Research and Awards
Though Fayetteville has thus far enjoyed an unusually warm winter, many still remember the 2009 ice storm that ravaged the UA campus and left much of the town without electricity or heating.
But a new technology could prevent such outages in ...
By Kristen Coppola on February 16, 2012 at 9:37 am • 0 Comments •
Each year, thousands of students graduate from the UA, but only a fraction graduate with honors. Even fewer students graduate with honors after being published.
AJ Salois is one of those students. She graduates in May with honors, a double major ...
By Traveler on February 6, 2012 at 9:38 am • 0 Comments •
By Chven Mitchell
As a fairly ‘green’ and cost-efficient source of transportation, electric vehicles are here to stay, a UA professor conducting research on the subject said.
UA Professor Alan Mantooth specializes in active research of Smart Power, catering for electric vehicles, ...
By Traveler on January 30, 2012 at 9:21 am • 0 Comments •
By Chven Mitchell
Inside the UA Research Center, professor Alan Mantooth shows a trailer the university won against other universities in the state. Inside contains experiments on making cars more efficient and potentially helping make them 100 percent electric. - ...
By Traveler on January 23, 2012 at 9:39 am • 0 Comments •
By Chven Mitchell
UA students will compete in NASA’s 2011 Lunabotic Mining competition at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to create a project that could lead to astronauts back to the moon.
The project could “potentially lead to the possibility of ...
By Leigh Jackson on December 7, 2011 at 11:57 am • 0 Comments •
An increasing number of young children are using digital media, according to a study by Common Sense Media.
About 53 percent of all 2- to 4-year-olds and about 90 percent of 5- to 8-year-olds have used a computer, according to a ...
By Traveler on December 6, 2011 at 10:06 am • 0 Comments •
By: Chven Mitchell
A new study by a UA student and professor aims to study why the atmosphere of Venus evolved so differently from Earth’s.
“Though these planets are very similar, they have evolved in completely different ways,” said Vincent Chevrier, UA ...
By Traveler on November 28, 2011 at 12:26 pm • 0 Comments •
By: Chven Mitchell
In the aftermath of the recent spate of earthquakes propagating out of Oklahoma, the pending EarthScope project, proposed by a UA professor, may provide the much needed understanding of earthquakes for Arkansans, an engineering official said.
Gregory Dumond, a ...
By Landon Reeves on November 28, 2011 at 12:22 pm • 0 Comments •
UA Department of Civil Engineering officials have worked on a project to find a way to de-ice airport runways without the use of chemicals. The project combines a special mix of concrete that can generate heat from electricity and batteries ...
By Leigh Jackson on November 16, 2011 at 9:28 am • 0 Comments •
What do humans have in common with fruit flies? Both possess a gene that controls metabolism and weight, and now a UA professor is researching this gene to determine how humans might regulate metabolism.
Michael Lehmann, UA professor of biological sciences, ...
By Jack Suntrup on November 9, 2011 at 10:10 am • 0 Comments •
The economy is overwhelmingly the number one issue facing Arkansas this election. As an issue, the economy has been on the rise since 2007, from a low point of less than 10 percent in 2003, according to the 2011 Arkansas ...