- University News Archive - ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

Doyle Rankins’ graduation day is nearly 50 years in the making

Ajani Oyindamola — Tue, 08 May 2018 15:53:03 +0000

The first time Doyle Rankins was a student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1970, he was a 19-year-old rail service worker for Missouri Pacific Railroad (now Union Pacific) as well as a member of the Arkansas Air National Guard. With a work schedule that often shifted from days to nights, Rankins often had to quit classes in the middle of the semester to make his ever-shifting schedule work. He often muses that if online classes had existed in the 1970s, he could have finished his degree much faster. As an online student the second time around, Rankins completed a Bachelor of Applied Science and will graduate May 12 at the Jack Stephens Center – 48 years after he first started at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock. Rankins married Susan Gardner in 1972, and the couple took some classes together at the university. By the time their first daughter, Ellen Edwards, was born in 1974, Rankins’ first round at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock had ended. The family briefly moved to St. Louis, where Rankins took classes for a year at St. Louis Community College-Meremac and the couple’s second daughter, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, associate professor of rhetoric and writing at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, was born. The couple returned to Little Rock in 1977 and welcomed their son, Matthew Rankins. During his 43-year career at Union Pacific, Rankins was a hard worker who once oversaw an area that stretched from Chicago to Yuma, Arizona. He was responsible for overseeing a workforce of more than 300 people and often flew on a helicopter to train derailment sites all over the country. Rankins-Robertson recalls how her parents instilled a strong work ethic and appreciation for higher education in her and her siblings. “My parents preached the importance of a college education to us since we were very little,” she said. “They were really passionate about us going to school. There was no one more passionate than my dad about me finishing my bachelor’s degree because I had a baby at 19. In their generation, having children meant going to work–not finishing school.”

Doyle Rankins stands on the Union Pacific 1960s patio caboose that bears his name. Photo by Ben Krain.

Rankins retired from Union Pacific in 2012 as director of Mechanical Maintenance Transportation-Southern Region. He started his own consulting business, Rankins Railroad Service, in 2013 and still works 12 hour a day, six days a week. While all three of his children and his granddaughter have earned college degrees from ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, Rankins got his chance at finishing his bachelor’s degree when Rankins-Robertson encouraged him to meet with Kathy Oliverio, director of military student success. The Bachelor of Applied Science degree is geared toward adults with military service. In 2016, he became an online student at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, nearly 40 years after the last time he attended college. His favorite classes included several writing courses, Earth Science, and ethics. His favorite professors included Melvin Beavers, Gerald Driskill, Simon Hawkins, Melissa Johnson, Wendy McCloud, and Kathy Oliverio. Rankins-Robertson will play a special role in her father’s graduation ceremony. As a faculty member, she will get to hand her father his diploma. “I am very excited. I was also able to award my daughter her degree last year, so it feels as if I have come full circle to award the generation below and above me their degrees,” she said. As for his post-graduation plans, Rankins is not giving up on school just yet. He plans to pursue a graduate degree in rhetoric and writing at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock as well as continue to run his consulting business. “I work today because I want to, not because I have to. I will keep working for as long as I am physically able, and I will keep doing education as well. I definitely want to keep doing things,” Rankins said. “People have asked me what am I going to do when I get out of college, and I ask them if they are crazy. What else could I do?”

Earth Sciences students present research at American Geophysical Union Conference

Ajani Oyindamola — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:28:50 +0000

Six University of Arkansas at Little Rock students and two faculty members had the opportunity to attend one of the largest earth and space science conferences in the world. The group attended the conference Dec. 11-15 in New Orleans, where more than 20,000 oral and poster presentations occurred during the five-day event. “The students had the opportunity to present their own original research, observe the presentations from experts in their fields, interact with researchers at all levels and from a wide array of different institutions, partake in professional development workshops and networking events, and meet with potential graduate schools,” Earth Sciences Instructor Joshua Spinler said. The attendees include Spinler; Tom Colby, visiting assistant professor of earth sciences; Kayla Bolin, senior geology major; Olivia Pate, junior geology major; Jason Simmons, senior geology major; and Jeffrey Baggett, Matthew Carey, and Kalyca Spinler, graduate students in the Applied Science program. “The students also had the opportunity to see presentations in topics that are not part of the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Earth Sciences curriculum, which allows them to expand their geologic knowledge base,” Spinler said. Three students presented research conducted with a faculty mentor, Dr. Laura Ruhl, assistant professor of earth sciences. They include:

