We're Hiring! The Senior Graduate Assistant will assist with developing a clear and transparent assessment of faculty awards data, processes, and opportunities at the University of Arkansas, with an end goal of elevating the national reputation of our faculty and enabling the University’s reputation as an employer of choice. We seek candidates to facilitate a data-gathering, synthesis, and analysis of existing faculty awards at the University of Arkansas. We are also interested in benchmarking data analytics to drive future best practices and guidelines across the university system. The selected candidate will work closely with a team comprised of UA ENGAGE, the Division of Research and Innovation, and the Office for Faculty Affairs, coordinating key activities that are critical to identifying opportunities and barriers to advancing the recognition of the UA faculty through highly prestigious and prestigious national and international awards. The successful candidate will have experience with data management, data analysis and statistics in R or similar programming language, and have good organizational and communication skills. We are open to a candidate developing an independent research project using this work. Regular, reliable, and non-disruptive attendance is an essential job duty, as is the ability to create and maintain collegial, harmonious working relationships with others. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications: Admitted to a Graduate Program at the University of Arkansas Preferred Qualifications: Enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Arkansas Additional Information: Graduate students are subject to background checks. Salary Information: $20,000 Required Documents to Apply: Cover Letter/Letter of Application, List of three Professional References (name, email, business title), Resume Optional Documents: Proof of Veteran Status Recruitment Contact Information: Julia Menke, Sr. HR Partner, jmenke@uark.edu All application materials must be uploaded to the University of Arkansas System Career Site https://uasys.wd5.mywo https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Fayetteville/Senior-Graduate-Assistant---12-MONTH_R0054997

College of Engineering Dean (and UA ENGAGE Co-PI) Kim Needy Honored as Distinguished Alumna of University of Pittsburgh Engineering! You deserve all this recognition and more for the many, many ways you uplift individuals, teams like ours, and communities. https://news.uark.edu/articles/70210/needy-honored-as-distinguished-alumna-of-university-of-pittsburgh-engineering-college?utm_source=arkansas-news&utm_medium=email_2024-04-19&utm_campaign=news_headlines&utm_content=needy-honored-as-distinguished-alumna-of-university-of-pittsburgh-engineering-college

Congratulations to Caree Banton for starting her new position this semester, as the Chair of the Department of History at the U of A. We are thrilled for you and the U of A Community - you will be a stellar department chair!! https://news.uark.edu/articles/69714/caree-banton-named-chair-of-department-of-history?utm_source=arkansas-news&utm_medium=email_2024-03-06&utm_campaign=news_headlines&utm_content=caree-banton-named-chair-of-department-of-history

Congratulations to Mary Savin for starting her new position on April 1st, 2024, as the head of the Horticulture Department at the U of A. We are thrilled for you and the UA Community - you will be a stellar department head!! https://news.uark.edu/articles/69325/respected-researcher-teacher-savin-named-horticulture-department-head?utm_source=arkansas-news&utm_medium=email_2024-01-29&utm_campaign=news_headlines&utm_content=respected-researcher-teacher-savin-named-horticulture-department-head

Dear Faculty, your commitment to students and colleagues, to research and knowledge, to service and stewardship, to departments and the university are all greatly appreciated and do not go unnoticed. Please continue to let us know how we can support you. Sincerely, UA ENGAGE

Shout out to Women Leaders! On behalf of the UA ENGAGE team, congratulations on this amazing article!! So thrilled to see deans Kate Mamiseishvili, of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, Kim Needy of the College of Engineering (and a UA ENGAGE PI!) and Lynda Coon of the Honors College on the page and in print, but even more thrilled for all that you do and bring to our campus and UA leadership. Female UA deans reflect on leadership https://lnkd.in/gvfPsPZ3 Kate Mamiseishvili (center), dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville speaks alongside fellow UA deans Kim Needy (left) of the College of Engineering and Lynda Coon of the Honors College, during a panel discussion on campus at Mullins Library on Thursday in celebration of Women's History Month

