Rural tourism expert Joanne Steele will offer a workshop next month aimed at helping Arkansas’s rural communities and businesses capitalize on the immense potential for attracting tourists through the Internet.
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A panel of Arkansas employers will discuss opportunities for paid and unpaid intern positions for UALR international students from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, in the auditorium of the Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) Building.
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Former Arkansas Attorney General Steve Clark will discuss the importance of business ethics at the UALR College of Business Dean’s Forum at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 7, in the atrium of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Business and Economic Development at UALR.
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A feature story in the latest issue of InArkansas touts Dr. Nancy Landrum, associate professor of marketing, and her passion for sustainable business practices that can help save the world and make a profit.
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Dr. Lars Powell, insurance professor and editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation, is a scheduled speaker for the National School on Market Regulation, organized by the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society Foundation.
Powell will give a summary of evidence related to credit-based insurance scoring and answer questions on the complex topic at the conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., April 10-12.
Last week, UALR’s College of Business partnered with Microsoft to host the first Arkansas Technical Education Symposium, offering business and technology professionals, students, and faculty hands-on workshops and informational sessions on topics that included Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Azure, data mining, search engine optimization, geographic information systems, and security.
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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.
An article written by Roger Dorsey, instructor in UALR’s Department of Accounting, is being published in the Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy, edited by Dr. Robert W McGee, professor of accounting at Florida International University.
Dorsey’s article also will appear in the 2011 edition of McGee’s book, “The Ethics of Tax Evasion.”
Community and economic developers, along with elected officials, can hone their skills in Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposals (RFP) at UALR’s Institute for Economic Advancement in the College of Business’s winter forum from 9 a.m. to noon, Thursday, Feb. 24, in Room 450 of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Business and Economic Development.
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CafeMBA, a social networking opportunity for MBA students, alumni, and faculty to meet with local business professionals, will hold its first event of the spring 
semester from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, at the Pleasant Valley Country Club.