Arkansas Space Grant Consortium

Update: The Phil Plait talk that was originally scheduled for July 20 has been postponed until later in the fall. UA Little Rock’s Arkansas Space Grant Consortium and the Central Arkansas Library System will sponsor a presentation and book signing with astronomer Phil Plait Wednesday, July 20.

Dr. Mariya Khodakovskaya, professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been inducted into the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Academy of Scholars and Fellows.

Dr. Mariya Khodakovskaya, professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been named a fellow for the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA).

Dr. Mitchell Keith Hudson, professor of chemistry, has been awarded the 2020 Faculty Excellence Award for Public Service in the College of Art, Letters, and. Sciences.

The UA Little Rock-based Arkansas Space Grant Consortium is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing with two out-of-this-world events this summer. 

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student spent his summer interning at the NASA Langley Research Center in Norfolk, Virginia. 

Genetic research by a University of Arkansas at Little Rock student that could one day aid Mars colonists was one of only 10 student projects highlighted during a national NASA Space Grant conference.

Duane “Digger” Carey credits education as the defining element that led a child who grew up in public housing in St. Paul, Minnesota, to a successful career as an astronaut who piloted a shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002.

Former astronaut Duane “Digger” Carey will discuss his 2002 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope during a visit to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Feb. 25.