NEWS IN BRIEF

— IRS to sponsor 1-day tax-exempt workshop

The Internal Revenue Service will hold a one-day workshop for small and medium-sized tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organizations in Little Rock on Dec. 4 and 5.

The meetings will be presented at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Donaghey Student Center at 2801 S. University Ave.

Workshop hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for either session. The $29.50 registration fee includes breakfast and lunch. Preregistration is required at the Arkansas Coalition for Excellence website at www.acenonprofit.

org. Registration deadline is Wednesday.

Enrolled agents and registered tax return preparers who attend qualify for six hours of continuing education for tax professionals.

For more information, contact Vickie Edwards, coordinator of UALR’s Center for Nonprofit Organizations at (501) 569-8026.

  • David Smith

UA agriculture division reorganizes, renamed

The University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture is reorganizing the technology office at its Fayetteville campus, renaming it Technology Ventures.

Under the restructuring, Jeff Amerine will become director for technology licensing for the university. He succeeds Lisa Childs, associate vice provost for research and economic development, who will become manager of the intellectual property portfolio for the Division of Agriculture.

The university and division shared the technology office since 2006 and decided to separate it into two entities, according to a news release.

Amerine joined the university as a technology licensing officer in 2008 after an 18-year career as a executive and builder of technology businesses. He is an adviser onto Innovate Arkansas, a program of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and Winrock International to encourage technology-based innovations and job creation in the state.

Childs holds a doctoral degree in genetics from North Carolina State University and a law degree from Loyola University in Chicago. She practiced law before accepting a joint appointment to the university and the division in 2006.

  • John Magsam

Arkansas stocks gain 0.23; truckers mixed

The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, rose 0.23 to 244.72 Monday.

“The markets were mixed and the Dow Jones industrial average retrenched slightly after last week’s results, which were the strongest in months,” said Bob Williams, senior vice president and managing director of Delta Trust Investments Inc. in Little Rock.

Arkansas Best gained 7 percent in active trading, while P.A.M. Transport lost 1.1 percent, hitting a 52-week low.

The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.

Business, Pages 21 on 11/27/2012

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