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Evergreen Cemetery, located at William and University Streets in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is one of the largest early historic cemeteries in the region, with burials dating to 1838. Evergreen is included in the National Register of Historic Places for its age, and because numerous important historical figures are buried there. These include Senator J. William Fulbright, Governor Archibald Yell, educator Sophia Sawyer, industrialist Lafayette Gregg, and many others. The cemetery was founded as a private cemetery by John Thomas in the late 1830s or early 1840s. Later it was owned by the local Masonic Lodge and Independent Order of Odd Fellows chapter. These organizations deeded the cemetery to the city in 1871. It is currently owned and operated by the Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association.

The College of Engineering is the University of Arkansas' college for engineering students.

Gearhart Hall at the University of Arkansas is a building on the university's campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

TheatreSquared, founded in 2005, is a regional professional theatre located in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas. The company stages seven productions each year as well as the Arkansas New Play Festival of emerging works, totaling 270 annual performances for an audience of approximately 60,000 including 20,000 students and their teachers. The company is one of only two companies in the state of Arkansas presenting a year-round season and affiliated with the national professional actors' union, Actors' Equity Association. TheatreSquared is co-led by artistic director Robert Ford and executive director Martin Miller. In addition to its season of theatrical works, the company's educational outreach program offers an educational school tour to more than 80 high schools, the Word/Play in-school literacy intervention program, a professional development institute for educators, and student matinees and discussions. In 2011, TheatreSquared was awarded a National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing, recognizing the company as one of the nation's ten most promising emerging professional theatres. They were also featured in the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre series on Theatre in Arkansas in 2016.

The Hantz House is a historic house at 855 Fairview Drive in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a single-story Mid-Century Modern frame structure, with a two-level flat roof and cantilevered decks projecting from its concrete block foundation. The exterior is finished in board-and-batten siding, with ribbons of casement windows providing illumination. The massing of the house has a taller central section, which provides an open-plan public space with kitchen, dining, and living areas, with lower-height private space housing bedrooms and bathroom. The house was designed by Fay Jones and his classmate Ernie Jacks while they were architecture students at the University of Arkansas. The house was built in 1951 for Katherine and Harold Hantz, the latter then chair of the university's philosophy department.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

The Villa Rosa is a historic house at 617 West Lafayette in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure with a brick exterior and a tile hip roof. The brick is variegated light colors, reflective of the Renaissance Revival style also evident in the arches surmounting the first-floor windows and doorway. The entrance is sheltered by a portico with classical columns and a small balcony on top. The house was built in 1925 by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, a prominent regional activist for women's rights and the Arkansas poet laureate in 1953.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

The Gregg House is a historic house at 339 Gregg Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas, near the University of Arkansas campus. It was built in 1871 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

The David and Mary Margaret Durst House is a historic house at 857 Fairview Drive in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a post-and-beam structure, long and narrow, which is in places cantilevered over a concrete foundation poured in board forms that left vertical marks in the concrete. The building has a flat tar and gravel roof, unusual at the time of its construction for residential architecture. The house was the first major design of architect John G. Williams, made in collaboration with his clients, David and Mary Margaret Durst. David Durst was at the time chairman of the art department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Williams was the head of its Architecture Department.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

The Honors College at the University of Arkansas enhances the learning of students by sharing unique learning experiences with participants. From 10 to 15% of Arkansas undergraduates participate in the Honors College. Entering freshman for the Honors College have an average score of 30 on the ACT and 4.1 high school GPA. Honors students benefit from smaller classes, priority registration, special housing and opportunities for hands-on research. Each year the Honors College awards up to 90 freshman fellowships worth $72,000 over four years and more than $1 million in research, study abroad, service learning and internship grants. The U.S. News & World Report highlighted the Honors College as one of six institutions in the country that offer a high quality education at a low cost, focusing on the valuable opportunities and connections available to students in the program. The Honors College serves all undergraduate majors.In April 2002, the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation donated $300 million to the University of Arkansas. The donation was the largest in the history of public education at that time. After the donation, the Honors College announced its goal to enroll 2,000 Honors College undergraduates by the year 2010. This goal was met three years early. The University of Arkansas also set records for students in a freshman class, total enrollment, and minority enrollment in 2007. The first dean of the University of Arkansas Honors College was Bob McMath, former vice-provost of Georgia Tech. Following McMath's retirement in 2014, Curt Rom served as interim dean. Lynda Coon, professor of history at the University of Arkansas, was appointed dean in 2015.Under Coon's leadership the Honors College has launched a series of seminar and forum courses taught by top professors and community leaders, addressing topics such as blockchain, gene editing, cancer, Presidential elections and Gothic. In response to COVID-19, the Honors College has also offered intersession seminars, Pandemic (2020) and Vaccine (2021), taught by interdisciplinary groups of doctors, scholars and government officials. In 2014, the Honors College established the Path Program, which recruits, mentors and provides scholarship funding for exceptional students from underrepresented populations. The Path Program has received nearly $2 million in grants to fund scholarships from the National Science Foundation, as well as generous support from private donors. The Honors College Futures Hub, launched in 2021, helps students make the most of their college experience and prepare for their career, post-degree, by offering workshops, programs and one-on-one mentoring sessions with planning professionals.Honors students at the University of Arkansas Honors College have received numerous honors, scholarships, fellowships, and accolades since the college was established. Honors College students have enjoyed a 90% acceptance rate to medical school and received Gates Cambridge, Rhodes, Madison, Marshall, Fulbright, Boren, Gilman, Truman, Goldwater, and National Science Foundation scholarships. The Honors College is one of only seven universities (including Princeton University, Northwestern University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, and the United States Military Academy at West Point) to have multiple Gates Cambridge scholarship recipients, ninth ranked overall in Goldwater Scholarship recipients in the United States for the last ten years, and has been a Truman Honor Institution since 2002.

The John S. Vest House is a historic house at 21 North West Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure with modest vernacular Italianate and Gothic Revival details, built in 1870 by John S. Vest, a transplanted New Yorker who owned a brickmaking operation. It has a side-gable roof with a front-facing centered cross gable, with an extended eave that has paired Italianate brackets. A single-story porch extends across most of the front supported by Doric columns, some of which are mounted on brick piers.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The Tharp House is a historic house at 15 North West Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame house, with Queen Anne styling. Its front facade is three bays wide, with a projecting square gable-roofed section to the right, and the main entrance in the center, sheltered by a porch that wraps around the left side. A large gabled dormer projects from the hip roof above the entrance, large enough for a doorway and a small balcony. Built in 1904 by Moses Tharp, it is an unusual local example of late Queen Anne style.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

Bikes Blues & BBQ (alternatively named Bikes Blues and Barbecue, or abbreviated BBB or BBBBQ) is an annual motorcycle rally held in Northwest Arkansas centered on Fayetteville, usually in late September.