Welcome to the August 2023 Round Up of the Fulbright REVIEW Blog
Welcome to our annual “Back to School” edition of the Fulbright REVIEW and to another amazing academic year on the Hill!
We’re so excited to head back to campus, to greet the newest members of our Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences family, and to share all of the college’s amazing news and happenings with you.
So, dive in to see how we’re supporting student success, and get the details on our fall plans, big research discoveries, new creative endeavors, and so much more.
To kick things off, check out these tips for a successful fall and explore these resources to help make navigating our beautiful campus a breeze.
Then, meet the five amazing new incoming freshmen named 2023 Sturgis Fellows, an award-winning music educator, and a phenomenal staff member who has been tirelessly guiding students for a dozen plus years!
You can also congratulate the 2023 recipients of our King, Nolan and OMNI awards, the winners of our annual top teaching, research and advising awards, and these national radio reporting superstars.
Afterward, sneak a peek at the results of U of A’s Belonging campus survey, see how our Student Ambassadors fit into this framework, and learn how you can help support them.
Then, see how we’re getting back to pre-pandemic levels of study abroad, and watch this video to find out what’s it like being a four-star general, before exploring the Eras Tour with this musicologist.
Next, learn about our search for a new permanent dean, see how we raised $35,000 to support gender studies, and get all the details on the upcoming 78th annual Alumni Awards Celebration!
You can also find out more about the University Museum – which recently hosted a kids’ literacy camp and launched a fundraising campaign to help enhance it services.
Afterward, help congratulate three doctoral students selected for a prestigious National Institutes of Health program, this alumna named a Distinguished High School Mentor, and the most recent winners of the Hudson Fellowships and distinguished dissertation awards.
Then, check out the new videos from our Latin American Ensemble, tune into this podcast exploring presidential debates, and delve into this research featuring 360-degree photos of historic Tunisian sites!
You can also see how one of our research teams found solutions to overheated rice crops, and how another team’s findings could have exciting applications in memory devices and nanoelectronics.
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