Latest Issue of The Arkansas Catalyst Highlights Campus Research

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. --The June 2013 issue of The Arkansas Catalyst, an online monthly newsletter from the office of research and economic development, highlights exciting research and economic development activities at the University of Arkansas.

The newsletter features university researchers and new research funding.

This month's issue features university research focusing on the dairy industry's carbon footprint; a discovery that furthers the knowledge of superconductivity; a prestigious prize awarded to art historian Leo Mazow; and includes news about the investigation of a way to improve Teflon.

The office of research and economic development is working to enhance the university research enterprise, including multidisciplinary research. Future newsletters will also focus on six interdisciplinary research strengths at the U of A: health, energy and environment, nanoscience and engineering, supply chain logistics and transportation, food safety, and American art, architecture and the humanities.

See the newsletter online or subscribe by visiting The Arkansas Catalyst ListServ page. People who have questions about the newsletter or suggestions for topics should contact the vice provost for research and economic development at research@uark.edu or 479-575-2470.