Welcome to the October 2022 Round Up of the Fulbright REVIEW Blog

The leaves are changing, the air is cool, midterms are in the books, and Homecoming is near – what a wonderful time to be at the U of A’s Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences!

We hope this season finds you and yours well and thriving, and we’re excited to share the October Fulbright REVIEW with you.

In this edition, we highlight awesome upcoming events, phenomenal student and alumni achievements, outstanding research, and so much more. Let’s dive in!

On the event front, our RefleXions Music Series is back with performances featuring regional, national and international artists, we’re recognizing National Disability Awareness Month, and One Book One Community is spotlighting the Firekeeper’s Daughter novel and related free events.

Additionally, we’re showcasing extraordinary humanities research, and the Pryor Center Presents lecture series continues with by lectures on the Buffalo River, WWII, the Arkansas General Assembly and more!

We’re also excited to share how we helped create a Crisis Intervention Team with embedded social workers and police, and how these Physics researchers are making better semiconductors for electronics. 

You can also meet an outstanding double major who is making her reporting dream come true, and an English doctoral student whose book Man Made Monsters is being released just in time for Halloween!

Then, get to know the 2022 U of A Family of the Year, this Music professor named artist-in-residence with an East Asian studies institute, and a Geoscientist who shares why Arkansas’ July heat wave hit so hard.

Afterward, check out this “Pit Lit” class that studied books like Alice in Wonderland while exploring caves, and see how big data shows Black-owned restaurants were disproportionally impacted by the pandemic.

You can also help congratulate this faculty member who received an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health, and this Historian whose new book on early-modern Britain is now out!

Next, meet the UATV entertainment anchor who appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show, an Anthropology researcher studying the consequences of a 10,000-year-old extinction event, and a Political Science duo’s exploration of one-party monopolies in the American states.

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

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