LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 20 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on April 19, 2024: * * * After the State of Arkansas received $49,593,803.13 as the 2024 share of proceeds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) with tobacco companies, Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement: "My office is tasked with enforcing the MSA and various tobacco statutes enacted pursuant to the MSA. The annual disbursement of settlement funds support more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 18 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on April 17, 2024: * * * After filing an amicus brief on behalf of himself and 22 other state attorneys general in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit supporting West Virginia's abortion prohibition, Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement: "Two years ago, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and returned the authority to regulate or prohibit abo more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 16 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on April 15, 2024: * * * At a press conference in Malvern today, Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the deployment of a mobile health clinic run by Arkansas Mobile Opioid Recovery (ARMOR). Griffin issued the following statement: "This mobile health clinic will reach previously underserved and unserved Arkansans in need of treatment for opioid addiction. The $770,000 that my office grant more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 20 -- Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release on April 19, 2024: Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders received the "Governor of the Year" award at the Arkansas Policy Recognition Dinner hosted by the Foundation for Government Accountability on Thursday, April 18th. "I'm honored to receive this award - and even more honored by what it represents. The Foundation for Government Accountability has been fighting for more responsible, more e more PR

RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas, April 19 -- Arkansas Tech University issued the following news: Retired Arkansas Tech University faculty members Dr. Linda Bean, Dr. Mary B. Gunter and Dr. H. Micheal Tarver received professor emeritus status from the ATU Board of Trustees during its meeting on Thursday, April 18. Requirements for professor emeritus status for faculty members who have retired from Arkansas Tech include 15 or more years of consecutive service and nomination by any member of the universit more PR

RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas, April 19 (TNSres) -- Arkansas Tech University issued the following news: Students from various academic disciplines at Arkansas Tech University shared the outcomes of their inquiries into topics of interest during the 2024 ATU Student Research Symposium on Thursday, April 18. The symposium included 85 in-person poster presentations, 30 in-person oral presentations and 11 virtual poster presentations. Dr. Robert Charles Brown and Jill Lestage Brown Hall served as headqua more PR

RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas, April 19 -- Arkansas Tech University issued the following news: Tuition and mandatory fees at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville will maintain their current level for the 2024-25 academic year. The ATU Board of Trustees approved a proposal on Thursday, April 18, that will keep in-state, undergraduate tuition at $249.78 per student semester credit hour and in-state, graduate tuition at $314.50 per student semester credit hour with zero increase as compared to the 2 more PR

RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas, April 19 -- Arkansas Tech University issued the following news: Twenty members of the Arkansas Tech University faculty were promoted and four ATU faculty members were granted tenure by the ATU Board of Trustees during its meeting on Thursday, April 18. Policies and procedures regarding faculty evaluation, promotion and tenure were approved by the Arkansas Tech Board of Trustees on May 17, 2018, following a faculty-led, three-year process of review and modification. The more PR

RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas, April 17 -- Arkansas Tech University issued the following news: Arkansas Tech University faculty members Dr. Cynthia Jacobs and Dr. Bruce Tedford will offer an Earth Day presentation concerning the Galapagos Islands on Monday, April 22. Their talk will begin at 6 p.m. in Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center room 300B, 305 West Q Street on the ATU campus in Russellville. Admission will be free and open to the public. There will be refreshments and door prizes.  more PR

RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas, April 17 -- Arkansas Tech University issued the following news: Juliet Grames, author of "The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna," will appear at Arkansas Tech University for a pair of events hosted by the ATU Department of English and World Languages. Grames will provide a visiting author reading at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center room 300B, 305 West Q Street on the ATU campus in Russellville. She will return to campus  more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 19 -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences issued the following news release: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $175,000 grant from the Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas to support GoVision AR: Mobile Vision Screening for Underserved Children Across Arkansas. GoVision AR, a project of the UAMS Department of Ophthalmology, aims to address the significant disparities in access to vision care and unmet vision car more PR