��Bolin, “Water Quality Assessment of the Buffalo River, Arkansas, United States”
��Carey, “Spatial and Temporal Water Quality Dynamics in the Lake Maumelle Reservoir: Geochemical and Planktonic Variance in a Drinking Water Source”
��Simmons, “Urbanization Effects on Floodplain Sediments in the Fourche Creek Wetlands in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States”

In the upper right photo, University of Arkansas at Little Rock students attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, from left to right, are Matthew Carey, Kalyca Spinler, Olivia Pate, Kayla Bolin, and Jason Simmons. Photo by Tom Colby.

National Science Foundation fellow chooses ��Vlog��ýLR

Taylor Aldana — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:50:17 +0000

Staying near Little Rock to earn a doctorate is important to Hunter Wayland. With her mother battling breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, Wayland chose the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she’s pursuing her degree. “��Vlog��ýLR is a good school,” she said. “They have a good chemistry program, and it’s close to home.” Wayland, from Arkadelphia, was selected as a fellow in the highly competitive and prestigious . The program has funded close to 50,000 graduate research fellowships out of more than 500,000 applicants since 1952. NSF pays for Wayland’s tuition and fees and provides a stipend. Students can apply as undergraduates or as first- or second-year graduate students. Wayland’s focus is on environmental chemical systems. She was inspired to pursue science because of her father. “He encouraged me to be inquisitive and ask questions,” she said. Wayland attended Henderson State University for her bachelor’s degree, where she majored in chemistry and minored in physics. She presented her undergraduate research at local, state, and national conferences, including the American Chemical Society Conferences. While at ��Vlog��ýLR, she has been working with her mentor, Dr. Anindya Ghosh, an associate professor in applied science and chemistry, since October. “I really like the lab and working for Dr. Ghosh,” said Wayland. “He is very flexible with me, and he understands the situation that I’m going through with my family, as well as what my goals are as a scientist in general, and he’s worked really hard to incorporate me into the lab.” “Our lab feels a lot like a family. We look out for each other and everybody’s very understanding,” she said. Under Ghosh, she’s working on creating catalysts to remove pollutants from wastewater before the water is used for other things, like agriculture. “It’s known now that some crops that people consume can actually take up pharmaceuticals in untreated wastewater. Because of water shortages in the United States, especially in the West, people are starting to use wastewater to irrigate crops,” said Wayland. A catalyst is a material that helps encourage a chemical reaction. It causes the reaction to occur faster than it would under normal conditions. “For instance, you hear people say diamonds are forever,” said Wayland. “Well, diamonds actually break down, but the process is so slow, it would never happen in our lifetime. A catalyst is something that causes things that happen very slowly to happen faster, and that’s what my angle is for using a catalyst to breakdown the pollutants in wastewater.” What drew Wayland to environmental chemistry was a project she worked on as an undergraduate. She analyzed the impact of the mercury industry in southwestern Arkansas by studying water soil. She also worked with the biology department to study river otters. “I love nature,” said Wayland. “I love being outdoors. It’s really important to me to keep our environment clean or do the best that we can to engineer things preemptively–to be proactive rather than reactive when something goes wrong.” After graduating in 2020, Wayland hopes to teach at the collegiate level. She wants to work in aquatic environmental chemistry and pollutant remediation.

