Dr. Sheldon Riklon has been invested as the inaugural holder of the Peter O. Kohler M.D. Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Health Disparities at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Riklon, whom UAMS said was one of only two Marshallese physicians in the world who has completed medical school and residency training from U.S.-accredited programs, is an associate professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, which he joined in August.
The endowed distinguished professorship requires a minimum of $500,000 in donations, which will cover Riklon’s educational, scientific and clinical pursuits.
Karen Eoff, Mildred Franco, John Riggs IV and Charlotte Lewellen Williams have been elected to the board of Environmental & Spatial Technology Inc., an educational nonprofit known as the EAST Initiative, in Little Rock.
Eoff is director of the Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative, Franco is a professional translator and a veteran of technology consulting in education, Riggs is chairman of J.A. Riggs Tractor Co., and Williams is director of the Center on Community Philanthropy at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.
Brad Rawlins has been appointed special assistant to the provost at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro to handle matters involving the A-State campus in Queretaro, Mexico. Rawlins, the former dean of the College of Media & Communication, will become vice rector for academic and student affairs for the Queretaro campus in January. The campus is scheduled to open in August 2017.
Cassie Brockman and Austin Duvall have joined the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton, Brockman as the new public relations assistant and Duvall as the college’s new public relations coordinator in the institutional advancement department.
Brockman, a graduate of UACCM, will be responsible for coordinating daily mail service, assisting printing and work orders and helping with events.
Duvall will be responsible for managing UACCM’s look on various social media sites, producing and editing short promotional and informational videos for recruitment and marketing purposes and writing and disseminating press releases. He also will serve as a photographer and assist in the production and editing process.
Ewell “Pete” Welch has been named the executive director of the Arkansas 4-H Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the educational programs of Arkansas 4-H and the operations of the C.A. Vines Arkansas 4-H Center in Little Rock. The 4-H program is part of the University of Arkansas System’s Cooperative Extension Service.
Welch retired as executive vice president of the Arkansas Farm Bureau in 2013, having worked there for 36 years. He earned a bachelor’s in plant pathology and a minor in agricultural business from the UA and a master’s in agricultural economics, also from the UA.
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