FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 14 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: A $194.7 million grant from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation will establish the University of Arkansas Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I3R), transforming the research, innovation and economic development culture of the university. The grant is one of the largest single private gifts ever given to a university for advancing research and economic development and counts toward  more

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 17 -- The Arkansas Attorney General issued the following consumer alert: It is important to be vigilant and do your homework when donating to a new charity for the first time. Scammers have been stealing money from Arkansans by posing as veterans' charities and often requesting charitable donations. Even though these bad actors can leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth, it is important to note that there are still many well intentioned military and veterans charities acros  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued the following news release: The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that State Senator Joyce Elliott's $600,000 Q2 haul far outpaced Congressman French Hill's $271,000 raised in the same quarter. In fact, in June alone Elliott raised $460,000, nearly doubling Hill's quarter total. This comes on the heels of Sen. Elliott's addition to the DCCC's Red to Blue program last month. Check out some key excerpts below or read  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 16 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: A five-year, $2.74 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services will help diversify the social work workforce in the state and beyond through scholarships to underserved students enrolling in the Master of Social Work program at the University of Arkansas. The DHHS Fellowship Program will provide financial assistance and additional learning opportunities to approximately 35 graduate socia  more

SEARCY, Arkansas, July 16 -- Harding University issued the following news: The Harding University Honors College has appointed Dr. Kevin Kehl dean and Dr. James Huff and Dr. Jim Miller as faculty fellows following a leadership restructure. Huff, recently promoted to associate professor of engineering from the College of Sciences, and Miller, associate professor of communication from the College of Arts and Humanities, have been named the first two-year appointees as Honors College Faculty Fell  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, July 14 -- The University of Arkansas Little Rock campus issued the following news: The path to becoming a researcher takes many different forms. For UA Little Rock student William King, it all started with a fifth-grade plot to take over the world. A lofty dream, but the Bradford, Arkansas, native was practical about it -- the first step had to be, of course, a quest for immortality. However, unlike other kids his age, King wasn't interested in fountains of youth or ma  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 17 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: Do education regulations sometimes harm those they were intended to help? A recent study by University of Arkansas Education Reform professor Robert Maranto and former doctoral student Ian Kingsbury, now at Johns Hopkins University, says yes. "Charter School Regulation as a Disproportionate Barrier to Entry" by Kinsbury, Maranto, and Nik Karns, just published at Urban Education, studies how public authorit  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 16 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: University of Arkansas exercise science professors Nicholas Greene and Tyrone Washington have received a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health grant. The five-year Research Project Grant (R01) focuses on preventing cancer cachexia, a wasting syndrome that largely affects the muscles, along with other body tissues, and is present in up to 80% of cancer patients. "This grant is a testament to the high   more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 15 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: Steve Krogull has been named the permanent chief information officer and associate vice chancellor for university information technology for the University of Arkansas after assuming the role as the interim since March. Krogull has been at the forefront of the campus information technology response to the COVID-19 pandemic including helping transition the campus to remote instruction and work for campus st  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 14 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: Faculty members Raj Rao in the College of Engineering and Rogelio Garcia Contreras in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will co-teach a new course this fall focused on community response to problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The special topics course, Global Perspectives: Changemakers Under Covid-19, is expected to help students relate to the difficulties associa  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 14 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: Anne O'Leary-Kelly, senior associate dean and professor of management at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, has been named chair of the Walton Arts Center Council. Walton Arts Center is Arkansas' largest and busiest performing arts presenter. Each year more than 215,000 people attend more than 300 public events at Walton Arts Center, including performances, rehearsals, com  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 16 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: A civil engineering professor has been awarded federal funding to study whether wastewater can help track COVID-19 as it spreads through communities. Wen Zhang, associate professor of civil engineering, was awarded $40,000 through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, to study wastewater to help community leaders better understand the prevalence of the disease in their area. Coro  more