Welcome to the January 2024 Round Up of the Fulbright REVIEW Blog
Happy 2024! I hope you’re as excited as I am to kick off a new year and semester together, because it’s looking like a marvelous time ahead here at our Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
A time that’s fresh, and full of potential – just like our amazing students – and a time to thrive and grow together as we aim to reach new milestones in teaching, research, and service.
And of course, we’ll continue to share all the top news and more right here in the Fulbright REVIEW, so we hope you’ll join us for it all.
First, let’s jump into the January edition, where we’re excited to introduce seven new strategic goals that build on our commitment to inclusive excellence, and debut a new exhibit commemorating the Band program’s 150th anniversary!
Then, see how a team of our biologists discovered and named a new virus, discover the kinds of fantastic treasures your favorite professors have in their spaces, and meet three amazing students who are making their dreams come true thanks to our donors.
We also just released an illuminating report on Spanish and world language education, are hosting the United States International Poster Biennial exhibition, and created new scholarships in support of our Gender Studies Program!
We hope you’ll also save the date for our upcoming 11th annual Black Music Symposium, get to know the students who took the top prize in our seed funding competition, and celebrate this year’s new play winner.
Afterward, meet a young alumnus with a passion for ancient cultures, a student who documented more than 100 plant species this fall, and a new leader at the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
Next, see how this class’s final became a literal networking event, learn about the correlation between civility and effective legislation, and congratulate a professor who won a social justice pedagogy award.
You can also get the inside scoop on avian epidemics, see how new quantum phases may advance brain mapping, learn more about our metabolic research collaborations, and celebrate a German professor who won a major national book prize and then served as an expert dissertation defense opponent!
Finally, on the publication front, help us cheer on this communication professor who scored a national award, this faculty member who released a new book on late-medieval England, and this scientist who co-edited a new book on health and mushrooms.
And, 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 / X, Instagram or LinkedIn social media channels. Our handle is @uarkfulbright on all.
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