Research
History Held in Place: Humanities Research Program Guides Students into the Past
Soft rain trickled through the branches as a group of honors students huddled beneath one of the larger trees in the cemetery. Oaks Cemetery sits adjacent to the National Cemetery of Fayetteville, a federal burial ground for veterans with matching headstones arranged...
Nearly One in Four Adult Arkansans Used Tobacco in Last 30 Days
Nearly one in four Arkansans used tobacco in the last 30 days, according to new findings from the Arkansas Health Survey, the largest and most comprehensive health survey in the state's history. The 24.1% of Arkansas adults who used tobacco was well above the national...
2.75-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Show Hominin Response to a Hostile Climate
Someone born near the start of the 20th century could have witnessed the dawn of commercial flight, the creation of nuclear weapons, the moon landing and even the early growth of the internet. Technology did not always progress so fast, however, especially not for...
NSF Award to Monitor Changes in Alaskan River Ecosystem
The National Science Foundation awarded an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Arkansas $700,000 to monitor changes in river movement and the fish population that are impacting the infrastructure and economy of a village in southwest Alaska...
NIH Grant of $562,500 to Allow Study of Impact of Protein Modification on Cellular Metabolism
The National Institutes of Health awarded Chenguang Fan, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, $562,500 to investigate the impact of lysine aminoacylation, a chemical modification of metabolism-driven proteins, on cellular...