��Vlog��ýLR researchers work to improve the world through nanocarbons

��Vlog��ý Little Rock — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:26:11 +0000

A team of University of Arkansas at Little Rock researchers is exploring ways to change the world with the help of tiny, incredibly strong materials. Supported by a $50,000 seed grant from the ��Vlog��ýLR Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, the team will research the potential of modified nanocarbons to purify water, generate and store energy, and attack bacteria. Dr. Tito Viswanathan, professor of chemistry, will lead the project, and Drs. Brian Berry, associate professor of chemistry, Nawab Ali, associate professor of biology; and Allan Thomas, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, join him as co-principal investigators. The team will convert lignin and tannin, both abundant plant-based renewable resources, into “doped” nanocarbon, using an innovative, cost-effective process Viswanathan designed. When carbon nanomaterials are “doped,” chemical elements, such as nitrogen or chlorine, replace some carbon atoms, changing the material’s structure and giving it unusual traits. The changes “are actually defects in the carbon structure,” Viswanathan said, “and these defects lead to some exciting properties, including high electrical conductivity.” With these microscopic modified materials, the researchers hope to alleviate some of the world’s most critical problems. For example, the need for safe, sustainable, and affordable food, energy, and water is both urgent and globally recognized. Indeed, the National Science Foundation is in research projects that offer innovative approaches to addressing it. The ��Vlog��ýLR project has the potential to meet numerous global needs — without draining the earth’s resources. “Most of the (current) resources that we rely on for our existence are nonrenewable resource based. So, if you’re dependent on those nonrenewable resources, you cannot have a sustainable civilization,” Viswanathan said. “The project theoretically involves all aspects of sustainability.”

Unique applications

While nanocarbon research is relatively common today, this project stands out because the ��Vlog��ýLR team’s process is efficient and sustainable at every step — from the source of the nanocarbons to the method used to prepare them, to the practical uses of the finished products, Viswanathan said. Doped nanocarbons with multi-functional, real-world applications in food, water, and energy are rare. Viswanathan and his team are some of the only researchers exploring this blended area. “We’re using renewable resources, very little investment, producing these nanocarbons with amazing properties, which can solve a whole lot of problems,” Viswanathan said.

Student opportunities

Not only does the research have the potential to improve the world, but the researchers are making sure that the next generation has this potential as well. Each participating scientist will supervise a ��Vlog��ýLR undergraduate student, training him or her in research practices and lab work. The researchers will intentionally seek out students from underrepresented groups, giving them hands-on preparation for a career in science that they might not otherwise have an opportunity to access. The team knows first-hand the importance of giving students practical research experience. More than a decade ago, Berry worked under Viswanathan as a graduate student. Today, the two have authored multiple publications together, and Berry is the coordinator for the ��Vlog��ýLR Applied Science graduate program.

A versatile team

Berry’s expertise in chemistry, as well as Ali’s in biology and Thomas’ in physics, is essential to the research plan. Viswanathan said the project couldn’t exist without the co-PIs’ involvement. “This is a project that one person cannot do alone, because it’s so branched out, and we need everybody’s expertise and input to make it a success.” To the researchers, success would mean patentable, highly useful products that benefit humanity. And with grant funding, compelling preliminary data, and brilliant student and faculty researchers on their side, meeting this ambitious goal could be just a few years away. Photo: From left: Drs. Allan Thomas, Brian Berry, Nawab Ali, and Tito Viswanathan. Photo by Lonnie Timmons III

��Vlog��ýLR degree programs available at Texarkana campus

Shanna Fitzgerald — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:14:11 +0000

Texarkana, Ark. — This fall, Texarkana-area residents can start earning a University of Arkansas at Little Rock bachelor’s degree at a campus close to home. ��Vlog��ýLR faculty will teach courses for bachelor’s degrees at the as part of a partnership between the two higher education institutions. Through the program, students can pursue a degree at the community college and then transfer to ��Vlog��ýLR while remaining in Texarkana. Those interested might want to take note: A ��Vlog��ýLR-Texarkana onsite admissions, advising, and registration event is set to run from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the community college campus, 3501 U of A Way, Texarkana. Attendees have a chance to win an iPad Mini. ��Vlog��ýLR will offer the following degree programs in Texarkana this fall:

Bachelor of Applied Science
Bachelor of Professional Studies
Bachelor of Business Administration in general business
Bachelor of Science in construction management

Fall classes begin Aug. 17. ��Vlog��ýLR will charge an admissions application fee of $40. For more information, contact ��Vlog��ýLR-Texarkana coordinator Lisa Davis at 501-516-2160 or at lhdavis@ualr.edu. Information also is available at ualr.edu/texarkana.

