by Nathan Smith | Nov 10, 2016 | Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences, Horticulture, Mozambique, Service Learning, Study Abroad
Honors horticulture student Olivia Caillouet traveled to Africa last summer to take part in Global Community Development in Mozambique. (Check out our video on the program.) This UA faculty-led service learning program focuses on New Horizons, a poultry farm on a...
by Nathan Smith | Sep 17, 2016 | 5 Questions, Art History, Art History, Honors College International Research Grant, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
Clio Rom, an honors art history junior with minors in Italian and gender studies, is studying the different ways that male and female artists depicted women for her honors thesis, titled “Sitting Pretty: The Depiction of Women and Women’s Fashion in Renaissance and...
by Nathan Smith | Sep 8, 2016 | Fay Jones School of Architecture, Honors Courses, Landscape Architecture
Cookie cutter spec houses, car-choked highways, big box stores, The Mall: Suburban sprawl is gobbling up the once-vast American landscape, and now, we’re running out of room. This is especially true here in Northwest Arkansas, where the population has more than...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 23, 2016 | Architectural Studies, Fay Jones School of Architecture, History, Honors Courses, Landscape Architecture
“What makes a class honors?” We get that question a lot. And the answer is … it depends. In an engineering course, “honors” may be your entrée to working with the molecular beam epitaxy machine, which allows you to grow nanostructures one atom at a time. In an honors...
by Nathan Smith | Jul 29, 2016 | Athletics, Biology, Fellowships & Scholarships, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
Honors College Fellow Lexi Weeks accomplished a lot in her freshman year — winning both indoor and outdoor NCAA championships in the women’s pole vault, for starters, while starting work on her pre-med biology degree. Now, she’s headed for...
