University of Arkansas

University of Arkansas senior honors student Burgin Rome and her thesis mentor, Shari Moxley, assistant teaching professor in the School of Human Environmental Sciences, are offering a Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training free to U of A students. Youth Mental Health First Aid is an evidence-based program that equips individuals who work with or care for youth with practical skills to recognize and respond to emerging mental health challenges. The training emphasizes early intervention strategies, supportive communication and connecting youth with appropriate help before concerns escalate into crises.

Gabrielle Rancifer, a third-year U of A School of Law student, has secured publication in the Michigan State Law Review Online Forum for her law note, "Fake Goods, Real Harm." The piece discusses the need to include public health and safety factors in the extraterritorial analysis under the Lanham Act when counterfeit goods create unsafe health conditions.

The Spanish section of the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Arkansas welcomed eight new graduate students from across the globe. The class of 2027 is the largest cohort in Spanish in the past decade. This demonstrates the Spanish department's faculty's continued support of student success and the U of A's increasing visibility as a world-class educational institution for literary and cultural studies in Spanish.

The Spanish section of the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Arkansas welcomed the arrival of eight new graduate students from across the globe. The class of 2027 is the largest cohort in Spanish in the past decade. This demonstrates the Spanish department's faculty's continued support of student success and the U of A's increasing visibility as a world-class educational institution for literary and cultural studies in Spanish.

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.

Isabelle "Izzy" Artnak, an honors student at the University of Arkansas, is the recipient of this year's Ali Arguello Service Award. Majoring in supply chain management with a minor in finance at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, Artnak has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to serving others.