With more than 9,000 students and 100 programs, UA Little Rock offers learning, research, service, social and career opportunities that can only be found at a metropolitan university located in Arkansas' capital city.
(see more)With more than 9,000 students and 100 programs, UA Little Rock offers learning, research, service, social and career opportunities that can only be found at a metropolitan university located in Arkansas' capital city.
UA Little Rock Bowen Law School Announces Top Paper Awards
The Top Paper award recognizes the highest class grade for the semester at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law.
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May 24
UA Little Rock Honors Top Criminal Justice Students
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Criminal Justice and Criminology has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.
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May 20

UA Little Rock Honors Top Students in Sociology and Anthropology
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Sociology and Anthropology has honored its top students for the 2022-23 academic year.
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May 20

UA Little Rock Honors Top Students in Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.
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May 19

UA Little Rock School of Nursing Honors Top Students
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Nursing has honored its top students of the year during an annual nursing pinning ceremony May 12.
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May 18
UA Little Rock Students Win Awards in Newspaper Competition
Eight student journalists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won 11 awards in the 93rd annual Arkansas College Media Association (ACMA) conference for their work in The Forum, UA Little Rock's student newspaper.
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May 17
UA Little Rock Historians Win Lucille Westbrook Award from Arkansas Historical Association
A group of historians from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won the Lucille Westbrook Award from the Arkansas Historical Association for the best article manuscript on an aspect of local Arkansas history. Dr. John Kirk, George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History, co-wrote the paper with his students in the Seminar in Public History class, a capstone course that focuses on collaborative research for students who are earning a Master of Arts in public history at UA Little Rock.
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May 17
Jones Selected for $1,000 Scholarship from Hispanic Women's Organization of Arkansas
The Hispanic Women's Organization of Arkansas (HWOA) has selected Christine Jones, a UA Little Rock graduate student, to receive a $1,000 scholarship.
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May 17

UA Little Rock Announces Winners of 2022 Student Research and Creative Works Expo Winners
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has announced the winners of the 2022 Student Research and Creative Works Expo. This year's event took place outside between the Ottenheimer Library and the Cooper Fountain on April 8. It was the first in-person student expo that UA Little Rock has hosted in three years.
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May 17

10 UA Little Rock Wrestlers Land On Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Ten UA Little Rock wrestlers were named to the 2022 Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll, as announced by the league office this Thursday. Out of the wrestling schools that compete in the conference, the Trojans were tied for the second-highest number of student-athletes that made the list
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May 2
Tebbets Named Individual Scholar All-American
UA Little Rock wrestling student-athlete Chase Tebbets has been named an Individual Scholar All-American by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA).
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May 2
Carson Named Individual Scholar All-American
UA Little Rock wrestling student-athlete Jaylen Carson has been selected as an Individual Scholar All-American by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA).
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May 2

UA Little Rock Wrestlers Honored as Scholar All-America Team
The UA Little Rock wrestling team has been honored as a 2022 DI Scholar All-America Team by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) to top off an incredible year of grit and growth for the Trojans.
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May 2

UA Little Rock Students Win 11 Awards in Newspaper Competition
Eight student journalists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won 11 awards in the 93rd annual Arkansas College Media Association (ACMA) conference for their work in The Forum, UA Little Rock's student newspaper.
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Apr 13
UA Little Rock Students Win Awards at Model Arab League Conference
Five University of Arkansas at Little Rock students have won awards highlighting their skills in representing Arab countries in international politics. The student diplomats received awards during the Bilateral Chamber Regional Model Arab League held Feb. 12-13 in Houston.
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Apr 13
COSMOS Researchers Win Best Paper Award for Research into Dynamics of COVID-19 Misinformation Themes
Researchers at UA Little Rock's Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) won the Best Paper Award for their paper studying the dynamics of COVID-19 misinformation themes using topic streams.
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Feb 21
UA Little Rock Student Receives Best Paper Award for Research into Australian Blogosphere with COSMOS Researchers
UA Little Rock Student receives Best Paper Award with COSMOS Researchers for the paper, "Developing Situational Awareness from Blogosphere: An Australian Case Study," from the 11th International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics.
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Feb 21
LULAC AWARDS MARTINEZ SPECIAL BOOK SCHOLARSHIP
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council 750 has awarded a special $750 book scholarship to University of Arkansas at Little Rock freshman Luis Martinez.
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Apr 5
UA Little Rock Student Wins Legal Writing Contest for Exploration of Jock Taxes During Covid-19
A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student has placed second in a national legal writing competition for her paper that explores the increasing complications of taxing professional athletes during the pandemic.
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Feb 1

