ARA Academy of Scholars and Fellows

Innovation can seem to come out of nowhere. Like ChatGPT. In reality, the AI program was developed over years or decades with incremental advancements and a variety of victories and failures/false starts, both behind the scenes and quite public. Research…

Treatments for cancer and the search for cures are a multibillion-dollar industry, directed by the nation’s leading researchers and funded both federally and privately. The mission is critical. In 2022, an estimated 609,360 people will die of cancer in the…

Adapting to Win: How Arkansas is Prospering in This Changiest World   “The world is the changiest it has ever been” was a line from a talk by Phil Libin at the Heartland Challenge, a competition for student-led startup companies.…

Discovery Economics Imagine the office of a theoretical physicist. Most might conjure an image of a charmingly cluttered workspace, a desk littered in a moonscape of manilla folders and unfiled paperwork, walls festooned with pinned-up snapshots, Post-It notes and assorted…

While serving as a summer intern at a local hospital, Dr. Steven Foley was met with an unexpected event that would help him realize what he wanted to do with his career. Out of the blue, an acquaintance walked through…

Arkansas Research Alliance celebrated Tuesday the addition of two new ARA Scholars and six ARA Fellows to its ARA Academy of Scholars and Fellows. The Arkansas Research Alliance operates as a public-private partnership and invests in research to stimulate innovation,…

More than 40 percent of the nation’s rice production is attributed to Arkansas rice farmers. In fact, no other state in the nation produces more rice than Arkansas, which contributes more than $6 billion to the state’s economy. Enhancing this…

My dad suffered a massive stroke two months after this picture was taken. Eighteen months later, he walked unassisted across a room for the first time. Despite reclaiming some abilities, his cognition, communication and motor skills will never be what…

by Dwain Hebda If there’s one constant in the professional saga of energy entrepreneur Douglas Hutchings, it’s mastering the art of spanning distance. It’s a long way, after all, from Dover, England, where he was born to Mena, Arkansas, where…