All work and no play makes life dull, but what if one could make a career out of playing? Microsoft representatives show students how that can happen from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, at UALR’s Microsoft Game Day.
A lunchtime jazz concert in the Donaghey Student Center on Monday kicked off the month of activities celebrating Black History Month sponsored by the Office of Campus Life.
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The Nehemiah Network, hosted by the African American Male Initiative student group at UALR, will host a pre-screening of the film “The Grace Card” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, in the auditorium of UALR’s Engineering and Information Technology Building. The screening is free and open to the public.
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A talk by Kathleen Miner from the U.S. Agency for International Development, scheduled for noon Wednesday at UALR, has been cancelled due to the latest disaster to hit the impoverished nation of Haiti — Hurricane Tomas.
Beginning in spring semester 2011, the UALR/Barnes & Noble Bookstore will launch a new textbook rental program designed to give students a budget break.
The UALR Staff Senate’s annual Open House and Teacup Auction from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Donaghey Student Center’s Upper Concourse kicks off the Senate’s annual Helping Hands Project with an opportunity to munch and mingle as well as bid on prizes in the “teacup auction.”
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UALR students in the residence village are providing spooky Halloween fun this week for children in the neighborhood surrounding the campus. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, neighborhood kids can take pictures in their Halloween costumes in front of a spooky backdrop while waiting at a face painting station on the fifth floor of East Hall — the taller brick building in between two apartment buildings — at 36th Street and Fair Park Avenue.
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UALR’s Office of Campus Life, in partnership with the nonprofit organization Not For Sale, is sponsoring three programs Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 26 and 27, to raise awareness of human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
Shand Laughlin, regional recruiter for the Peace Corps, will be on campus to inform students about the organization and how to volunteer. The information session will be at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Leadership Lounge on the second floor of the Donaghey Student Center, across the hall from the Office of Campus Life.
Mexican historian and author Enrique Krauze, one of the world’s leading visionaries on Mexico’s political future, will present the Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, at UALR’s University Theatre.
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