Showing Off Senior Projects
Students in the College of Education and Health Professions' elementary education four-year licensure program held at the Global Campus put their senior projects on display April 2 in the Graduate Education Building. Read more »
LaVonne Kirkpatrick Elected President of Honor Society’s State Chapter
LaVonne Kirkpatrick, assistant professor of elementary education at the University of Arkansas, was elected president of the Arkansas chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society. Read more »
Teachers Focus on Writing Skills at Four-Week University of Arkansas Invitational
Eleven Arkansas teachers have been invited to learn new strategies to improve their students' writing skills this summer during the Northwest Arkansas Writing Project invitational institute on the University of Arkansas campus. Read more »
Colleges Partner on Grant to Improve Middle Level Teachers' Math Content Knowledge
The University of Arkansas, in a partnership with six public school districts in northwest Arkansas, recently received a $350,000 grant from the state Department of Education for a three-year project to improve teachers' mathematics content knowledge. Read more »
Professor of Special Education Receives National Award
Barbara Gartin, University of Arkansas professor of special education, recently received the Burton Blatt Humanitarian Award from the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Developmental Disabilities. Read more »
Totten Invited to Address Congressional Caucus on Armenian Genocide
University of Arkansas professor Samuel Totten, an internationally known genocide scholar, has been invited to speak to the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues on Capitol Hill. Read more »
UA Alumna Named Teacher of Year at Georgia Middle School
University of Arkansas graduate Chelsie Shaw was recently named teacher of the year at Austin Middle School where she teaches in Douglasville, Ga. Read more »
Linking Lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men Through Musical Intertextuality
It’s not often that Simon and Garfunkel and Pink Floyd songs are connected to literature such as Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Read more »
Carole Lee Wins International Culture Team Award
Carole Lee, a doctoral student in curriculum and instruction, was named the Outstanding New Member of the Year by the International Culture Team at the University of Arkansas for 2008-09. Read more »
University of Arkansas Student Invited to Meet President Obama
A University of Arkansas student and her husband received an unexpected phone call one Friday night recently, inviting them to the White House to meet President Obama. Read more »
Farah Edits New Volume on History of Middle East, Southwest Asia
Mounir Farah, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Arkansas, served as a general editor of a volume in a new series of world history encyclopedias published recently by M.E. Sharpe Inc. Read more »
To Teach About Social Justice, Understand Injustice, Park Says
An initial examination of how teachers understand and teach about social justice confirmed that "it is critical that teachers understand social injustice before teaching about social justice," according to University of Arkansas educator Sung Choon Park. Read more »
Mounir Farah Interviewed About Saudi Educational Issues, Speaks at Iraqi Conference
Mounir Farah, University of Arkansas professor of curriculum and instruction, was interviewed by Channel 2 in Saudi Arabia. Read more »
Technology Education Professor Inducted into National Academy of Fellows
Michael Daugherty, University of Arkansas professor of technology education, was recently inducted into the International Technology Education Association Academy of Fellows at the academy’s conference in Louisville, Ky. Read more »
Center for Math and Science Education Receives Grant to Offer Summer Teachers' Institutes
The Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Arkansas has received federal funding to offer one or more summer institutes for 30 to 60 teachers, this time receiving the largest grant award for this program through the state. Read more »
University, Northwest Arkansas Communities Join for First 'One Book' Reading Program
University of Arkansas students, faculty and staff are joining reading groups across northwest Arkansas for the first "One Book, One Community" project, which is planned as an annual event intended to focus local attention on the themes and issues raised in a single book. Read more »
Alumna Honored by State Organization as Teacher of the Year
Helen Eaton, a teacher at Holcomb Elementary School in Fayetteville, has been named Arkansas English Elementary Teacher of the Year by the Arkansas Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts. Read more »
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