FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Information Technology Research Institute and the department of information systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas are sponsoring IT Day for Parents and Educators.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education has announced the national and state Professor of the Year Awards. Physicist Greg Salamo, the Joe N. Basore Professor in Nanotechnology and Innovation in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, was named Arkansas Professor of the Year.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Porchscapes: A LEED Neighborhood Development, a joint project by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, the Ecological Engineering Group and McClelland Consulting Engineers Inc., is a winner of a 2009 American Architecture Award.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Julian Stewart (B.S.C.E. 1957) and his wife, Nana, have generously supported students at the University of Arkansas for years. They knew the next priority area for their educational philanthropy would be Access Arkansas, the university’s current initiative to raise money for need-based scholarships. Because of their belief in helping students who may not otherwise have an opportunity to start or continue their education, the Stewarts have given $100,000 to endow two Access Arkansas scholarships.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Jim Stice (B.S.C.H.E. 1949) left his industry job and began teaching at the University of Arkansas in 1954. He took a break to earn his doctoral degree and returned to teach another six years in Fayetteville. At that point, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas in Austin where he taught until retiring in 1996. In addition to teaching, Stice also directed UT’s Center for Teaching Effectiveness. His passion for this area has resulted in a planned gift of two gift annuities totaling $50,000 to the Ralph E. Martin department of chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas to provide professors with valuable training in teaching effectiveness.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Women’s Giving Circle is requesting proposals for programs and initiatives supporting our campus and our community. Projects may include work that focuses on or serves campus initiatives, community needs or statewide programs. Since 2003, the circle has awarded almost $500,000 in grants to faculty and staff members from various departments and academic units at the university.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of individual tags rather than information stored on them, will prevent the production of counterfeit tags and thus greatly enhance both security and privacy for government agencies, businesses and consumers.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Jin-Woo Kim, a biomedical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas, is part of a cutting-edge nanotechnology research group that has discovered a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream. The work could dramatically improve early cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Whether it’s dog food or iPods, tires or televisions, virtually every consumer has endured a frustrating out-of-stock experience. Retailers hate it as much as customers, perhaps more, because they lose money and credibility. Examining this problem at a specific link – suppliers and distribution centers – in the retail and consumer-packaged goods supply chain, a logistics researcher at the University of Arkansas and his colleague discovered that application of a common error-correction model improves the accuracy of forecasting orders.
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University of Arkansas School of Law students Ashley Driver, Taylor Mattson and Alison Waldrip competed in the Region IX round of the National Moot Court Competition at St. Louis University on Nov. 13 and 14. The team’s three win and one loss record in the competition propelled them to the National Finals, where they will join only 27 other law school teams from across the country.
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