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UALR will host the Arkansas Science Olympiad Saturday, April 14, offering middle and high school students and their schools a chance to participate in the National Science Olympiad in Orlando, Fla.

Two six-person teams of UALR construction management and construction engineering students each won third place in the recent ASC/TEXO Region V student competition held in Dallas.

The next generation of smartphones and other mobile devices promises to be a much more pleasant experience for users, thanks to higher quality-of-service capabilities, said Dr. Seshadri Mohan, chair of UALR’s Department of Systems Engineering.

UALR’s College of Science and Mathematics will host three upcoming regional science fairs, offering competition for middle and high school students at the Central Arkansas Regional Science and Engineering Fair, the Junior Academy of Science Central Arkansas Regional Fair, and the American Chemical Society Chemistry Olympiad.

Students and faculty at UALR’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) will host seminars, contests, and a technology Olympics during the week of Feb. 18-25 to celebrate National Engineering Week.

The Museum of Discovery in Little Rock’s River Market District recently reopened its doors following a $9.2 million renovation that reinvented the popular destination. The reviews were stunning, thanks in part to the consultation of a team of UALR students in the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology.

A new book edited by I-Hsien Ting and published by GI Global, “Social Network Mining, Analysis and Research Trends: Techniques and Applications,” features contributions from Nitin Agarwal and Xiaowei Xu, faculty members of UALR’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Science. Ph.D. candidate Halil Bisgin also contributed.

Kelly Ward has studied construction management from the time he was big enough to hold his grandfather’s hammer. The 23-year-old Joe T. Robinson High School alum will graduate from UALR on Thursday, Dec. 15, with a degree in construction management and already has a job waiting as an assistant project manager for T.L. Services in … Soon-To-Be Grad Would Do It All Again

Dr. Nitin Agarwal, assistant professor of information science at the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT), has been named to the “20 in Their 20s” list by Arkansas Business magazine, a weekly statewide business publication.

A UALR team of computer science students won first place among Arkansas institutions in the Association for Computing Machinery Mid-Central USA programming contest Saturday, Nov. 5.