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CommunityNews

Transportation Research Paves Way at UAFS

Students and faculty members from the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith are seeing years of transportation research and data collection applied to the real world.

May 08, 2025
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FeaturedHealth Education and Human SciencesStudents

Education Major Inspires New Arkansas Law

One moment, 15-year-old Kennedy Allison was sitting in class at Pea Ridge High School. The next, she was unconscious, her heart in full cardiac arrest. Six years later, she's a junior at UAFS, and using that harrowing moment to help change Arkansas...

May 08, 2025
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Arts and SciencesLion Voices

Road to Ph.D.: Kaleb McLaughlin’s Risk and Resolve

Kaleb McLaughlin, a senior geosciences student, will graduate from UAFS on May 10 before heading to Gainesville to begin a master's to Ph.D. program at the University of Florida. If you asked him where he'd be when he graduated from UAFS a few years...

May 06, 2025
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Business and IndustryLion Voices

Delayed but not Defeated, Troy Rodriguez Earns UAFS Degree

First-generation student Troy Rodriguez will graduate from the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith on May 10 with a degree in business administration. The accomplishment comes after stepping away from school before returning two years later.

May 05, 2025
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Chancellor

Campus Update, May 2, 2025

Chancellor Dr. Terisa Riley provides an update about the UAFS budget, summer scholarships, and shared well wishes ahead of graduation.

May 02, 2025

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