Welcome to the November 2020 Round Up of the Fulbright REVIEW Blog

Here at Fulbright College, this November we’re feeling grateful for…

Our amazing students, thriving despite an unusual and challenging year…

Our outstanding faculty and staff, working hard to do all they can to support our students…

Our awesome alumni, donors and community members, inspiring and helping our students and all of us succeed…

So ultimately, what we’re incredibly grateful for is YOU – our Fulbright College family!

And in the spirit of saying thank you and expressing our gratitude, this November edition of our Fulbright REVIEW is packed full of fun features and impactful stories about giving, scholarship recipients, research and the folks who’ve made all this possible.

Because here at the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, we have so much to celebrate, so much to be appreciative for, and so much to share – so let’s get to it!

First, meet undergraduate students Lucas Ros, Victoria Mantel and Brody Lawson, 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, meet a Path Scholar and Honors physics major who only had three semesters left before reaching his goal of graduating. But then COVID-19 hit, and the financial challenges it brought threatened to derail him before a figure from his past reemerged to make all the difference.

Afterward, get a sneak peek as we prepare for #GivingTuesday on Dec. 1 and learn how you can help join a “global wave of good” by supporting students in financial distress who have the greatest need.

You’ll also want to check out this inspiring new song and video that our Schola Cantorum students created, hear the new RefleXions Music Series and KUAF podcast featuring Sing for Hope’s co-founders, and help welcome the School of Art’s first endowed professors in art history!

And of course, we hope you’ll join us in congratulating our new director of the African and African American Studies Program, and our four students, faculty members and alumni who were recently named 2020 Individual Artist Fellows by the Arkansas Arts Council!

On the research front, learn how one of our chemists discovered a new drug candidate that kills triple negative breast cancer cells without the adverse side effects of chemotherapy, and see what a team of sociologists found about how people are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic.

And, be sure to meet a student who is conducting research on the biracial and multiracial student experience, and hopes to one day serve in a role that will help create lasting, positive structural change in underrepresented communities!

Additionally, if you’d like to learn more about all the fantastic 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, and if you have a great story idea, please email us at fulbcomm@uark.edu.

Please keep in touch, take care and be well!

Sincerely,

Todd Shields
Dean, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences