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Clinicpass Breaks Through With Help From Innovate Arkansas
August 22, 2019
Tracy Cornwell Simpson had worked in medical device and pharmaceutical sales for years when she spotted an opportunity. She noticed that medical clinics and industry groups kept expressing concerns about a 2010 federal law aimed at increasing transparency around visits to clinics by pharmaceutical representatives. Thus was born Simpson’s company, a web-based service called Clinicpass […]
FreeArm Makes Leap From Concept To Market
August 22, 2019
Innovate Arkansas adviser Grejuana “G” Dennis recalls being captivated the first time she heard Misti and Will Staley pitch their product, the FreeArm. Similar in appearance to a clamp-on bedside lamp, FreeArm is an attachable device that enables hands-free tube feeding. The Staleys developed it after the death of their infant son, Freeman. Inspired by the […]
JDR3 Spotlight: Mohammad Nur Nobi
August 22, 2019
Can you tell us a bit about yourself — where you come from and how you came to work in your current field?I am serving as an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. From the early stage of my university life, I wanted to be an educator and […]
SWP: Water Security Requires Inclusiveness
August 20, 2019
While all people need water in order to live and work, many do not have a say in decision-making about water. As laid out in six toolkits by the USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP), improving water security in a sustainable way requires the involvement and ownership of all people who influence or are affected by water […]
Modeling the Mara
August 19, 2019
The Mara River runs from Kenya to Tanzania, providing water for 14,000 square kilometers of farmland, tea plantations, villages, forests, rangelands, and the richly biodiverse Serengeti and Maasai Mara national reserves. This critical river – and everyone who depends on it – is at risk, due to climate change and population growth. Agriculture and urbanization strain […]
EPA announces more than $7.5 Million in water quality cooperative agreements through Gulf of Mexico Division
August 14, 2019
Gulfport, Miss. (August 14, 2019) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it anticipates awarding seven Gulf of Mexico Division cooperative agreements totaling more than $7.5 million to fund projects that improve water quality, habitat, and environmental education in the Gulf of Mexico watershed. Since 2018, approximately $9.5 million has been awarded to […]
Roots and Wings
August 9, 2019
Above: Winrock raises up entrepreneurs everywhere from Nepal, where rice millers and farmers are coming together to boost incomes, to Arkansas, where a startup accelerator provides market research, prototype development and partnering assistance to new companies. This story originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of RockLinks, a newsletter about Rockefeller Family philanthropy. When the […]
JDR3 Spotlight: Kaniz Fatema
August 8, 2019
Can you tell us a bit about yourself — where you come from and how you came to work in your current field?Hello, I am Ms. Kaniz Fatema, born in Rangpur, in the northern part of Bangladesh. I have completed a Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) from Rangpur in the […]
USDA Launches $1 Million Effort to Prevent Opioid Abuse in Five Counties
August 7, 2019
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. – August 7, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $998,834 to launch a proactive program to prevent opioid and substance abuse in north central and northeast Arkansas, a region that has high rates of opioid abuse and overdose deaths. The two-year Delta Understanding and Preventing Substance and Opioid Abuse […]
Winrock CEO Named to Export-Import Bank Advisory Committee
August 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 1, 2019 – Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson has been named to the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) 2019 Advisory Committee. He will be joined by senior leaders from Hewlett Packard, the AFL-CIO, and other luminaries from business, government, labor and finance. The Honorable Stevan Pearce, small business […]