Welcome to the January 2025 Round Up of the Fulbright REVIEW Blog
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
In top news, we recently named the inaugural Humanities Center Fellows, and received $750,000 from the Division of Higher Education to support the interdisciplinary Data Science Program.
We also celebrated the chancellor agreeing to an extension of his tenure in the role, and the University of Arkansas System President beginning his new role – you can read his first campus message here.
In this issue, readers can also get to know an art major who created a video game for her honors thesis, a faculty group who created a podcast about writing with AI, and double major named a finalist for a prestigious foreign affairs fellowship.
Plus, you can meet four students who, thanks to four scholarships and the donors who created them, are each a step closer to making their educational and career dreams come true, and the 70-plus geosciences alumni who came back to campus to participate in the department’s first-ever alumni summit.
Speaking of geosciences alumni, here’s a moving bonus story about another one – whose bond with a beloved former professor is just incredible.
Next, learn how one of our centers used data to help showcase the history of Devil’s Den Park through a new interactive website, and check out how we’re improving the state’s workforce and economy through research and training in STEM fields.
You can also save the date for the upcoming Celtic studies conference, and meet a student research group that gathered valuable data to better understand voter behavior and public opinion.
Then, help congratulate the 43 newest members of our Lambda Pi Eta communication honors society, and celebrate a mathematician who has served the college for 40-plus years.
Afterward, get to know a double major recognized nationally for her academic achievements, and a language professor whose latest work won an international essay prize.
Additionally, students achieved remarkable success at the National Model United Nations Conference, and this musical group’s album surpassed 25,000 streams on Spotify and recently garnered an industry award.
Finally, meet a researcher who is examining the elusive nature of liquid brines on Mars, and the award-winning composer who conducts the University Symphony Orchestra.
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.