by Camilla Shumaker | Oct 31, 2012 | Features
The Optoelectronics Research Lab in the College of Engineering looks at things like no other lab on campus. The lab uses hightech instruments to investigate new nanomaterials capable of harnessing the powerful energy of the sun. Electrical engineering professor Omar...
by Camilla Shumaker | Oct 31, 2012 | Features
With little more than basic information about Web users’ behavior – that is, the hyperlinks they click on daily and the content at those sites – Susan Gauch can build a better search engine. In information systems research, this work is known as “implicit” user...
by Camilla Shumaker | Oct 31, 2012 | Features
Donald K. Roper, associate professor of chemical engineering, and holder of the Charles W. Oxford Endowed Professorship in Emerging Technologies, has patented a process that reduces the time it takes to perform DNA analysis from hours to minutes. Roper’s process,...
by Camilla Shumaker | Oct 31, 2012 | Features
A team of engineers at the U of A has developed a wireless health-monitoring system that gathers patient information and communicates that information in real time to a physician, hospital or the patient herself. Vijay Varadan, Distinguished Professor of electrical...
by Camilla Shumaker | Oct 31, 2012 | Fall 2012, Features
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Morrill Land-Grant Act was signed into law by President Lincoln. This act allowed the states to set up universities by providing federal land for these institutions. The University of Arkansas, which held its first classes in 1872,...
