Arkansas Research Alliance

What Earthly Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Can Do for Intergalactic Farming   For the next 50 years, the world’s farmers will have to feed more people than ever. Global population has risen to approximately 7 billion, leaving only 1.7 acres of agricultural…

The Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) announced Wednesday the addition of two new members to its Board of Trustees: Judy McReynolds of ArcBest and Jason Morris of Walmart. The new board members, whose tenure has already begun, will be introduced formally…

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.…

Reshaping the World by Understanding and Engineering Nanostructures   The development of instruments to observe the atomic structures in atomic and molecular level has changed the science and development of the materials forever. The properties of these materials depend not…

If you’re among the millions of Marvel fans who have watched Ant-Man, you likely have gained a broad (if fantastical) definition of quantum physics. Hollywood sheds a glamourous spotlight on the science, but ARA Academy Member Dr. Hugh Churchill warns…

The State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI) will hold its annual national conference in Little Rock May 2-4. This will be the first time the nonprofit organization has held its national conference in Arkansas. The SSTI conference, launched in 1996,…

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…

A manufacturer in your town wants to capitalize on a new market opportunity to add value to its product, better serve its customers and improve its bottom line. To capture the opportunity, the company needs to add a production line.…

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…

Discovery Economics: The Science Behind the Natural State I often wonder how Arkansans view the state’s efforts to bolster innovation, support entrepreneurship and advance research activities. Growing up in Mena (technically Board Camp, but Mena is where we went for…