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The Making of a Scholar; Ungar Joins Ranks of Elite Group of Scientists
It was an inauspicious beginning for someone who has changed the way we think about the role of diet in human evolution. “I was terrible in school,” says Peter Ungar, Distinguished Professor of anthropology and director of the University of Arkansas’ Environmental...
Music’s Moon-Sook Park Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
Moon-Sook Park, an associate professor of music and voice in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Music, has been recently selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2024-2025 academic year in Germany. The Fulbright fellowships, awarded by...
Six Former or Current Athletes Connected to U of A Win Medals at Paris Olympics
Current and alumni Razorback athletes and one former graduate student garnered four gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals during the 2024 Olympiad in Paris, France. It was the U of A's highest medal count since Razorbacks began winning medals in 1948. A...
Kim Gillow Earns Quarterly Financial Affairs Service and Innovation Award
The Office of Financial Affairs created a financial innovators award known as the Financial Affairs Service and Innovation Award (FASI) to recognize those throughout the university who make significant and lasting contributions to the university through bold,...
Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding Species Abundance
When it comes to predicting the abundance of a species, body size appears to be a fundamental and repeatable predictor, with smaller organisms occurring in greater numbers than larger ones. The caveat, known as Bermann’s Rule, is that in polar regions larger bodied...
Historian Randall Woods Publishes New Biography on John Quincy Adams
Randall Woods, a Distinguished Professor of history at the U of A, has published a new biography, John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People. Woods describes the biography, which he spent eight years working on, as one-third travelogue, one-third family history and...