Information Scientists at received an NSF grant to investigate how social media can influence group actions. The study will develop experimental tools to examine the factors that govern the success and failure of cyber-collective movements.
UALR’s Department of History and the university's new Institute on Race and Ethnicity will host the symposium, “Sit-Ins, Freedom Rides, and Beyond: Direct Action and Civil Rights in 1960s Arkansas” from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 West 9th St. in downtown Little Rock to explore the state's struggle for civil rights beyond the 1957 crisis at Central High. The symposium will bring together veterans of the Arkansas SNCC campaign to integrate lunch counters, country school districts, and other public facilities. The campaign resulted in several court victories, including a SCOTUS ruling that outlawed "freedom of choice" school integration plans.
Law professor and social activist Adjoa Aiyetoro is named the founding director of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's new Institute on Race and Ethnicity. The culmination of four years of internal and community conversations, programming, research, and outreach on the subject of race, the new institute will address these issues through education, research, dialogue, community events, and reconciliation initiatives.
Dramatic growth in jobs for students in the earth sciences is expected in the next few years, but students who want to take advantage of the growing market must "speak the language" of other disciplines.
Criminal Justice Professor Jeffery Walker, whose expertise spans juvenile gang strategies to global security, sees the Arab Spring as the biggest threat to al-Qaida's survival.
A working class kid from the United Kingdom has become an authority of the American Civil Rights movement, publishing three books on civil rights struggles in Arkansas. With new book on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating in Arkansas comes out in June, Dr. John Kirk is the chair of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Department of History, a school located just blocks from the infamous Little Rock Central High School. (NOTE TO EDITORS: UALR is part of the University of Arkansas System but is a separate campus from Fayetteville).
Enrique Krauze, recognized as leading visionary on Mexico's political future, discussed American attitudes about their southern neighbor prior to his Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture at University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Oct. 27.
Applied scientists at the University of Arkansas as Little Rock are developing a "smart" cane to give the blind a better tool to navigate their environments.
Nanotechnology advances at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock creates two new businesses to market a solution to a $600 billion global business problem -- counterfeit products.
Professors and a Ph.D. student from UALR --the University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- developed a new model to manage the "vast ocean" of data being generated by users of growing social websites. The model allows Internet sites to automatically adjust privacy needs of consumers or organizations to the context in which the data is accessed.
Dr. John Kirk, English author and researcher of American Civil Rights movement, is appointed chair of the Department of History and the Donaghey Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Academic counselors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Academic Success Center offer 10 simple tips to succeed at college.
Chemistry Professor Jerry Darsey is using funds from an FDA grant to develop methods to track compounds mimicking estrogen in various products, medications, food additives, and other consumer products to assess how those products affect women and their health.
Irish University Publishes Irish-American Professor's book on the history of childhood in Ireland, research that figured in the Ryan Report.
Climate specialist Jeff Gaffney explains Union of Concern Scientists' call for dialogue with American Farm Bureau, which recently said there is no generally agreed scientific assesment on the impact of carbon emissions from human activities.
Nanotechnologists and Biologists advance germination of seeds by adding carbon nanotubes in the growing medium, an enhancement with implications for plant-based biofuel production.
Three classes at the UALR -- the University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- offer insights on the tumultuous decade of the 1960s; its politics, culture, military, and poetry.
History professor Moira Maguire, whose research figured in Ryan Commission Report on Irish child abuse says Irish society criminalized poverty, setting up conditions for abuse in Catholic-run institutions.
Collaboration between scientists at medical school and nearby metropolitan campus in Arkansas detected, tracked and killed cancer cells in real time in living system with carbon nanotubes.
Eighth-grader drops out of school to help mom escape an abusive husband, quits back breaking work at a quarry to give higher education a try. On Saturday, May 16, fresh from competing in Microsoft Imagine Cup finals, Angela Howell graduates magna cum laude from UALR -- University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- with a degree in management information systems.
Scientific search in Arkansas to find ways to grow food in space produces patent-ready process for increase drought tolerance of crops while increasing nutritional values.
Researchers find great promise in a process that could use solar energy to use hydrogen, the third most abundant element on earth's surface, as the ultimate alternative to fossil fuels. This process increase dramatically the efficiency of titania photoanodes used to convert solar energy into hydrogen in fuel cells.
Biologist Stephen Yanoviak of UALR and colleagues publish in the Royal Society's Biology Letters research giving hints on how insect flight developed.
Climate change scientists detail the history of combustion and its affect on the environment from cavemen to the haze of megacities, concluding that man must find new alternatives to generate energy.
UALR students organize bus trip to Washington to celebrate Martin Luther King by attending the presidential inauguration of America's first black president.
Construction management Department at UALR offers a new course this spring teaching builders the techniques of building environmentally friendly new construction and retrofitting existing business to be more green.
Die-hard sports fans may be risking heart attack, stroke, diabetes, cancer and premature death because of unhealthy lifestyle choices that seem to go along with rooting for favorite sports teams, according to the findings of health sciences professors at UALR.
Scientists at the Arkansas Nanotechnology Center at UALR (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) have developed a technique to kill cancer cells by nano-sized cobalt particles encased in graphitic carbon layers activated by radio frequency radiation. The procedure is moving toward clinical trials at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Researchers from Arkansas land $1.4 million grant to pursue study of super-massive black holes thought to reside at the center of all galaxies.
Better gopher trap helps University of Arkansas at Little Rock scientists study gopher behavior.
Arkansas Professor presents new, simple method to learn about black holes up to eight billion light years away.
Arkansas Universities are helping Rwanda rebuild by educating new generation of scientists, engineers, and computer experts.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock "“ in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Information Quality Program (MIT IQ), will present a five-day workshop on Information Quality: Principles and Foundations. May 19-23.
Chemists from UALR,and developed a procedure for creating highly pure carbon nanotubes needed for the development of the next generation of electronic devices. The discovery could break the scientific bottleneck keeping electronic devices from shrinking to the nanoscale .
University of Arkansas at Little Rock experts are available for interviews focused topics, including reparations for African American descendants, First Amendment issues, the rights of immigrants, criminal justice topics, and other inequalities present in the legal system and workplace.
Dr. Howard Turney of UALR's School of Social Work and a practicing family therapist urges divorced parents to set aside their own problems with ex-spouses and ease tensions children of divorce can experience during holidays.
Arkansas' chief information officer will discuss UALR's world leadership in information quality at the International Conference on IQ, and announce the University's new Ph.D. degree information quality. The conference will be held Nov. 9-11 at MIT.
A new report by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock questioned blacks and white citizens about the 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, the first national test of the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, and how the crisis affects local race relations today.
Arkansas receives $13.3 million from the National Math and Science Initiative financed by ExxonMobil to fund training and incentive programs for AP and pre-AP courses in Arkansas operated by a newly non-profit organization located at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Jeff Gaffney, Chair and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Chief Scientist for the Department of Energy's Global Change Education Program is available to discuss global climate change and air quality issues that are facing us as world populations continue to increase and we continue to burn fossil fuels for electrical power and transportation.
Fifty years after nine black teenagers entered Little Rock Central High School sparking the first test of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown versus Board of Education, blacks and whites in Little Rock and surrounding Pulaski County believe it is very important for children to socialize with children of different races, according to a data collected by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in its fourth annual Racial Attitudes Survey.
A study by information science professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Munich show that scientists and researchers appreciate the speed by which online journals can distribute new findings to their colleagues and the academic world, but they fear non-traditional publication can affect their chances of promotion and tenure. Other concerns include how long the research will be available online.
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