Welcome to the December 2021 Round Up of the Fulbright REVIEW Blog

As 2021 winds down, I am filled with gratitude for our Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences family – and hope you and yours are gearing up for a bright holiday season and new year filled with peace, health, prosperity and joy!

I also hope you enjoy this special December edition of the Fulbright REVIEW, which includes highlights of some of the amazing students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and community members who make our college such a special place. Read on for the inside scoop!

First, be sure to meet Lauryn Durby, Sophie Trist and Avian King, who thanks to three scholarships and the donors who created them, are each one step closer to making their education and career dreams come true.

Then, get to know an alumna who is the reigning U.S. Barista Champion, and a senior who was recently named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar – one of only 32 out of more than 2,300 applicants!

Next, meet our newly expanded Career Services team and check out the latest on the U of A’s new Student Success Center, scheduled to open in January 2022.

Afterward, take a look at our new exhibit in Old Main featuring the work of acclaimed Arkansas photographer Geleve Grice, and listen to one of our physicists talk about a $20 million grant to accelerate quantum development and building portable air filters that remove coronavirus particles!

You can also sneak a peek at the treasures in one of our faculty member’s office, take a virtual “trip around the world” to learn to cook different cultural foods, and explore an on-campus remnant prairie that has become a living laboratory for biology research.

Then, meet a research team studying online radicalization and domestic violent extremism in the U.S.,  an art educator who is proposing a new center dedicated to the study and practice of childhood art, and researchers identifying and tracking the hybridization of smallmouth bass.

Additionally, learn about a new degree preparing students for emerging roles that generate equitable and sustainable solutions to design problems and see how we’ve expanded access to Renaissance studies research!

Finally, if you’d like to learn more about all 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,

Todd Shields
Dean, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences