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UALR honors “Distingished Alumnus Award.”

John L. Ward, author of “The Arkansas Rock-efeller” and a trustee of the Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust, has been named UALRs 2011 “Dis-tinguished Alumnus.”

He will be honored at this spring’s annual ceremony on Friday, May 13, announced Christian O’Neal, direc-tor of the university’s Alumni Association.

A one-time high school band director, Ward was married, the father of two children, and a full-time reporter at the Arkansas Democrat while finishing his B.A. degree require-ments at night at what was

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then Little Rock University. He graduated in 1968,

a year before Gov. Win-throp Rockefeller signed legislation creating UALR and making it a part of the state university system.

“It was the most satisfy-ing academic experience of my life,” Ward said of his time at UALR. “It was a great learning environment. They treated you the way you should be treated – that you were not out there for any other reason than to get an education and go out in the marketplace and use it.”

He and his wife, the for-mer Betty Chandler of Lit-tle Rock, are the parents of

a daughter and son and di-vide their time between their farm near Bee Branch and their apartment in Conway.

Nearly 300 Pulaski County resident partici-pated in UALR’s eighth annual Racial Attitudes Conference on March 17, to discuss values, so-cial conflict, and trust.

“Over the years, UALR has experienced resistance from many in the community who felt we were stirring up trouble, and advised us

to let sleeping dogs lie,” said Dr. Angela Brenton, dean of UALR’s College of Professional Studies, in opening the conference.

She praised Chancellor Joel E. Anderson’s com-mitment to bring light to a topic that has frac-tured Little Rock and Pu-laski County’s history.

“Joel’s response has been consistent – ‘You

know, it has been my expe-rience that anything worth doing involves some risk.

We faced people who said the racial attitude sur-vey was a bad idea, and it was better to let sleeping dogs lie. If we’re going to pursue an agenda, lets pur-sue it with wisdom, but also with courage, honesty and integrity’,” Brenton said.Anderson, who delivered

The Christian Science Monitor published UALR Professor Ann Robinson’s op-ed article on education reform on Friday, March 11. Robinson is president of the National Association for Gifted Children and the director of the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education at UALR.

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John L. Ward

*SGA Elections,March 14th & 15th

*Homecming,March 20th

*NCAA RallyMarch 25th

Heifer Ranch TripApril 1st

Awards Banquet April 8th

the conference’s key-note, updated attendees on progress of establish-ing UALR’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity for the people of Little Rock, cen-tral Arkansas, and the state

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Scholar’s Present Research at Regional Conference

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Four students from UALR’s Donaghey Schol-ars Program – including art history major Alex Leme of Brazil, winner of the prestigious Boe Award – will highlight their re-search achievements at the Great Plains Hon-ors Council Conference April 1-3 in Dallas, Texas.

The conference high-lights the research achievements of stu-dents in honors programs from across the region.

Leme, a non-tradition-al student who left a ca-reer in finance to pursue his interest in art history, will present his project, “The Myth of Persephone and Demeter as Metaphor for Sexual Initiation.”Fields on Hepatocel-lular Carcinoma.”

English and creative writing major Robert Bru-no, son of Jay and Lisa Bruno of Little Rock, will present his paper, “Am Not Writing This about You: A Collection of Poems.” Bruno is a member of the William G. Cooper Jr. Honors Program in English, president of the UALR chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the internation-al English honors society, and co-editor of Equinox, UALR’s literary magazine.

Susanna “Suzi” Gar-cia, also an English and creative writing major, will present her poster, “Second-Person Narration in Junot Diaz’s ‘How to Date a Browngirl, Black-girl, Whitegirl, or Halfie.’”She is the daughter of George and Laura Garcia of

Little Rock and is part of the Cooper Honors Program in English, a Ronald F. McNair Scholar, vice president of UALR’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the internation-al English honor society, and co-editor of UALR’s Equinox literary magazine.

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proposals were among 214 submitted – 150 for oral presentations and 64 for posters. Only 75 student oral presentations and 47 student posters were ac-cepted. Six students were accepted for the Boe Award.

The Great Plains Hon-ors Council is comprised of honors programs from Ar-kansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, and they coordinate with the National Collegiate Honors Council promoting the flow of information, ideas, fellowship, and pro-fessional encouragement throughout its member pro-grams across the region.

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of Arkansas. Space for the institute has been identified on campus and the process of interviewing candidates for the position of the direc-tor soon will be scheduled.

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