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| Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Arkansas Newsletter for 2025-11-20 ( 15 items ) |
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Arkansas Research Identifies Temperature Ranges for Eight Cover Crops (10)
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Nov. 20 (TNSjou) -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news:
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Arkansas Research Identifies Temperature Ranges for Eight Cover Crops
Knowing what temperatures a plant can withstand is a hallmark of botanical science, but those temperatures had not been well documented for many cover crops.
Grown in periods of the year when the cash crop is absent, cover crops are planted for erosion control, as well as weed suppression and to improve soil structure, m more PR
Arkansas State University: Free Seminar - Future-Proof Skills - AI for People in Business (10)
JONESBORO, Arkansas, Nov. 20 -- Arkansas State University issued the following news:
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Free Seminar: Future-Proof Skills - AI for People in Business
The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC) at Arkansas State University, in partnership with El Centro Hispano and Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation, will host a free seminar from 6 - 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4. The event, led by Alyson Lewis, will be on harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) more PR
Boozman Introduces Clay Fowlkes to Judiciary Committee (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Sen. John Boozman, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release:
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Boozman Introduces Clay Fowlkes to Judiciary Committee
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Click here to watch Boozman's remarks.
WASHINGTON U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) introduced U.S. Attorney David Clay Fowlkes at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider his nomination to serve as a judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Boozman expressed his confidence in Fowlkes' qualifi more PR
Boozman Welcomes CFTC Chairman Nominee, Urges Committee to Empower Agency on Digital Commodity Markets (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Sen. John Boozman, R-Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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Boozman Welcomes CFTC Chairman Nominee, Urges Committee to Empower Agency on Digital Commodity Markets
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman John Boozman (R-AR) welcomed Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman nominee Michael Selig and urged his colleagues to advance digital more PR
Cabrera Eyes Fashion Marketing Career in Mexico (10)
CLARKSVILLE, Arkansas, Nov. 20 -- The University of the Ozarks issued the following news:
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Cabrera Eyes Fashion Marketing Career in Mexico
By Larry Isch
University of the Ozarks junior Maria Fernanda Cabrera Gonzalez is turning her passion for marketing and fashion into global experience--while keeping her professional ambitions focused on her home country of Mexico. The marketing and finance major from Tabasco, Mexico, recently completed a prestigious 24-week certification in Fashion a more PR
Cotton to Bondi: Investigate Counterfeit Drugs (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release:
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Cotton to Bondi: Investigate Counterfeit Drugs
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Contact: Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353
November 19, 2025
Washington, D.C. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging an investigation into the surge of illicit counterfeit drugs and drug ingredients entering the United States from unregistered foreign entities, primarily Communist China. Counterfeit dr more PR
Council for Regional Health Education Gift to UAMS Creates Endowed Fund to Support Southwest Arkansas Residencies (10)
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Nov. 20 -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences issued the following news release:
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Council for Regional Health Education Gift to UAMS Creates Endowed Fund to Support Southwest Arkansas Residencies
By Andrew Vogler
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $75,000 gift from the Council for Regional Health Education to establish the Senator C. Wayne Dowd Endowed Excellence Fund in Family Medicine to support the Family Medicine Res more PR
Financial Services Committee Examines Federal Deposit Insurance Framework (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Rep. French Hill, R-Arkansas, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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Financial Services Committee Examines Federal Deposit Insurance Framework
Yesterday, the House Committee on Financial Services, led by Chairman French Hill (AR-02), held a hearing examining the current deposit insurance framework in the United States. Members and witnesses assessed the potential costs and benefits of proposed reform more PR
Hearings Notice: House Financial Services Committee Schedule for Dec. 2025 (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Rep. French Hill, R-Arkansas, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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HEARINGS NOTICE: House Financial Services Committee Schedule for December 2025
Today, the House Committee on Financial Services, led by Chairman French Hill (AR-02), announced the following Committee activity for December 2025:
Full Committee Hearing Entitled: "Oversight of Prudential Regulators"
Time: 10:00 AM ET
Date: Tuesday, more PR
MOYLAN: GUAM AMONG JURISDICTIONS APPROVED TO MOVE FORWARD ON FEDERAL BROADBAND EXPANSION (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (Rep.) -- Del. James Moylan, R-Guam, issued the following news release:
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MOYLAN: GUAM AMONG JURISDICTIONS APPROVED TO MOVE FORWARD ON FEDERAL BROADBAND EXPANSION
Congressman James C. Moylan announced that Guam is among the 18 States and Territories approved to move forward under the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, a major step toward improving internet access across the island and l more PR
RELEASE: HILL, SUOZZI LEAD LETTER BACKING CPC DESIGNATION FOR NIGERIA AMID RISING VIOLENCE (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Rep. French Hill, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release:
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RELEASE: HILL, SUOZZI LEAD LETTER BACKING CPC DESIGNATION FOR NIGERIA AMID RISING VIOLENCE
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representatives French Hill (R-AR) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) led a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio praising the Trump administration's decision to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) due to severe and deteriorating religious freedom condit more PR
UAMS Cancer Institute Director Michael J. Birrer, M.D., Ph.D. Inducted Into American Academy of Sciences and Letters (10)
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Nov. 20 -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences issued the following news release:
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UAMS Cancer Institute Director Michael J. Birrer, M.D., Ph.D. Inducted into American Academy of Sciences and Letters
By Marty Trieschmann
Michael J. Birrer, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, recognizing his outst more PR
University of Arkansas: Could Atoms Be Reordered to Enhance Electronic Devices? (10)
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Nov. 19 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news:
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Could Atoms Be Reordered to Enhance Electronic Devices?
The optical properties of a thin layer of the semiconductor germanium-tin (GeSn) sandwiched between barriers of silicon-germanium-tin (SiGeSn), a structure known as a quantum well, have been studied with a focus on improving lasers and photodetectors. But what would happen to an electrical charge passing through the nanometer thick germanium-ti more PR
USU Scholar Rediscovers Forgotten Poem by Foundational Cherokee Writer (10)
LOGAN, Utah, Nov. 19 -- Utah State University issued the following news:
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USU Scholar Rediscovers Forgotten Poem by Foundational Cherokee Writer
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LOGAN When Utah State University English professor Travis Franks came across an 1846 issue of the Arkansas State Gazette, he didn't expect to find anything groundbreaking. Scholars already believed they knew the earliest published works of writer John Rollin Ridge, widely recognized as the first American Indian novelist.
But tucked in the n more PR
Westerman Commends New Rules to Strengthen Endangered Species Act (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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Westerman Commends New Rules to Strengthen Endangered Species Act
Today, the Trump Administration announced new rules affirming scientific integrity and common sense in future Endangered Species Act (ESA) enforcement and implementation. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) made the following stat more PR
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