Select an Honors Thesis Mentor

As a student in the Bumpers College Honors Program, selecting an Honors Thesis Mentor is the first milestone in your honors journey! Your Honors Thesis Mentor will guide you through each stage of the research or creative process. On this page, you will find each of the department faculty directories along with a database of ongoing research or creative projects to help connect students with faculty who are actively for projects. When viewing the faculty directory, you can click on individual profiles to learn more about a faculty member's background, recent publications and research interests.

Honors Thesis Mentors

View the Agricultural and Economics and Agribusiness faculty directory. 

View the Agricultural Education, Communication and Technology faculty directory.

View the Animal Science faculty directory.


View the Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences faculty directory.

View the Entomology and Plant Pathology faculty directory.

View the Food Science faculty directory.

View the Horticulture faculty directory.

View the Human Environmental Sciences faculty directory.

View the Poultry Science faculty directory. 

 

Ongoing Projects 

Faculty members - Do you have an ongoing study to add to our database? Please fill out this form. 

Faculty Member Department/Office Research Topic(s) Related Disciplines Number of Students Needed Recruiting Through Next Steps

Dr. Fiona Goggin

 Agriculture Building - Rm 330

Interested in mentoring research honors theses.

My lab studies plant defenses against insects and parasitic nematodes with the long-term goal of leveraging these defenses for effective, environmentally-sustainable crop protection. Depending upon the project, students may gain experience with techniques such as DNA extraction, PCR, confocal microscopy, and plant tissue culture, and all students gain experience with experimental design, data analysis, and grant writing. For general information about my research program, please see https://aaes.uada.edu/videos/understanding-plant-biology/

 Biology; Crop, Soil, and Environmetnal Sciences; any field related to plant science or molecular biology 2 Jan. 1, 2027 Email fgoggin@uark.edu

Dr. Mahfuz Rahman

 Food Science - Rm 216

Interested in mentoring research or creative honors theses.

1. Novel and sustainable food processing technologies such as cold plasma or ultrasound
2. Plant based cheese using rice or soy bean
3. Plant based egg
4. Alternative protein from agricultural byproducts

 Req. BIOL and CHEM course experience 1-2 Ongoing Email mahfuz@uark.edu