��Vlog��ýLR Receives $750,000 for NASA Robot Vision

��Vlog��ý Little Rock — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:57:05 +0000

��Vlog��ýLR will receive a three-year $750,000 grant from NASA as part of the space agency’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research – EPSCoR. Most of the funds will support research and development by Dr. Cang Ye, an associate professor in the Systems Engineering Department, and his work on robot vision systems for vehicles on the moon or Mars. ��Vlog��ýLR is one of the 17 research colleges and universities sharing in a $12.6 million grant project for research and technology development in areas important to NASA’s mission and that support higher education students. ��Vlog��ýLR is the only institution in Arkansas to receive an award. Ye and his research team will develop new computer vision methods based on a 3-D time-of-flight camera – Flash LIDAR Camera (FLC) – and a prototype of an autonomous navigation system using a single FLC for a planetary rover. “The system will estimate the rover’s position and orientation along the path, mapping its surrounding into a large scale 3-D map, analyze the map, and make navigational decisions,” Ye said. “The FLC-based system may achieve better accuracy and repeatability of position and orientation estimates and produce more accurate and reliable 3-D map than the current stereovision approach used in the Mars rovers.” The new navigation system reduces shadowing problems with the current sterovision system that can cause failure of the rover’s visual odometry, a rover egomotion estimation method that assumes a static rover operation environment. “Another advantage of using an active imaging sensor is that it will allow night driving for the rover,” Ye said. “The new system is expected to provide a much higher level of rover autonomy and has potential in changing the way a rover operates in an alien environment.” In 2010, Ye co-authored an internationally acclaimed paper on computer vision for robotic exploration. ��Vlog��ýLR undergraduate student Chris Robinson and Ph.D candidate Prasad M. Hegde worked with Ye and engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on the problem of keeping rovers on the moon and Mars from getting stuck. Their research was named “Best Paper” at the 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering International Conference on Mechantronics and Automation in Xi’An, China.

Quake Expert Comments on Fault’s Future

��Vlog��ý Little Rock — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:15:36 +0000

Dr. Haydar Al-Shukri, chair of the Department of Applied Science and assistant dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, discussed the possibility of another massive event along the New Madrid Fault in an article published in the on Jan. 30. Al-Shukri, along with Dr. Hanan Mahdi, operates ��Vlog��ýLR’s . Al-Shukri has used a dating technique called optically stimulated luminescence to date samples of soil showing evidence of seismic upheaval in parts of the Delta region near the New Madrid fault line.

The Post story focused on the possibility of another significant earthquake happening along the fault, and the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid Earthquake which occurred on Feb. 8, 1812.

“My goal is not to scare people,” Al-Shukri says. “I’m not saying it will come tomorrow. But it might come.”

��Vlog��ýLR Details Nanoparticle-Plant Interactions

��Vlog��ý Little Rock — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:24:54 +0000

The prestigious academic journal “” (PNAS) has published an article by ��Vlog��ýLR scientists Mariya Khodakovskaya and Alex Biris, ��Vlog��ýMS professor Dr. Vladimir Zharov; and their respective teams, detailing a novel progress for studying the interaction of plants and nanoparticles. Understanding the nature of interactions between engineered nanomaterials and plants is crucial in comprehending the impact of nanotechnology on the environment and agriculture with a focus on toxicity concerns, plant disease treatment, and genetic engineering. To date, little progress has been made in studying nanoparticle-plant interactions at single nanoparticle and genetic levels. The new article describes an advanced platform integrating genetic, Raman, photothermal, and photoacoustic spectroscopy methods to study how nanoparticles interact with plants at the genetic level. Nanotechnology is one of the most innovative scientific fields that involves the development and manufacturing of structures at the nanoscale. The science is expected to have a huge economic and scientific potential. It uses materials on a molecular and atomic level. One nanometer is equal to one thousandth of a micrometer, or one millionth of a millimeter. The new article describes an advanced platform integrating genetic, Raman phototherman, and photacoustic spectroscopy methods to study how nanoparticles interact with plants at the genetic level. The research presents productive interdisciplinary research that involves groups from different scientific areas. The ��Vlog��ýLR Nanotechnology Center, directed by Biris, synthesized the materials of the study. The impact of these nanomaterials on plant growth and genetics was investigated in Khodakovskaya’s laboratory. The ultra-sensitive detection of carbon nanomaterials in plant organs using photothermal and photoacoustic methods was implemented by Zharov’s research group at ��Vlog��ýMS. The complex approach allowed the scientists to demonstrate that carbon nanotubes are able to travel inside plants exposed to carbon nanotubes, affect plant development, and express a number of essential genes including genes involved in major plant stress responses. Khodakovskaya’s work at ��Vlog��ýLR has involved developing a tomato plant healthy enough to grow in space and surviving down-to-earth droughts and disease. More than providing fresh produce for astronauts on extended missions to Mars, the research has important implications for developing crops resistant to drought and other stresses while improving the nutritional value of crops. Khodakovskaya’s laboratory also is fully involved in studying the complex changes that happen at the genetic level of plant systems and the finding of novel transcriptional factors responsible for plant development. Biris aims to accelerate the development of commercial applications of nanotechnology through collaborations with private corporations, universities in the state and nation, and research institutes in the United States and abroad. His research includes developing nanostructures to facilitate the growth of bone and other tissue, development of skin-like film to collect energy from the sun, and nanostructures to carry elements to kill cancer cells directly into those cells.

