Rebekah Aduddell, Frederick Ernst and William Murray have joined Hendrix College in Conway as assistant professors.
Aduddell, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington in May, is an assistant professor of mathematics.
Ernst, an assistant professor of psychology, earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1976.
Murray, an assistant professor of English, will teach academic writing, American literature and Southern literature.
Hendrix also has two new visiting fellows: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, the author of three poetry collections who is teaching poetry workshops, and Ruth Yuste-Alonso, who is teaching Spanish I and II and Contemporary Spain Through Film.
Edward Akoto and Eunice Akoto, professors at Henderson State University at Arkadelphia, completed a summer fellowship in Ghana through the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, which supports projects in Africa.
Edward Akoto is an associate professor of management, and Eunice Akoto is an associate professor of public management.
Brian Deaton, an associate professor of agriculture, is one of seven new faculty members in the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s College of Forestry, Agriculture & Natural Resources.
Other faculty additions are Hamdi Zurqani, assistant professor of GIS/remote sensing; Pradip Saud, assistant professor of biometrics and statistics; Elena Rubino, assistant professor of human dimensions and communications; Ryan Askren, a research associate at UAM’s Five Oaks Agricultural Research & Education Center; Tiffany Osborne, instructor of wildlife; and Lonni Davis, instructor of agriculture.
Shanea Morrison Nelson has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock as executive director of Pathways Academy, a learning and community engagement program that is part of the UAMS Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Nelson most recently worked as director of workforce development services for South Louisiana Community College in Lafayette.
Ted Song has been promoted to chief diversity officer at John Brown University in Siloam Springs. Song joined JBU full time in 2012 as an engineering professor and has led the Office of Diversity since 2020.
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