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		<title>Bowen law professor’s article garners national attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article written by Josh Silverstein, professor at the William H. Bowen School of Law, is generating attention from national media.
“A Case for Grade Inflation in Legal Education,” forthcoming in the University of San Francisco Law Review, has garnered attention from legal and education scholars and mainstream media for its assertion that law schools should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/24/bowen-law-professor%e2%80%99s-article-garners-national-attention/</link>
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		<title>Department of Criminal Justice honors top students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UALR Department of Criminal Justice recently honored its top students at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.
The outstanding undergraduate award went to Malcolm Scott, a McNair Scholar mentored by Dr. David Montague. Scott has been accepted into the criminal justice graduate program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His research involves the recidivism rates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/23/department-of-criminal-justice-honors-top-students/</link>
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		<title>Young heads UALR&#8217;s new Office of Admissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katie Young has been named UALR's Director of Admissions, a new position that will oversee university recruitment and student admissions.]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/23/young-heads-ualrs-new-office-of-admissions/</link>
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		<title>Dean Gealt leaves for Central Michigan University, effective Aug. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael A. Gealt, UALR dean of the College of Science and Mathematics and professor of biology, has accepted a new position at Central Michigan University, according to UALR Provost and Vice Chancellor Zulma Toro-Ramos.

Gealt will serve as CMU’s next executive vice president/provost effective Aug. 1. He will oversee the university’s academic division and serve as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/23/dean-gealt-to-depart-for-central-michigan-university-effective-aug-1/</link>
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		<title>Recidivism research secures scholar spot in top program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When UALR criminal justice major Malcolm Scott first heard about the rising rates of recidivism among African-American males, he was so shocked he decided to verify his professor’s information on his own. 
“I heard 80 percent, and I just thought to myself, ‘That can’t be right,’” Scott said. “Unfortunately, I found out it was true.”

Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/23/recidivism-research-secures-scholar-spot-in-top-program/</link>
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		<title>Office of Development saves time, paper, money with new system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UALR Development Office has initiated the roll out of a new digital system that accurately tracks foundation account expenditures, saving the campus time, paper, and money.
The Foundation Funds Tracking and Administration system, or FFTA, was introduced in February to UALR budget heads by FFTA team members, Sarah Travis, Dara Goad, Chris Hamilton, Christian O’Neal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/22/office-of-development-saves-time-paper-money-with-new-system/</link>
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		<title>Student newspaper brings home Reporter of the Year, other awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UALR senior Cameron Moix recently earned the Reporter of the Year award during the Arkansas College Media Association’s annual convention in Arkadelphia.
Moix, a journalism major from Conway, received the honor on the heels of serving as The Forum’s news editor for the 2012-13 academic year. The Forum is UALR’s weekly student newspaper.
He also won second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/19/student-newspaper-brings-home-reporter-of-the-year-other-awards/</link>
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		<title>Sequoyah National Research Center awarded $20k for exhibit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sequoyah National Research Center was awarded a $20,000 grant to process and exhibit the Hirschfelder-Molin Stereotypes Collection.]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/19/sequoyah-grant-hirschfelder/</link>
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		<title>Teen Jeopardy star tells young scholars to nurture talents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the bottom up,  Leonard Cooper may have been the hippest-looking smart guy on campus this week. Wearing Converse-style sneakers, his head topped with a voluminous afro, he delivered a keynote address to appreciative seventh graders packed into UALR’s Center for Performing Arts May 16.
Students from across Arkansas came to receive awards through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/17/teen-jeopardy-star-tells-young-scholars-to-nurture-talents/</link>
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		<title>Kinnaman to receive honorary degree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jack Kinnaman, considered one of the founding fathers of the Construction Management Program at UALR, will receive an honorary degree during UALR’s 2013 Spring Commencement on Saturday, May 18, in the Jack Stephens Center.
Kinnaman is the founder of Kinco Constructors Inc., a Little Rock based construction company. He served as its president and chief executive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/16/kinnaman-to-receive-honorary-degree/</link>
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