Research and Awards
Journalism Students Compete Nationally
Five UA students from the Walter J. Lemke department of journalism were entered into a national competition after placing first in the regional Mark of Excellence Awards. These students will compete against the Society of Professional Journalists’ in 11 other …
UA Student Named Udall Scholar
One UA student has been named the 2013 Udall Scholar. Three other UA students won honorable mentions, according to a news release. The Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Scholarship Foundations awards $5,000 merit-based scholarships to 50 college sophomores and …
Student Admitted into Prestigious Institute
A UA student has been accepted into the African American Literature and Cultures Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio, according to a news release. Kevin P. Morris II, a native of Los Angeles, is pursuing a Bachelor …
Architecture Alumni Win Design Awards
Four architecture alumni were winners at the 2013 Fay Jones Alumni Design Awards, an alumni design contest sponsored by the Fay Jones School of Architecture. Chris M. Baribeau, Timothy W. Maddox, John Harrison Jones and Andrew Saunders were recognized for …
UA Professor Chosen as Ambassador for CDC
A UA assistant professor of special education has been chosen as an Act Early Ambassador for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program. Peggy Schaefer Whitby will be part of the CDC program “Learn the Signs. Act Early.” Her …
Students and Alumni Recognized During Business Award Banquet
The Sam M. Walton College of Business had its 20th annual awards banquet where outstanding students where recognized for their accomplishments and three alumni were honored last Thursday, according to a news release. Three alumni that were honored: Outstanding Service …
Alumni to Receive Honorary Degrees
Two UA alumni will be receiving honorary degree during the spring 2013 graduation ceremony. Ricardo Martinelli, president of Panama, and Lee Bodenhamer, Arkansas businessman and philanthropist, will receive honorary degrees for “their achievements in politics and business and for their …
Black Arkansan Educators Honored for Achievements
The Northwest Arkansas Democratic Black Caucus hosted a teacher-appreciation banquet to honor former and current UA faculty as well as a superintendent of Fayetteville Public Schools. Margaret Clark, Gordon Morgan, Professor Gerald Jordan and John L. Colbert were presented with …
Funding Underway for Story Bus Project
The oral history center at the UA is gathering funds to begin a new project recording Arkansas history. This month, AT&T donated $50,000 to the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History to support the launch …
Award-Winning Article Published in Magazine
Three UA professors’ award-winning article was published in the “Urban Affairs Review.” Brinck Kerr, Margaret Reid and William Schreckhise authored the article “When does Politics Matter? A Reexamination of the Determinants of African-American and Latino Municipal Employment Patterns” with William …
Agriculture Division Sponsors Strawberry Production Grant
The UA Division of Agriculture announced a $3 million donation from the Walmart Foundation to help sustain strawberry production nationwide. The National Sustainable Strawberry Initiative is a new competitive grant program for the Center for Agriculture and Rural Sustainability (CARS). …
UA Physics Professor Named the 2012 Man of the Year
A UA physics professor was named the 2012 Man of the Year for outstanding scientific research performed at the UA in collaboration Rostov State University. Sergey Prosandeev’s research last year on the properties of nanotechnology is one of the factors …
Arkansas Company Leads Solar Cell Developments
A company has developed a new technology that could improve the efficiency of solar cells by as much as 18 percent, which will ultimately reduce the manufacturing costs of solar cells, said Douglas Hutchings, chief executive officer of Silicon Solar …
Professor Designs Exhibit in New York
A UA mathematics professor helped design the “Shapes of Space” exhibit for the nation’s only museum dedicated entirely to mathematics in New York. Professor Chaim Goodman-Strauss, chair of the department of mathematical sciences, spent six weeks helping a colleague design …
UA Doctoral Student First to Identify Nature of Meteorite
A UA doctoral student was the first among a group of researchers to identify the nature of a meteorite that landed in California and Nevada. Robert Beauford, a UA doctoral student in space and planetary sciences, was one of many …
