by Matt McGowan | Sep 27, 2022 | Books & Publications, Features, Research
Villaseñor Co-Authors PNAS Paper on Extinction of Megafauna Anthropologist Amelia Villaseñor coauthored a paper describing the ecological effects of an extinction event that occurred more than 10,000 years ago in North America, one that had major consequences for the...
by Matt McGowan | Sep 26, 2022 | Features, Research, Research and Innovation
$10.3 Million Grant Will Establish New Energy Frontier Research Center A team of researchers led by Shui-Qing “Fisher” Yu, electrical engineering professor at the U of A, will receive $10.35 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to establish an Energy Frontier...
by Matt McGowan | Sep 4, 2022 | Books & Publications, Features, Research
Historian Publishes Book on Immigrant Jewish Artists and Parisian Modernism In the early 20th century, there was perhaps no greater source of creative vitality than the artistic communities at work in the city of Paris, France. Among the most profound and prolific...
by Matt McGowan | Jul 28, 2022 | Features, Field Notes, Research, Uncategorized
Light-Induced Mechanism Discovered for Controlling Ferroelectric Polarization By applying light, U of A physicists Peng Chen and Laurent Bellaiche have discovered a surprising mechanism for controlling ferroelectric polarization in a deterministic manner. The finding,...
by Matt McGowan | Jun 24, 2022 | Features, Research and Innovation, Uncategorized
New Study Deepens Understanding of How Animals See, and What Colors Gathering vision data for hundreds of vertebrates and invertebrates, U of A biologists have deepened scientists’ understanding of animal vision, including the colors they see. Those researchers have...