If by chance you see any nervous-looking students dressed for success today, with Honors College nametags around their necks, please make them feel welcome! They are on campus to attend Fellowship Weekend, the Honors College’s premier recruiting event. The Honors College is hosting 144 high-achieving students from high schools across Arkansas and beyond. These students…
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.– Fayetteville has been growing more and more each year and with growth comes attention. The 2016 U.S News and World Report ranked the best places to live in the U.S. and Fayetteville, Arkansas came in third on the list. The report based out of Washington, D.C. and analyzed the 100 largest metro areas…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas Chancellor Joseph E. Steinmetz recently taught a class on infant brain mechanisms being offered through the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. Steinmetz accepted an invitation to give a guest lecture to the 20 students in associate professor Glenda Revelle’s senior-level course, Infancy: Brain, Learning and…
The No. 1 Arkansas men’s track and field team will look to carry their momentum from last weekend’s Tyson Invitational through to the Arkansas Qualifier set for Friday, Feb. 19. The Razorbacks will also send their distance medley relay team to Notre Dame’s Alex Wilson Invitational on Saturday, February 20. USTFCCCA WEEK FOUR RANKINGS Coming…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. / Ames, Iowa – ‘The Fastest Track Indoor Track in the World’ witnessed extraordinary feats that were reached in the horizontal and vertical jumps on day two of competition at the Tyson Invitational. Arkansas upperclassmen Clive Pullen and Ken LeGassey both put forth superb performances in the triple and high jumps respectively. Kingston,…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas student organization Hogs for Hope will host their second annual Dance Marathon to benefit Arkansas Children’s Hospital on Saturday, March 12. Dance Marathon is a 12-hour event that will be held at the Fayetteville Town Center from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Families, businesses, and students especially are…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The MLB – Major League Baseball — Network has scheduled two showings of University of Arkansas journalism professor Larry Foley’s latest documentary,The First Boys of Spring. The one-hour documentary is narrated by Academy Award winning actor Billy Bob Thornton and recounts the origin of Spring Training in the Arkansas resort town of…
A group of nine faculty, staff and students has been assembled to participate in an ad hoc committee, designed to help Chancellor Joe Steinmetz become more educated about the university, get a clearer picture of the environment on campus, and to help guide priority action items. The committee will meet monthly for six months initially,…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Behind several strong showings, the No. 36 Arkansas women’s tennis team swept a pair of matches in a Sunday doubleheader at Dills Indoor Courts. The Razorbacks used a 4-3 victory against No. 45 Purdue and a 5-2 win over Saint Louis to earn the Sunday sweep and improve to 4-2 on the…
FAYETTEVILLE — A lithograph created by Tim LaTourette, called “Rise Above,” is part of a touring exhibition that will be seen in 10 cities across Arkansas throughout the year. The 2016 Small Works on Paper touring exhibition, which features 37 Arkansas artists, will stop at Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus during the month…