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Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, Washington Regional Recognize Clinical Nurse Specialists
-- Posted by tfisher on Monday, August 31 2009
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Three clinical nurse specialists who earned master’s degrees in nursing from the University of Arkansas are advancing nursing practice by providing inter-professional, systemwide leadership.
The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at the university is celebrating the work of clinical nurse specialists the week of Sept. 1-7 as part of an effort by the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists to acknowledge the influence of approximately 72,000 clinical nurse specialists across the nation. Faculty will honor graduates of the program at a recognition and recruitment booth at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 2. According to the university, clinical nurse specialists create, monitor and evaluate cost-effective, evidence-based policies, procedures, protocols and best practice models.
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/15557.htm
2009 APSA Organized Section Awards
-- Posted by tfisher on Thursday, August 27 2009
Award Committee Members
Melissa Marschallm Rice University
Lester Spence, John Hopkins
Paru Shah, Macalester
Award Recipents: Brinck Kerr, Will Miller,
Margaret Reid, and William Schreckhise
Department of Political Science
University of Arkansas
Title of paper: When Does Politcs Matter? A
Reexamination of the Determinants of African
American and Latino Municipal Employment
Patterns
University of Arkansas Poet Chloë Honum Wins $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship
-- Posted by tfisher on Wednesday, August 5 2009
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine have announced the five recipients of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowships: Chloë Honum of the University of Arkansas, as well as Malachi Black, Eric Ekstrand, Jeffrey Schultz and Joseph Spece. Among the largest awards offered to aspiring poets in the United States, each Lilly Fellowship carries a $15,000 scholarship prize for fellows to use as they wish in the continued study and writing of poetry.
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/15426.htm
National Science Foundation Awards Fellowship to Russell
-- Posted by tfisher on Wednesday, August 5 2009
Aaron Russell, a chemical engineering doctoral student, has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation. Russell is currently working on plasmon-enhanced hydrogen fuel cells. Faculty support is provided by Keith Roper, who serves as the Charles W. Oxford Professor of Emerging Technologies, and Jamie Hestekin, assistant professor in the Ralph E. Martin department of chemical engineering.