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MFA Candidates to Present Readings from their Works
-- Posted by tfisher on Tuesday, April 26 2005

Justin Elwood, Starla Wallick and Teri McGrath, all writers in the University of Arkansas MFA program in creative writing, will present a reading from their works at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, in Giffels Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public.

After a brief stint as a biology major at Hendrix College, Elwood found his niche as an English major at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he published two poems in Equinox. He came to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 2001. He is currently a fourth-year MFA student in poetry and teaches world literature.

Wallick translates fiction from both French and German. She did her undergraduate work at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the Université de Strasbourg in France and at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg, Germany. She'll be reading excerpts from her translation of a novel by the award winning German author, Wilhelm Genazino.

McGrath came to the University of Arkansas after earning her degree in English from Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, where she edited an online literary journal, tutored college, high school and junior high students, and served coffee to mean old men at Denny's. She is a fourth year MFA student in poetry and has been awarded Lily Peter Fellowships for fiction and poetry.

Shannon Jonas and Nic Pizzolatto, a poet and a fiction writer in the University of Arkansas MFA program in creative writing, will present a reading from their works at 8 p.m. Friday, April 29, in 102 Kimpel Hall. The reading is free an open to the public.
Jonas received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech. His most recent publications can be found in Typo, Diagram, Goodfoot, Wisconsin Review, Stickman Review, Three Candles and Talking River Review.

Pizzolatto's stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Quarterly West and Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe. His first book will be published in early 2006, and he will hold the 2005-2006 Kenan Visiting Writer Chair at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

ABF Freight System Creates Doctoral Fellowships
-- Posted by tfisher on Tuesday, April 26 2005

One of the nation's largest transportation companies, ABF Freight System Inc., based in Fort Smith, has provided $100,000 to the University of Arkansas College of Engineering for the establishment of two endowed fellowships.

The gift will be matched by $100,000 from the Matching Gift Program to create a $200,000 endowment. The ABF Freight System Doctoral Fellowships in Industrial Engineering will help attract and retain highly qualified doctoral candidates in industrial engineering.
To read the full release, please go to http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/4621.htm

U of A honors Students of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences
-- Posted by tfisher on Tuesday, April 26 2005

The University of Arkansas department of crop, soil and environmental sciences honored David Black of Searcy and James C. Johnson of Germantown, Tenn., as Friends of the Department during an awards banquet April 14. The award honors their consistent support of the department's programs in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. The department also named its outstanding undergraduate and graduate students.
Burl Seversike of Olympia, Wash., was named the Outstanding Senior. Peter Tomlinson of Fayetteville was named the Outstanding Master's Student. Brian Ottis of Bay City, Texas, was named the Outstanding Ph.D. student. He completed his degree last fall and is now employed by the University of Missouri Delta Research Center in Portageville. Bill Hendrix of Prairie Grove received the Spooner Scholar Award.

Arkansas Teacher Licensing Meeting
-- Posted by tfisher on Thursday, April 21 2005

Students who are planning on entering the M.A.T. summer 2005 or for the art education, music education or agriculture education students who will be participating in their internship either fall 2005 or spring 2006 are invited to an Arkansas teacher licensing meeting to be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27. For more information, including location of the meeting and to pick up your packet, please contact Kathy Malstrom at kkmalst@uark.edu

Second Annual Cell and Molecular Biology Symposium Call for Abstracts
-- Posted by tfisher on Wednesday, April 6 2005

The second annual Cell and Molecular Biology Symposium will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, May 6, at the Business Center on campus. There will be a student poster competition in the morning, and special guest speaker, Tim Chambers from UAMS, who will speak in the afternoon. All undergraduate and graduate students interested in cell and molecular biology are invited to compete in the poster competition. A cash award of $150 will be given to each first place winner, $100 for each second place winner and $50 for each third place winner for each competition category (undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D.). Posters need to be displayed by 8:45 a.m. on May 6 and should be 3 ft by 4 ft in size. Refreshments will be served.

Three speakers will be chosen to give a 15-minute talk at the symposium, and each speaker will be awarded $150. If you are not chosen to give a talk, you may still enter the poster competition.

If you are interested in taking part in the symposium, please send an abstract, 250 words or less (no figures please), to aemille@uark.edu. Please specify if you are an undergraduate, Masters, or Ph.D. student, and whether or not you want to be considered to give a talk. The deadline to enter the poster competition is 5 p.m. Friday, April 22 and the deadline to be considered for giving a talk is 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 6.

Fayetteville Couple Pledges Gift to Walton College Graduate Building
-- Posted by tfisher on Monday, April 4 2005

Gregory W. and Hannah F. Lee of Fayetteville have made a $250,000 gift to the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, which will enhance both undergraduate and graduate education.

The Lees have made a pledge toward the construction of Willard J. Walker Hall, the college's graduate education building. The Gregory W. and Hannah F. Lee Classroom will be named in honor of their gift.
In April 2003, the Walton College announced plans for a new graduate education building to be constructed northeast of the Business Building. The building will be named for the late Willard Walker, in honor of his success in retail management with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The excavation for the building began in spring 2005, and construction will begin in the summer.

To read more about this gift, visit http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR05/Leegift.html

UA School of Law Included Among Most Diverse; Other Graduate Programs Also Make Rankings
-- Posted by tfisher on Monday, April 4 2005

Law Schools -- The University of Arkansas School of Law is included among the "most diverse law schools in the country" as ranked by U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools 2006. According to the report, African-American students comprise the School of Law's largest minority, making up 14 percent of the student body.

The UA School of Law also ranks 12 in the specialized category of "Legal Writing." Data for the specialty ranking are compiled from information gathered from surveys conducted in 2004.

To read more, go to http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR05/LawSchoolUSNews.html

Business Colleges -- The Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has been ranked for the first time in the U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools 2006.

The Walton College Graduate School of Business' full-time MBA program ranked in a tie for 46th place among the top public graduate school of business.

To read more, go to http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR05/BusinessUSNews.html

Engineering programs -- For a second year in a row, the graduate programs of the civil and industrial engineering departments at the University of Arkansas College of Engineering have been ranked by U.S. News and World Report in its newly released America's Best Graduate Schools 2006.

The industrial engineering program was ranked 30th, along with programs at two other universities. The civil engineering department was ranked at the 78th position, along with programs at eight other universities.

To read more, go to http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR05/Engrgradrankings.html

Psychology programs -- The University of Arkansas's graduate department of psychology has been named among the top research-based departments in U.S. News and World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2006. The department is ranked 189 and received an overall score of 2.5 (out of a possible 5.0).

With its ranking, the department joins 21 other psychology departments from various colleges and universities, including fellow Southeastern Conference institutions Louisiana State University, the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa and Auburn University's Department of Family and Child Development.

To read more, go to http://advancement.uark.edu/news/APR05/PsychDepartmentUSNew.html

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