Director of Arkansas Space Grant Consortium and NASA/EPSCoR Programs
Analytical and Physical Chemistry/Specialties in Instrumentation and Spectroscopy
Contact Information
Office Location: SCLB 455
Office Phone: 501-916-6550
E-mail: mkhudson@ualr.edu
NASA Office: FH 506A
Phone: 501-916-6672
Teaching Interests
Analytical Chemistry 2, Instrumental Analysis, Molecular and Atomic Spectroscopy, Contamination Evaluation, Combustion and Propulsion
Research Interests
- Rocket and combustion science
- Instrumentation and methods in spectroscopy and laser applications
UA-Little Rock Appointments
- Professor (1997-Present)
- Director, Arkansas Space Grant Consortium (Co-Director, 1997) and NASA/EPSCoR Programs (1997-present)
- Associate Vice Provost for Research (2013-2014)
- Director, Graduate Institute of Technology (1999-2014)
- Assistant Dean for Research and Grad Programs, College of Science and Engineering Technology (1997-1999)
- Director, UALR Site, NSF I/UCRC Measurement and Control Engineering Research Center (MCEC) (1997-1999)
- Associate Professor (1993-1997)
- Assistant Professor (1989-1993)
Education
- PhD in Analytical Chemistry, Baylor University (Waco, TX)
- MS in Chemistry, Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, TX)
- BS in Chemistry (Minor: Biology), East TX Baptist College (Marshall, TX)
Awards and Honors
- Civil Air Patrol, National Frank G. Brewer Memorial Aerospace Excellence Award (for Arkansas Space Grant Consortium, Organization Category, 2017)
- Civil Air Patrol, Southwest Region, Frank G. Brewer Memorial Aerospace Excellence Award (for Arkansas Space Grant Consortium, Organization Category, 2016)
- Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (January 2012)
- Civil Air Patrol, Southwest Region, Frank G. Brewer Memorial Aerospace Excellence Award (2010, for Lifetime Achievement in Aerospace Education)
- Civil Air Patrol, AR Wing, Outstanding Aerospace Officer of the Year (2010)
- UALR College of Science and Engineering Technology Research Award (1994)
- Mentor, NASA Fellows (Bob Shanks, Jason Willis, Katherine Kirtley, Andrew Chouinard, Kari Maxwell, Robert Sproles)
- UALR College of Science and Engineering Technology Research Award, 2nd Place (1993)
- Mentor, DOE/EPSCoR Fellows (Diana Lindquist and Kathy Underhill-Shanks)
- UALR Grant Writers Award (1992)
- Friend of the Chemistry Department, UALR, several awards (1992-2011)
- Mentor, Arkansas Space Grant Fellows (served approximately 16 students)
- Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Award, Baylor University Chapter (1987)
- Honor Societies – Sigma Xi (Research), Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics), and Phi Kappa Phi
Recent Publications
- M. Keith Hudson (2012), Hybrid Rocket and other entries in: K.L. Kosanke, B.J. Kosanke, B.T. Sturman, and R.M. Winokur, eds. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics, published by Journal of Pyrotechnics, Whitewater, CO (2012)
- Thikra Mustafa, Yang Xu, Fumiya Watanabe, Yongbin Zhang, Madh P. Asar, Reginard Little, Alokita Karmaker, Meena Mahmood, M. Keith Hudson, Alexandru S. Biris, “Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-based Radio-Frequency Thermotherapy for Human Breast Cancer Adenocarcinoma Cancer Cells”, Biomater. Sci., 2013,1, 870-880
- Yousef Muntaha A, Hudson M Keith, Berry Brian C., “Study on the Compatibility of Azo-Tetrazolate High Energy Materials Using DSC”, J Therm Anal Calorim, on-line: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10973-018-7221-z
- Muntaha A Yousef, and M Keith Hudson, “Thermal Study of the Decomposition of HTPB Hybrid Rocket Fuel in the Presence of Azo-Tetrazolate Based High Nitrogen Content High Energy Compounds. Submitted to J Therm Anal Calorim., https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-018-7490-6
- Kamal Pandey, Mohamed H. Lahiani, Victoria K. Hicks, M. Keith Hudson, Micah J. Green and Mariya Khodakovskaya, “Effects of Carbon-based Nanomaterials on Seed Germination, Biomass Accumulation and Stress Response of Bioenergy Crops”, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202274