UAMS’ drug-trial database passes milestone
Arkansas’ medical school has been able to play matchmaker to more than 1,100 patients for potential clinical trials in the four years since it received a multi…
Stories by Tracie Dungan
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UA still firing its budget director
The budget director who was one of two employees blamed for a multimillion budget deficit at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville won’t be able to keep h…
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Arkansas teens give birth at clip that leads U.S.
Arkansas ranked highest in the nation in teenage birthrates in 2011 despite posting a substantial decline since 2007, according to a report released Thursday b…
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Budget Bump Sought By UA
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is asking trustees to approve a budget of $513.2 million today for the coming fiscal year, an increase of 5.9 percen…
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Police investigating UA student deaths
Police in Missouri and Oklahoma are still investigating two separate accidents that took the lives of three University of Arkansas students earlier this week.
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UA trustees want schools to justify fees
The University of Arkansas System board of trustees is taking an unusual step this afternoon by asking most of its four-year universities to justify proposed t…
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18-year-old to graduate UA in triple-major rush
When Raymond Walter was 11 years old, a school counselor evaluating whether he should skip sixth and seventh grades asked him why he would want to do that.
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Doctors examine new care model
Doctors shared concerns and success stories about a new patient-care model the state has been testing for the federal government during a meeting held Thursday…
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Police hunt robber of Fort Smith bank
FORT SMITH — Fort Smith police spent Saturday investigating a Friday evening bank robbery.
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Names missing; UA redoing part of walk
When Ciara Coleman was fresh out of high school and scouting colleges, the Senior Walk tradition at the University of Arkansas ranked high on her list of what …
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Healers found for UA System
The University of Arkansas System’s new health-plan company has been able to attract more psychologists, social workers and nurses into its coverage network si…
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Public-option vote divides legislators
BENTONVILLE — Rep. Randy Alexander went into town hall meetings Saturday in Northwest Arkansas leaning toward the state’s “private option” as the lesser of two…
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LR couple’s gift adds to Greek space at UA
New fraternities and sororities on the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville campus will have access to some incubator space beginning this fall thanks to a g…
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Tower closings delayed by FAA
Two Arkansas airports are among 149 nationwide that got a reprieve Friday from impending control-tower closures, the Federal Aviation Administration announced,…
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Justices hear sides in sentencing case
The Arkansas Supreme Court grappled Thursday with how to best resentence a Blytheville youth convicted of capital murder more than a decade ago in a case that…
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Building hotel on campus gets look from UA
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is exploring building an on-campus hotel and conference center that an outside developer would build and operate pri…
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State trauma system ready to grow again
State health officials have continued to progress on getting the last inaugural hospitals added to Arkansas’ developing trauma system.
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Two Air Ambulances Requires Coordination
The addition of a second helicopter ambulance service in Benton and Washington counties will require more coordination among emergency services and could compl…
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UA Hears Gripes On Mental Health
The University of Arkansas System is looking into complaints from its Fayetteville campus faculty last week that the number of participating mental-health prov…
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Mercy’s new chopper takes off
About a minute after 1 p.m. Friday, pilot Dave Wilminko tested the headset microphone system to ensure his two passengers could hear him, and the Medflight he…
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UA’s Choate to aid Wyrick in transition
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville vice chancellor found to be at fault in the accumulation of a $3.37 million budget deficit in the school’s Division …
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Teams talk in code at software contest
University of Arkansas student Taylor Martin loves the constant intellectual challenges she’s found in computer programming.
