UA Little faculty members learned about valuable teaching strategies to improve student success and retention in the classroom through active-learning techniques during the 2023 Mobile Institute on Scientific Teaching held May 15-19 in Ottenheimer Library. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Faculty Embrace Strategies to Improve Teaching”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has joined a multi-university effort to make Arkansas a leader in the advancement of quantum information and materials. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Professors Join State Effort to Become Quantum Research Leader”
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, the Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has received a $95k grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore ways to make social media safer to use. Continue reading “Agarwal Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Make Social Media Safer”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been awarded a nearly $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enhance teaching and learning and to promote student success in undergraduate STEM education. This is the largest grant UA Little Rock has ever received from the National Science Foundation. Continue reading “Largest NSF Grant Awarded to UA Little Rock Will Support Ongoing Undergraduate STEM Education Efforts”
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission, using flow-through funding from the National Science Foundation, has awarded a postdoctoral research fellow at UA Little Rock a grant worth more than $40,000 to create a machine learning model to predict refugee counts in the United States.
Two criminal justice professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have been awarded a $324,987 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a three-year program to study anti-Muslim sentiment and Muslim hate crimes in Arkansas. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Receives Nearly $325,000 NSF Grant to Shine Light on Muslim Hate Crimes in Arkansas”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a grant from the National Science Foundation that will allow students in grades 7-12 to attend a virtual cybersecurity summer camp in July for free. Continue reading “UA Little Rock receives NSF grant to host free virtual cybersecurity camp”
