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A new book explores how displaced Sierra Leonean Muslims sought and found their identity and a sense of community in the United States.

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Two recent national grants will help a rapidly growing Fayetteville company produce some of the world's smallest working parts for sensors and biomedical labels, and possibly an improved way to screen for prostate cancer.

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Researchers want to build nanoscale materials because they promise to be five to 10 times stronger than conventional materials. When it comes to making nanoscale materials retain their size and shape at high temperatures, a little "doping" appears to be in order.

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How do you know who you are or what you feel? These fundamental questions about introspection and self-knowledge are the focus of research by psychology professor Eric Knowles.

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Nationally recognized historian and professor Elliott West will help bring the experiences of settlers in the late 1800s to life. He has joined the Homestead Heritage Center project team of the Homestead National Monument of America.

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Information technology doesn't seem that funny, but three researchers noticed a lot of laughter when they sat down with about 40 women in IT careers. Women use laughter to create a sense of solidarity with their female coworkers, exert their superiority and to deal with incongruities in their work environment.

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In his most recent novel, "With," art professor Donald Harington creates a world from the perspective of a missing child, telling the sometimes harrowing, sometimes inspiring tale of the decade she spent growing up on a mountain with only animals and a spirit to keep her company.

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Researchers and conservationists will gather together for the first time to discuss research in and preservation of the Cross Timbers, a vast tract of old growth forest that stretches from Kansas through Oklahoma into Texas.

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Two economics researchers in the Sam M. Walton College of Business have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the behavioral and theoretical impact of multiple arbitration formats.

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Rehabilitation researcher Rick Roessler has spent his career developing programs to help people with chronic illnesses and disabilities return to or stay in the workplace, and his work has been recognized nationwide twice this year by awards from groups of his peers.

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Renowned writer and associate professor of creative writing Ellen Gilchrist was recently awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award on behalf of the English department at UNC Chapel Hill and the Thomas Wolfe Society. Gilchrist has also been chosen as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Tulane University.

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The man tailgating you and gesturing wildly with a single finger "” is he angry or just acting aggressively, and does that make a difference in how you should respond?

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Blackberry lovers can expect to see more of the fruit, thanks to two commercial blackberry varieties that produce both spring and fall crops. The University just released the two blackberry plants.

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Although former Arkansas governor Sid McMath died last fall, his words, mannerisms, and views on a critical time in history remain visible for people to see, thanks to a collaborative effort to record and preserve the history of Arkansas.

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A professor and colleagues have surveyed college students about their credit card use and family attitudes towards money, and found that family communication about money management and debt influences student choices. Researchers are using this info to create an interactive CD-ROM for families.

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Persuasion has a new set of tools, according to psychology professor Eric S. Knowles. Knowles and his colleague, Jay A. Linn, have recently published a book titled "Resistance and Persuasion" that introduces ways to acknowledge and overcome resistance to persuasive arguments or appeals.

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Imposed trade sanctions can strike fear in the hearts of government officials and industry leaders alike, as seen by the response to the European Union's recent sanctions imposed on U.S. goods from jewelry to textiles. In other contexts, however, trade sanctions can be a welcome way to increase market access.

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Professor Huaxiang Fu examined the properties of a combination of organic material and inorganic semiconductors and found the hybrid retains the superior electronic properties of semiconductors and its mechanical flexibility of organic material"”and has advantages over pure semiconductor material.

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The International Society of Franchising Conference will hold its 18th annual meeting March 5-7 in conjunction with the International Franchising Association meeting (March 8-7). Robert E. Stassen, assoc. professor of marketing, Sam M. Walton College of Business, serves as conference chair.

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ArkWIT, the local chapter of WorldWITâ„¢, a free global online networking organization for professional women in business and technology, has officially launched in Arkansas, and is the 65th chapter worldwide.

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When researchers finish the initial sequencing and analysis of the chicken genome this spring, they will have a blueprint for new insights into vertebrate development and genome evolution, but consumers shouldn't look for improvements to the dinnertime meal anytime soon.

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If people see the words "genetically modified" on a food label, they're more likely to buy it if they feel informed about such products. Yet consumers often feel ill-informed about such foods, according to a survey by a University of Arkansas researcher and her colleague, and producers currently provide little information to educate their customers.

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Ignore Iowa. Never mind New Hampshire. A researcher and his colleague have built a mathematical model based on previous presidential primary races that they hope will predict the democratic winner at the polls. And based on its calculations, the winner will be...

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The SEC has increased its efforts to improve the usefulness of financial reporting for shareholders,but researchers have found that less than 17 percent of the information disclosed in these reports meets the existing SEC requirements.

