While the end of a semester is usually the time where students’ interest in a particular topic is winding down, a pair of Arkansas events this past month were focused on ramping up interest for young women in computer science …
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When I moved to Arkansas three years ago, I received a curious email in my inbox with the following subject line: “Taylor Wilson or Tyler Wilson: In Which Young Arkansan Should We Invest?” I was new to the state and …
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is launching the UALRTeach Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, thanks to a nearly $1.2 million five-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The program, a partnership with Henderson Middle School in Little Rock, UALR Children …
More than 1,300 students have enrolled in computer coding classes through Virtual Arkansas, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced at a press conference Aug. 11, where he also offered members of the media an update on the state’s overall computer-science initiative. Virtual Arkansas is …
A consortium of 10 Arkansas colleges and universities have received $20 million from the National Science Foundation to expand research and workforce development training over five years. The grant was made through the Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Division of Science …
Officials from the Arkansas Department of Career Education toured the GREEN Mobile, a Winnebago turned solar-energy laboratory, which was parked on the State Capitol grounds today, to learn about its use in statewide school and training initiatives. The GREEN Mobile …
In last month’s article, I suggested that students are the university’s product and that the best way to create good products is to strengthen the university-industry relationship. This relationship is dependent on companies being part of the process of training …