University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Nursing has honored its top students of the year during an annual nursing pinning ceremony May 11.

Bobbie Handcock, a rhetoric and writing graduate student from Lonoke, has won the 2022 Phi Kappa Phi Essay Contest and a $250 scholarship.

A UA Little Rock student is one of four students selected across the University of Arkansas System who is an inaugural recipient of a grant honoring James L. "Skip" Rutherford III, dean emeritus of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. Brian Neel, a Pine Bluff native who is pursuing a master's degree in history, will use his $1,000 grant to fund research on the Ralph Bunche community, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Benton. Funds will help pay for his equipment and travel for the oral history project, which will explore the impact of segregation and desegregation on the community.

Four Trojans have been named Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholars for the 2021-22 season. It marks the ninth-straight season Little Rock has placed at least four golfers on the prestigious list.

Olivia Hicks, a sophomore at UA Little Rock from East End, has been recognized in the Arkansas Press Women 2022 Communications Contest.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Theatre Arts and Dance has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of English has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Information Science has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Donaghey College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Physics and Astronomy has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Engineering Technology has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Mathematics and Statistics has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Systems Engineering has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Earth Sciences has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Chemistry has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Computer Science has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Biology has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The Top Paper award recognizes the highest class grade for the semester at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Criminal Justice and Criminology has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Sociology and Anthropology has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies has honored its top students for the 2021-22 academic year.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Nursing has honored its top students of the year during an annual nursing pinning ceremony May 12.

Eight student journalists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won 11 awards in the 93rd annual Arkansas College Media Association (ACMA) conference for their work in The Forum, UA Little Rock's student newspaper.

A group of historians from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won the Lucille Westbrook Award from the Arkansas Historical Association for the best article manuscript on an aspect of local Arkansas history. Dr. John Kirk, George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History, co-wrote the paper with his students in the Seminar in Public History class, a capstone course that focuses on collaborative research for students who are earning a Master of Arts in public history at UA Little Rock.

The Hispanic Women's Organization of Arkansas (HWOA) has selected Christine Jones, a UA Little Rock graduate student, to receive a $1,000 scholarship.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has announced the winners of the 2022 Student Research and Creative Works Expo. This year's event took place outside between the Ottenheimer Library and the Cooper Fountain on April 8. It was the first in-person student expo that UA Little Rock has hosted in three years.

Ten UA Little Rock wrestlers were named to the 2022 Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll, as announced by the league office this Thursday. Out of the wrestling schools that compete in the conference, the Trojans were tied for the second-highest number of student-athletes that made the list

UA Little Rock wrestling student-athlete Chase Tebbets has been named an Individual Scholar All-American by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA).

UA Little Rock wrestling student-athlete Jaylen Carson has been selected as an Individual Scholar All-American by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA).

The UA Little Rock wrestling team has been honored as a 2022 DI Scholar All-America Team by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) to top off an incredible year of grit and growth for the Trojans.