Trojan Student-Athletes Post Top Grades in Fall Semester
UA Little Rock student-athletes posted another superb semester in the classroom, posting a departmental 3.28 GPA during the fall 2021 semester. The cumulative department GPA for the Trojans is 3.39, setting another impressive record for Little Rock student-athletes. The performance extends the department's impressive streak of semesters above a 3.00 to 17-straight, continuing to showcase Little Rock's commitment to success in the classroom.
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Jan 4

Black Law Students Association heads to trial competition with help from Rose Law Firm
UA Little Rock's William H. Bowen School of Law chapter of the Black Law Students Association will be sending two trial teams to the national Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition in early 2022. This is thanks to Rose Law Firm, who generously sponsored the entry fee for both teams.
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2021 Dec 21
UA Little Rock Student Awarded Third Place at MSU Summer Research Symposium
Ibraheem Abbood, a senior at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was awarded third place in the Biological Sciences and Engineering category during the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium at Mississippi State University.
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2021 Sep 17
Paul Bianchi Earns CoSIDA Academic All-America Honors
UA Little Rock wrestling team member Paul Bianchi has been selected as a 2020-21 second team Academic All-America Division I At-Large selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
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2021 Aug 10

UA Little Rock Student-Athletes Once Again Post Top-Five GPA Nationally for 2020-21
UA Little Rock's efforts in the classroom have paid off once again as the Trojans have been named to the 2020-21 Women's Golf Coaches Association All-Scholar Team, consisting of the top-25 teams with the highest cumulative team GPA. UA Little Rock's team GPA of 3.917 ranks fifth nationally as the Trojans are one of two Sun Belt teams among the nation's top five.
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2021 Jul 23

Acxiom Diversity Scholarship
Three University of Arkansas at Little Rock students have been selected as nationwide winners of Acxiom's Diversity Scholarship Program. The UA Little Rock student winners include Adeola Adesoba, a graduate student in information science from Nigeria, Grace Crossette-Thambiah, a doctoral student in computer and information science specializing in data quality from Los Angeles, and Gabrielle Wilber, a junior business information systems major from Little Rock. The Acxiom initiative offers $5,000 scholarships to U.S.-based students from diverse backgrounds who are enrolled in a full-time post-secondary technology degree program. The program encourages women, veterans, minorities and individuals with a disability to apply for scholarships to support the next generation of technology talent.
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2021 Jun 7
Bowen Law School announces Top Paper awards
The Top Paper award recognizes the highest class grade for the semester at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law.
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2021 Apr 6
Arkansas Newspaper Foundation selects Woodson for summer internship
Jordon Woodson, a mass communication major and political science minor, is one of five college journalists selected for a summer internship by the Arkansas Newspaper Foundation.
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2020 Jun 9
UA Little Rock team wins $10,000 in Arkansas Governor's Cup
A University of Arkansas at Little Rock team won $10,000 and third place in the Walton Family Foundation Graduate Division of the Arkansas Governor's Cup for their business plan pitch for a technology that creates Avatar-based chatbots. The awards were announced during a virtual awards ceremony on April 9.
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2020 Apr 17

UA Little Rock students win $4,000 prize in Business Plan Competition
Three students from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won a $4,000 prize in the e-Fest Business Plan Competition for their pitch for CloudCare, a smart baby monitoring app designed by a UA Little Rock professor.
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2020 Apr 17

Kready accepted into 2020 Social Networks and Health Fellowship Program
Joseph Kready, a senior computer science major at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been selected for the 2020 Social Networks and Health Fellowship program at Duke University.
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2020 Mar 31