History Professor Moira Maguire’s publisher has just released her new book titled Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland. Ten years in the making, the study focuses on how Irish society failed poor and marginalized children after its war of independence with Great Britain.
“The Departments of Health and Education, who had legal responsibility for the children involved, failed in their duties to provide for and protect them,” she said.
Maguire’s research was included in the Ryan Report, an investigation by the Irish government through the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse into all forms of abuse in Irish institutions for children.
Here is a brief clip from last June of Dr. Maguire talking about her research and upcoming book:
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UALR’s Department of Theater Arts and Dance will showcase up-and-coming dancers from across the region at the Young Dancers’ Festival on Jan. 23 and 24. The festival will bring young dancers together to dance side-by-side in master classes. Dancers age 13 to 19 from around the region have been invited to come together to celebrate the art of dance.
A concert performance will take place Sunday, Jan. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the University Theater. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Department of Theater and Dance.
More than likely, you are familiar with The Chronicle as a source of higher ed news and information. Recently, our office was asked to contribute content for the “Campus Viewpoints” section of their website. Here’s a screenshot of the section homepage:
And here’s a screenshot of our actual page:
We’ll be adding new content for this section routinely, so if you have story ideas, we’d love to hear them!
UALR Campus Viewpoint
Economics Professor, Dr. Gary Wagner, talked about results of his study this morning on foxbusiness.com, which seems to suggest that local governments make up for budget deficits in a bad economy by increasing the number of traffic tickets issued. Remember to drive safely, folks!
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Budget cuts are never fun to talk about, but they do have a tendency to attract news coverage. What we hope comes through loud and clear is that these financial cutbacks will not impact our students, and no layoffs are expected. “We’ll handle this. We’ve done it before. We’ll be able to do it this time,” Chancellor Anderson said.
Economics Professor Gary Wagner will be interviewed live at 11:30 this morning on FoxBusiness.com in an hour-long special report on local and state government budget issues. Dr. Wagner serves on Gov. Beebe’s Council of Economic Advisors. foxbusiness.com/live The report will air on the Fox Business TV station at a later date.
For some on campus, Haiti is close to their hearts yet so far out of reach. Contact has been difficult because of the debilitated infrastructure. Professor Hervil Cherubin shared his personal connection to the crisis in Haiti and the pain he feels over losing family members while still not knowing what might have happened to more of his loved ones there.
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UALR professor Hervil Cherubin says, “This is the most difficult part, sitting here, getting information through the phone or internet and cannot do anything.”
Cherubin left Haiti as a child, but returns regularly. He hasn’t heard from relatives who live in Port-au-Prince, but heard their businesses and homes are demolished and two cousins in their twenties are dead.
He explains, “One of them I had the feeling it was really quick because the building collapsed. The other one I think was the tough one because apparently the building collapsed he was still alive. People could hear his voice, they were talking with him and during the day they could not do anything.”
Read the complete story on todaysthv.com.
UALR alumna Leah Thorvilson made the cover of Sync Weekly! Thorvilson won the Little Rock Marathon last year and was a record-setting Trojan in cross country and track and field while at UALR.
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Like most of the UALR community, we’ve been deeply affected by the photos and televised images displaying the devastating aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. Our resident expert, Dr. Haydar Al-Shukri, talked to KTHV about why the damage was so significant.
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Read the complete story on todaysthv.com.
We’ve written stories on Biology Professor Robert Sikes, who graduated from UALR in 1985, for his research on pandas and field research with his students on his family farm in Alleene, Ark., which is turned into a lab of sorts for assessing patterns of litter size and evaluating reproductive models. We’re also aware of Sikes’ hobby as a beekeeper.
But a new one on Sikes came to us last week from Dr. Steve Edison, marketing/advertising professor.
On New Year’s Eve, Edison attended a “car warming” for Sikes to see his ’68 Camaro run for the first time in more than 20 years. The Camaro was his first car 30 years ago. “He not only has that car (and the girlfriend, now wife) from that era, he has completely restored the car to a thing of beauty…learning how to do each stage of the restoration as he progressed,” said Edison. “The real story is that he is a “skill collector (a person who values the learning of new skills in a wide variety of application).” He invents…he converts…he is our MacGyver.”
Thanks Dr. Edison for sharing your “after” pictures, where you can see a shop that Sikes built by himself with lumber from trees in his yard. The two before pics came from Dr. Sikes. Looks like the “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” You can see his 15-year-old son’s 1968 Cougar in the background.
