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Graduate Student Wins Crime Mapping Prize
-- Posted by dboddie on Friday, April 30 2004

Graduate student Paxton Roberts had the chance to show what he’s learned in his studies of geography and cartography, and he took home an award at the same time. Roberts won first prize for best overall map in the fifth annual crime map competition at the National Institute of Justice’s Seventh Annual International Crime Mapping Research Conference held earlier this month in Boston.

Roberts is working on his master’s in geography with a focus on cartography and GIS.

"It really made me feel confident in my skills as a cartographer," he said. "Dr. Tom Paradise teaches cartography, and he was my mentor. I’ve been working with him the last three years and he’s shown me the skills and what it takes to do cartography."

Roberts used data collected by sociology professor Brent Smith for the American Terrorism Study. Smith has collected court records from FBI cases of convicted terrorists over the last 20 years. Roberts compiled the data into three different maps – one representing data collected from 1980 to 1989, one showing data from 1990 to 1999 and one showing data collected from 2000 to 2002. He then gathered all the data into a graduated symbol map, with circles representing the number of court cases collected from different cities.

UA Walton College Graduate Students Take Top Governor’s Entrepreneurial Development Awards
-- Posted by dboddie on Friday, April 30 2004

Since the business plan competition's inception in 2001, students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, have taken some of the top prizes in the Governor’s Awards for Entrepreneurial Development.

At this year’s awards luncheon, held yesterday at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, prizes were awarded two categories: graduate and undergraduate. In the 2004 graduate competition, Walton College students received the first place $20,000, second place $10,000 and third place $5,000 awards. A fourth Walton College graduate team received the $5,000 SBC Technology Award. A Walton College undergraduate took the third place $5,000.

Students from John Brown University won the first place $20,000 undergraduate prize. Student teams from Harding University took the second place $10,000 award and the SBC $5,000 undergraduate Technology Award.

The Governor’s Award business plan competition is designed to encourage students of Arkansas’ universities and colleges to act upon their ideas and talents to product tomorrow’s businesses.

Governor Mike Huckabee opened the program, and Ned Perme, chief meteorologist, KATV — Channel 7, announced the winners. Virgil L. Miller Jr., senior vice president, Metropolitan National Bank, and president of Arkansas Capital Corporation, and Ed Drilling, president, SBC Arkansas, assisted in the presentations. The keynote speaker was John H. Tyson, chairman and CEO of Tyson Foods Inc.

To read more, please go to http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR04/GovCup.html.

Rehabilitation Researcher Garners Awards for Teaching and Research
-- Posted by dboddie on Friday, April 23 2004

Rehabilitation researcher Rick Rossler has spent his career developing programs to help people with chronic illnesses and disabilities return to or stay in the workplace, and his work has been recognized nationwide twice this year by awards from groups of his peers.

Rossler, University Professor of rehabilitation, human resources and communication disorders, won the Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Education award from the National Council on Rehabilitation Education and the James F. Garrett Award for a Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Research from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.

To read more about Rossler, please go to
http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR04/rehabawards.html

Industrial Engineering Department Honors Student Achievement
-- Posted by dboddie on Thursday, April 22 2004

The UA department of industrial engineering held its annual awards banquet on Friday, April 16. Over 100 INEG students were honored for their achievements in the classroom, research, and professional service. The 2004 Outstanding Senior Award was shared by David Bates, a native of Rogers, and Jason Honeycutt, a native of Harrison. The 2004 Outstanding Graduate Student Award was presented to Kellie Schneider, a native of Van Buren and M.S. student. Chase Rainwater, a senior from Mountain Home, received the 2003 Undergraduate Research Award, and Peng Qu, a Ph.D. candidate from Harbin, China, received the 2003 Graduate Research Award.

Bells Ring Out Good News At Bell Engineering Center
-- Posted by dboddie on Wednesday, April 21 2004

A bell-ringing ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow, Apr. 22, in the atrium of Bell Engineering Center. The bells will ring to honor two graduate programs of the College of Engineering, industrial engineering and civil engineering, which recently were ranked for the first time by U.S. News and World Report. Bob Elliott, head of civil engineering, and John English, head of industrial engineering, will each receive a commemorative memento on behalf of their departmental achievement. The celebration is open to the public and refreshments will be served.

