Paul Knightly, a doctoral candidate, is studying geometric shapes formed by freezing and thawing of soil in periglacial regions. They show up in Iceland and Mars.

Amber Lancaster, a Bumpers College senior in horticulture, worked as an Adair Scholar this summer on a project to identify rice cultivars resistant to a bacteria that causes grain and plantlets to rot.

KYYA Chocolate was launched with help from the Arkansas Food Innovation Center and provides Bumpers College students internship opportunities.

Lynn Meade, training in London this summer in this qualitative method used for community-based participatory research to document and reflect reality. 

Four faculty members have been selected  to lead campus engagement around the university's signature research areas.

This research has potential real-world applications and direct implications for human health.

Austin Williams, co-founder and chief software architect for AMBOTS, talks about the company's scalable 3D printing solution in the latest edition of Short Talks From the Hill.

Peter Ungar, a U of A anthropologist, will contribute to an international research project on the Yamal Peninsula in Russian Siberia. The project, “Environmental change in Western Siberia: Interactions of land surfaces, animal communities, infrastructure, and peoples of the Arctic,” will bring together ecologists, engineers, anthropologists and earth-system scientists to document changes to ecosystems of the Arctic region caused by climate change and explain how these changes have affected plants, animals, indigenous people and industrial infrastructure.

Assistant professor Fang Luo and his former and current students, Yingzhuo Chen and Zhao Yuan, placed second at the National Aerospace Electronics Conference.

Hillary Fischer, an entomology doctoral student, has been named winner of the 2019 Plant-Insect Ecosystem Kenneth and Barbara Starks Plant Resistance to Insects Graduate Student Award.