Campus Life

If it’s the start of the fall semester at UALR, it’s time for Burgers at Bailey. The annual start-of-the-semester tradition – this year from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25 – connects alumni, faculty, staff, and students in a lunchtime celebration of the new academic year.

Officials of UALR’s Division of Educational, Student Services and the Office of Student Life will welcome freshmen embarking on their college careers at UALR at the university’s first Freshman Convocation at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the University Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts.

ROCK the Runway: Fashion Show with Korto Momolu scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, has been rescheduled to Wednesday, March 2, 2011, due to inclement weather. Contact the Office of Campus Life, for more information about Black History Month activities.

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.

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.

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.”

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 … Dorm Students Offer Halloween Fun for Neighbor Kids