Within its first four months, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s first food pantry has had a successful start. The pantry has received around $3,000 in donations from local companies, including a generous donation of $1,100 from the Walmart Neighborhood Market on Cantrell Road.
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The Department of Speech Communication was the recipient of the college’s Recruitment and Retention Award on May 5 at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion.
Given by the College of Social Sciences and Communication, the award recognizes a department’s innovations in student recruitment and retention efforts within the major.
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Shane Bowers made a promise to his ailing father that he would finish college.
Displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bowers and his parents found their way to central Arkansas.
With metastasized stage-four bone cancer, Bowers’ father needed to be near University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences facilities for treatment. Bowers and his mother took care of his father full time.
The two winning teams have been announced for the Step-it-Up Challenge. Both were awarded prizes that included a $50 VISA gift card or a Garmin exercise band.
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Rwandan student Cerise Inganji considers her mother her biggest inspiration for leaving home to study at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
“She’s the person who taught me to be disciplined, to be able to achieve whatever I want,” Inganji said. “She’s a hard worker, and I want to be like her when I grow up.”
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One day, Talethe Collins hopes to return home to start a nonprofit organization in Marianna, Arkansas.
Wanting to help young adults prepare for college, Collins plans to create an organization to create more job opportunities for her community.
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College was something Subrinia Bogan dreamed of doing ever since she graduated from high school in 1987.
For a long time, her dream was delayed.
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As Rupa Dash prepared to move from Los Angeles to Little Rock, she decided it was time to tackle her biggest fear.
When the businesswoman, CEO, entrepreneur, producer, and graduate student made a list of all the things that scared her, public speaking was on top.
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty and staff are invited to celebrate their colleagues at the Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence Awards Ceremony at noon Monday, May 2, in Donaghey Student Center Room G.
The Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence fosters excellence in teaching and learning by sharing ideas, collaboration, and building a strong community of engaged teachers and learners.
To RSVP, visit http://goo.gl/forms/C1TkZVNyzf.
The faculty receiving awards this year are:
Teaching Fellow: Abigail Akande, Edma Delgado, Euchay Horsman, Amar Kanekar, Elizabeth Lee, John Siegel, and Theresa Warner.
Teaching Associate: Sue Bowling, Warigia Bowman, Stephen Burns, Chassidy Cooper, Michael DeAngelis, Jim Fulmer, JB Hill, Jason Kushner, Denise LeGrand, Kristen McIntyre, Janea Snyder, Joshua Spinler, Allan Ward, and Erin Pavioni.
Professional Development: Kelly Chaney, Jim Carr, Gerald Driskill, Jane Evans, Heidi Harris, Adriana Lopez Ramirez, Brian Mitchell, Debra Oltmans, Bennie Prince, Latrina Santini, Allan Thomas, Lillian Wichinsky, and Jim Winter.
A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student has been accepted into the highly competitive University of Nebraska-Lincoln Undergraduate Summer Research Minority Health Disparities Initiative.
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