UALR’s Health Services will host a health and wellness holiday celebration from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, in the Donaghey Student Center’s lower concourse.
Bob Adams, vice chancellor for business and finance for the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR), will become the new vice chancellor for finance at UALR in February, Chancellor Joel E. Anderson announced this week. Adams will assume his new assignment as UALR’s chief financial officer on Feb. 1, 2009. He will replace Lucian Shockey, former vice chancellor for business and finance, who resigned earlier this year.
The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center based at UALR will receive a $99,994 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to spark economic development in seven counties in Southwest Arkansas over the next year, Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor along with Rep. Mike Ross announced.
Members of UALR Children International’s Kid’s Club after school program will be selling holiday cards in the Donaghey Student Center Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 3 and 4.
Students and faculty still have time to apply for UALR’s Middle Eastern Studies Grant. Friday is the deadline to apply for the grant, which will pay up to $3,000 per person to support scholarship and activities in the area of Middle Eastern studies.
UALR’s faculty and staff are inching up to this year’s ambitious goal for the 2008 Campus Campaign by the end of the calendar year. So far, 46 percent of campus staff and faculty have contributed to the campaign to support UALR programs and facilities. The goal is 50 percent participation.
UALR alums encourage all former students, faculty, staff, and supporters to display their Trojan pride by purchasing an official UALR Trojan Collegiate License Plate when they register their vehicle with the Department of Administration’s Motor Vehicle Division.
LaQuinta Broyles, administrative assistant in the College of Business Student Services office, and her family were displaced Sunday by a fire in the Normandy Place Apartments.
Pack the Jack Night is set for Saturday, Dec. 6, as the UALR women’s basketball team plays host to No. 19 Oklahoma State. Maroon women’s basketball T-shirts will be given out to the first 1,000 fans in attendance. Tickets can be purchased by calling 501.565.UALR or by visiting UALRTrojans.com.
Dr. Jocelyn Elders, former Surgeon General and one-time director of the Arkansas Department of Health, is the keynote speaker at noon Monday, Dec. 1, at UALR’s Fourth Annual HIV/AIDS Prevention Awareness Conference in the Donaghey Student Center Room B.