He shoots, he scores!

If you happened to miss one of the most exciting basketball games in Trojan history last night, well, we put together a video compilation of highlights featuring Alex Garcia-Mendoza’s amazing half-court game-winning shot– so amazing it came in at #4 on ESPN’s “Top Plays of the Day.” But you’ll have to excuse our friends at SportsCenter for confusing us with that other Arkansas team.

Read the full play by play from UALR Athletics. Or you can read ASU’s heart-breaking version.
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Alumni Pre-Game Rally

A pre-game rally and dinner exclusively for Alumni Association and Tip In Club members will be held prior to the Trojans vs. Arkansas State basketball game on Thursday, Feb. 4.  The Barbeque buffet catered by Corky’s will be at 5:30 p.m. in the Bailey Alumni & Friends Center. To register, please visit the Alumni website.

The ASU rivalry always leads to one of the most exciting games of the year. Cheer on the Trojans in the Bailey Alumni Center before they face off with the Red Wolves. Don’t forget to show your school spirit by wearing maroon and other Trojan attire!

Alex Biris Creates Little Rock

As a founding member of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Create Little Rock working on a committee to attract and keep talented people in our great city, I was very excited to see Alex Biris’ “I Create Little Rock” video among just a few shown at the Create Little Rock launch with a packed room of 450 Thursday at the Mosaic Templars.


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Not just a stock photo

Four graduate students or alum shared their smiles January 27, allowing us to photograph them for our graduate student microsite. In the near future, you may see their finished photos floating around ualr.edu, but here’s a glimpse at what passers-by might have seen:

Students trekking through the DSC that afternoon had to detour around our photo shoot – or risk becoming a background blur. 

Thanks to our photographer Dero Sanford and our gracious (and photogenic!) graduate students for a fun day and some great shots.

Pianist Yeol Eum Son

Artspree presents award-winning pianist Yeol Eum Son on Sunday, Jan. 31 at 3 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Son is the silver medalist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and winner of the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performances of Chamber Music. She has performed with the Israel, New York, Seoul, and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestras. Tickets are $20 for main floor and $17 for balcony. UALR students can get in free. For tickets and more information, call Artspree at 569-3288.

Snow Day…

Classes were cancelled January 29 due to inclement weather conditions. The white dusting of winter and the quiet sounds of icy rainfall made the lonely campus still inviting. Here’s a little sampling of photos. For more, visit our Facebook page.




Dean DiPippa Discusses Judge Proctor’s Removal From the Bench

Bowen Law School Dean John DiPippa appeared this morning on the KTHV morning show to share his thoughts about Judge Proctor and what can be learned from this.

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Haiti is Sober Reminder for Arkansans on New Madrid Fault

The devastating earthquake in Haiti is a sober reminder that Arkansas sits on top of the New Madrid Fault, a major seismic zone and the source of earthquake within the tectonic plate in the southern and Midwestern U.S. The U.S,. Department of Interior is giving UALR a $450,000 grant to establish an Earthquake Observatory, directed by Dr. Haydar Al-Shukri, to establish monitoring sensors across the south and central.

In a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor, Dr. Al-Shukri said everyone in the region should be prepared in the event of a major quake.

Widow of Famed Author Norman Mailer Makes Book Tour Stop at UALR

UALR is delighted that Norris Church Mailer is including our campus as a stop on her upcoming tour with the release of her latest book, A Ticket to the Circus.

Mailer, a native Arkansan who was married to Norman Mailer for the last 30 years of his life, will be on campus April 13 for a 6 p.m. lecture in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall followed by a signing. If you don’t know Norris, meeting her will be lots of fun. She was born Barbara Davis in the small town of Atkins. She fell for Norman when he was in town at a friend’s party. She was a 26-year-old recently divorced art teacher in Russellville; he was 52.

She followed him to New York where she became a model, actress, painter, and writer. In the 1970s, she dated a little-known, aspiring politician named Bill Clinton. Married to Mailer, she faced down ex-wives and lovers by the dozen, according to her publicist at Random House who offered these details about her latest of three books:

“From age three when she was crowned Little Miss Little Rock, Norris Church Mailer has gone from one wild adventure to the next, and she shares it all in her frank, beautifully written, deeply personal memoir A TICKET TO THE CIRCUS (Random House; On sale April 6, 2010). Reading her stories is like sitting down to laugh and cry with an old friend: Norris holds nothing back, from showing up to dinner with Oscar de la Renta wearing only a nightgown, to serving coleslaw to Bob Dylan; from the heartbreak of first discovering her husband’s affairs, to saying goodbye to Norman on his deathbed.

“In a winning narrative voice that evokes her native Arkansas, Norris recounts herlife as a bright, talented girl who knew her life would one day be as surprising and memorable as a day at the circus. With clear eyes and startling frankness, she depicts the full evolution of her marriage to Norman Mailer, from the white-hot beginning through the very rocky patches to the mournful ending, offering an incredibly intimate perspective on this legendary man of letters. A TICKET TO THE CIRCUS is an intelligent, bittersweet memoir that will enchant readers with its charm and insight into how we grow up and how we love.”

Author Joyce Carol Oates comments: “A Ticket to the Circus is a remarkable memoir—blunt, funny, extraordinarily candid and self-aware; deeply moving, as it is wonderfully entertaining; above all, a memorable double portrait of two very unusual people, a couple for whom the term meant for each other is wholly appropriate.”

Hope you can join us for the lecture! Books will be available at the signing. The UALR departments of English and Rhetoric and Writing are sponsors of the event.

“Biggest Loser” Boot Camp Challenge

UALR’s Fit/Well program is launching a “Biggest Loser” Boot Camp Challenge designed to help people get fit and lose weight. This program is 12-weeks in duration from Jan. 25- April 23, consisting of boot camp classes, nutrition guidelines, bi-weekly exercise challenges and bi-weekly weigh-ins.  There will be prizes for the winner of each exercise challenge as well as the “Biggest Loser” at each weigh-in.  At the end of the 12-week challenge there will be a grand prize winner.  Cost to join the program is $15, and a t-shirt will be provided for all participants

Program sign-up will take place on Tuesday, January 19 through Thursday, January 21 in the DSC Diamond Cafeteria lobby between 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. For more information contact the Fitness Office at 569-3228.