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Jennifer Barbaree went from helping high school students with their schedules to painting hands with kindergartners on the first day of class in the Pine Bluff School District.

Sederick Charles Rice, Ph.D., a tenured associate professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.

Pine Bluff residents have approved a millage increase Tuesday night, meaning a new high school campus will soon be in the works.

In November 1940, construction of the Pine Bluff School of Aviation began utilizing $200,000 in municipal bond money and a $107,320 grant from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA). Earlier that year, as World War II raged in Europe, the Civil Aviation Authority adopted stricter regulations to allow airfields to accommodate larger and faster aircraft. Consequently, Pine Bluff's first airfield, Toney Field, became obsolete.

An educator preparation program at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is combating a shortage of certified teachers across the Delta and south Arkansas by motivating future educators to remain in the region beyond graduation.