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Instructors Fill Need for Online Spanish in Business Course With Open Education Textbook
Two Spanish instructors collaborated with University of Arkansas Libraries and the Global Campus as part of the Open Educational Resources Course Materials Conversion Program to create a new, free resource for students studying business concepts in the context of the...
New Book on Social Network Analysis
Professor Song Yang in the Department of Sociology and Criminology published a new book, Social Network Analysis in Action, by Springer. This edited volume includes six cutting-edge chapters on various aspects of social network analysis, starting with basics of social...
Historian Publishes Book on U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Sarah Rodríguez has published a new book, One National Family: Texas, Mexico, and the Making of the Modern United States, 1821-1867 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). Few comparative histories of the U.S. and Mexico exist and far fewer that place Texas at the...
Finding Nature’s Hidden Threshold for Saltiness in the Space Where Forests Meet Streams
Riparian zones, the areas where forests and streams meet, are intimately connected. Yet a holistic understanding about these zones is lacking because such work requires a combination of aquatic and terrestrial sciences. That is soon to change with the help of a nearly...
New NSF Grant Will Expand Collaboration for Geosciences and Arkansas Archeological Survey
A team consisting of four NSF-funded mid-career geoscientists — Adriana Potra, Gregory Dumond, Glenn Sharman and Celina Suarez — and one early-career archeologist, John Samuelsen, has been recently awarded a major research instrumentation grant by the National Science...