News Focus Channel: Hidden - Arkansas

UA Little Rock Faculty, Graduate Students Learn Important Teaching Skills at Mobile Institute on Scientific Teaching

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:25:16 EST

More than 25 UA Little Rock faculty members and graduate students learned valuable teaching skills in active learning through the 2022 Mobile Institute on Scientific Teaching (MIST).The MIST workshop provides a focus on active learning because studies show that students are 1 ½ times more likely to pass classes in active learning classrooms compared to students in classes that use traditional lecturing only.

Keltch Named New Chief Information Officer at UA Little Rock

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Tue, 03 May 2022 14:35:48 EST

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has named Brian Keltch as the university's new chief information officer.

Amazon Selects UA Little Rock, UA - Pulaski Tech for Career Choice Program

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 10:05:05 EST

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Arkansas - Pulaski Technical College were selected as education partners for Amazon's Career Choice program, providing Amazon's hourly employees in Central Arkansas with access to more than 180 accredited degree programs.

UA Little Rock Bowen School of Law Announces Financial Gift from Walmart to Create Enhanced Community Policing Project

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:25:37 EST

The UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law's Center for Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform announced that Walmart Inc. has contributed $210,000 to the Center to develop an enhanced community policing project. The program aims to foster greater collaboration between local law enforcement and the communities they serve and protect.

UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture Launches Online Exhibit Commemorating Arkansas's First African American Optometrist

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:10:37 EST

The Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has launched a new online exhibit exploring the life and achievements of Dr. William Townsend, a civil rights leader in Arkansas who was the first African American licensed to practice optometry in the state.

Single Mother Who Left College to Care for Autistic Son Earns Bachelor's Degree 15 Years Later

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:05:38 EST

In 2006, Veronica Tess Myers, of Little Rock, made the difficult decision to leave college to ensure her son, Alexander, got the education he deserved. Myers promised herself that she would one day return to complete her college education. "I started my college journey at UA Little Rock in 2000, and then stopped out in 2006 due to the dynamics of being a single mother and to take care of my profoundly autistic son, Alexander," Myers said.

Khodakovskaya Inducted into Arkansas Research Alliance Academy

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:50:25 EST

Dr. Mariya Khodakovskaya, professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been inducted into the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Academy of Scholars and Fellows. The induction of the new cohort of distinguished scholars and researchers took place during a Dec. 9 ceremony at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion.

U.S. Small Business Administration Awards ASBTDC $2.5 Million Grant for Community Navigator Pilot Program

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:15:51 EST

The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $2.5 million grant to engage in targeted outreach to small businesses in underserved communities. The U.S. Small Business Administration awarded the competitive funding under the Community Navigator Pilot Program administered by the SBA's Office of Entrepreneurship Education.

UA Little Rock Postdoctoral Researcher Receives $40K Grant to Create Predictive Modeling of Refugee Numbers

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:45:37 EST

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission, using flow-through funding from the National Science Foundation, has awarded a postdoctoral research fellow at UA Little Rock a grant worth more than $40,000 to create a machine learning model to predict refugee counts in the United States.

UA Little Rock Will Offer Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Education Through National Cybersecurity Teaching Academy

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:10:44 EST

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $750,000 grant from the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, located within the National Security Agency, and will be one of the first universities in the country to offer a graduate certificate in cybersecurity education through the National Cybersecurity Teaching Academy. The National Cybersecurity Teaching Academy is a collaborative of 10 institutions in nine states that will offer the first credentialing program for high school cybersecurity education in the country. The inaugural program will prepare 90 high school teachers to teach an advanced cybersecurity course.

Bowen Law School Receives $1 million from Walmart to Fund Court Observation Project

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:25:31 EST

The UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law has received a $1 million grant from Walmart, Inc. The grant will fund a Court Observation Project through Bowen's new Center for Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform. The project will introduce a state-wide court observation initiative that will create and share a transparent body of reliable data and research about Arkansas's criminal justice system that is otherwise unavailable in the state.

UA Little Rock, ASBTDC Introduce Online Training to Keep Small Businesses Cyber Safe

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:00:10 EST

New "Cyber Safe" training from the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center equips businesses to recognize and thwart cyber threats. ASBTDC collaborated with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Cyber Arena to create the Cyber Safe: Cybersecurity for Small Business online training course. The free, on-demand course is broken into short modules covering cybersecurity basics, such as access control, passwords, physical security, and network protection.

UA Little Rock Offers Half-Off Scholarships for Two Years

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:50:14 EST

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has announced a major new student success initiative that offers half-off course tuition and fees for freshmen who enroll at UA Little Rock for the fall 2022 semester. In this first-of-its-kind initiative, first-time freshmen as well as freshmen with 11 or fewer transfer credit hours will receive up to 50 percent off tuition and fees for not only their freshmen year for the 2022-23 academic year but their 2023-24 sophomore year as well.

UA Little Rock receives grant to commemorate history of Arkansas civil rights leader William Townsend

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:05:35 EST

The Center for Arkansas History and Culture at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a grant to explore the cultural and political sphere of Dr. William Townsend, an Arkansas civil rights leader and the first African American licensed to practice optometry in the state.

UA Little Rock researchers explore challenges faced by homeless LGBTQ adults in Arkansas

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:20:43 EST

Criminal justice researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock are investigating the unique challenges and barriers faced by homeless LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning) adults in Arkansas. LGBTQ adults experience a number of negative obstacles in life, such as discrimination, stigmatization, and victimization, that make the population especially vulnerable to experiencing homelessness.

Family Members Honor Longtime State Historian Cathie Matthews with UA Little Rock Endowment

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:15:02 EST

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $25,000 endowment to honor Catherine "Cathie" Remmel Matthews, Arkansas's longest serving director of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

Patients in Arkansas Now Have Increased Access to Affordable, Quality Anesthesia Care

American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:25:16 EST

Arkansas patients now have increased access to safe, affordable care with the signing of HB 1198 by Governor Asa Hutchinson. The law removes supervision requirements for nurse anesthetists and grants them the authority to work in consultation with healthcare providers in the delivery of anesthesia.

Early UAMS Study Results Show 3.5% of Arkansans Infected by Coronavirus

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:45:48 EST

Early results from a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led COVID-19 antibody study show that 3.5% of Arkansans have been infected with the novel coronavirus.

UA Little Rock's Sequoyah National Research Center creates website visualizing American Indian removal through Arkansas

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:20:56 EST

The Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has created a website and touchscreen table that brings the journey of American Indians who traveled through Arkansas on their way to Indian Territory to life. The center has completed a two-year research project, "Journey of Survival: Indian Removal Through Arkansas," that includes a website and interactive touchscreen table that visually maps the journey of American Indians who journeyed through Arkansas after the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

UA Little Rock researchers investigate Arkansas's 'other Trail of Tears'

University of Arkansas at Little Rock — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:05:00 EST

Arkansas is well known for its location on the Trail of Tears, the pathway the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole tribes traveled through the state in the 1830s to new lands in the Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma. Few people, however, know about Arkansas's history as the first and only state in the country to legally evict its entire free black population.