Regency Beauty Institute, a cosmetology school based in Minneapolis, announced last week that it plans to open its first campus in Arkansas. The school will be located in the Shackleford Crossings shopping center in Little Rock. Regency, which has more than 60 campuses in 16 states, expects to begin offering classes by February.
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will hold its 16th annual Native American Symposium during the first week of November. The event will feature keynote speaker Winona LaDuke, a Native American and Harvard University graduate who lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota and has twice run for vice president of the United States as a nominee of the Green Party. The event will also include a screening of the documentary "The Silent Enemy." The focus of this year's symposium is ecology and sustainability.
The University of Arkansas will host a forum Nov. 4-6 on the future of the news business. A panel of online journalists will discuss "The Fog of New Media" during a three-day forum hosted by the Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences. Panel members include Matthew Waite, the senior news technologist at the St. Petersburg Times and designer of PolitiFact, the first stand-alone Web site to receive a Pulitzer Prize; Michelle Malashock, the Web content editor at The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas; Gordon Witkin, the managing editor at the Center for Public Integrity; and Conan Gallaty, the online director for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The panel is one of three featured events of "When the Ink Runs Dry: A Forum on the Future of the News Business." The event will also include "A Glimpse of the Future," three videos from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
John Brown University at Siloam Springs announced that it recently added a renewable energy concentration for engineering majors. After the natural sciences department added a Bachelor of Science degree in renewable energy during the fall of 2008, the engineering department proposed a new concentration to the Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology. Before that, the only concentrations available were in electrical, computer and mechanical engineering.
The Home Builders Association of Greater Little Rock broke ground last week on its first Green Built Model Home. The lot is located at 14007 Foxfield Lane in the Woodland's Edge development in west Little Rock. Woodland's Edge received the 2009 Green Development of the Year Award from the National Association of Home Builders. The Green Built Home is tentatively scheduled to be complete by May 2010. The house is being built under the supervision of several Certified Green Professionals, including project managers Richard Harp of Richard Harp Construction of Little Rock and Keith Wingfield of River Rock Builders of Little Rock.
Easter Seals Arkansas held a dedication ceremony last week in Little Rock for Wilson Court II, a 15-unit living facility for people with disabilities. Easter Seals received a $154,000 Affordable Housing Program grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas and Iberiabank of Lafayette, La. Easter Seals used that grant, along with a $1.2 million Housing & Urban Development 811 Program grant, to construct Wilson Court II. The first tenants moved into the facility, which has 10 one-bedroom apartments and four two-bedroom apartments, early this year.
Celerit Solutions of Little Rock recently expanded its partnership with Union Bank of Monticello, updating the bank's technology. The technology will be supported with 24-hour monitoring and strategic IT planning. Celerit will also upgrade Union's e-mail to a hosted and encrypted infrastructure.
The Central Arkansas Chapter of the National Association of Residential Property Managers received a Chapter Excellence Award at the national convention held Oct. 20-23 in Orlando, Fla. The award is presented each year for outstanding achievement on the local level. Sally Goss of Goss Management Co. of Little Rock, president of the central Arkansas chapter, accepted the award.
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