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Archive: June, 2007
Arkansas Capital Corporation
Leslie Lane, senior vice president of Arkansas Capital Corporation, said the group has identified four keys to driving the modern economy and to boosting the state’s per capita income:
Higher education—”We continue to live in shrinking world, and we have to compete in a global economy based on our ideals. We are in an age where […]
Catapulting Arkansas Through Nanotechnology
The Arkansas Nanotechnology Center at UALR and its business-focused research aims to create more companies and thousands of jobs for Arkansans.
Faculty Highlights
Features some of the faculty’s recent achievements
Energized Recruitment
Data center created by Entergy and Science Applications International Corporation
Ripples that Build Arkansas
The Construction Management program at UALR is a win-win for the state: grads get top-paying jobs, and industry gets top-notch professionals.
Measuring Up
UALR’s Construction Management Program entered a team in the heavy/civil division of the National Construction Management Competition for the first time this year to see how it stacked up against those from other universities.
Of no surprise to the folks affiliated with the program, UALR’s team brought home the bacon: third place in the Super Bowl […]
Powerful Partners
Partnership with Southwest Power Pool to train power systems engineers
Entrepreneurs Prove Collaboration Equals Strength
When the Little Rock National Airport needed a creative solution to enhance its efficiency and profitability, Airport Executive Director Deborah Schwartz approached Dr. Mary L. Good, dean of UALR’s Donaghey College of Information Science and Systems Engineering.
From that conversation, Good set in motion a multi-disciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students from two UALR colleges […]
Financing Dreams
By backing budding entrepreneurs, Leslie Lane at Arkansas Capital Corporation hopes to bolster wealth in the state.
Q&A with Governor Mike Beebe: Pressing Questions on Economic Development
UALR Magazine sat down with Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe shortly after the end of his first legislative session in which economic development and education were major priorities.
UALR: There was a time it seemed when tax breaks and a new highway or railroad bypass were the top economic development incentives the state had to land manufacturing […]