Avis Smith, a sophomore from West Helena, won the Outstanding Peer Education Leadership Award at the National Area 6 Bacchus Gamma Peer Education Conference in Fayetteville this spring.
Dr. Jeffrey Gaffney, chair of UALR’s Department of Chemistry, and four other scientists have made use of state-of the art chemical modeling to examine the atmospheric impacts of compounds that were supposed to make aerosol spray products and other products safer for the environment.
Continue reading “Gaffney Research Seeks Eco-Friendly CFC Replacements”
Dr. Mary Good, dean of UALR’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT), will help host the first of a series of regional meetings of the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy to highlight best practices in innovation and related new business creation.
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With the help of mentoring by UALR Chemistry Professor Jeff Gaffney, Purdue University Ph.D. candidate Carrie Christiansen’s paper on the atmospheric reaction of freon and their replacements will be featured in March issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Gaffney, chair of UALR’s Department of Chemistry, is a Department of Energy mentor for its Atmospheric Science Program. Christiansen holds a fellowship from DOE’s Global Change Education Program.
Purdue Professor Joe Francisco, the new president of the American Chemical Society, is Christiansen’s thesis advisor.
Dr. Jeffrey Gaffney, chair of UALR’s Department of Chemistry and lead scientist for the Department of Energy Atmospheric Science Program’s Megacity Aerosol Experiment – Mexico City (MAX-Mex), joined a growing list of climate scientists asking the American Farm Bureau to rethink its position on global climate change.
Continue reading “Ag Group Asked to Recognize Climate Change”
Gov. Mike Beebe named UALR Earth Science Professor Margaret ‘Beth’ McMillan to the Arkansas State Geographic Information Systems Board. The appointment is for four years.
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.
Continue reading “Talk About Green: Class Studies Sustainability Principles”
UALR graduate student William “Billy” Griffin won the American Chemical Society’s Communities Challenge for posting the most compelling discussion or question during the ACS’s National Meeting last month.
Continue reading “Chemistry Candidate Wins Discussion Contest”
Dr. Fusheng Tang, a cell biologist at UALR, has received a two-year grant from the American Heart Association to study how cells get rid of damaged materials by the organelle lysome through the process of autophagy, or self-eating.
Continue reading “UALR Team Studies How Cholesterol Slows Aging”