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Job Title: DAH PROGRAM COORDINATOR (TECHNICAL SERVICES COORDINATOR) Position Number: 22158610 Salary: $36,155 yr. Grade: GS06 Open: 7/27/20 Close: Until Filled Application Process:  Complete the required State of Arkansas Employment Application found on the www.arstatejobs.com website.  Locate the job posting and click “apply for job”. For more information contact: Debbie Biggs debbie.biggs@arkansas.gov 501-324-9150 or Jamie Harrison jamie.harrison@arkansas.gov 501-324-9150 Job Description: Functional Job Title:  DAH Program Coordinator (Technical Services Coordinator) 1. Class Summary: The DAH Program Coordinator works under the direction of the Federal Programs Manager and is responsible for providing constituent services in the AHPP Technical Assistance Program. The position is […]

lead (AIA) AR Member Highlight: Steven Baker, AIA The leadAR Membership Highlight is a new and ongoing opportunity for AIAAR members to hear from influential voices in their professional community. Every conversation yields helpful insights and inspiration as an AIAAR board member visits with a leader in the AIA membership who is working to make a positive impact. If you would like to nominate a “leadAR” to participate, please contact us at info@aiaar.org with your suggestion. In August, Katherine Lashley, AIA of Fennell Purifoy Architects and AIAAR Associate Director met virtually with Steven Baker, AIA of Harrison French & Associates […]

              As the mass timber construction industry takes hold in Arkansas, Peter MacKeith looks on like a proud papa. MacKeith, the dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville since 2014, was an early advocate for establishing and growing a mass timber industry in the state. In the early going, he may well have been the only advocate, but thanks to his relentlessness, mass timber looks like an industry with a future in Arkansas. The mass timber industry’s evolution from vague European concept to prominence […]

  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Marlon Blackwell is the 2020 Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year. Blackwell is the first faculty member from the University of Arkansas to receive the SEC’s highest honor for faculty, announced by the conference Monday, April 20. The SEC Professor of the Year Award is given annually to one SEC faculty member whose record of teaching and research places him or her among the elite in higher education. Winners are selected by the SEC Provosts from among the 14 SEC Faculty Achievement Award recipients. The SEC is also providing Blackwell with a $20,000 honorarium. Blackwell is […]