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Arkansas Alumni Association Announces New Board Members
The Class of 2023 for the Arkansas Alumni Association’s National Board of Directors began work on July 1.
Arkansas Union to Re-Open in July
The Arkansas Union will reopen its entire facility beginning Monday, July 6. Hill Coffee Company will also re-open on Monday, July 6, with a limited menu. Club Red Union remains open 8 a.m.to 2 p.m. weekdays.
School of Art High School Summer Workshop Presents Virtual Exhibition 'Together Apart'
The U of A School of Art recently hosted the second annual summer workshop for high school students that concluded with an online exhibition, 'Together Apart.'
Civil Engineering Graduate Student Awarded American Water Works Association Scholarship
Civil engineering doctoral student Samuel Hodges has earned the American Water Scholarship to further his research into sample gathering technology for use in drinking water.
GPSC Shifts Funds to the Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry
The Graduate-Professional Student Congress donated nearly $1,000 worth of food and other needed products to the Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Campus Food Pantry.
Ricke Receives the National Chicken Council Broiler Research Award
Steven C. Ricke, director of the Center for Food Safety, will receive National Chicken Council Broiler Research Award at the annual Poultry Science Association virtual meeting this month.
Snow to Lead Economic Development Office as Interim; Leeds to Step Down
Inaugural Vice Chancellor Stacy Leeds is stepping down from the post after three years to focus on research and several writing projects.
Humanities Center Promotes Action Against Systemic Racism on Campus
The Arkansas Humanities Center will offer two grant competitions for fall 2020, funding humanities research and programming to move from words to action in the effort to reveal and dismantle systemic racism.
Biology Graduate Student Awarded National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Doctoral graduate Tyler K. Chafin was awarded a three-year, NSF "rules of life" post-doctoral fellowship with a focus on interdisciplinary research using biological collections.
Libraries Digitize All University of Arkansas Yearbooks
Thanks to project donors and the University of Arkansas Libraries, more than a century of yearbooks, all of them from 1897 through 2018, are now available online, free of charge.