University of Arkansas

COVID-19 has reshaped the economy and business world in unforeseen ways, and educational institutions are working to fill in the gaps that have emerged. One of those institutions is the University of Arkansas. The Sam M. Walton College of Business…

A University of Arkansas provost and the executive vice chancellor is leaving Fayetteville to take a similar role in North Carolina. Jim Coleman will be stepping down at the end of the current fiscal year to assume the role of…

As uncertainty remains around the pandemic, institutions of higher education are trying to determine how to conduct classes in the fall.  College students across the state and country have been forced to complete their spring semester virtually online since March.…

The University of Arkansas has promoted Mark Rushing as the associate vice chancellor for university relations effective April 1.  Rushing joined the university relations team in 2012 as the director of strategic communications. He has been serving as assistant vice…

Nineteen University of Arkansas professors have been selected to serve as Connor Faculty Fellows for the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. The 2020 Connor Faculty Fellows include specialists in natural sciences, humanities, fine arts and social sciences.…

An eventful offseason got a little more exciting for Arkansas men’s basketball this week. School officials announced the Hogs will play a neutral-site series with Oklahoma at Tulsa’s BOK Center starting Dec. 12, 2020. A return game is set for…

A University of Arkansas fund has provided more than $1.3 million in grants to develop new technologies. The Chancellor’s Commercialization Fund, established in March 2019, has awarded 33 grants since its inception to Arkansas researchers who are developing “real-word applications,…

Seven University of Arkansas students have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The students include five graduate students and two undergraduates. First awarded in 1952, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships are designed to recognize students in the fields…

Since about mid-March, universities across the state have closed their campuses in accordance with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for preventing the spread of COVID-19. Thousands of college students in Arkansas have been forced to complete their…

Two associate professors at the University of Arkansas have teamed up to develop a “heart-on-chip” system for mitochondrial diseases and received a two-year, $300,000 Department of Defense Discovery Award. Kartik Balachandran, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Shilpa Iyer, assistant…