by klw038 | Jun 30, 2017 | Honors College Study Abroad Grant, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Mathematics, Service, Service Learning, South Africa, Study Abroad, Uncategorized
Jacob Maestri is a rising senior math major from Fort Smith, Arkansas. He recently traveled to Cape Town, South Africa and on a hard, fog-cloaked climb up Table Mountain, found new insights on the journey, the people, and the experience. After a short Uber yesterday,...
by | Mar 6, 2015 | Belize, College of Education and Health Professions, Service, Study Abroad
Last summer biochemistry major Roshni Patel (right) helped to launch an important new public health initiative in the U of A’s Faculty-Led Community Development program based in Dangriga, Belize. Roshni and other members of the health team partnered with the...
by | Nov 25, 2014 | 5 Questions, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Service, Study Abroad
Mary Nell Patterson is a fourth-year landscape architecture student. Initially, she was a pre-nursing major, but after realizing that her fear of needles wasn’t going away anytime soon, she started to take notice of what she did love: art and the outdoors. Through her...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 5, 2014 | 5 Questions, Books, Economics, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Sam M. Walton College of Business, Service
Senior economics major Cicely Shannon’s love for books began at age four, when she learned to read. She began sharing her passion for reading in fifth grade, when she created Bookoos* of Books reading circle, the first of several literacy programs she developed in her...
by Nathan Smith | Jan 17, 2014 | Belize, Biochemistry, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Physics, Service, Study Abroad
Armin Mortazavi is a sophomore physics and biochemistry major who has already embarked on biophysics and membrane research at the University of Arkansas. A service learning trip to Belize last summer gave him some valuable lessons outside of the lab and classroom,...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 28, 2013 | Athletics, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Honors College Study Abroad Grant, Service, Spain, Study Abroad
Teni Butler is a sophomore chemical engineering major, an Honors College fellow, and a stellar defender (#17)on the Lady Razorbacks soccer team. She excelled in her first year, but the adjustment from her small private high school in Chattanooga, Tenn., where there...
