French Nano Students Bid UALR Adieu!!

Ten graduate students from a French engineering school in Angouleme bid adieu to UALR last week, ending a summer of research and exchange with counterparts at the UALR Nanotechnology Center, the College of Engineering, and the College of Science and Mathematics.   The student exchange came about several years ago when Dr. Alex Biris, director … French Nano Students Bid UALR Adieu!!

Tiny particles producing big hopes

UALR, UAMS scientists testing new method for killing cancer cells BY CAROLYNE PARK ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE , p. 1 A, 5 A. Little Rock scientists are developing a method for attacking cancer cells by injecting them with tiny magnetic particles that are then heated with low radiofrequency radiation, killing the cells from within. Alexandru Biris, assistant … Tiny particles producing big hopes

Catapulting Arkansas Through Nanotechnology

For years, Georgia Tech University physics professor Uzi Landman has been preaching about the capacity for economic change courtesy of nanotechnology. “There is so much power and benefit to mankind in realizing the potential of nanoscale devices,” Landman said prophetically in an interview with an Atlanta business journal. His words serve to reinforce the idea … Catapulting Arkansas Through Nanotechnology

Nasa Visits the Arkansas Nanotechnology Center

A spectrometer that has the ability to study in incredible detail one grain of sand brought Dr. Steve Trigwell of Kennedy Space Center’s Electrostatic and Surface Physics Laboratory to the Arkansas Nanotechnology Center at UALR. At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Kennedy Space Center, Trigwell works on studying the composition of moon dust … Nasa Visits the Arkansas Nanotechnology Center