City Year Little Rock is continuing in its mission of advancing educational equity in Arkansas this year with the help of 20 AmeriCorps members and two alumni– Amanda Richardson Nipper and Madhav Shroff, who recently joined the board and both…
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UA Little Rock Expecting Growth in First-Time Freshmen, Transfer Students This Fall
Five UA Little Rock students gather in front of the Student Services Center on campus before class. (Photo by Ben Krain). With just under two weeks until classes begin at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, preliminary enrollment data…
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Nalley Joins Empire Financial Architects as Vice President
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffEmpire Financial Architects, a Little Rock-based, woman-owned and operated financial services firm, announced recently that former Hot Springs Village CEO Lesley Nalley, has been hired as the new Vice President of the firm and Registered Financial Services Professional, where she…
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Chastain Donates $100k in Father’s Memory to UA Little Rock
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffSara Chastain, a registered nurse from Little Rock, has donated $100,000 to create an endowed professorship fund in memory of her father, the late Dr. Charles Chastain, who was the founder of the criminal justice program at the University of…
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Braun Departs as Dean of UA Little Rock College of Business
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffDr. Frank Braun, dean of the College of Business, Health, and Human Services at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, announced Thursday that he will be stepping down as dean of the college effective July 31. Braun will return to…
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Vandiver Resigns from Post as KUAR General Manager
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffFor listeners of local UA Little Rock Public Radio it’s a sad time as it was announced last Friday that general manager Nathan Vandiver will be resigning from his post where he led NPR affiliate stations KUAR-FM, 89.1 and classical…
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Trojan Rising Sophomore Participates in First International Competition
Little Rock setter Sophia Reynolds is preparing to return to Little Rock and the United States after spending the past six weeks training and playing in Mexico at the Women’s U21 Pan American Cup, guiding the Dominican Republic to an…
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Matson Donates $25k for Rhetoric and Writing Students at UA Little Rock
Dr. Joanne Liebman Matson, professor of rhetoric and writing, is celebrating her department’s and her parents’ commitment to education with the creation of an endowed scholarship at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Matson’s donation of $25,000 will establish…
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UALR Awarded $165K Grant to Support Research Efforts to Monitor Cyber Warfare Tactics on Social Media
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy endowed chair and distinguished professor of information science at UA Little Rock, has received a grant for $165,540 that will support research efforts to monitor cyber warfare tactics through social media. UA Little Rock…
Arkansas Press Women (APW) has selected Emma Jones, a junior at Harding University, as the recipient of its 2022 scholarship. Jones will receive a $1,000 scholarship and a membership to APW during the Arkansas Press Women Awards Ceremony May 21…