UAPB founder due for honors in Ohio
The founder of the institution that became the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff will be inducted into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame in October.
Joseph Carter Corbin, principal of Branch Normal College, is on the 2018 list of inductees. The posthumous honor will be received on Corbin's behalf by clinician and author Gladys Turner Finney, his nominator and an alumna of the college.
Corbin, who was born in 1833 in Chillicothe, Ohio, and died in 1911, also served as the state superintendent of public education in Arkansas, then as president of the board of trustees of Arkansas Industrial University, now the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Food-science lab part of SAU project
The Southern Arkansas University department of agriculture is constructing a new building that will expand its academic offerings.
The 6,250-square-foot metal shop building is expected to be finished by the end of the fall semester.
The facility will incorporate a food-science lab, which will be used in a curriculum that will prepare students to teach food science at a high school level, department Chairman Jeffry Miller said in a news release.
"Food is the ultimate endpoint for agriculture products and has become a priority in high school agricultural science," Miller said.
Lyon College starts Diversity Lunches
Lyon College has started a series of events and activities geared toward creating a more inclusive community.
The initiative is called Diversity Recognizes Everyone's Actions in the Movement, or DREAM, and comes out of the Batesville school's student life office.
One of DREAM's events is a Diversity Lunch and Learn series. The number of seats raised per event was raised from 24 to 60, and all spots have been filled.
The first "Lunch and Learn" was Wednesday and included a discussion on how a person's name shapes their identity and how social identity theory affects diversity.
UALR auditorium named for Schueck
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has named one of its auditoriums in honor of a Little Rock businessman and his family.
Thomas Schueck, a Little Rock business owner who went to college at night to earn an engineering degree, built his steel company from the ground up in the 1960s, according to a UALR news release.
UALR's Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology auditorium officially became the Schueck, McCarty, Lexicon Inc. Auditorium on Sept. 11.
Schueck, founder and chairman of Schueck, McCarty, Lexicon Inc., contributed $1 million to the college in 2008.
NW News on 09/17/2018