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The Jones Trust Completes $30M Endowment Campaign

The Walton Family Foundation and the Endeavor Foundation were the lead gift providers to the Jones Center endowment, which now sits at $60 million.

Hog Breeders Association Seeks Regional Membership

The Boston Mountain Hog Breeders Association already has seven members.

Real Estate Industry Veteran Nadine Yates Dies at 69

Yates most recently served as senior vice president and executive broker for Lindsey & Associates of Fayetteville.

Arkansas Ranks 47th in Womens Economic Status Report

Arkansas women make less money and have lower participation in the work force according to a report released Thursday by the Institute for Womens Policy Research.

Sharon Gaber, UAs Top Academic Officer, Named President at Toledo

Gaber will remain at the University of Arkansas through the end of the academic year. No formal start date for her new job at UT has been announced.

Tyson Continues Effort to Cut Antibiotics From Production Process

The poultry industry has long been under pressure to stop feeding medically important antibiotics to otherwise healthy livestock.

Del Monte Foods Buys Sager Creek Vegetable Co. For $75 Million

Sager Creek of Siloam Springs, formerly known as Allens Inc., produces specialty vegetables for foodservice and retail customers.

Walton College Dean Eli Jones Leaving Arkansas For Texas A&M

Jones has accepted a position as business school dean at his alma mater, Texas A&M University, the University of Arkansas announced on Tuesday.

Five Elms Capital Puts $2M Into Field Agent

Fayetteville-based company gets a boost in the form of a second investment from Five Elms.

Walton Family Foundation Announces New NWA Director

Senior research officer Karen Minkel will take on the role as Home Region director in April.

Lynda Coon Named Dean of UA Honors College

A University of Arkansas history professor and associate dean in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Science, Coon will assume her new duties June 1.

WAC Announces $5 Million Challenge Grant From Walton Family Foundation

Funds from the challenge gift will be matched by contributions from other donors in order to reach the $23 million goal.

$5 million Tyson Gift Lifts New Agriculture Research Center

The donation will partially finance the University of Arkansas System Division of Agricultures new $16.3 million Don Tyson Center for Agricultural Sciences, with construction scheduled to begin later this year on the Divisions property in northern Fayetteville off of Highway 112 South (Garland Avenue).