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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.

The University of Arkansas Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences recognized nine students with annual academic awards for the 2024-25 academic year. Known for preparing leaders in food, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life, the college equips graduates as top candidates for employers seeking innovators and policymakers.

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 College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas celebrated more than 100 outstanding students from every degree program for the 2024-25 academic year, including honors student researchers, senior and first-ranked senior scholars and college-wide award winners.

Student journalists from the University of Arkansas earned top honors and professional recognition at the 2025 Society of Professional Journalists Diamond Awards. Students representing UATV and The Arkansas Traveler were honored in both student and professional divisions across multiple categories.

The Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas recently honored outstanding students for the 2024-25 academic year with prestigious department awards and scholarships valued at $251,291.

The Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas has recognized nine students with annual academic awards. Known for preparing leaders in food, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life, the college equips graduates as top candidates for employers seeking innovators and policymakers.

University of Arkansas students Abhinav Komanduri, Jared Noel and Ian Popp earned the Goldwater Scholarship, one of the nation's premier awards for undergraduates pursuing research in science, mathematics and engineering. Each will receive $7,500 from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Foundation.

The University of Arkansas Global Campus awarded $62,000 in W.E. Manning Memorial Scholarships to 34 online students for 2025-26. The awards support students balancing work, family and community service while pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees.

The University of Arkansas honored its most recent graduating class with a series of spring commencement ceremonies. Recordings of ceremonies are available on the U of A YouTube channel, and printed program books are available online. For more information, please visit commencement.uark.edu.

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.

More than 2,000 students were named to the Fall 2024 Chancellor's List in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. To qualify for the Chancellor's List, students must achieve at least a 4.00 grade-point average for the semester while completing at least 12 credit hours.

More than 1,100 students were named to the Fall 2024 Dean's List in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must achieve at least a 3.75 grade-point average for the semester while completing at least 12 credit hours. More than 8,000 students call Fulbright College home and are pursing areas of study and research across the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.

Alassandra Holsted, a University of Arkansas undergraduate student majoring in communication, sociology and criminology, was recently recognized as the runner-up for the prestigious Stephen A. Smith Award at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas awarded more than $4.9 million in scholarships to 1,855 students this year. The awards, supported by alumni, faculty, staff and friends, help students across arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.

More than 2,700 students were named to the Spring 2024 Dean's List in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must achieve at least a 3.75 grade-point average for the semester while completing at least 12 credit hours.

Ten University of Arkansas undergraduate and graduate students have been chosen as semi-finalists for the Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship Program at the United States level. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers two primary awards: the English Teaching Assistantship and the Study/Research Award.

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.

Main Hill Media, the student-run advertising agency at the University of Arkansas, won eight awards from the Associated Collegiate Press, and Hill Magazine, the student-published feature magazine, was second nationally in best of show.

University of Arkansas students, all of whom are students in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, scored big in the Next Gen(eration) Humanities Conference poster competition in Little Rock earlier this month, winning first and second place along with honorable mention. Every U of A student who attended the conference received recognition.

University of Arkansas debate team members Hadley Adkison, Carter Stainton, Daisy Rehbock, Hannah Morris, Jaci Sabatini, Jonas Lansford, Matthew Cook and Megan Dial brought home four awards from a virtual tournament in late February.

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.

University of Arkansas student Sherjeel Naeem was recently named a finalist for the 2024 Luce Scholarship. Naeem, a senior and native of Greenwood, is an honors anthropology and biology major in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. The Luce Scholarship Program, a nationally competitive program of the Henry Luce Foundation, provides recent graduates with funded, immersive professional experiences in an Asian country.

The University of Arkansas Speech and Debate Society was victorious again at the University of Central Arkansas' End of Hi-Bear-Nation Debate Tournament the weekend of Feb. 2-4. The team will next travel to Dallas Baptist University the weekend of Feb. 23-25. After that, they'll compete at the online Union University tournament March 1-3, before ultimately attending the IPDA National Tournament and Convention April 12-15.

The Mid-America Arts Alliance announced the 2023 Artist 360 Awards and the University of Arkansas School of Art in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences celebrates the art graduate students and an alumna undergraduate student as grant recipients and student grants. Recipients include graduate students Ana Buitrago, Melissa Loney, Larissa Ramey, Jocelyn Reid and recent alumna Augusta Zuerker, who graduated with an art history and studio art degree.

More than 2,500 students were named to the Fall 2023 Dean's and Chancellor's Lists in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must achieve at least a 3.75 grade-point average for the semester while completing at least 12 credit hours. To qualify for the Chancellor's List, students must also achieve at least a 4.00 grade-point average for the semester while completing at least 12 credit hours.

In November 2023, 14 students from the University of Arkansas competed at the International Model United Nations conference held in Erfurt, Germany, and left with five top honors. The students, mainly from the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, are majoring in economics, international studies, political science and biochemistry. At the conference, the Arkansas teams represented the United Kingdom and Bolivia delegations and competed with 40 other colleges and universities with some 450 students from around the world.

The University of Arkansas Speech and Debate Team finished in the top 10 nationally, and members Hadley Adkison, Megan Dial, Austin Keefe, Colten Nichols and Jaci Sabatini also placed in the top 10 in various divisions of competition. The team, which was originally founded in 1896, has grown significantly since reinstalling in spring of 2021, jumping from nine active members in spring of 2022 to 32 at the end of this fall semester.