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Everyone is affected by gasoline prices. To help educate the policymakers of the U.S. Congress on the dynamics of the gasoline industry and its pricing, an assistant professor of economics recently traveled to Washington, D.C.

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While wandering through rooms piled high with plant materials from Cook's and Darwin's voyages, a professor contemplated the role of insects in the diversification of plant species. Her musings led to a collaborative grant that will allow her to study plants at high altitudes in Ecuador.

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One of the materials that powers modern technology has been discovered to retain its properties when present in extraordinarily tiny amounts. This discovery implies that this and other materials with similar properties may be valuable at nanoscale in the production of small, smart communications devices, tiny diagnostic instruments and nano-robots.

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A professor argues that continued economic growth in the African continent will require the equivalent of a Marshall Plan for Africa, which includes attention to health care and a knowledge-based revolution within the countries themselves.

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Earthquakes in northern Italy have caused the loss of lives and homes. Researchers seeking to better understand the geologic processes behind these earthquakes have turned to new sources of information on historic faults: water and archeology.

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A new book examines the history of the banana industry and how America's taste for this appealing fruit fueled social strife, peasant uprisings and imperialist production tactics throughout Central and South America.

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Researchers have released a database that contains information on nearly 500 indicted terrorists, spanning two decades of federal terrorist investigations from 1978 to 1999. The information could help scholars recognize trends in terrorist activity or aid prosecutors in sending known terrorists to jail.

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The costs -- in money, time, and safety -- to maintain the 4 million miles of highways in the United States is staggering. But researcher Kelvin Wang has developed a system that will make this vital activity fast, cheap and safe for highway workers and motorists.

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Many important fossil finds are made by recreational cavers, who bring the remains to the attention of scientists. With a new book aimed at both scholars and spelunkers, an author hopes to get the word out about the importance of such findings to the Ice Age record.

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Preliminary findings from the FDA indicate that meat and milk from cloned animals can be consumed safely by humans. Does that mean cloned turkeys will eventually make their way to your Thanksgiving table? An expert weighs in.

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New instances of corporate corruption come to light daily. No only is organizational corruption widespread, but it is far more costly to society than street crime, according to researcher Vikas Anand, who has identified the three processes that underlie corrupt business practices.

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A pre-school age child in day care may sing, wash his or her hands and play dress-up as part of the day, but to a professor, each of these events presents an opportunity to teach reading readiness.

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A design by Aaron Gabriel and Kathy Chang of an orderly space for those transitioning out of homelessness won first prize in The First Step Housing Design Competition. Their design will be built and tested as a prototype in the Andrews Hotel, a century-old lodging house in New York City's Bowery District.

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On a recent family trip to Yellowstone Park, a geologist noted that parts of the shoreline on Yellowstone Lake sport features more commonly seen on coastal areas. With subsequent research and historical photos, he has shown that the lake's shoreline has changed dramatically over the past 50 years.

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Investors need a way to predict financial performance, while companies look for an advantage that will increase their profitability. And in the personal computer industry, that may all come down to the quality of technical support after the sale.

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Companies in the United States spend billions of dollars each year to train employees on computer skills, but success varies. Researcher Fred Davis has characterized the most successful method and found an additional component that can significantly increase information retention.

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To prevent catastrophic failures, network designers rely on highly redundant "“ and expensive "“ ring networks. But computer engineer Kazem Sohraby has demonstrated that properly designed mesh networks can be more cost-effective and just as reliable.

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Researchers have refined the structure of the amino acid tryptophan, which will increase the accuracy of protein molecular modeling"”essentialin creating new drugsand structure determination for medically important molecules.

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A group of researchers led by a man who helped identify the largest tract of old-growth forest in mid-America has helped establish a consortium to study and preserve the trees and their ecosystems.

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A psychologist tells State Department officials they must give people choices and acknowledge their grievances if they want to improve attitudes about the U.S. overseas.

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The U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly half a million dollars to the University of Arkansas to establish a national center to assess and evaluate practices in rural school systems.

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The Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, will host Lawrence J. Ellison, chairman and CEO of Oracle Corporation, on Nov. 3, 2003. Ellison will be announcing a major gift to the College's Information Technology Research Center (ITRC).

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Researchers have created a nanoscale hole that can detect individual DNA molecules, a significant step on the path to simple sequencing methods for biologically and medically important molecules.

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New research will examine criminal, geographic and temporal data to identify the patterns of activity that precede terrorist attacks. Results could help predict and prevent acts of terrorism.

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Slime molds, known more formally as Eumycetozoans, are the subject of a new $2.075 million, five-year research grant to fund a Planetary Biodiversity Inventory.

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Women report higher levels of death anxiety than men, but the health-related beliefs of consumers from both genders influence both their level of death anxiety and their purchase of goods typically associated with death, such as pre-planned funeral packages.