RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas, March 13 -- Arkansas Tech University issued the following news: * * * Award-Winning Poet to Speak at ATU April 16 Samyak Shertok, winner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, will be the spring 2025 speaker for the Arkansas Tech University Visiting Authors Series. Shertok will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center room 300B. He will read from his collection "No Rh  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR in the News, March 13, 2025 CAIR-Alabama: Protesters rally in Birmingham for Mahmoud Khalil's release and free speech rights - WCFT-TV CAIR: Hundreds protest arrest of Columbia student leader Mahmoud Khalil - USA TODAY CAIR: Muslim advocacy group claims Arkansas Ramadan meal policy violates federal religious law - KATV CAIR: Trump draws condemnation fo  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 13 -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences issued the following news release: * * * Dermatologic Oncologist Justin M. McLawhorn, M.D., Joins UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Justin M. McLawhorn, M.D., a Vanderbilt-trained dermatologic oncologist and skin cancer surgeon, has joined the University of Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute as director of dermatologic oncology. McLawhorn specializes in the treatment o  more

WACO, Texas, March 14 -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news: * * * Inside the Headset Presented by CoachComm Nathan Brown, Head Coach - Central Arkansas On this week's episode of Inside the Headset - Presented by CoachComm, we sit down with Central Arkansas Head Coach, Nathan Brown. In this conversation, Coach Brown discusses getting an early start in the profession at his alma mater, learning from the great coaches around him, and becoming the Head Coach at U  more

NEW YORK, March 13 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund posted the following news: * * * LDF, Co-Counsel Reach Settlement on Behalf of Incarcerated Individuals... Recently, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), alongside Disability Rights Arkansas, the ACLU of Arkansas, Professor Omavi Shukur of the University of Maryland, and counsel from Squire Patton Boggs, reached a settlement with the State of Arkansas in Kent, et al. v. Graves. LDF and co-counsel filed this laws  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 13 -- Southwest Power Pool, a corporation mandated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ensure supplies of power, transmission infrastructure and wholesale electricity prices, issued the following news release: * * * SPP names Emily Pennel chief of staff LITTLE ROCK, ARK. -- Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has named Emily Pennel as chief of staff reporting to incoming president and chief executive officer Lanny Nickell, effective April 1. Pennel joined SPP i  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Trump's EPA Illegally Terminates Over $30 Million in Loans That Would Have Lowered Energy Costs, Created Jobs in Arkansas Little Rock, AR - This week, Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA is illegally terminating $20 billion in Congressionally mandated funding already disbursed nationwide to lower energy costs and revitalize local economies. This includes a $31.8 million loan to  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 14 -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences issued the following news release: * * * UAMS Joins NIH Effort to Increase Rural Health Research The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has joined a network of institutions funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand research in rural primary care clinics. Through the NIH CARE for Health(TM) initiative, UAMS will help lead innovative research to address health disparities in Ark  more

PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, March 13 -- The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff issued the following news: * * * UAPB Nursing Department Students Receive ALIGN Scholarship Twelve University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) Nursing Department students were recently awarded $4,000 each through the Arkansas Linking Industry to Grow Nurses (ALIGN) program. The students include Kennedy Abanihe, Daniel Aondo, Lori Bonnettey, Mariah Debose, Ky'Aria Ginger, Christopher James, Jr., Mikala Jenkins, Jeanine  more