Research
NIH Awards $3.4 Million for Study of Situational Bias in Healthcare
The National Institutes of Health awarded just under $3.4 million to Anastasia Makhanova, an assistant professor of psychology at the U of A. Makhanova will study how stress, illness or worries about personal health may cause healthcare workers to show more bias...
English Professor Viswanathan Releases Three New Works, Including Novel Set in Fayetteville
The Charterhouse of Padma, a novel set in Fayetteville written by Padma Viswanathan, a professor of fiction in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Translation is set for release by Godine early next week, and readers will have two opportunities to hear...
Toni Jensen Awarded 2024 Porter Literary Fund Prize
Toni Jensen, associate professor of fiction and director of the Program in Creative Writing and Translation in the Department of English, has won the 2024 Porter Fund Literary Prize, presented annually by a nonprofit established in 1984 in honor of Ben Kimpel,...
English Professor Featured in The New York Review of Books
The Department of English is excited to announce the release last April of professor Robert Cochran's book Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis, published by the University of Arkansas Press, and the favorable review the book received in the June 2024 issue...
Researchers Publish Breakthrough Study on How New Genes Evolve
Where do new genes come from? That’s the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer in a new study. They did so by examining the evolution of antifreeze proteins in fish — an essential adaptation that allows fish to...