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Following five years of great success, the Arkansas Children’s Hospital’s Center of Translational Pediatric Research (CTPR) has been awarded $11.5 million in Phase II funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The center uses a cutting-edge systems biology approach,…

Northwest Arkansas Food Systems, with support from the Walton Family Foundation, is providing grants to the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, Community Clinic and the University of Arkansas. The funding will offer farmers new resources to access capital and soil health…

Arkansas is set to receive the largest federal investment of any state in the nation for new flood control projects as a result of the $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in Nov. 2021. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural…

The Biden administration laid out requirements on Monday for how projects funded by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law source their construction material. The 17-page guidance presented by the administration requires that all materials purchased for infrastructure projects be made…

AcreTrader, the online farmland investment company based in Arkansas, has expanded its $40 million Series B funding to over $60 million following an investment from Ohio-based venture capital firm Drive Capital. The funding round follows AcreTrader’s oversubscribed Series B round…

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s (AEDC) Division of Rural Services recently announced that it will award more than $769,000 to Arkansas schools to support conservation education programs in the 2021-22 school year. Funding comes from wildlife fines collected by the…

Tyson Foods is awarding $1.5 million in support of hunger relief initiatives around the United States. This funding will impact 38 Tyson plant communities and will be distributed to 26 hunger relief organizations. In total, the Springdale-based company will provide…

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) has received a $165,000 grant for its School of Nursing’s Center for Stimulation Innovation (CSI). Awarded by the Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation, this grant is aimed at providing…

Restaurants and other eating establishments have only a few days remaining to take advantage of available federal funding. The deadline to submit applications for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund is Monday, May 24 at 7 p.m. This $28.6 billion fund provides…

Students interested in forestry will have a new source of funding for college. The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Forestry Division and the University of Arkansas at Monticello have unveiled a new scholarship aimed at incoming freshmen pursuing forestry. This scholarship,…