Attention International Students Planning to Travel Outside the U.S. this Summer
-- Posted by dboddie on Thursday, April 15 2004

If you are an international student in F-1 or J-1 nonimmigrant status, the Office of International Students & Scholars (ISS) reminds you that you should make plans now to have your immigration documentsreviewed and signed if you will be traveling outside the United States during the summer break. For more information or to schedule a travel consultation appointment, visit the ISS Web site at www.uark.edu/iss or contact Audra Johnston at audra@uark.edu

Graduate Engineering Departments Ranked by U.S. News and World Report
-- Posted by dboddie on Thursday, April 15 2004

The graduate programs of the civil engineering and industrial engineering departments at the University of Arkansas College of Engineering were recently ranked for the first time by U.S. News and World Report.

The industrial engineering department was ranked 30th, along with three other programs. The civil engineering department was ranked 65th, along with nine other programs. Programs at 185 engineering schools that grant doctoral degrees were surveyed, from a total of approximately 330 programs nationwide.

As a 1962 engineering graduate, Chancellor John White is especially pleased. "Their rankings are very impressive," he said. "The graduate rankings are much tougher to crack than the undergraduate rankings. In addition, the rankings of both programs include private as well as public universities. For example, among public universities, the UA industrial engineering program would be ranked 25th."

To read the full release, please go to http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR04/engr_ranked.html

First Female Ph.D. College of Engineering Graduate Discusses Balancing Family And Career
-- Posted by dboddie on Tuesday, April 13 2004

Lee Lane, the first female to receive a doctoral degree from the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas, will speak at 6 p.m. today, Apr. 13, in Engineering Hall 209.

After receiving a doctoral degree in engineering, Lane went on to establish Autek Systems, a high-technology electronic instrument company based in San Diego, Calif. She has several years of experience managing and directing classified defense programs with Northrop Electronics and General Dynamics. Lane also taught undergraduate and graduate courses at San Diego State University. She’s also written numerous technical articles.

She will speak on the challenges of balancing a career and family as well as discuss her experience as an entrepreneur. Her lecture is sponsored by Women in Engineering.

Lane’s lecture is open to the public. Refreshments will be served following her presentation.

Cell and Molecular Biology Student to Host Symposium
-- Posted by dboddie on Wednesday, April 7 2004

UA cell and molecular biology graduate students will host a symposium May 12 featuring keynote speaker Douglas Stocco. Master of Science and Ph.D. students in all science fields are invited to participate in a poster and oral presentation competition. Submit your 250 words abstract to pradhak@uark.edu by Thursday, April 15.

For more information, contact brlockh@uark.edu.

Food Science Students Make Clean Sweep in Competition
-- Posted by dboddie on Tuesday, April 6 2004

Six UA department of food science students, competing in the 2004 Ozark Food Processors Association student poster competition, made a clean sweep for awards. In the undergraduate competition Brad Cheatham received first place with his poster entitled "Prediction of the texture of cooked poultry pectoralis major muscles by near-infrared reflectance analysis of raw meat," Brittany Adams received second place with her poster entitled "Anti-listerial activities of grape seed extract, nisin and EDTA, and their combinations stored at 37 degrees Celsius," and third place went to Scott Walnofer with his poster entitled "Effect of heating on physiochemical properties of various soy products."

In the graduate competition Xiong Rui received first place with his poster entitled "A novel approach to preference mapping of likings from JAR data using dummy variables," Bwalya Lungu received second place with her poster entitled "Partial control of Listeria monocytogenes on the surface of full fat turkey frankfurters held at 4 degrees Celsius using zein coatings, nisin, sodium lactate, and sodium diacetate," and third place went to Ashlee Davis with her poster entitled "Prebiotic and antimicrobial activity of yeast fermented heat-stabilized defatted rice bran extract."

UA Walton College MBA Students Take Second Place in Rice University Business Plan Competition
-- Posted by dboddie on Friday, April 2 2004

The tagline for the Rice University Business Plan Competition is "Real Start-Up Experience, Real Start-Up Ventures." That line proved true for four MBA students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, who took second place and $10,000 in the 2004 competition.

The event took place on the Rice University campus, Houston, Texas, March 25-27. First place went to a team from Carnegie Mellon University and third place went to a team from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

Dean Doyle Z. Williams said: "We are thrilled that these students have done so well, competing with some of the top schools in the nation. The Walton College tries to provide as much real business experience as possible in its teaching and programs, and the result of this competition illustrates the continuing success of our efforts."

To read more, please go to http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR01/RiceComp.html.

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