for the research park in addition to those already proposed.
Academic achievers representing more than 30 school districts gathered on the UALR campus last week to be recognized for their scholarship and to get a look at what college has in store.
The Ottenheimer Library’s hours have been adjusted for the interim between semesters, through the end of May.
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UALR celebrated spring commencement Saturday, May 19, with the largest group of graduates in school history, including the first graduate of the new Ph.D. program in criminal justice.
They arrived at UALR four years ago following a grueling, 25-hour flight halfway around the world from their homes in Rwanda, a small country tucked between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, and Uganda.
UALR student Vianca Cruz has been appointed the associate account executive of the Hispanic market for The Design Group, a multicultural communications firm.
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A documentary film by Keith Clements, a student in the School of Mass Communication, has been accepted by the Little Rock Film Festival. The documentary, “Go the Distance,” was his final project for the Documentary Techniques class he took under instructor David Weekley.
A team of management information systems students from UALR placed third in the national competition for Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Design over some impressive competition including a team from Harvard and MIT.
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