To celebrate the end of the first week of the fall semester, Dean Peter MacKeith ordered up the "world's longest BBQ sandwich" from Penguin Ed's in Fayetteville. They set up a 130-foot pulled pork sandwich smack down the middle of the main corridor of Vol Walker Hall.
The University of Arkansas Community Design Center has received more than 200 design awards since 1995.
The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design was ranked 19th in the nation overall – and eighth among public universities – for 2013 in the annual survey of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools" published in the November/December 2012 issue of DesignIntelligence.
The project that renovated Vol Walker Hall and added the Steven L. Anderson Design Center was awarded LEED Gold certification and won a 2018 AIA Honor Award for Architecture.
