Dean’s Corner
Fulbright College Associate Dean Lia Uribe Selected to Join Prestigious Sphinx LEAD Program
Lia Uribe, associate dean for the arts and humanities and music professor at the U of A's Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, was selected earlier this year as one of only 10 arts leaders to join the 2024 cohort of the Sphinx LEAD program. The Sphinx Organization,...
Native American Heritage Month Celebrated Throughout November
Native American Heritage Month will be celebrated throughout November on the U of A campus. Partners across the university have come together to present a dynamic series of events. Events are open to all campus community members and to the general public. All events...
Tiny Scans, Massive Impact: MICRO Helps Researchers Win $12 Million in Funding
MICRO, the University of Arkansas MicroCT Imaging Consortium for Research and Outreach, was established in 2018 as part of a National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Grant. The equipment at the heart of MICRO, a Nikon XTH 225 ST X-ray...
New Findings Supply Corrective to Evolutionary Hypothesis
For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that “younger” groups of organisms, in evolutionary terms, have higher rates...
NIH Grant to Support Study of Protective Behavioral Strategies Related to Alcohol
Three faculty members from the University of Arkansas' Department of Psychological Science were recently awarded a 2-year, $150,000 grant by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH R03) to explore safe drinking practices college students use when...