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It’s almost summertime, and the living is easy at Broadmoor Lake, just west of the ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR campus. And – thanks to a semester-long service learning project by ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR biology students – the fish are jumping and biting, just in time for Earth Day.

ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR junior Ryne Ramaker of Bentonville launches a new research project this semester aimed at developing an efficient method for determining antioxidant properties of tomato varieties.

Four ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR undergraduates and two graduate students transmitted their intellectual curiosity about bugs to a record 3,000 area school children at the Arkansas Entomology Society annual meeting and Insect Festival this weekend in Northwest Arkansas.

Ask Petrus Fauaze Moreira how he spent his summer vacation, and he’ll tell you he climbed trees. But these weren’t ordinary trees, and Moreira wasn’t taking an ordinary vacation.

Members of the Department of Biology and colleagues in the College of Science and Mathematics dedicated the Entomology Museum in Fribourgh Hall in memory of the late ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR professor, Dr. Robert L Watson.

Dr. Robert L. Watson, chair of ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR’s Department of Biology for 19 years and acting dean of the College of Science and Mathematics for two years, died Saturday, April 24, at the age of 75.

Experiments by ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR scientists Mariya Khodakovskaya and Alex Biris have drawn the attention of The Economist, the authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.

Students in Environmental Planning, a senior- and graduate-level class, are preparing plans covering a wide variety of issues, including two projects focusing on the ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR campus – a Green Campus Plan and an Energy Plan.

Experiments by ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR plant biologists and nanotechnologists speed up the water intake of seeds with carbon nanotubes. Read more…

Nationally- and internationally-known scientists in the fields of biology, nanotechnology, toxicology, and applications research will convene in Little Rock Oct. 21 to 22 for the 4th BioNanoTox and Applications Research Conference.