University of Arkansas

Five University of Arkansas students - Kate Tandy, Maddie Gwinner, Reece Boykin, Chasmitha Batta and Camryn Christ - represented the university at the 2025 BridgeUSA Summit in Indianapolis, Indiana. The annual summit brings together student leaders from across the country to exchange ideas on fostering constructive political dialogue and building more inclusive campus communities.

Tanmaie Kalapala, a University of Arkansas poultry science Ph.D. student, has been awarded a Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education 2025 Graduate Student Grant. This grant is awarded to graduate students at accredited institutions across the Southern region to conduct research projects on a wide variety of sustainable agriculture production, marketing and social science topics.

Fluency in world languages can open doors around the globe, and for two University of Arkansas honors engineering students, the International Engineering Program did more than provide a global education in Germany; it led them to a dream internship at Porsche's Development Centre near Stuttgart.

Six graduate students in the Master of Public Administration program at the University of Arkansas have been named recipients of the prestigious Raymond W. Gosack Scholarship for the 2025-26 academic year: Megan Zingerman, Domingo Feliz Carela, Sydney Buffalo, Rachel Britton, Andrew Guegan and Annette Nyoni.

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas recently honored 120 students with scholarships and other awards through its 2025 Honors and Awards Recognition program. This year, more than $288,000 was distributed through scholarships and awards that recognized various aspects of achievement among students in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture and design.

At the mention of Rome, Italy, the taste of gelato, the sight of the Colosseum and the smell of freshly made pizza probably spring to mind. But for students and faculty at the University of Arkansas Rome Center, Italy's capital city means more than these top-of-mind tourist tropes. Instead, it's an educational hub centered in a city more than 2,000 years old, with access to remarkable architecture, extraordinary art and the opportunity for cultural immersion.

VOICES, the vocal jazz ensemble at the University of Arkansas, won the a cappella VoiceJam Festival Competition at the Walton Arts Center. VOICES rose to the top of the scoreboard and triumphed over groups that included the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the University of North Texas; and the University of Houston.

With more than 30,000 students on the University of Arkansas campus and over 200,000 graduates, everyone has a story to tell, and everyone has a different path to earning their name into Senior Walk. Markell Cox of Wynne, a senior majoring in music education, chose the U of A for the Inspirational Chorale, a performance ensemble within Fulbright College's Department of Music dedicated to preserving the tradition of Black sacred music.

Six University of Arkansas students have been named Graduate Entrepreneurial Fellows, who will pursue intensive entrepreneurial training across diverse industries, including biomedical engineering, food science, information systems and finance. Led by the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the fellowship program aims to support promising graduate students from all disciplines in their pursuit of scalable, technology-based ventures.

Eleven University of Arkansas students from the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences achieved remarkable success at the National Model United Nations Conference, held in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Twenty-eight supply chain management majors from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas were inducted into the Sigma Chi Mu Tau Honor Society in the 2024-25 academic year.

The U of A is recognizing students for making the Spring 2025 Chancellor's List. To qualify, undergraduate students must attain a 4.0 GPA for the semester while completing at least 12 credit hours of coursework. The Spring 2025 Chancellor's List is available online.

Students achieving academic excellence have been named to the University of Arkansas Spring 2025 Dean's List. The honor recognizes undergraduates with GPAs of 3.75-3.99 and Law students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. The Spring 2025 Dean's List is available online.

Breannah Small, a student of African and African American studies and journalism/political science in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, has been accepted into the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at Duke University and a summer research program at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Service Learning Initiative highlighted the success of University of Arkansas faculty and students at the 2023-24 Outstanding Contributions to Service Learning Award Ceremony on March 11 at the Cordia Harrington Center for Excellence.

More than 300 undergraduate students earned bachelor's degrees during the fall 2023 term in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. These undergraduate students earned their degrees in areas of study that span across one of four academic disciplines in Fulbright College: fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.

With family and friends witnessing, the Razorback Battalion - the University of Arkansas Army ROTC - commissioned eight second lieutenants into the United States Army on Dec. 15, 2023. These second lieutenants went through at least four years of training here on campus and at various military installations throughout the country. The ceremony was held at Giffels Auditorium. The cadre at the Razorback Battalion are very proud of our newest lieutenants. They will be a great contribution to the U.S. Army.

Nine music students from the University of Arkansas' Department of Music, part of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, competed at the statewide Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition hosted at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock. The Young Artist competition is open to students ages 19-26 who are currently enrolled in collegiate programs. The winners will have the opportunity to compete at the national level against winners from other states.

The Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences recently welcomed more than 1,800 first-year undergraduate students to the college and to the greater University of Arkansas campus community for the fall semester, adding to the 6,344-person university-wide freshman class and to the more than 32,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students at the U of A.