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The 2025 SHE Festival of Women in Music is now underway on the University of Arkansas campus.

Arkansas lawmakers wrap up another busy week in session, advancing several key pieces of legislation. Arkansas’ first public veterinary school breaks ground, and a northwest Arkansas teacher gets the surprise of a lifetime.

Today's show features more updates from the Arkansas Legislature. How the latest version of what we’re calling bird flu can have an effect on animals, people and the economy, as well as this year's SHE: Festival of Women in Music at the University of Arkansas. Today's show features more updates from the Arkansas Legislature. How the latest version of what we’re calling bird flu can have an effect on animals, people and the economy, as well as this year's SHE: Festival of Women in Music at the University of Arkansas.

On Saturday, nearly 500 people attended a rally across the street from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fayetteville to oppose cuts to the federal workforce.

Little Rock Public Radio reporter Josie Lenora walks us through last week's top moments at the state capitol.

Next semester a University of Arkansas Honors Signature Symposium will focus on Mexico. Rogelio Garcia Contreras, a teaching faculty member at the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Venture Innovation at Walton College, will lead the symposium and spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about it last week.

There isn’t a PhD program in environmental health sciences in Arkansas right now, but there will be one soon. On today's show, we hear about UAMS' plans to start an environmental health sciences doctoral program this fall. Also, Bentonville Public Schools is developing guidelines about AI. Plus, we get the history of Rogers all in one place.

An Arkansas House of Representatives committee has advanced a bill to amend maternal health laws. House Bill 1427 would create the “Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act” to improve Arkansas’ low maternal health outcomes.

Several bills designed to change the petition process in Arkansas gained approval in a legislative committee yesterday, Feb. 11. Members of the Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs committee heard testimony on six bills, all sponsored by Republican Sen. Kim Hammer of Benton.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health will begin a PhD program in environmental health sciences this fall. Dr. Gunnar Boysen, associate professor in the college’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences, spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the new program.