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Davy Carter Named EVP for Home BancShares

Carter, who is serving his third term in the state legislature, formerly served as division president for Centennial Bank in Cabot, where he remains a member of the local bank board. read more >

IABC Summer Camp in Little Rock to Explore Professional Change

A summer camp by the Arkansas Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators will explore how communication professionals, nonprofits and ad agencies can perform in a business world rocked by globalization and digitalization. read more >

A Look at Picasolar's Impressive 2013 Run

Picasolar is a University of Arkansas graduate-level startup which created a technology that improves solar cells. It's made an impressive run through the 2013 cycle of national business-plan competitions. read more >

5 UA Startups on the Cusp of Big Things

Picasolar's 2013 successful run in national business-plan competitions is reminiscent of past University of Arkansas startups. read more >

UA Building Successful Startups, This Year Led By Picasolar

Startups launched from the Walton Business College at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville are earning both accolades at national business-plan competitions and money as viable, high-growth businesses. read more >

AT&T Boosts 4G at UAMS With Distributed Antenna System

AT&T announced Tuesday that it has finished installing a 4G LTE Distributed Antenna System on the campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. read more >

UA Board to Vote on Tuition Increases

Under the proposal, a resident undergraduate student at the Fayetteville campus would pay $7,818 for tuition and fees in the 2013-2014 school year. That's a 3.5 percent increase from the current rates. read more >

East Arkansas Community College Opts Out of Gun Law

Another Arkansas college has opted out of a new state law that allows faculty and staff members to carry concealed guns on campus. read more >

Stephen Tipton Named SVP at Centennial Bank (Movers & Shakers)

Stephen Tipton has been promoted to senior vice president and credit risk management director of Centennial Bank and its parent company, Home BancShares Inc., in Conway. Tipton, a University of Arkansas business graduate, has worked for Centennial for seven years and has experience in retail, business development and lending. read more >

Southern Arkansas' Ben Johnson Receives Endowed Professorship in State's History

Ben Johnson has been selected to receive the first endowed professorship in Arkansas studies. It was donated by John and Dora Ragsdale, who are known for their support of Arkansas history and chose Johnson on the basis of his research and commitment. read more >

It's Not What You Know, It's Who Knows You (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)

Hard work, education and a can-do spirit are still requirements for good employment, but some big feet to stick through that door help too. read more >

SEC Network's Launch Spells End of Schools' Broadcast Rights, Pay-per-view

School-specific subscription services like the UA's RazorVision won't be providing live video of sporting events once the network is launched. The SEC and ESPN will hold the rights for those broadcasts. read more >

Fleming Remains Atop IT Consulting List

Fleming Network Services of Bryant again tops this year's list of largest IT consulting firms. The company's employee count fell from 250 in 2012 to 230 this year, but still beats the next company, Science Applications International Corp. of Little Rock, by 70. read more >

Rahm Emanuel to Address Clinton School Graduates

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will give the commencement address at Saturday's graduation ceremonies for the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. read more >

Video: Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones to Narrate 'The Jim Lindsey Story'

The life story of northwest Arkansas real estate developer and former University of Arkansas football star Jim Lindsey not only sounds like something from a movie, it is actually becoming a movie. read more >

Republican Attorney David Sterling Enters Arkansas Attorney General Race

Republican David Sterling says he's running for attorney general next year. Sterling has a private law practice in North Little Rock. He says he's a conservative Republican who will work to protect Arkansas from "an overreaching federal government." read more >

UA Startup Picasolar Wins MIT Clean Energy Contest

Picasolar, a University of Arkansas startup that created a way to make solar cells more efficient, won the MIT Clean Energy Prize business-plan contest and $250,000 Monday. read more >

Charles Dunn, Longtime Henderson State President, Dies at 67

Henderson State University says longtime president Charles Dunn, who retired in 2008, has died of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 67. read more >

Steven Wade, C. Adam Mitchell Promoted at Simmons First

Two executives at Simmons First National Bank of Pine Bluff were promoted at the $2 billion-asset lender. read more >

Simmons First National, CEO Stay Put in Pine Bluff

George Makris Jr. is a product of Pine Bluff, leaving his hometown only for college (a bachelor's in business administration from Rhodes College at Memphis in 1978 and an MBA from the University of Arkansas in 1980) and for a four-year stint in Little Rock so that the youngest of his three sons could play tennis for Little Rock Central High. read more >