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The UALR College of Science and Mathematics will honor Jerry B. Adams, president and chief executive officer of the Arkansas Research Alliance, at the second annual Fribourgh Award ceremony Thursday, March 31, at the Grand Hall of the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion.

UALR mathematics instructor Tracy Watson has been elected president of the Arkansas Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ACTM) to serve a two-year term.

Members of the UALR Sustainability Committee are inviting all full- and part-time faculty to participate in a small grant competition aimed at incorporating sustainability into research activities at the university.

UALR scientists and researchers won five out of six awards in a recent statewide NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development (RID) grant competition.

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.

Drs. Jamey V. Jones and Wendi J.W Williams are presenting separate earth science research during the national Geological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exposition Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 in Denver.

Three teams of UALR scientists and engineers, working with colleagues across the state are collaborating — with the help of a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation — to turn knowledge from their laboratories into the industries and jobs for Arkansas.

UALR Chemistry Chair Jeffrey Gaffney and three other international scientists have produced a study overview of their MILAGRO of effects of megacity air pollution, which has been published in the peer-reviewed journal, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

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.