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ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾'s Office of Student Life is organizing a Tornado Relief Effort to assist the victims of the recent storms that recently devastated parts of Arkansas. Buses will depart from the Reynolds parking lot this Saturday, Feb. 23 at 9 a.m. to transport volunteers to the disaster areas. Food will be provided to all who participate, and the buses will return to ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ at 6 p.m. that evening. All ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ … [Read more...]

More than 180 ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ faculty and staff were recently recognized for submitting 212 grant proposals in 2007, resulting in a total of $4.33 million received at ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ during that year. The grant funding was used for faculty research and academic programs and services. The faculty and staff who were instrumental in bringing those funds to ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ were honored at a reception at which ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ President Lu Hardin, … [Read more...]

The ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ Quiz Bowl team recently placed third at the NAQT Southwest Sectionals held at the University of Tulsa. The accomplishment was notable because it was the first tournament competition for the new team, which was formed this semester. Tobin Williamson of Dardanelle made the All-Region team, and Jason Groves of Morrilton answered two questions in a 3-question overtime to defeat Kansas State … [Read more...]

Garry Craig Powell of ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾'s Department of Writing has just had his short story "Kamila and the King of Kandy" accepted for publication by Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine. Tim Thornes, assistant professor of linguistics in ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾'s Department of Writing, has had his paper 'Historical Pathways in the Development of Complex Predicates in Northern Paiute' accepted for publication as a chapter in the … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas next week will host a public forum about education reform organized in partnership with the Arkansas Policy Foundation. The event will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 1 p.m. in the ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ Student Center Ballroom, and it will feature a panel discussion among ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ President Lu Hardin and professors Roy Whitehead and Walter Block. Reforms enacted in Arkansas … [Read more...]

ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ recently hosted the final Arkansas round of a civics competition called "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution." Three teams of Arkansas high school students competed for a bid to represent the state at the national finals, which will be held in Washington D.C. in April. Teams from Russellville Junior High School, Vilonia High School and Charleston High School faced each other at … [Read more...]

ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ professors Ginny Adams, Karen Steelman and Laurie Warren received a $50,000 grant from the Perry County, Missouri Soil and Water Conservation District for a contaminant concentration analysis in streams utilized by Grotto Sculpin (Cottus carolinae) in that county. In 2002, the Grotto Sculpin was designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a candidate for listing as a Federal … [Read more...]

Family and friends continue to search for John Glasgow, a Little Rock executive who was last seen in Little Rock on Jan. 28 and is thought to have disappeared on Petit Jean Mountain, where his car and cell phone were found. Glasgow graduated from ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ in 1985 with a degree in accounting. ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾ alumni with any information about his whereabouts are encouraged to visit the website … [Read more...]