Biomedical engineering junior Mary Jia is working with cutting-edge CRISPR tools to treat a rare disease.
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Point A to Point Z: Three Career Case Studies
The robots are here. New digital technologies drive innovation, Big Data is expanding the big picture, and the gig economy has kicked company loyalty to the far distant past. Thanks to COVID-19 lockdowns many of us are working remotely, scrambling to acquire new skills, or looking for new jobs. In their 2020 Future of Jobs Report the World Economic Forum noted that the pandemic-induced global recession has “created a highly uncertain outlook for the labour market and accelerated the arrival of the future of work.” All that uncertainty can produce nail-biting anxiety among ambitious honors scholars considering their options. But the current economy creates freedoms as well –– to do what you love to do, where you want to do it, on your own timetable. Here are three case studies of four University of Arkansas alumni who did just that, encountering a few twists and turns along the way.
Band Aid
Office Hours: An Honors Professor Reflects on Her Office
Students tend to jokingly refer to encounters with African and African American Studies with the popular Jay-Z lyrics “all Black everything.” In a historically white institution where the atmosphere, and especially the constituted normative curriculum, was created with little input from those who were once excluded, that soundtrack necessarily becomes louder in my office.
Honors College Mic: Ayana Gray
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 5:30 p.m.
Alumna Ayana Gray will discuss her debut novel Beasts of Prey
Save the Date
Dean’s List: Taking Stock
As always, my door is open here in Gearhart Hall. Drop by for a physically distanced visit or join us for the dean’s chat, which will continue this fall from 11-noon on Thursdays. You can also share your thoughts with us at honors@uark.edu. Come and take your seat at...
Courtyard Curvahedra
By Kendall CurleePhotos by Chieko Hara, Emily Baker and Whit PruittNext time you visit us here on campus, check out the eye-popping campus landmark installed last summer. Our Curvahedra, a spherical steel structure 12 feet in diameter, brings beauty and some exciting...
The Legacy of BAD Times: Highlights from the Tour
Archival materials courtesy Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville.By Katie Wilson PowellPhotos by Russell Cothren In fall 2020 Interim Chancellor Charles Robinson’s forum BAD Times, named for the Black Americans for Democracy newspaper...
Building with Stories
By Michael Fuhrman Photos by Russell Cothren and Margaret Woodruff“Integrating what I learned from these communities into my own spiritual life, I was challenged academically and personally.”Lotus Flower CookieYou’re met immediately by something familiar:...
The Monster She Made
Image: Leigh Caruthers PrasselBy Hiba TahirPhotos by Chieko HaraWhen a family member was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, Morgan Walker, an English major from Prairie Grove, saw many similarities between the grim prognosis and the plight of...
Portfolio: Sara Schellenberg
Dylan and Ares, oil on canvas, 2021 Artist’s Statement I grew up in a low-income household just outside of St. Louis, in a neighborhood called Overland, a small town just distanced enough from the metropolitan area that it was leafy and green but threaded with the...
Time Machine
“As a scientist, I think the most exciting prospect for me is this idea, really this guarantee, that we’ll discover things about the universe that completely surprise us. We’ll find things that we had never dreamed of, and we’ll find answers to questions that we...
Sweet!
By Kendall Curlee“Donating meals is great, but the most important thing is people being aware that there are hungry kids in Northwest Arkansas, and there are way too many of them.” The headquarters for Sweet + Simple Creamery is spartan — a cafeteria kitchen in a...