Pulaski Tech set for murder mystery
Pulaski Technical College students will perform a comic mystery show from Thursday-Saturday.
The show, called The Murder Mystery at the Murder Mystery, is a play within a play, according to a news release. The play will be held in the R.J. Wills Lecture Hall at 2 and 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday. On Saturday, the theater students will perform once, at 10 a.m.
Tickets at $5 each can be bought in advance or reserved by calling (501) 812-2338. Tickets are also available at the box office before each show.
Blue Cross grants
$250,000 to ASU
Arkansas State University at Jonesboro received a $250,000 grant that will create the Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield Endowed Nursing Professorship in Rural Health.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield presented the grant to the university’s College of Nursing and Health Professions last week. The college currently has more than 1,700 students in undergraduate and graduate majors, according to a news release.
“The Arkansas Blue Cross Endowed Professorship in Rural Health will be used to help secure top faculty who are forward thinkers — the kind of faculty that will educate, engage and inspire nursing and other health professions students to work toward ways to meet the needs of Arkansans through innovative care and access options,” Blue Cross and Blue Shield President and CEO Mark White said in the release.
Chancellor Tim Hudson said the grant will expand the college’s ability to “educate the next generations of nurses … to address the growing need for expanded health care in Arkansas.”
HSU student takes
first in showcase
A Henderson State University student took first place in a collegiate performance showcase in Little Rock earlier this month.
Orlando Riveros, an international student from Asuncion, Paraguay, won in the Trinity Presents Collegiate Performance Showcase in Little Rock on April 12. The piano performance senior competed against others from universities across the state, including Harding University and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Competitors submit recorded auditions, and judges choose finalists from those, according to the news release. Riveros was one of six finalists chosen in Arkansas, the release states.
UAPB to kick off
founders week
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff will hold events throughout this week to celebrate the Inaugural Founders and Honors Convocation.
The celebration dates back more than 60 years. The week’s festivities kick off Tuesday with an off-campus community service event, during which students will visit local schools bringing a “positive educational message,” according to a news release. That same day at 11 a.m., Chancellor Laurence Alexander will deliver an address at the W.E. O’Bryant Bell Tower.
The main event — the annual convocation — is set for 10 a.m. Thursday in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Complex-H.O. Clemmons Arena. The event is a recognition ceremony in which students will earn plaques, certificates and scholarships.
A list of the week-long events can be found at www.uapb.edu/founderswww.uapb.edu/founders.