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Rogers birth center almost set to deliver
A birth center in Rogers that would give expectant mothers an alternative to hospital births is busy setting up shop as it awaits its final state health inspec…
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Finances OK For UA School, E-Mail Corrects
A Dec. 6 slideshow presentation to faculty and staff members of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s Walton College of Business left the impression the…
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Gearhart sent files on Choate to adviser
The chancellor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville shared documents from his chief fundraiser’s personnel file with a donor and campus adviser nearly…
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UA board satisfied on deficit’s handling
Senior trustees of the University of Arkansas System board say that a multimillion-dollar deficit at the Fayetteville campus has been a concern but they have b…
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UA deficit brewed for years, report says
A $3.37 million spending deficit last year by the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s fundraising branch had been brewing for years, according to document…
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Prosecutor sent files on UA gun accident
One week after a University of Arkansas student shot himself in the hand with a revolver in a campus building, the UA Police Department has forwarded its inves…
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UA’s job offer snapped up
Chris Wyrick accepted the University of Arkansas’ offer to head its fundraising and public-relations arm the same day he was offered the position, university …
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UA taps athletics to fill fundraising job
The University of Arkansas has lined up a successor to head its deficit-troubled Advancement Division, recruiting its top athletics fundraiser.
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Proposal Lets Schools Vote On Gun-Carry
State Rep. Charlie Collins said he was working Monday on an amendment for his “professor-carry” gun bill that would allow public colleges and universities to a…
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UA Teacher Taking A Leave Of Absence To Aid Syrian Rebels
A University of Arkansas at Fayetteville faculty member confirmed he is taking a leave of absence to help open new offices that a Syrian opposition group is pl…
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Gifts To UA Total $62 Million
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville raised nearly $62 million in private gifts in the first six months of the current fiscal year, a 15.4 percent increa…
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Mentalhealth group has map
A new mental-health advocacy group plans to join efforts in Arkansas to pass a revision to Act 3, which governs criminal defendants’ mental evaluations, in an …
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Layoffs not in plans to balance UA budget
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has no plans for layoffs to help balance its Advancement Division budget and won’t implement an assessment fee again…
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Budget study affirms UA overspending
A budget officer’s reconstruction of the University of Arkansas Advancement Division’s fiscal 2012 budget shows that the key reason for a roughly $3 million de…
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Donors Make Late Push To Shuck, Get Deduction
Beth Irwin doesn’t do yard sales at her Rogers home.
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Jury finds Harrison man, 74, innocent in slaying of ‘son’
A Boone County jury Thursday night acquitted the owner of the Scenic 7 Motel near Harrison of first-degree murder in the October 2011 shooting death of a young…
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Beaver district keeps eye on water quality
An annual event in which volunteers fan out in boats to help Beaver Lake overseers test water quality provides a snapshot of water clarity, nutrient levels and…
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Trauma system gaining ground
All but two of 21 hospitals that were notified earlier this year that time was running out to become part of a new state-wide trauma system have since had site…
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Make world less violent, new UA graduates told
Vincent Harding, a contemporary of the late Martin Luther King Jr., went beyond the typical change-the-world graduation speech Saturday at the University of Ar…
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UA sets plan to avoid ’13 deficit
Leaders at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville are using a mix of one-time transfers, including some loans from within campus, to shore up a $3.1 millio…
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E-mails swirled on UA shortfall
In an Aug. 20 e-mail to the finance chief of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the university’s head fundraiser expressed alarm that confidential inf…
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UA is assured office’s books back in black
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has corrected deficit-spending in its Advancement Division without affecting the budgets of academic departments and…
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UA top fundraiser reassigned; spent $3.1 million over
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has reassigned its chief fundraiser and his budget officer after a review found the Division of Advancement had over…
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UA vice chancellor for advancement reassigned
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has reassigned its vice chancellor for advancement, Brad Choate, and his budget officer after it was determined the …
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UA Official Sees A Face Behind Every Statistic
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s quest to improve its graduation rate is not just a numbers game for administrators like Kathy Van Laningham, who h…
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Residents await UA evictions
Nancy Deyo has called No. 27 N. Court St. in Fayetteville home for the past 7 1/2 years.
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UA graduation rate tops 60% for 1st time
University of Arkansas officials learned recently that the school’s six-year graduation rate topped 60 percent for the first time, the provost said Wednesday a…
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Video doctor visits soon reality in state
Imagine a day where Arkansans in every nook and cranny of the state could see a physician specialist without leaving their hometown doctors offices.
