Yell County Farm Bureau Donation 2024

Yell County Farm Bureau Gives for New ATU Ag Building

The forthcoming agricultural education building at Arkansas Tech University will be funded in part by a $20,000 donation from Yell County Farm Bureau. Richard Gray (center, right), Yell County Farm Bureau president, presented the check...
Walton Family Foundation Loan Forgiveness Plan

Loan Forgiveness Informational Session April 30

Arkansas Tech University undergraduate students, graduate students and recent graduates from underrepresented populations are invited to an informational session about a loan forgiveness program for eligible individuals who elect to teach in Pope County,...
Taylor Lawrence

Like Father, Like Daughter: Taylor Lawrence’s ATU Story

It was little more than a decade ago that Taylor Lawrence could often be found riding around the Arkansas Tech University campus on a golf cart, talking on a pretend phone on her way...
Arvest Donation for ATU Agricultural Education Building 2024

Arvest Supports New Ag Education Building at ATU

Arvest Foundation has donated $10,000 to the Arkansas Tech University Foundation in support of the construction of a new agricultural education building on the ATU campus in Russellville. Shawn Bates, Arvest Bank community bank president...
Stephen Fletcher Speech April 2024

New ATU Officer Top of Statewide Training Class

Stephen Fletcher, a new officer in the Arkansas Tech University Department of Public Safety, was selected as the leader for the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy Class of 2024-A. The 112-member class completed its 13-week...
ATU Fishing Team Spring 2024

Crawfish Boil to Benefit ATU Fishing Club Friday

The Arkansas Tech University fishing club will host its third annual crawfish boil fundraiser in the Tucker Coliseum parking lot on Friday, April 12. The event will begin at noon. Cost will be $15 per...
Total Solar Eclipse at ATU 1

A View of the Total Solar Eclipse from Arkansas Tech

As the moment arrived at 1:50 p.m., there was a brief shriek of glee among the family, friends and strangers gathered on the greenspace outside Tucker Coliseum at Arkansas Tech University. Then there were four...
Mason Moore and Logan Love Wonder Race 2024 Champions

ATO Mason and Logan Team Wins Wonder Race 2024

Mason Moore and Logan Love earned the top prize in the 2024 Wonder Race, which took place on the Arkansas Tech University campus in Russellville on Friday. Competing under the name ATO Mason and Logan,...
Eclipse Projects Students and Faculty April 2024

Eclipse Provides Research Opportunity for Students

Eighteen Arkansas Tech University students are participating in eclipse-related research led by members of the ATU faculty. The student eclipse researchers had an opportunity to meet with representatives from NASA on Thursday, April 4, to...
Paris Observatory Delegation to Total Solar Eclipse April 2024

Astronomers Travel 4,000+ Miles for Total Solar Eclipse

Few people can match Vincent Coudé du Foresto when it comes to in-person experience with total solar eclipses. An astronomer and director of the laboratory of space studies and instrumentation in astrophysics at the Paris...