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Researchers Develop Advanced Power Electronics to Modernize the Nation's Power Grid
October, 2009
In 2005, two years after the most catastrophic power failure in U.S. history, an elite group of electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas, led by Dr. Alan Mantooth, received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate and develop purely electronic systems to help modernize the nation's outdated power grid.
Couple takes multi-disciplinary research to a new level
October, 2009
Mathematics, physics, biology, anthropology, Spanish ... these are all common majors for college students. But one University of Arkansas couple combines all of these majors. Titus and Shaina met while members of Razorbacks for Christ during Shaina's freshman year. They married three years later, giving interdisciplinary studies a whole new meaning.
Mohja Kahf - Fayetteville as in Fate
October, 2009
Professor Mohja Kahf performs her poem "Fayetteville as in Fate".
A Tour of the Villa
September, 2009
David Fredrick, the researcher behind Digital Pompeii, was probably the only classics scholar at the game development conference in March 2009. Why would someone who studies Roman wall art and social history take up game development? Because 3-D gaming technology is especially suited to revealing the experience of daily life in ancient Roman cities.
What Is a Research Orchard?
September, 2009
University of Arkansas researcher Curt Rom and his colleagues have two jobs. As professors, they stay busy teaching and advising students and providing service to the university. But as horticulture researchers, they dedicate their time to the farm.
Arkansas 180: Breeding Blackberries in Arkansas
August, 2009
John Clark heads the largest blackberry-breeding program in the world, and a Research Frontiers video shows how varieties originally developed to withstand the Arkansas heat are making it possible for farmers worldwide to produce those nutritious berries closer to local markets.
Arkansas 180: What rattlesnakes have to say about changes in their environment
July, 2009
There is no mistaking that sound. Most of us hear, "Danger!" "Stay back!" "Go away!" But University of Arkansas researcher Steve Beaupre hears something else: He hears the health of an ecosystem.
Arkansas 180: Belize Experience Changes Students' Lives
April, 2009
Listen to one student discuss her experience working for the Belize Community Development Program, a large-scale service-learning and community-development project focused on Dangriga and the surrounding Stann Creek District. Dozens of students and faculty members in disciplines as diverse as economics, biology, English, social work, engineering and agriculture have traveled to the small country to enhance the educational experience and to help improve the community. The experience has changed students' lives in profound and lasting ways.
The Art of Architecture
March, 2009
Laura Terry lives and paints on a wooded hillside in the Ozarks. Just half an hour away at the University of Arkansas - and sometimes half a world away in Rome - she introduces architecture students to the art of developing and conveying their design ideas through hand rendering.
Darwin's Galapagos
March, 2009
"When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America.." Thus begins Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, a book that has changed the way humans understand the world and our place in it.
Elephants and Baobabs
March, 2009
Jessica Minard, the first University of Arkansas student to participate in the Organization for Tropical Studies in South Africa, was taught a different field of science every week. The students studied in the South African National Parks, spending most of their time in the Kruger and Mapungubwe Parks.
Arkansas 180: Teaching & Research
July, 2009
"Hi. Last September my office released a short video about the importance of putting students first. In this installment of Arkansas 180, I would like to talk about how teaching and research fit into the equation.
Arkansas Poll News Conference, October 23, 2008
October, 2008
When Nature and Math Collide
September, 2008
Research in Motion
September, 2008
Farther Along
September, 2008
Questions Answered
June, 2008
Watch translation professor John DuVal as he explains the difference between Italian and Romanesco and reads from examples of both.
Creating Content
June, 2008
A group of ceramic artists from all over the country gathered on campus to discuss the culture of ceramics. Art professor Jeannie Hulen discusses the work of ceramicists and gives and overview of the exhibit that came to town during “Crafting Content: Ceramic Symposium 2008.
Preserving Pingualuit
June, 2008
Geosciences professor Sonja Hausmann and an international team of researchers took ski-doos and sleds to Lake Pingualuit in northern Quebec to study core samples from its waters. The lake, formed 1.4 million years ago by a meteor crater, contains some of the most pristine water on earth – the water turns over about once every 300 years. Visit our Web site to find out how the researchers worked to be sure not to introduce pollution into the lake.
Sustaining Petra
July, 2009
As tourists visit this World Heritage Site, recently named one of the Seven Wonders of the World, they literally wear the sandstone away beneath their feet.
Solar Boat Races
June, 2008
Little Rock Boiled
June, 2008
Healing Healthcare Problems
June, 2008
Hands-on Learning
June, 2008
Building for the Future
December, 2007
Exploring Mars in the Lab
June, 2008