$1 Million Sturgis Gift Endows Nanotech Chair

A $1 million endowment to UALR from the Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust led today to the investiture of Dr. Alexandru S. Biris, director and chief scientist of the Nanotechnology Center at UALR, as the university’s first Sturgis Charitable Trust Nanotechnology Chair.

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Sarah Harrison Joins Development

Sarah Lindsey Harrison, a veteran fundraiser and event coordinator for several central Arkansas non-profit and political organizations, has joined UALR’s Office of Development, Vice Chancellor Bob Denman announced.

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Arvest Gift to Finance Terminals, Data for COB

UALR’s College of Business has received a gift of $41,550 from Arvest Mortgage Co. to provide the Bloomberg data system that enables financial professionals to monitor and analyze real-time financial market data movements.

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AT&T Grant Expands EIT’s High School Programs

High school students representing 21 hometowns across Arkansas were able to attend on-campus, no-cost summer academic programs this summer at UALR’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT), thanks in part to a $40,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation.

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New Scholarship Honors Judge Howard

A new scholarship at the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law will honor the late U.S. District Court Judge George Howard Jr. of Pine Bluff, the first African American federal district judge in Arkansas and one of the “Six Pioneers” who racially integrated the law school at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

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Students Benefit from Family’s Scholarships

Four UALR students will benefit this year from scholarships established by father and son benefactors of UALR.

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Jazz, Juleps to Benefit Eaton Scholarship Fund

UALR’s Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology will mark the springtime tradition of the Kentucky Derby at the second annual “Jazz and Juleps” reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, 1800 Center St.

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Chastain to be Celebrated at Governor’s Mansion May 17

Members of the law enforcement community will join students, faculty, and colleagues of Dr. Charles Chastain for a reception and dinner at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion May 17 to celebrate the UALR professor of criminal justice, who has been a guiding force in the department since the program was established 1973.

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Gwatney Family Extends Memorial Scholarship

Harold and Syble Gwatney, parents of the late state senator and Democratic Party chair Bill Gwatney, have presented UALR with an additional gift of $50,000 to increase the endowment of a political science scholarship in their son’s memory.

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Estate Provides Endowment for Bowen Law School

UALR’s William H. Bowen School of Law has received a gift of $134,000 from the estate of Anne C. Haley, completing a $184,000 endowment honoring her late husband, John Thomas Haley.

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