/news-archive/tag/jim-carr/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:03:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2021/04/07/sustainability-grant/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:03:40 +0000 /news/?p=78724 ... Sustainability grant proposals accepted through April 12]]> The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is accepting submissions of innovative research and teaching proposals for five grants of up to $2,500 toward the development and promotion of the principles of sustainability.聽 The submission deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, April 12. All full- and part-time faculty, instructors, students, and staff may apply. Grant funds will be available for the 2021-2022 academic year and must be used by June 30, 2022. Funds may be used for travel, educational materials, equipment purchases, field trips, or guest speakers. Grant recipients are required to submit a written report at the end of the funding period and present a poster at the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Earth Day Celebration on April 22, 2022. Grant applications can be . For more information, contact Jim Carr at jkcarr1@ualr.edu.]]> /news-archive/2019/01/22/julie-sanders/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:54:20 +0000 /news/?p=73189 ... Keeping it in the family: Construction management degree prepares Sanders to run family business]]> Julie Evans Sanders has always known that she wanted to run her family鈥檚 66-year-old construction company one day. Earning a Master of Science in construction management at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock has helped her develop the skills she will need to do just that. Sanders has been working at for years, learning all aspects of the company鈥檚 work – from project management to preparing bids to handling billing and accounts payable. Her great-grandfather, Hartley Tucker, founded the company in 1953. The North Little Rock-based company is now run by her grandfather, John Ray Evans, and both Sanders and her dad, John Hartley Evans, work there. The company works on commercial projects across the state and specializes in site preparation, including excavation, concrete work, and underground utilities. On any given day, Sanders might be at a job site, making sure the project is on task. She might be helping her grandfather with bids, or she might be doing billing or accounts payable in the company鈥檚 office. 鈥淚 like that it鈥檚 not an average everyday job, and you鈥檙e not doing the same thing every day,鈥� she said. 鈥淲hen you start a project, it鈥檚 just a field of trees. You do all this work, and then it鈥檚 totally different. You know how much work went into the site preparation.鈥� Working with heavy machinery is familiar territory for the 25-year-old Sanders, who grew up on the family鈥檚 Conway farm. At 11, she was driving a mini excavator. By 13, she was driving a tractor around their 1,785-acre farm, where the family raises cows and row crops. 鈥淭here was always equipment everywhere,鈥� she said, and her father made sure she learned to operate it. 鈥淚n 2004, we were building a swimming pool, and he told me to get on the mini excavator and practice digging a hole and covering it up. He wanted me to learn how to do it.鈥� After she graduated from Vilonia High School in 2012, she went to the University of Arkansas for her undergraduate degree. 鈥淢y grandfather told me to get a degree. He said, 鈥業 don鈥檛 care what it鈥檚 in, but do something you can fall back on,鈥欌�� she said. Sanders earned a degree in family and consumer sciences education, so that she could teach should something happen to the family business. Since she had earned 18 college credits while in high school, Sanders finished her bachelor鈥檚 degree in three years, becoming the first in her family to earn a college degree. Sander鈥檚 twin sister, Jill, wasn鈥檛 far behind and earned a degree in business and animal science from Arkansas Tech University. 鈥淪he enjoyed the farm more, while I was more interested in concrete and equipment,鈥� Sanders said. During the summer breaks and long weekends, Sanders returned to central Arkansas to work at the company. She spent one summer driving an off-road dump truck on the site of the Bass Pro store in Little Rock. Her grandfather taught her how to do the math on estimates and bid. He also suggested she take some construction management classes, and he even offered to pay her tuition. Evans reached out to Jim Carr, coordinator of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Graduate Construction Management Program and enrolled in 2016. She took a semester off after the birth of her daughter, now 17 months old, and graduated on Dec. 15, 2018. 鈥淚 wanted to take classes that would really help me learn the skills, not just get a degree,鈥� she said. Courses in concrete, safety, construction administration, and business financial management all helped her. One of her favorites was Alternative Dispute Resolution taught by Jimmy Don Overton, a Little Rock construction lawyer. 鈥淭he classes taught me so much about the industry,鈥� she said. 鈥淲hile I was here, I also made business acquaintances with major construction firms.鈥� While in school, Sanders competed in the Associated Schools of Construction-TEXO Region 5 competition. Sanders and her fellow team members were assigned a project for which they prepared a bid. One year the team prepared bids for a water treatment plant; another year they estimated the cost to construct an underpass. Teams are scored based on their presentation and how close their bid is to the actual project cost. The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock team placed third both years. 鈥淚 loved the program and would love to see more people in the program,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he faculty are great.