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In connection with the Arkansas Alumni Association’s volunteer engagement program, the Association is pleased to announce the creation of “Helpin’ Like a Hog.” Only a few weeks into the planning process, staff members have come together to create a program that will help to engage alumni who express an interest in community service.
Since 1961, the Arkansas Alumni Association has proudly recognized the exemplary achievements of University of Arkansas faculty through the Arkansas Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards amongst three categories of accomplishment: teaching, research and public service. Additionally, the University of Arkansas honors a faculty member with the Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award. For the first time, the Baum Award winner also will be honored at the Alumni Awards Celebration during Homecoming this fall.
Stop by the original Block Street store in Fayetteville, AR and save! They will be open 9-9, all regular Houndstooth merchandise will be 50% off Dead Day only, and they will have tons of sample custom t-shirts for $7 & $10 from The Houndstooth Press! Can’t make it on Dead Day? No problem! Members can save 25% EVERY DAY at the Block Street shop on select merchandise!
Be a part of the excitement of Razorback summer camps. Registration is now open for camps in a variety of sports for boys and girls. Kids will have the opportunity to sharpen their athletic skills at state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Arkansas campus.
The Student Alumni Association invites current students at the University of Arkansas to participate in a Traditions Contest on Facebook now through Friday, April 15th. Enter for your chance to win a $200, $150, or $100 shopping spree at the Razorback Shop on campus.
It’s not too late to apply for the 2011 Senior Honor Citation. The deadline to submit materials is 5 p.m. Monday, March 28. Awardees will be recognized with a $500 cash prize and a life membership in the Arkansas Alumni Association at a luncheon on Friday, May 13 with the Arkansas Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Springdale native Regina Hopper B.A.’81, J.D. ’85 will return to the University of Arkansas campus on Feb. 28-March1 as the Arkansas Alumni Association’s 2011 Johnson Fellow. Hopper, who resides in Alexandria, Va., is president and CEO of America’s Natural Gas Alliance, which is dedicated to increasing appreciation of the environmental, economic and national security benefits of clean, abundant and affordable North American natural gas.
Since walking onto the University of Arkansas campus for the first time last year, Tori Pohlner knew that college life meant devoting long hours to studying. However, once learning about the multiple student organizations that the university offered, she decided that some of those hours would be dedicated towards campus involvement – a decision she wouldn’t have any other way.
Due to inclement weather and school closings throughout the region, the Black Alumni Society scholarship deadline has been extended to Friday, February 18, 2011. Applications must be postmarked by February 18 for consideration.
This April, the Black Alumni Society will celebrate its 10th Reunion. As a part of this year’s reunion, the first African American professors at the University of Arkansas, Dr. Margaret Clark and Dr. Gordon Morgan, will be recognized at the Faculty/Staff Appreciation Dinner, for their more than 40 years of service to the university and its students.
