Research

Research and graduate students Allen Stanley and Angela Willis have been recognized as Certified Research Administrators by the Research Administrators Certification (RASS) Board of Directors.

Four students from UALR’s Donaghey Scholars Program – including art history major Alex Leme of Brazil, winner of the prestigious Boe Award – will highlight their research achievements at the Great Plains Honors Council Conference April 1-3 in Arlington, Texas. The conference highlights the research achievements of students in honors programs from across the region.

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

UALR’s Ottenheimer Library will install a new search engine for its print and electronic collections beginning in the new year.

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’s School of Communication will host a first-ever research colloquium for graduate students from Arkansas universities June 5.

Morgan Whitlow is still a year away from her a bachelor’s degree in biology, but she’s already working with fellow researchers at Arkansas’s medical school working on a method to attack deadly staph infections with atomic-size silver nanospheres.

UALR undergraduates display their creative and research endeavors from 10 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Monday, April 26, at the Undergraduate Research Expo at the Donaghey Student Center’s Ledbetter Hall.

Dr. Jerry Darsey, professor of chemistry in UALR’s College of Science and Mathematics, has received $77,000 from a federal Food and Drug Administration grant to develop methods to track estrogen mimicking compounds in various products and assess how use of the products affect women.

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.