Former UALR men’s golfer Keith Becker will receive the faculty award for Outstanding Student in the MBA program in the College of Business and will be inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, in the Donald W. Reynolds College of Business.

Former volleyball player Jennifer Elbert as well as former track athlete and current UALR Director of Sales Sheena Howell also will be inducted.

Becker becomes the recipient of the faculty award after earning a 4.0 cumulative GPA, the highest amongst all UALR MBA students graduating in the Fall 2011 semester.

A member of the men’s golf team from 2006-11, Becker was named to the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner’s List for achieving a GPA of 3.5 or above in each of his years on campus. The San Antonio, Texas, native graduated from UALR in 2010 with a pair of bachelor’s degrees in finance and economics.

Beta Gamma Sigma was founded in 1913 to encourage and reward scholarship and accomplishment in the field of business studies. Membership in the organization represents the very top honor a business student can achieve.