Friday Law Firm Donation First to Benefit Courtroom

The study of law is not what it used to be. Students now need access to the most up-to-date technology – like lecture capture and projection screens – in order to gain the legal knowledge, skills, and ethical values required to excel in a competitive job environment.

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Innovator’s Gift to Lift UALR Discoveries to Marketplace

Arkansas innovator and entrepreneur James Hendren and his wife Carol have presented UALR’s College of Science and Math a $50,000 pledge to provide funding needed to take scientific research from the laboratory to the marketplace.

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Alums Honor Author, Journalist John Ward

John L. Ward, author of “The Arkansas Rockefeller” and a trustee of the Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust, has been named UALR’s 2011 “Distinguished Alumnus.” He will be honored at this spring’s annual ceremony on Friday, May 13, announced Christian O’Neal, director of the university’s Alumni Association.

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Root for Derek!

UALR Trojan and Los Angeles Laker Derek Fisher has taped an episode of NBC’s game show “Minute to Win It,” and his winnings will go to UALR Athletics’ Fisher Fellows Life Skills Program.

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Coleman Sons Donate Dairy Land to UALR for Sports Complex

A fifth generation of Coleman dairymen – the sons of W.C. “Buddy” Coleman – has presented UALR a gift of 10 acres of what was part of the oldest dairy farm west of the Mississippi to make possible a recreation and sports complex and make Little Rock eligible to host sanctioned track and field events.

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Gwatney Helps Public Radio Reach Tower Goal

When a three-day on-air funding drive fell $6,275 short of a goal needed to expand central Arkansas’s public radio signal, KUAR General Manager Ben Fry feared the station would miss the chance to improve the signal, reduce operating costs, and save the eventual expense of new tower construction.

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Join the 100 Percenters Club

Six offices and departments at UALR have reached 100 percent participation in the 2010 Campus Campaign, and are in store for a pie or cake as a congratulatory reward, compliments of the Arkansas Federal Credit Union.

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Alumni, Friends Connect with Students at Fund Phone-a-thon

Students, the ultimate beneficiaries of The Fund for UALR, made more than 20,000 telephone calls to alumni and friends this fall to thank them for current support to the fund dedicated to increasing student scholarships.

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UALR to Host 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship First and Second Rounds

Lady TrojansThe NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee picked UALR and its Jack Stephens Center as one of the 16 sites for the 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship first and second rounds, Trojan Athletic Director Chris Peterson announced at a news conference Wednesday.

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