鈥� Sanders also hopes to see more women in construction management. Top Right: Julie Sanders checks on a concrete pour at a job site. Above: Julie Sanders completed a Master of Science in construction management at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to better prepare herself for one day running her family鈥檚 construction company. Photos by Benjamin Krain]]> /news-archive/2018/09/12/ukraine/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:01:13 +0000 /news/?p=71822 ... International delegation to discuss public health in Ukraine]]> A group of Ukrainian health professionals who are working to reform their country’s healthcare system will be at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Friday, Sept. 14, to speak on 鈥淧ublic Health in Ukraine.鈥� The talk will take place from 9-10 a.m. in Dickinson Hall鈥檚 sixth-floor conference room and is free and open to the public. Members of the international delegation, which includes four physicians and one lawyer, accompanied by a bicultural facilitator and a bilingual interpreter, are guests of the U.S. Legislature鈥檚 and are hosted by , a nonprofit which contracts with the federal government to bring international delegates to Little Rock for professional training. Dr. Janea Snyder, assistant professor in the College of Education and Health Professions, and Heidi Whitman, program officer for Global Ties Arkansas, arranged Friday鈥檚 event as a way for local health care students and professionals to connect with the Ukrainian group. The discussion will center on challenges and solutions for public health problems common to all industrialized nations, such as HIV, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Prior to their arrival in Little Rock, the delegates completed an orientation in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hill and had policy meetings with staff from the offices of Rep. French Hill and Sen. John Boozman. In Little Rock, delegates will collaborate on best practices for drafting effective healthcare policy, providing sufficient services for veterans, reforming primary and emergency care, and introducing medical insurance to citizens. The group also will have professional meetings at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the Eugene J. Tobin Healthcare Center, AFMC, Pulaski County Crisis Stabilization Unit, and Conway Regional Hospital. The delegation is staying in the homes of area residents serving as hospitality hosts, including the home of Jim Carr, associate professor of construction management at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, and his wife, Toni Carr, the executive director of Global Ties Arkansas. Others are staying with Terry Richard, professor emeritus of sociology at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.  ]]> /news-archive/2018/02/07/spin-bikes/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:54:41 +0000 /news/?p=69284 ... Bike-sharing program coming to campus]]> On Thursday, Feb. 15, 200 bright orange bikes will be delivered to campus. The touring bikes will be parked near high-traffic areas on campus – such as Ottenheimer Library, dormitories, Donaghey Student Center and parking lots, said Jim Carr, professor of construction management and chair of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Sustainability Committee. The 鈥渟mart鈥� bikes are equipped with GPS and can be unlocked by scanning a QR code with the Spin App. Riders pay 50 cents per 30 minutes, or can pay $14/month 聽and can pay with Apple Pay and Android Pay, or by inputting their credit card info into the company鈥檚 app. The bikes are 鈥渄ockless,鈥� meaning there鈥檚 not a bike rack or kiosk for pick-up and returns. When riders have reached their campus destination, they simply park them. Spin bikes can be found across all bike racks on campus. Here鈥檚 how it works:

1. Download the app by searching 鈥淪pin Bikes鈥� on the app store and sign up with your 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock email address.
2. Pull up the app to locate a bike nearby
3. Scan the QR code on the bike to unlock it
4. Start your ride
5. When you reach your destination, drop off and lock the bike by a designated area.

Spin plans to hire students to work as campus operating managers, to retrieve and return bikes to their intended areas. Interested students can email 驳颈苍辞蔼蝉辫颈苍.辫尘听for more information about jobs. Riders also must provide their own helmets.]]> /news-archive/2017/04/24/national-home-builders-association/ Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:36:23 +0000 /news/?p=66964 ... Professor and alumnus named to national home builders association board, committees]]> A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor and an alumnus have been named members of board and committees.聽 Jim Carr, coordinator of graduate studies for the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of Construction Management and Civil and Construction Engineering, was appointed to the association鈥檚 Global Opportunities Board and the Construction Safety and Health Committee. Meanwhile, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock alumnus is a new member of the Construction Liability, Risk Management, and Building Materials Committee and the Land Development Committee. Overton is the founder of Sustainable Construction and the Overton Firm in Little Rock. He received a bachelor鈥檚 degree in construction management from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock and a Juris Doctor from the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Bowen School of Law. The National Association of Home Builders is an organization of more than 140,000 members of the housing industry, including homebuilders, remodelers, manufacturers, suppliers, and marketers.]]>