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NASA Awards U of A Pluto Lab Solar System Grant
The funding will be used to purchase lab equipment, supplies and research travel for the university's Pluto Lab, which is managed by Caitlin Ahrens.
Zajicek Named Graduate School's Outstanding Faculty Mentor
Anna Zajicek, chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology, is the U of A Graduate School Outstanding Faculty Mentor for 2018.
Hoyt H. Purvis Award Winners Announced
Lanier Nalley, Chelsea Hodge and Leyah Bergman-Lanier are the 2018 award winners of the Hoyt H. Purvis Award for Service in International Education.
Graduate Student Gets First-Hand Insight to Mars Mission
Rachel Slank, a graduate student in the was at the Green Bank Observatory last month to receive the first signal from the Mars Insight landing.
Former President George H.W. Bush Remembered at U of A
Bush spoke on campus and met with Indonesian students he had helped bring to the U of A after a 2004 tsunami devastated their region.
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Earns American Heart Association Fellowship
Ishita Tandon, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, has earned a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to support her research into a cardiovascular disease.
Congratulations to the Employees of the Year
Amanda Cantu, Cassie Franklin, Katie Doughty, Cyndi Burton and Wenoah Goodson are the 2017-18 Employees of the Year, each representing a specific staff category.
Libraries Present Graduate Student Speaker Sarah Riva Next
Doctoral candidate Sarah Riva will present "Overthinking the Dissertation: One Grad Student's Story of the Research Process" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Special Collections reading room.
Fischer in Entomology, Ortega in Plant Pathology Named Plant Biologist Scholars
Hillary Fischer and Laura Ortega, graduate students in Bumpers College, have been named Conviron Scholars by the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Food Science's Hawley Wins Three Minute Thesis Final
Aubree Hawley, a doctoral student in the Department of Food Science, is the winner of the University of Arkansas Three Minute Thesis competition. Rinaldo Proko won the People's Choice Award.