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Native American Heritage Month Celebrated Throughout November
Native American Heritage Month will be celebrated throughout November on the U of A campus. Partners across the university have come together to present a dynamic series of events. Events are open to all campus community members and to the general public. All events...
Tiny Scans, Massive Impact: MICRO Helps Researchers Win $12 Million in Funding
MICRO, the University of Arkansas MicroCT Imaging Consortium for Research and Outreach, was established in 2018 as part of a National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Grant. The equipment at the heart of MICRO, a Nikon XTH 225 ST X-ray...
New Findings Supply Corrective to Evolutionary Hypothesis
For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that “younger” groups of organisms, in evolutionary terms, have higher rates...
NIH Grant to Support Study of Protective Behavioral Strategies Related to Alcohol
Three faculty members from the University of Arkansas' Department of Psychological Science were recently awarded a 2-year, $150,000 grant by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH R03) to explore safe drinking practices college students use when...
DOE Funds Research That Could Lead to Faster, Energy Efficient Computers
The Department of Energy awarded just under $975,000 to Charles Paillard, a U of A research professor of physics and director of the Smart Ferroic Materials Center, to study aluminum scandium nitride at the atomic level. The work could lay the foundation for...
Video: Mahmoudi Pursues Passion in Chemistry, Finds Belonging at U of A
Mostafa "Mosi" Mahmoudi's passion for traveling and education led him to Graduate School here at the U of A, where he's finding community and earning an education that is preparing him for a postdoctoral position in chemistry. Watch Mahmoudi talk about his experiences...