Distinguished Professor Ranu Jung will give the spring 2024 address for the UA ENGAGE NSF Advance Program at the U of A, a grant focused on supporting faculty in STEM and across campus. The keynote will be held Thursday, April 4, from 3-4:30 p.m. in the Hembree Room, 2nd floor, Willard J. Walker Hall. Jung is the founding executive director and endowed chair for the U of A's Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research, associate vice chancellor and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering. Titled "Who-Am-I? What should I do?", Jung's address will reflect on civil engineer Richard Blanco's poem "Once Upon a Time Surfside Miami." The presentation is open to all, with a reception for faculty and staff to follow. RSVP preferred, but not required. https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=xELHeRzmpU--iaPLVmqA0UJxEPv1Pq5GhGI0yXCSW9JUNkczQTdCOU9JRUQyT0w2NTZQMFA2VUdQSS4u&fbclid=IwAR3qX7PbaoLLpRMxurMORhf86YC6toJFTkTrQ-FanL0DdykP45E1uOY4wx4

Distinguished Professor Ranu Jung will give the spring 2024 address for the UA ENGAGE National Science Foundation' Advance Program at the U of A, a grant focused on supporting faculty in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and across campus. The keynote will be held from 3-4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, in the Hembree Room, second floor of Willard J. Walker Hall. Jung is the founding executive director and endowed chair for the U of A's Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research, associate vice chancellor and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering. Titled "Who-Am-I? What should I do?," Jung's address will reflect on civil engineer Richard Blanco's poem "Once Upon a Time Surfside Miami." The presentation is open to all, with a reception for faculty and staff to follow. An RSVP by March 22 is preferred, but not required. Jung's research is at the cutting edge between engineering and neuroscience, developing devices that lead to scientific advances with clear pathways to clinical application. A champion for innovation and entrepreneurship, her team developed the first wireless, implantable neural-interface system for restoring sensations to individuals with upper-limb amputation and received FDA approval to conduct a first-in-human trial. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Society, Jung holds 14 U.S. patents and has authored more than 130 publications. Jung received her doctoral and master's degrees in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and her bachelor's with distinction in electronics and communication engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. She joined the U of A in December 2021. https://news.uark.edu/articles/69756/u-of-a-engage-annual-keynote-by-ranu-jung?utm_source=arkansas-news&utm_medium=email_2024-03-11&utm_campaign=news_headlines&utm_content=u-of-a-engage-annual-keynote-by-ranu-jung

For the March 11 session of the UA ENGAGE Leadership Exploration Program, a panel of campus leaders (Sandra Eksiolglu, Hope Ballentine, Molly Rapert, and Jackie Mosley, pictured left to right) spoke with participants about their experiences and insights on leadership.

Professor Gema Zamarro was recently elected to the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Board of Directors. "AEFP is one, if not the main, education policy association that brings together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to tackle the most important education finance and policy issues. I am excited to serve the education policy community in this new role," said Zamarro, Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality at the U of A Department of Education Reform. AEFP offers opportunities for members to engage with one another around rigorous research that can inform education finance and policy decisions. "Since AEFP is so influential in the education policy field, board elections are highly competitive," said Patrick Wolf, interim head of the Department of Education Reform. "It is a great tribute to Dr. Zamarro that she won this contest and will help guide the organization's work over the next three years." Zamarro teaches education policy and economics at the U of A and is also an adjunct senior economist at the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR). She previously worked as an economist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy and an assistant professor in the Department of Econometrics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Zamarro's research revolves around education policy and labor economics. She has studied the relationship between teacher quality and student performance, the effect of school closing policies on student outcomes and the effect of dual-language immersion programs on student outcomes, among other topics. Her current research focuses on teacher labor markets and the gender and education impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. Her work has been featured numerous times in the American and Spanish media helped inform national and state policies https://news.uark.edu/articles/69671/professor-gema-zamarro-elected-to-the-association-for-education-finance-and-policy-board?utm_source=arkansas-news&utm_medium=email_2024-02-29&utm_campaign=news_headlines&utm_content=professor-gema-zamarro-elected-to-the-association-for-education-finance-and-policy-board