Nano News

Dignitaries including Gov. Mike Beebe, Sen. Mark Pryor, Rep. Tim Griffin, and UALR Chancellor Joel E. Anderson will be on hand at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 2, for the opening … New Nanotechnology Center Opens May 2

ACS Nano, a very prestigious Nanotechnology journal, has highlighted the Nanocenter’s most recently published article on the “Catalytic Conversion of Graphene into Carbon Nanotubes via Gold Nanoclusters at Low Temperatures”.  … ACS NANO Highlights Nanocenter Article

Dr. Enkeleda Dervishi, Research Assistant Professor at the Nanotechnology center, won the McNair’s Program Mentor of the Year Award for 2011. Dr. Dervishi mentored Alexandra Trible, a senior in the … Dr. Dervishi wins McNair’s Program Mentor of the Year Award

A $1 million endowment to UALR from the Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust led today to the investiture of Dr. Alexandru S. Biris, director and chief scientist of the Nanotechnology … $1 Million Sturgis Gift Endows Nanotech Chair

Exciting developments coming from the state of Arkansas and FDA. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed this morning establishing a Virtual Center of Excellence on Nanotoxicological research. For more information … Arkansas, FDA To Partner On Nanotechnology Research

A new instrument is in the process of being installed at the Nanotechnology Center. The Thermo K-Alpha XPS System, which is a fully integrated and compact X-ray photoelectron spectrometer, allows for … Thermo K-Alpha XPS System Added to Center Instrument Resources

Poly Adaptive, LLC, an Arkansas nanotechnology development company, has received a $100,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to use new nanoscale materials to … Nano Research Leads to NASA Contract

Dr. Gary Geissler, professor of marketing and advertising, praised for the positive impact an instructor can have on students, won the $10,000 Ted and Virginia Bailey Faculty Excellence Award in … Geissler, Biris, Parker Win Faculty Excellence

Janet Jones, founder and president of the The Janet Jones Company, has created a $25,000 mentorship program honoring Dr. Alex Biris, chief scientist of UALR’s Nanotechnology Center. The Dr. Alex … Realtor’s Gift Honors Nanotechnologist Biris

The prestigious academic journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Science” (PNAS) has published an article by UALR scientists Mariya Khodakovskaya and Alex Biris, UAMS professor Dr. Vladimir Zharov; and … UALR Details Nanoparticle-Plant Interactions