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Fulbright College Announces 2020 Connor Faculty Fellows
This year, 19 outstanding, hard-working faculty members have been selected as the 2020 class of Connor Faculty Fellows at the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
NSF Funds Multidisciplinary U of A Team to Improve Imaging Technology
A team of professors Magda El-Shenawee, principal investigator, Hugh Churchill and Robert Coridan want to create more effective terahertz photoconductive antennas.
Chemist Developing 3D Simulations of Coronavirus Spike Proteins
Research will show how the virus binds to human cell receptors and will aid the development of vaccines and therapeutics.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Mourns Passing of Professor Emeritus Lothar Schäfer
Distinguished Professor emeritus of physical chemistry Lothar Schäfer, 80, passed away peacefully on March 29 after a six year-long battle with Alzheimer's.
Seminar on 'Quantitative Label-free Metabolic Imaging of Skin Wound Healing' on Friday
Kyle Quinn, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will give a seminar titled "Quantitative label-free metabolic imaging of skin wound healing" at 4 p.m. Friday in the Chemistry Building 144.
Chemistry's Mahsa Lofti-Marchoobeh Wins Three Minute Thesis Final
Mahsa Lotfi-Marchoobeh is the winner of the U of A Three Minute Thesis competition for her presentation A Miniaturized Neural Probe for Detection of Chemicals in the Brain.
Free Chemistry Seminar on 'New Catalytic Motifs in Flavoenzymology' March 2
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry's Fry Lecture Series will host a free seminar by Texas A&M University's Tadhg P. Begley at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 2 in the Chemistry Building room 144.
U of A Students Participate in the Sixth Annual Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium
Fourteen undergraduate and two graduate students recently represented the U of A at the 2020 Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium held on Feb. 10-11 in Little Rock.
Chemistry Seminar on 'Recent Developments in Density Functional Theory' Today
The seminar will take place at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24 in the Chemistry Building in room 144. There will be a reception after the talk in room 105. The talk is free and open to the public.
Early Career Award Advances Work on Computational Models of Proteins
Chemist Mahmoud Moradi’s research deepens the understanding of diseases and could lead to improved drug design.