UALR The City Market and Arcade
In June 1914, thousands of people came to celebrate the grand opening of the Arcade building in downtown Little Rock. The state-of-the-art structure transformed Little Rock from just a little river town to a real city. The story of the Arcade is a study of the cycle of creation, destruction, and revitalization and how that process is vital to making a community thrive. This project is supported by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
UALR-UAMS partnership results in FDA-approved obstetric medical device
A partnership between researchers at UALR and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has resulted in an inexpensive, disposable external medical device that monitors contractions in pregnant women.
Student-professor research accepted by digital forensics journal
Samer Al-khateeb presented original research at the International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime at Yale University. The work is supported by the grants from U.S. Office of Naval Research and U.S. National Science Foundation.
Jones’ cancer research receives national attention
The Arkansas Science & Technology Authority recently announced a $50,000 grant for Dr. Darin Jones to aid his research centered on dehydroleucodine, a molecule found in Ecuadorian plants.
In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an Executive Order in 1942 to relocate 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent to internment camps across the nation, including two in Arkansas. One of those people who were evacuated was George Takei, better known as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu from the original Star Trek series. His interview on this YouTube site was part of Life Interrupted, a historical project spearheaded by UALR about the camps. Takei recounts his experiences at the camp in Rowher, Arkansas.” This project is supported in part by The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, The Arkansas Humanities Council, The Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council, the National Park Service, and the Japanese American National Museum In Los Angeles.
