Welcome to the February 2023 Round Up of the Fulbright REVIEW Blog
It’s a phenomenal February at the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and a great time to celebrate student, faculty and alumni success, share research breakthroughs, explore new creative endeavors, and so much more!
February is also Black History Month and we are proud to feature some fantastic stories highlighting and honoring the multitude of achievements of African Americans. Get the inside scoop right here in the Fulbright REVIEW.
To kick things off, we’re excited to announce that we are now home to the Arkansas Center for Black Music, as well as the only Master of Music in Black Sacred Music degree in the United States!
As if that weren’t amazing enough, one of our stellar researchers just won a $1.35 million Faculty Early Career Development Award, we’ve begun planning for the U of A’s next 150 years, and our college is home to three new Teaching Academy Fellows.
In other news, we also recently had our online programs rank well, our interdisciplinary Data Science Program has a new home, and we launched a Beginning Investigator Research Development Support program to help young researchers thrive.
We have lots of great events coming up, too, including a Pryor Center lecture on Winthrop Rockefeller, a Faulkner Center performance featuring singer, trombone player and songwriter Aubrey Logan, and Theatre’s latest show, Hedda Gabler!
On the student success front, we’d love for you to meet a group whose service-learning project helped the City of Fayetteville, the nine recent graduates who each received a $10,000 artists grant, and a student-athlete named an SEC Freshman of the Week.
You can also meet a social work graduate student who is passionate about problem solving and bettering peoples’ lives, our nationally-ranked Speech and Debate Society, and an NSF-featured postdoctoral fellow who recently joined our Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies.
Then, get to know two alumni who were awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an alumna who recently had her Tolkien-inspired translation published, and an alumni duo who launched a blog highlighting people with disabilities!
Next, take a virtual tour through Roman history, explore new approaches to the global tobacco problem, and learn how our researchers are reducing the cost and time for developing new drugs.
Afterward, help congratulate this faculty member on a new national professional group appointment, and this one for being named co-editor-in-chief of a leading journal.
Finally, if you’d like to learn more about the extraordinary people, initiatives, projects and activities that make up Fulbright College, please visit our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. Our handle is @uarkfulbright on all three.
And, as always, we’ll keep providing you with more new stories at fulbrightreview.uark.edu. We hope you’ll stay tuned.
In the meantime, please keep in touch, take care and be well!
Sincerely,
Kathryn Sloan
Interim Dean, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences