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UALR Center Debuts Virtual Rockefeller Exhibit

UALR’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) debuted its virtual exhibit of the life of Winthrop Rockefeller, the former governor of Arkansas, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Nanotechnology Sciences Center Now Open

With the opening of UALR’s Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences (CINS) today, May 2, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said, “We no longer have to take a backseat to any state in the nation” in transferring discoveries in the lab to new products, new businesses, and new jobs.

UALR Opens University Village

Today UALR’s Office of Student Housing assumed management of University Village, a 420-bed residence complex for juniors, seniors, and graduate students featuring two and four bedroom apartment-style suites with private baths and a resort-style swimming pool with community amenities.

Graduate Honor Society Inducts 16

Alpha Epsilon Lambda, the Academic Excellence and Leadership Honor Society of Graduate and Professional Students, inducted 16 UALR students at a 2:30 p.m. ceremony on Tuesday, May 1, in Ledbetter Hall A, B, and C in the Donaghey Student Center.

UALR Offers Movie-Making Option

Lights, camera, action! A new series of classes offered by UALR’s School of Mass Communication will give students interested in a movie making career new opportunities in the growing Arkansas entertainment industry.

Rockefeller Event to Focus on Race & Ethnicity

The experience of African Americans and Latina/os in Arkansas is the subject of a conference Friday and Saturday, May 11 and 12, sponsored by UALR’s Department of History and its Center for Arkansas History and Culture, the Central Arkansas Library System, and the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.

Chemical Society Honors Seniors, Professor

Members of the Arkansas chapter of the American Chemical Society, the Central Arkansas Local Section, have named UALR chemistry professor Dr. Ali U. Shaikh as the chapter’s “Professor of the Year.”

UALR Senior Wins Two Chemistry Awards

Jessica Hartman of Conway, a UALR senior majoring in chemistry, was a two-time winner at the recent Arkansas Academy of Science at Southern Arkansas University.

Band, Percussion Ensemble in Concert May 4

Fresh from a gig at Morgan Freeman’s blues club in Clarksdale, Miss., UALR’s Trojan Pep Band and Percussion Ensemble will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the UALR Fine Arts Building.

Drop Off Unused Meds Saturday

UALR Police officers will be on hand at the UALR Department of Public Safety in University Plaza from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 28, to accept unused, unwanted, or expired pharmaceutical drugs and prescription medications and dispose of them in a safe and ecologically sound way.

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