A new study of intercollegiate football rivalries suggests that competition for scarce resources influences fan opinions. The researchers found that geographic proximity and a shared history of comparable success determine rivalrous and sometimes hostile feelings.
Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering and the Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Mixed-Signal IC Design and CAD, is the University of Arkansas recipient of the 2015 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.
Historian J. Laurence Hare, who examines the emergence of antiquarianism in the German-Danish border regions in his new book, Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums and the German-Danish Borderlands.
A new book summarizes research on the interplay of sleep and various components of emotion and affect that are related to mood disorders, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder and depression.
A new book offers the first sustained critical analysis of the early work of Nobel Prize laureate Nelly Sachs.
A University of Arkansas researcher helped spearhead a project to develop a computer simulator of dual foil scattering systems used in radiation therapy.
Engineering researcher Kartik Balachandran has received a $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to study endothelial-mesenchymal transformation and its relationship to heart valve disease.
A University of Arkansas engineering researcher has received a $500,000 early CAREER award from the NSF to continue developing sensing and transmission schemes for energy-harvesting, wireless sensor networks.
Fatalists trump rational thought: A new study by a political scientist at the University of Arkansas examines perceptions of U.S. citizens about the benefits and risks of immunizations.
Wildlife biologists at the University of Arkansas have captured and documented the first northern saw-whet owl in Arkansas.
Information systems researchers at the U of A studied the effect of two compensation strategies used by Target after a large-scale data breach and found that customers reacted favorably to a 10-percent discount on purchases.
An international team of scientists, led by physicists at the University of Arkansas, has characterized the electronic and magnetic structure in artificially synthesized materials called transition metal oxides.
Many U.S. wheat growers resist converting to a more profitable method of farming because of their personal beliefs about organic farming rather than technical or material obstacles, according to a new study.
An international team of scientists predicts that a phenomenon known in physics as Fano resonance can exist in materials that are used in electronic devices.
Engineering researchers have received a $725,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to further develop of a new material for advanced electronics devices.
In The Ragged Road to Abolition, historian James J. Gigantino II demonstrates how deeply slavery influenced the political, economic and social life of blacks and whites in New Jersey.
Results of the 16th annual Arkansas Poll show that likely voters prefer Republican candidates, although a record significant gap divides male and female voters.
The University of Arkansas is the lead institution on a new $786,407 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate strategies to minimize volumetric swelling in metallic nuclear fuels.
An engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas has received $1.14 million in funding to develop a decision support system for assessing areas at risk for mudslides or rock falls caused by the effects of wildfires.
A new study shows that CEOs with extensive social connections initiate mergers and acquisitions more frequently, and these deals result in greater financial losses for both the acquiring firm and the combined entity.
A professor of computer science and computer engineering at the University of Arkansas has published a new textbook about distributed, embedded smart cameras.
Field trips to live theater enhance literary knowledge, tolerance, and empathy among students, according to a study published this week by researchers in the University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform.
Noah Pittman, recruiter for the University of Arkansas Honors College, shares practical advice on scholarship applications, resumes, transcripts, personal essays and factors decision-makers look for in letters of recommendation.
Researchers at the U of A have received a $362,394 NSF grant to develop new sensing technologies that reduce the amount of data collected and processed in sensor networks powered by extremely limited energy resources.
A physicist at the University of Arkansas has been awarded $1.8 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to create and investigate novel quantum materials.
A nearly 600-year reconstruction of climate indicators along the West Coast of North America indicates that upwelling in the California Current became more variable over the latter part of the 20th century.
University of Arkansas researchers have fabricated a new semiconductor material that can be used to build better and less expensive infrared cameras for smartphone and automobiles.
An international team of physicists, led by a research group at the University of Arkansas, has discovered that heating can be used to control the curvature of ripples in freestanding graphene.
The Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC) at the University of Arkansas has received an additional $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
A doctoral student of English at the University of Arkansas, argues that the director of the charter school documentary Waiting for "Superman" uses conservative rhetoric to influence liberal audiences.
A first-ever report released July 22 by the University of Arkansas, which ties charter school funding to achievement, finds that public charter schools are more productive than traditional public schools in all 28 states included in analyses of cost-effectiveness and return on investment.
A University of Arkansas researcher will receive a nearly $440,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to further his research in the development of theoretical and computational models of self-assembling systems.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas will receive $1.5 million over five years from the National Cancer Institute to develop new molecules and biopharmaceuticals that enhance immune response against tumors.
The Leakey Foundation awarded a University of Arkansas researcher $18,000 to travel to Tanzania and compare dental textures of modern hunter-gatherers to early human ancestors.
A marketing researcher at the University of Arkansas found that consumers are more likely to forget information within advertisements in the same magazine that show a celebrity endorsing a neutral product.
The Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences awarded a four-year grant of $1.3 million to a psychology professor at the U of A to develop a model for schools to mentor students in military families.
The National Institutes of Health grant will allow a University of Arkansas biomedical engineering researcher to design and test a biomaterial that regenerates damaged skeletal muscle.
New theoretical physics research reveals rare materials that possess both controllable magnetic and electric polarization properties at near-room temperatures.
A new study by economists at the University of Arkansas shows that relationship hazard rates – the threat of dissolution – among same-sex daters and cohabiters will likely increase with the probability of legalization.
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at temperatures greater than 350 degrees Celsius – or roughly 660 degrees Fahrenheit
Engineering professor Magda El-Shenawee has received a $388,913 grant from the National Science Foundation to further her work on an alternative, noninvasive method of detecting and treating breast cancer.
A new study by a marketing researcher at the University of Arkansas demonstrated that consumers experience significant differences in satisfaction based solely on budget status or financial condition at the time of purchase.
New research suggests that methanogens — among the simplest and oldest organisms on Earth — could survive on Mars.
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