Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, I-540 undergoes a name change. And, we tinker around the Amazeum office in Bentonville.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, I-540 undergoes a name change. And, we tinker around the Amazeum office in Bentonville.
On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience. The designation for a stretch of highway in Arkansas is changing to Interstate 49.
Arkansas Lottery Officials update the Legislative Oversight Committee on decreasing lottery revenue. A group advocates at the state capitol for fairer tax laws, and the Ben Geren Aquatics Center moves forward as the first construction bids will soon be awarded.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Northwest Arkansas Rape Crisis Center will soon be able to expand their efforts to survivors of sexual assault, and a traveling exhibit at the University of Arkansas this week wants college students to engage in conversations about hunger.The traveling exhibit called Hunger U is on the University of Arkansas campus this week.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, May 12, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, an Arkansas judge overturns the states's ban on same-sex marriage, so what's next?
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has much to tell us about where we can find good food today.
The King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas, in cooperation with the Osher Lifelong Institute and Walton Arts Center, has recently been selected as just one of four hosts in the nation for the second season of Caravanserai, a program bringing together American and Muslim cultures.
More information can be found at www.waltonartscenter.org or www.caravanserai-arts.org.
"Andalusian Oud Music" by Said Chraibi
Rosilee Walker Russell, the executive director of the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Academy of the Arts, tells us about the summer art camps at the academy. Learn more at www.uafs.edu/academy
The King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas, in cooperation with the Osher Lifelong Institute and Walton Arts Center, has recently been selected as just one of four hosts in the nation for the second season of Caravanserai, a program bringing together American and Muslim cultures.
More information can be found at www.waltonartscenter.org or www.caravanserai-arts.org.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us what this exciting weekend has in store for us.
“Free” by Cat Power
