Gloria Finch Cunningham Thomas, retired controller for UALR’s College of Business, died Tuesday, March 27, following a year-long battle with peritoneal cancer. She was 66.
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Jimmy D. Threet saw a commercial need and came up with an idea for a new business to meet that need. To make his dream come to fruition, Threet called the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center.
Chris Koenig, Microsoft developer evangelist, will be in the atrium of the Reynolds Business Center from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 17, to help students create Windows Phone applications at “App-A-Thon 2012.”
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Dr. Jane P. Wayland has been named the Stephen Harrow Smith dean of the College of Business, according to Dr. Sandra Robertson, interim provost.
How will the national health care reform law affect consumers, employers, payers, and providers? That is the subject of the UALR College of Business Health Forum Wednesday, March 7 – an evening discussion that will include a panel of experts and a moot court preview of the issues that will be decided by the Supreme Court.
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Dr. Gaurav Kumar, assistant professor of accounting in UALR’s College of Business, has won the 2012 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award from the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
A new training program, “Using Tablets in Your Business,” from the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at UALR will help area small business owners learn how to incorporate tablet technology into their everyday business practices at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at the UALR Reynolds Business Center.
The international business honor society Beta Gamma Sigma will induct 20 UALR students at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, in the Donald W. Reynolds Business Center Room 103 on the UALR campus.
Seniors to be inducted include:
- Sarah A. Buchanann
- Sonya M. Cato
- Simon Dobretsov
- Jennifer L. Elbert
- Jacqueline Haygood
- Sheena M. Howell
- Jenny L. Mercing
- Nicholas W. Morgan
- Melissa Peacock
- Amy L.Starnes
- Walter W. Wills
Graduate students being inducted include:
- Keith A. Becker
- Dale Brown
- Jeffery M. Burns
- Joe S. Hoskyn
- William B. Hoofman
- Deepti Munagala
- Terry A. Roberts of Little Rock
- Elizabeth S. Russell
- Angela Y. Thomas
Kayla New will receive her MBA at UALR’s commencement Dec. 15, but she has already been putting her degree to work, advancing her life’s passions.
Former UALR men’s golfer Keith Becker will receive the faculty award for Outstanding Student in the MBA program in the College of Business and will be inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, in the Donald W. Reynolds College of Business.