A Professor’s Big Thrill, Like Singing to the King
UA Little Rock Professor Sonny Rhodes won the 2020 Arkansas Press Association Journalism Educator of the Year award last month. read more >
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What Has COVID-19 Unmasked in Your Business? (Michael Collins Commentary)
As COVID-19 continues to impact our society, it’s easy for daily business obligations to blind owners to the importance of evaluating their operation in light of the ongoing social and economic challenges the pandemic has created. read more >
Robinson Selected as Provost at UA (Movers & Shakers)
Charles Robinson has been named permanent provost of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. read more >
ASBTDC Receives $125K Grant to Help Companies Apply for Grants
The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $125,000 grant to assist companies pursuing federal Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer grants and contracts. read more >
UA Little Rock's Support Students Services Gets $2.1M Grant
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the University of Arkansas at Little Rock a $2.1 million, five-year grant to help more students succeed and graduate from college. read more >
Pandemic Collateral Damage? Small Firms
The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a wallop to the country’s economy, but experts interviewed by Arkansas Business don’t expect too much lasting damage. There is a caveat, of course. read more >
Windgate Gives $3M to UA Little Rock for Art Center Care
The Windgate Foundation has gifted $3 million to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to fund a building maintenance endowment for its Windgate Center of Art + Design. read more >
UA Little Rock Economists Get $300K to Make Plan, Study COVID-19 Effects
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to create an Arkansas Recovery & Resiliency Plan and develop a history of the economic effects of COVID-19 on the state. read more >
UA Little Rock Makes COSMOS a Designated Research Center
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) Lab has received approval from the Arkansas Department of Education to become an established research center on campus. read more >
UA Little Rock Touts Record-Breaking Fundraising of $47.9M
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock announced Friday that Fiscal Year 2020 has been its highest fundraising year to date, with UA Little Rock alumni and friends donating a record-breaking $47.9 million. read more >
UA Little Rock Professor Receives Grant of Nearly $444K
A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has received a $443,854, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. read more >
Jan P. Springer to Lead UA Little Rock's Emerging Analytics Center
Jan P. Springer, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been named director of the George W. Donaghey Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. read more >
UA Little Rock to Offer Cybersecurity Degree In Fall 2021
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will offer a new four-year cybersecurity degree in the Fall 2021 semester. read more >
AEDC, School Partners Win $20M Grant For Data Analytics Project
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Division of Science and Technology, along with the nine colleges and universities it’s partnered with, recently won a $20 million grant to be awarded over five years. read more >
Wallace Honored by UA Little Rock (Movers & Shakers)
Dechantria Wallace was selected by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock as the Outstanding Academic Advisor of 2020. read more >
Upsides at UA Little Rock
Christina Drale’s christening as chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock last September was more a baptism of fire. read more >
Finance Crisis at Arkansas Colleges Hits the Layoff Stage
With Arkansas’ public colleges in historic financial distress, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Chancellor Christina Drale prescribed a bitter remedy this month — cuts deep enough to cost tenured professors their jobs — and state education leaders fear other state universities may have to take a dose. read more >
Reese to Lead UCA College of Health (Movers & Shakers)
Nancy Berryman Reese was named the new dean of the at the University of Central Arkansas' College of Health & Behavioral Sciences read more >
Horvath Moves to Small Business & Tech Center at UA Little Rock (Movers & Shakers)
Brandon Horvath is the Arkansas Small Business & Technology Development Center’s new capital access specialist. read more >
Contractors’ $30K Gift Renames UA Little Rock Building Lab
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Building Information Modeling Lab has a new name. read more >
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