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New Study Finds That Male Pathology Drives Avian Epidemic Dynamics
New findings by biological sciences researchers at the University of Arkansas indicate that males play an outsized role in both the infection rate and spread of the avian bacterial pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum, a common cause of conjunctivitis in songbirds,...
Study Links Political Civility to the Productivity of State Legislatures
Bill Schreckhise and Eric Button, professors of political science at the University of Arkansas, recently published a study with three co-authors showing that the extent to which state legislators behave in a civil manner among themselves is related to how effective...
U of A Students Flex Networking Skills With Student Success Second-Year Experience Course
University of Arkansas students assembled in the Cordia Harrington Center for Excellence to engage in a networking event, which served as the final project for the Second-Year Experience course taught by Lynn Meade, teaching assistant professor in Fulbright College...
Student Teams Secure $18,000 in Funding at Seed Pitch Competition
BENTONVILLE — A student team aimed at thwarting the isolation some international students experience when arriving in the United States secured $3,000 at the fall 2023 Seed Funding Pitch Competition. Ryan Moh plans for Hello World to facilitate connections between...
Andrew Ruegsegger Documents Over 100 Plant Species at the U of A’s Oak Knoll
Over several weeks during the fall 2023 semester, Andrew Ruegsegger spent much of his free time exploring a small, undeveloped area on the south end of campus in search of plants. Ruegsegger, a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in anthropology and minoring in...