Janet Lanza, a professor in the UALR Department of Biology, has received the Distinguished Service Citation from the Ecological Society of America. She has served the society for two decades as Book Review Editor of its flagship journal, Ecology.
Brigadier General Patricia Anslow, a 1997 graduate of UALR, has earned a promotion making her the first female general officer in the Arkansas National Guard.
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Ryne Ramaker of Bentonville has been named the 2012 winner of the Edward L. Whitbeck Memorial Award, UALR’s top academic prize.
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Two UALR biology graduate students presented their research Monday, March 5, at the Southeast and Southwest Branches of the Entomology Society of America. The society is meeting through Wednesday at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock.
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Ryne Ramaker, a senior UALR Donaghey Scholar and University Science Scholar with a double major in biology and chemistry, is a co-author of a cancer research paper creating excitement among other researchers.
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Kayla New will receive her MBA at UALR’s commencement Dec. 15, but she has already been putting her degree to work, advancing her life’s passions.
Dr. Lirong Zeng, an assistant professor of biology in UALR’s College of Science and Mathematics, has recently been awarded a $423,783 grant from the National Science Foundation to support his work investigating ubiquitination, a process that plays a role in plant immunity.
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Saturday, Oct. 8, is International Observe the Moon Night, and Darrell Heath, assistant lab animal technician in UALR’s Department of Biology, is organizing central Arkansas’s celebration of Earth’s only natural satellite.
UALR Donaghey Scholar Ryne Ramaker of Bentonville, a biology and chemistry double major, was recognized with an Honorable Mention for his research on a treatment for a form of liver cancer.
“Butterflies are Free,” so the old song and movie title says, but thanks to researchers at UALR’s Department of Biology in the College of Science and Mathematics, they also are being tracked.
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