Research
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...
AIMRC to Offer New Metabolomics Resource for U of A Researchers
The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center, an NIH-funded Center for Biomedical Research Excellence, is pleased to announce that U of A researchers throughout campus will soon have access to cutting-edge metabolomics equipment. With a new NIH grant supplement...
International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Announces Shields for Dirk Hellhammer Award
Grant Shields, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at the U of A, has been awarded the 2024 Dirk Hellhammer Award from the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, or ISPNE, which has recognized distinguished young investigators since 2000....