Medical Schools Fight Health Care Migration 
by Marty Cook – 4 days ago
Arkansas faces a high demand for doctors while medical school residencies remain in short supply.
Arkansas faces a high demand for doctors while medical school residencies remain in short supply.
A dozen of the biggest higher education construction projects now active in Arkansas total more than $381 million.
The Arkansas State University System assimilates troubled Henderson State in Arkadelphia and grants its first diplomas in Mexico.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awards a five-year, $1.7 million grant to a UAMS researcher studying a deadly pathogen that causes severe pneumonia. read more >
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service awards a five-year, $3 million grant to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's Aquaculture/Fisheries Department. read more >
MORE Technologies, a startup company founded by four University of Arkansas students to sell 3-D printable robots, sells its technology assets and patent to Sphero of Boulder, Colorado. read more >
Greenway Equipment of Newport donates $2 million to the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center in Poinsett County. read more >
The Mabee Foundation awards a $2 million challenge grant to Hendrix College in Conway. read more >
Common business practice has focused on workplace boundaries, but COVID-19 demonstrated a need to support employees holistically. read more >
With the collapse of a $16.5 million land sale that drew opposition from Arkansas legislators, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is searching for ways to replace the lost revenue. read more >
Arkansans with a bachelor's degree or greater between 2015 and 2019 are concentrated, unsurprisingly, in northwest and central Arkansas. read more >
Shannon Williams, the new director of the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum in Piggott, says a PBS documentary is already generating interest. read more >
Amy Hopper has been hired as program manager by the Arkansas Research Alliance in Conway. read more >
Randy Esters, president of North Arkansas College in Harrison, is returning to his home state of Louisiana in June after holding that office for five years. read more >
University of Arkansas men's basketball coach Eric Musselman agreed to a new five-year, $20 million contract after leading the Razorbacks to the Elite Eight of the 2021 NCAA Tournament. read more >
Arkansas Business is accepting nominations for its annual "20 In Their 20s" class of young professionals who are making a difference in their companies, organizations and communities. read more >
Top Federal Reserve policymakers underscore their concern that Black and Hispanic people are sharply underrepresented in the economics field, which lessens the perspectives that economists can bring to key policy issues. read more >
Facing a budget deficit and enrollment declines, the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith is reorganizing itself, consolidating colleges, cutting costs and maintaining a hiring freeze. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signs legislation to raise the target median annual pay for public school teachers by $2,000. read more >
The University of Central Arkansas has launched the public phase of the largest fundraising effort in its history. read more >
North Little Rock's $30 million police and courts building, scheduled for a September completion, is seen as a roadside advertisement for the city. read more >
Since December, construction totaling more than $225 million has been completed on some of the largest K-12 projects in Arkansas. read more >
The Windgate Foundation is transforming arts education in Arkansas one building at a time. read more >
Northwest Arkansas leaders are concerned that the region's rising economic tide could leave many in the area vainly searching for an affordable home. read more >
Despite improvements like family coverage for adult children and guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, our country's patchwork of insurance coverage is still threadbare in spots. read more >
Nate Disarro figures he profits at least three times when he tells the success stories of Arkansas' captains of business. That's a big part of his job running Content Titan of Little Rock. read more >
Fred Bourland has received the A.L. Vandergriff Cotton Pioneer Award for his cotton breeding and research from the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, headquartered in Memphis. read more >
The eight winners of the 2021 Arkansas Governor's Cup Collegiate Business Plan competition were announced during a virtual presentation held at noon Thursday. read more >
Arkansas State University and the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine have decided to re-up for the long haul. read more >
Arkansas Research Alliance announced an expansion of its ARA Academy of Scholars and Fellows, welcoming two new ARA Scholars and six new ARA Fellows. read more >
Researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences win a $10.8 million grant to establish the Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center as an National Institutes of Health-designated Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. read more >
The Arkansas PBS Foundation has a new name, a new board president and new board members as it supports a bigger role than ever for Arkansas PBS, formerly the Arkansas Educational Television Network. read more >
Two programs based out of the same building on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus are helping transform research done in a lab into marketable technology that can generate dollars and jobs. read more >
