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		<title>Bowen Conference Addresses Poverty in Arkansas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 30, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will offer the keynote address at a conference looking at poverty in Arkansas.]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/24/bowen-conference-addresses-poverty-in-arkansas/</link>
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		<title>Poverty Program Places First Interns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
Burton, a senior marketing major, will spend eight weeks this summer working at The Achievement Project (TAP), a youth education program in Chester, Pa. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/24/poverty-program-places-first-interns/</link>
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		<title>Chancellor Asks Board to Consider Other Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
The region&#8217;s first technology park is sponsored by the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, City of Little Rock, UALR, and UAMS. The ANGLE Technology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/23/chancellor-asks-board-to-consider-other-sites/</link>
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		<title>Whiz Kids Explore New Nanocenter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 students are participants in the Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) based on test schools and classroom potential.
UALR’s Jodie Mahoney Center for Gifted and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/23/whiz-kids-explorenew-nanocenter/</link>
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		<title>Library Adjusts Hours for Interim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ottenheimer Library’s hours have been adjusted for the interim between semesters, through the end of May.
The library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 18, and closed Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20.
It will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, May 21 to 24. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/18/library-adjusts-hours-for-interim/</link>
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		<title>Spring Commencement: Largest Group Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UALR celebrated spring commencement on Saturday, May 19, with the largest group of graduates in school history, including a group of Rwandan scholars.]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/16/commencement-include-rwandan-scholars/</link>
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		<title>Hope After War: Rwandan Students Graduate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
A Desire to Rebuild and to Lead
Some of them spoke very little English; all carried the hopes and aspirations of a nation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/15/first-rwandan-scholars-achieve-mission/</link>
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		<title>Student Lands Position at Multicultural Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UALR student Vianca Cruz has been appointed the associate account executive of the Hispanic market for The Design Group, a multicultural communications firm.

The Design Group&#8217;s chief executive officer, Myron Jackson, made the announcement about Cruz&#8217;s appointment.
Born in Hidalgo, Mexico, Cruz moved to Arkansas in 2001. She is finishing up two bachelor&#8217;s degrees in international business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/15/student-lands-position-at-multicultural-firm/</link>
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		<title>SMC Student Film Picked for Little Rock Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
The film tells the story of Family Called Us, an organization known for working to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/15/smc-student-film-picked-for-little-rock-festival/</link>
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		<title>UALR Places in Microsoft Imagine Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

For the fourth consecutive year, UALR was the only university to place two teams in the national finals for the prestigious worldwide competition – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ualr.edu/www/2012/05/15/ualr-places-in-microsoft-imagine-competition/</link>
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