BRISTOL, Connecticut, April 19 -- ESPN, a sports media company, issued the following news release: ESPN Events' owned-and-operated gymnastics invitational, the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad, returns in 2025 with a new location, new lineup of teams and an added twist to the competition. Five of the eight national semifinalists competing in this weekend's NCAA National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championship will participate in the second year of the event, including top-seeded Oklah more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 18 -- Nationwide Mutual Insurance issued the following news: By Karen Davis A dog from Little Rock, Arkansas, a cat from Portland, Oregon, and a New York City rabbit captured the kookiest name crowns in Nationwide's(R) Wacky Pet Names campaign. Congratulations to Molly from Corporate, Tony "Scarface" Baloney and Thor Odinbun, God of Bunder for their first-place finishes in the dog, cat and exotic pet name categories, respectively. Each year, the nation's pet health insur more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 20 -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences issued the following news release: Patrick Radden Keefe, an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestseller "Empire of Pain," will present a free, public lecture April 26 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Entitled "The Secret History of the Sackler Family and OxyContin," the lecture will examine the history and use of oxycodone in the Uni more PR

PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, April 15 -- The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff issued the following news: The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) nursing program will receive a $15 million investment to construct a new academic building as part of a major legislative package championed by U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR). "I'm proud to deliver investments to Arkansas that support growth and development as well as improve the quality of life for Natural State residents. Enhancing UAPB's abi more PR

PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, April 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff issued the following news: The American Educational Research Association (AERA) accepted the research proposal titled "Developing Teaching Candidates' Self-Efficacy Through Cross-Cultural Strategies," submitted by Dr. Kimberley Davis, Dean/Associate Professor of the School of Education at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), UAPB Associate Professor Dr. William Torrence, and Shippensburg University o more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 16 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: By Whitley Small The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's undergraduate programs in health and wellness and economics have been recognized as some of the best in the country by University HQ. University HQ is an online resource for students to find top-rated colleges, scholarships, and potential salaries for their career choices. The site provides information on colleges, entrance requirements and care more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 17 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: By Angelita Faller The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received $5 million in federal funding aimed at enhancing cybersecurity in the energy sector through education, workforce development, and innovation. The award comes from appropriations language authored by U.S. Sen. John Boozman passed into law in December 2022. The funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Cybersecuri more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 16 -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences issued the following news release: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Shashank Kraleti, M.D., in the Dr. Algernon Sidney Garnett Chair in Family Medicine during an April 10 ceremony. Kraleti is chair of the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the College of Medicine and serves as the director of primary care clinical services, providing oversight  more PR

FORT SMITH, Arkansas, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Arkansas-Fort Smith issued the following news: By Ian Silvester On April 5, 2024, over 80 University of Arkansas - Fort Smith students, of whom 66% are first-generation, presented research projects from disciplines ranging from accounting to dental hygiene and Latino Studies to theatre at the 17th Annual Student Research Symposium. Individuals and teams presented more than 45 oral and poster research projects. Fourteen of them were d more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 16 (TNSres) -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: By Angelita Faller Dr. Mary Yang, professor of information science at UA Little Rock, will be featured in the next Arkansas Research Academy (ARA) Project Scope Wednesday, April 24. ARA Project Scope, a monthly webinar sponsored by ARA, invites members of the ARA Academy of Scholars and Fellows to share their latest research with the public. The one-hour webinar is free and open to everyone with  more PR

CLARKSVILLE, Arkansas, April 16 (TNSres) -- The University of the Ozarks issued the following news: By Larry Isch University of the Ozarks senior Solange Avalo Martinez recently presented her philosophy senior seminar research at two prestigious philosophy conferences. The title of Avalo's project is "Unveiling Aesthetic Narratives: Hermeneutic Exploration of Gabriel Figueroa's Cinematic Frames and Their Reflection of Pan-Latin American Social Issues." She presented at Pacific University in  more PR