It’s almost summertime, and the living is easy at Broadmoor Lake, just west of the UALR campus. And – thanks to a semester-long service learning project by UALR biology students – the fish are jumping and biting, just in time for Earth Day.
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UALR junior Ryne Ramaker of Bentonville launches a new research project this semester aimed at developing an efficient method for determining antioxidant properties of tomato varieties.
Four UALR undergraduates and two graduate students transmitted their intellectual curiosity about bugs to a record 3,000 area school children at the Arkansas Entomology Society annual meeting and Insect Festival this weekend in Northwest Arkansas.
Ask Petrus Fauaze Moreira how he spent his summer vacation, and he’ll tell you he climbed trees. But these weren’t ordinary trees, and Moreira wasn’t taking an ordinary vacation. The 22-year-old senior studying biology at UALR spent three weeks climbing trees towering 100 feet atop the Panamanian rainforest as a field assistant for Dr. Stephen P. Yanoviak, assistant professor of biology and renowned ant researcher.
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Members of the Department of Biology and colleagues in the College of Science and Mathematics dedicated the Entomology Museum in Fribourgh Hall in memory of the late UALR professor, Dr. Robert L Watson.
Dr. Robert L. Watson, chair of UALR’s Department of Biology for 19 years and acting dean of the College of Science and Mathematics for two years, died Saturday, April 24, at the age of 75.
Experiments by UALR scientists Mariya Khodakovskaya and Alex Biris have drawn the attention of The Economist, the authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion. Continue reading “‘The Economist’ Touts UALR’s Latest Nano-Bio Discovery”
Students in Environmental Planning, a senior- and graduate-level class, are preparing plans covering a wide variety of issues, including two projects focusing on the UALR campus – a Green Campus Plan and an Energy Plan.
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A collaborative team of UALR plant biologists and nanotechnologists have demonstrated how seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes in the agar medium sprouted up to two times faster than control seed, a growth enhancement that has enormous potential on agriculture as well as plant-based biofuel production.
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Nationally- and internationally-known scientists in the fields of biology, nanotechnology, toxicology, and applications research will convene in Little Rock Oct. 21 to 22 for the 4th BioNanoTox and Applications Research Conference.
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