NSF, Lions World, ��Vlog��ýLR Help Blind ‘See’

��Vlog��ý Little Rock — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:08:11 +0000

In 1931, the Lion’s Club International began a national program promoting the use of white canes to help the blind “see.” Now, scientists at ��Vlog��ýLR are turning to the organization to test a next generation “smart” cane — one that provide details and dimension to enable the sightless to navigate in an a physical environment. Dr. Cang Ye, associate professor of applied science in ��Vlog��ýLR’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, recently received a nationally competitive research grant of $320,389 from the to develop new computer vision methods and build portable blind navigational devices that may guide visually impaired people in unstructured environment. Once the device is built, Ye will partner with rehabilitation specialists at — whose headquarters is next door to the ��Vlog��ýLR campus — and students at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock to help test the smart canes. “There are no devices available that assist blind travelers in the way that Dr. Ye hopes the Smart cane will,” said Dr. Larry Dickerson, chief executive officer and president of Lions World Services for the Blind. “We are eager for him to develop a working prototype. We will evaluate its effectiveness and perhaps suggest refinements with the help of our clients who come from all over the United States and our experienced staff.” Electronic white canes used by the blind have been around for several years. But Ye’s research hopes to vastly improved the “vision” with smart canes can provide the visually impaired people. “The science of the project is to devise computer vision methods that may enable the Portable Blind Navigational Devices (PBNDs),” Ye said. Ye and his team of researchers will use Flash LADAR (laser detection and ranging) (LADAR) 3-dimensional imaging sensor to provide the blind user a more detailed “picture” of a physical environment. “We use a Flash LADAR 3D imaging sensor for perception,” he said. “The imaging sensor produces both intensity image and range image of its environment. Each pixel in the range image contains distance information of the corresponding pixel in the intensity image.” His team has developed computer vision methods including an ego-motion estimation algorithm called VR-Odometry (VRO) and a 3D data segmentation method. The methods will be refined, validated through this project and their real-time implemention in the PBNDs will be achieved at the end of the project. “The VRO estimates the sensor’s motion by simultaneously processing the intensity and range images. It will extract features in each two consecutive intensity images, match features of the two images, obtain the distance information of the matched features, and compute the change of the sensor’s position and orientation,” he said. “This method can provide ‘where am I?’ information to the blind.” Electronic white canes used by the blind and visually impaired people have been around for several years. But Ye’s research hopes to create computer software that can detail where a staircase or a doorway is located in a room; where a drop off in the floor exists; or where an overhead bulkhead can be found. The core technology is 3D data segmentation. Once the program is created, it can be installed in a portable “cane” and provide information orally to a visually impaired person, who then can know the lay of the land. “This is crucial navigational information that is difficult to obtain by using a conventional white cane,” Ye said. “The data segmentation method can also provide obstacle information such as an overhang obstacle or drop-off. The project’s hypothesis is that a single Flash LADAR sensor can solve blind navigation problems — avoiding obstacles and way-finding. Thus it is possible to build portable navigational device.” The term “way-finding” refers to how blind people move toward a destination. Finding waypoints, such as stairways, hallways, and the awareness of his or her position contribute to the goal to move from one point to another. The NSF grant will involve Ye, two graduate students and a number of undergraduate students at ��Vlog��ýLR’s EIT college. The initial study that led to the grant was supported in part by ��Vlog��ýLR’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Arkansas Space Grant Consortium, Arkansas NASA EPSCoR Program, NISH, a nonprofit agency creating ;job opportunities for people with severe disabilities; the American Society for Engineering Education; and Office of Naval Research. “We have Lion’s World Service for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Blind as our partners,” Ye said. “They will help us evaluate the devices and provide opinions to refine the devices during the project period.” Throughout history, blind and visually impaired peoplehave used canes, staffs — even sighted people used sticks as traveling aids. From the biblical era shepherd’s staffs to the dapper walking sticks of the 19th century, canes have been used as tools for traveling. In the early 1920s, a British photographer, blinded following an accident and uncomfortable with traffic around his home, painted his walking stick white to help the sighted take notice of him. In 1931, the Lions Club International began a national program promoting the use of white canes for persons who are blind. When the blind veterans of World War II returned to America, the form and the use of the white cane was further altered when Dr. Richard Hoover developed the “long cane” or “Hoover” method of cane travel. These white canes, designed to be used as mobility devices, returned the cane to its original role as a tool for mobility, but maintained the symbolic role as an identifier of blind independence.

