Education

Student-athletes at the University of Arkansas will be able to capitalize on their images and likenesses through a new program called Flagship. This program, which will be led by the Arkansas Athletics Department, is designed to provide student-athletes with the…

University of Arkansas System President Dr. Donald Bobbitt has named his recommendation for the next chancellor of the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope-Texarkana (UAHT). Christine Holt, D.B.A., J.D., is Bobbitt’s recommendation for the role. Currently, Holt serves as…

The University of Arkansas will be creating a dual-degree in poultry science with Missouri State University. This dual-degree transfer program, focused on poultry science, is part of a memorandum of understanding between the UA’s Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food…

A new associate director of executive education has been named for the Sam M. Walton College of Business in Little Rock. Shannon Heard has been tapped for the role, in which she will oversee the Walton College’s executive education programs…

Students interested in forestry will have a new source of funding for college. The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Forestry Division and the University of Arkansas at Monticello have unveiled a new scholarship aimed at incoming freshmen pursuing forestry. This scholarship,…

When Rush Harding III talks about Junior Achievement, the education nonprofit for which the Crews & Associates CEO has served as benefactor and from which he will receive a Legacy Award on May 27, it’s not long before the subject…

 A University of Arkansas civil engineering professor has received an early career development grant to study long-range freight planning. Sarah Hernandez, an assistant professor of civil engineering, was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Grant, which is…

Junior Achievement of Arkansas will honor its 2021 Legacy Award winners May 27 from Heifer International’s world headquarters in downtown Little Rock. The Legacy Awards Luncheon, the nonprofit’s largest fundraiser benefiting more than 8,400 students in Central Arkansas, will be held…

For Dr. Tansel Karabacak, 2017 Arkansas Research Alliance Fellow and member of the ARA Academy, physics began as an “intellectual adventure.” When his doctoral advisor inspired him to connect fundamental science to applications, he realized he had found his true…

The Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD) has been named a “unitary district.” On May 6, U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. declared that PCSSD was a unitary district, which refers to desegregation in school systems. According to a…