Nursing Student Lands Leadership Award

Avis Smith, a sophomore from West Helena, won the Outstanding Peer Education Leadership Award at the National Area 6 Bacchus Gamma Peer Education Conference in Fayetteville this spring.

Governor Appoints McMillan to GIS Board

Gov. Mike Beebe named UALR Earth Science Professor Margaret ‘Beth’ McMillan to the Arkansas State Geographic Information Systems Board. The appointment is for four years.

Chemistry Candidate Wins Discussion Contest

UALR graduate student William “Billy” Griffin won the American Chemical Society’s Communities Challenge for posting the most compelling discussion or question during the ACS’s National Meeting last month.