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Students-First Sustainability Competition Winners Net $30,000 for Green Campus Ideas
-- Posted by tfisher on Thursday, April 30 2009

The winners of the first Students-First Sustainability Competition received cash prizes and a tree seedling during a ceremony on Earth Day, April 22.

The winning “Team ENDY” won the top prize of $15,000 for a series of four proposed projects aimed at enhancing sustainability efforts already categorized by the University of Arkansas Sustainability Council. The multifaceted plan specifies projects addressing energy and greenhouse gas emission reduction, water management, waste management and social sustainability. Team members Ruchi Bhattacharya, Sarah Lewis, Leisha Vance and Byron Winston are doctoral candidates in the environmental dynamics program. They elected to donate their tree to the University of Arkansas to symbolize their gratitude to the institution’s commitment to sustainability and asked that it be planted on campus.

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/14953.htm

Chang Wins Third at Arkansas Academy of Sciences Meeting
-- Posted by tfisher on Thursday, April 30 2009

Senior biology major Helen Chang won third place for her presentation at a recent Arkansas Academy of Sciences meeting. Her mentor is Maureen McClung, a doctoral student and a distinguished doctoral fellow in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Walton College Students Take Five Governor's Cup Awards
-- Posted by tfisher on Thursday, April 30 2009

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Graduate students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas were rewarded for their Tears of Life business plan with the $20,000 first place award and the AT&T $5,000 Innovation Award in the 2009 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition.

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/14954.htm

Rehab Program Ranking Included in Latest U.S. News & World Report Edition
-- Posted by tfisher on Tuesday, April 28 2009

The rehabilitation education and research program at the University of Arkansas was listed at No. 15 in the latest edition of the U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate school programs issued last week.

Not all graduate programs are evaluated annually, and the rankings for rehabilitation counseling programs were last completed in 2007. The rehab counseling program in the College of Education and Health Professions has been consistently ranked in the top 20 of graduate programs. In 2003, it was also No. 15 in the U.S. News rankings.

The rehabilitation education and research program offers a master of science degree in rehabilitation counseling and a doctoral degree in rehabilitation education and research. In 2005, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and the College of William and Mary gave the program a No. 1 ranking for institutional productivity in scholarly publications in the field of rehabilitation.

Current faculty members are Richard T. Roessler, University professor, Brent T. Williams, associate professor, and Lynn Koch, associate professor. Williams coordinates the program. In the fall, enrollment was 24 master’s students and 22 doctoral students.

More information on the latest rankings can be found at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools.

University of Arkansas Professor's Research Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education
-- Posted by tfisher on Tuesday, April 28 2009

A report April 21 in the online edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education described research by Ketevan “Kate” Mamiseishvili, an assistant professor of higher education leadership at the University of Arkansas.

Mamiseishvili presented a paper titled “International and Citizen Women Faculty Productivity at Research Universities in the United States” at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association earlier this month in San Diego.

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/14934.htm

University of Arkansas Team Takes Top Prize in Wal-Mart Better Living Business Plan Challenge
-- Posted by tfisher on Thursday, April 23 2009

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A plan to introduce sustainable recycling for municipalities and poultry farms has taken first place and $20,000 in the Wal-Mart Better Living Business Plan Challenge. The final rounds were held April 16 at the home office in Bentonville, Ark.

The competition was also hosted by the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas.

A team of students from the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas developed the winning plans for Ground Up Biosolutions. Students include three master’s candidates in business administration: Brandon Barr, Joshua McCullough amd Keith Solsvig; and Cesar Coto, a doctoral candidate in poultry science and master’s candidate in agribusiness. Carol Reeves, holder of the Cecil and Gwendolyn Cupp Applied Professorship in Entrepreneurship, was the faculty sponsor.

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/14899.htm

Nursing Student Receives National Recognition for Clinical Study
-- Posted by tfisher on Wednesday, April 22 2009

Emily Coombs, a master’s student in the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at the University of Arkansas, recently won a $500 scholarship at the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists in St. Louis.


http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/14786.htm

Four University of Arkansas Alumni Win Prestigious $25,000 Fellowships
-- Posted by tfisher on Monday, April 13 2009

Of the 42 creative writing fellowships of $25,000 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded in 2009 to poets across the United States, four were given to alumni of the University of Arkansas Creative Writing Program: Chelsea Rathburn, Bill Notter, Thom Satterlee and Charles Rafferty.

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/14786.htm

Communications Professor Wins Journalism Award
-- Posted by tfisher on Monday, April 13 2009

The American Journalism Historians Association has awarded Stephanie Ricker Schulte in the department of communication of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences with an Honorable Mention Award in the 2009 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize competition. The jury noted the originality of her argument, the thoroughness of her research, and the clarity of her writing in her dissertation, "State Technology to State of Being: The Making of the Internet in Global Popular Culture." The Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize, established in 1997 and named in 2003, is awarded annually for the best doctoral dissertation on media history. Named in honor of the late Professor Margaret A. Blanchard of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the prize is accompanied by an honorarium of $500. A $200 honorarium is awarded to each honorable mention.

[Book] Incorporating Intersectionality in Social Work Practice, Research, Policy, and Education
-- Posted by dboddie on Thursday, April 9 2009

A new book printed by Yvette Murphy, Valerie Hunt, Anna M. Zajicek, Adele N. Norris, Leah Hamilton. Published by NASW Press.

"This important book provides guidance for investigating how the social constructions of race, class, gender, age and social orientation intersect with one another, contributing to the oppression of marginalized groups in modern society. Economic and social inequities are mediated by the social locations and lived experiences of people. The intersectionality perspective is often neglected, yet it is vital for understanding social injustice and intervening on behalf of oppressed groups."


For more information about this book, ISBN and ordering online, visit the NASW Publishing web site.

Fulbright College Announces Awards for Teaching, Research, Advising, and Service
-- Posted by tfisher on Wednesday, April 8 2009

At the spring faculty meeting for Fulbright College, University of Arkansas faculty were acknowledged for exceptional contributions in teaching, advising, research and service. Winners of the master teacher award are Kathleen Comfort, associate professor of foreign languages; Claud Lacy, professor of physics; and Kameri Christy-McMullin, associate professor in the School of Social Work. Winners of the master researcher award are Steven Beaupre, professor of biological sciences, and Robert Finlay, professor of history. Jerome Rose, professor of anthropology, was named outstanding advisor, and Janine Parry, associate professor of political science, won the John E. King Award for Outstanding Service. Michael Hammond, a graduate assistant in history, won the Yowell Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Assistant.

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