��Vlog��ýLR Prof, Students Help NASA Rovers Roll

��Vlog��ý Little Rock — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:30:52 +0000

A paper co-authored by Dr. Cang Ye, associate professor in ��Vlog��ýLR’s Department of Applied Science, and two ��Vlog��ýLR students won “Best Paper” at Aug. 4 to 7, in Xi’An, China. The paper describes their process for helping keep NASA’s rovers on the moon or Mars from getting stuck. Chris Robinson of Cedarville, who graduated from ��Vlog��ýLR in the spring with a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, Ph.D. student GuruPrasad M. Hegde from India, and Ye co-authored the paper with Dr. Ashley Stroupe and Dr. Edward Tunstel. Stroupe is a robotics engineer at the and Rover driver for NASA’s Mars exploration. Edward Tunstel, a senior robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He also is the Space Robotics & Autonomous Control Lead of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The paper, “Computer Vision Based Wheel Sinkage Detection for Robotic Lunar Exploration Task,” deals with a difficult problem in NASA’s robotic planetary exploration. “When a robot rover moves on planetary surface, it usually interacts with soft terrain,” Ye said. “For example, the Mars rovers move on soft sandy terrain most of the time in their scientific tasks. The soft soil may cause wheel slip and traction loss. Excess traction loss may cause a rover immobile and make mission impossible.” How deep and fast a wheel sinks can provide information to assess the loss of traction and determine when and how to apply corrective action. For example, the robot needs to slow down to restore traction if the sinkage is big, or it needs to move back if sinkage is getting larger along the way. “We used a machine vision camera to monitor each wheel’s interaction with terrain,” Ye said. “We devised a computer vision method that may reliably detect the wheel-soil boundary and determine the sinkage.” NASA has had problems with lunar robots because moon dust can stick on wheel surfaces, making it less distinctive from the soil and making it difficult for a robot to predict a potential trap of lunar soil. “Existing methods fail in this particular case while our method consistently succeeds in sinkage detection under low-illumination, non-uniform lighting conditions, as well as scenario with shadow,” Ye said. The work was initially supported by a NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development Award. It is now supported by a second NASA EPSCoR grant. The paper won the Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics.

- University News Archive - ����Vlog��ý Little Rock

Doyle Rankins’ graduation day is nearly 50 years in the making

Earth Sciences students present research at American Geophysical Union Conference

National Science Foundation fellow chooses ����Vlog��ýLR

����Vlog��ýLR researchers work to improve the world through nanocarbons

����Vlog��ýLR degree programs available at Texarkana campus

����Vlog��ýLR Receives $750,000 for NASA Robot Vision