/news-archive/tag/orsp/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:22:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/09/21/seed-grant-competition/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:22:04 +0000 /news/?p=71902 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock awards funding to six projects in Seed Grant Competition]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has awarded funding to six research projects by 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty members through the 2018-19 Seed Grant Competition.聽 This year, the competition accepted research proposals in two tracks. Four projects were awarded funding of $6,000 each in Track A, while two projects were awarded $12,000 each in Track B. The grant period for each award is from Aug. 16, 2018, to Aug. 15, 2019. The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Seed Grant Competition aims to kickstart compelling research projects that can later be funded by external support after the term of the seed grant. The Track A winners and their projects include:

• Annie Childers and Liangfang Lu, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 鈥淧lacement and Retention in Developmental Mathematics at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥�
• Amar Kanekar, School of Counseling, Human Performance, and Rehabilitation, and Joseph Williams, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 鈥淗ealth Quest 鈥� A Training Simulation for Health Education Students and Workers鈥�
• Rebecca Glazier, School of Public Affairs, and Heidi Skurat Harris, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 鈥淚dentifying Reliable Indicators of Instructor-Student Rapport in Online Classrooms鈥�
• Fusheng Tang, Department of Biology, 鈥淥sh6-Mediated Sterol Redistribution Extends the Lifespan鈥�

The Track B winners and their projects include:

• Hirak Patangia, College of Engineering and Information Technology, 鈥淎n Experimental Investigation of a Faster Voltage Equalizer for a String of Batteries in Electric Vehicles鈥�
• Shanzhi Wang and Brian Berry, Department of Chemistry, 鈥淚nvestigation of the Pre-steady State of MTANs from Borrelia burgdorferi鈥�

Kanekar and Williams鈥� project involves testing a digital simulation that will train health education students in how to conduct public health initiatives by learning aspects of program planning and evaluation for preventing a condition/disease of public health importance. 鈥淢y co-investigator, Dr. Joe Williams, and I feel great about winning this grant as we believe that this pilot project may open up doors for extending educational games for student learning in other health courses and looking into advanced gaming projects for student learning,鈥� Kanekar said. Proposals were judged based on the significance of the research or creative activity, quality of the research plan, expected outcomes and direct impact to the community, strength of plan to seek external support, ability to enhance and acquire external support, and qualifications of the researchers. 鈥淭he quality of the proposals for this year鈥檚 Seed Grant competition blew me away,鈥� said Jerry Damerow, chair of the Dean鈥檚 Science Council for the College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences and one of judges for the seed grant competition. 鈥淭he quality was so good it made judging very difficult.鈥� Damerow said the judges looked for projects that would give 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock a competitive advantage and projects that could lead to commercially viable products or services. 鈥淚n this regard, Dr. Childers and Dr. Lu鈥檚 project to improve outcomes in developmental mathematics has the opportunity to give 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock an advantage in retaining and graduating students versus other universities that use a more traditional approach,鈥� Demerow said. 鈥淒r. Patangia鈥檚 project aimed at improving the efficiency of charging a string of batteries has important potential in the rapidly growing field of alternative energy.鈥�]]> /news-archive/2018/02/23/college-social-sciences-communication-host-research-showcase/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:16:25 +0000 /news/?p=69559 ... College of Social Sciences and Communication to host research showcase Feb. 26-27]]> The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock College of Social Sciences and Communication will host its annual Research and Creative Works Showcase Feb. 26-27 in Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Hall.聽 The showcase will highlight the research of students, faculty, and staff from the College of Social Sciences and Communication and feature guest speakers and workshops. An awards reception will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, in the Student Services Center Auditorium to honor the showcase鈥檚 participants as well as reveal the winners of six student awards and one faculty member award. The event will feature three spotlight sessions on the art of positive communication, online learning, and crime in Little Rock. Dr. Julien Mirivel, interim dean of the College of Social Sciences and Communication, will present 鈥淭he Art of Positive Communication鈥� from 8:30-10 a.m. Feb. 26 in Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter C. With personal examples and stories, the session will invite participants to practice concrete behaviors that will have a positive effect at home, work, and in the community. The second spotlight session, 鈥淚f We Build It, They Will Come: Building Sustainable Online Programs,鈥� will begin at noon Feb. 26 in Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter C. The panel provides ideas for administrators and faculty members who are considering or offering fully or partially online programs. The panelists include Dr. April Chatham-Carpenter, chair of the Applied Communications department; Dr. Elizabeth Sherwin, chair of the Department of Psychology; Dr. Mary Parker, chair of the Criminal Justice department; and Dr. Heidi Skurat-Harris, associate professor of rhetoric and writing. They will discuss challenges in building online programs, how to assess effectiveness of programs, and the major takeaways from their experiences. The 鈥淐rime in Little Rock鈥� panel will feature scholars from the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of Criminal Justice who will review the trends and spread of crime citywide along with applications from several issues central to the discussion about crime in Little Rock, including research on gang violence, inmate reentry, and campus crime. The panel will begin at noon Feb. 27 in Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter C. Panelists include Criminal Justice faculty members Dr. James Golden, Dr. Tusty ten Bensel, Dr. Timonthy Brown, and James Hurst. View a schedule of the College of Social Sciences and Communication Research and Creative Works Showcase here. ]]> /news-archive/2017/10/02/agarwal-receives-230000-assist-u-s-department-defense-social-bot-detection/ Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:31:12 +0000 /news/?p=68097 ... Agarwal receives $230,000 to assist U.S. Department of Defense in social bot detection]]> Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair of Information Science, received the grant to develop a socio-computational model for the (DARPA) to detect the online presence of social bots. These bots automatically generate messages that persuade social media users on particular issues, ideas, and campaigns. Agarwal is working with, a company based in Rockville, Maryland, that specializes in research and development for federal agencies and corporations in the United States. Agarwal will work on multiple tasks to better understand how social bots have affected public discourse at a social and computational level. These tasks include identifying specific cases in which these bots have affected information and data collection, examining the computational framework of bots, discovering what a bot can and cannot do in a social media space, and developing behavior models to identify strategies in which bots are used. “It is vital to study these rapidly evolving cyber warfare tactics to understand influence operations conducted on social media that distort public discourse, weaponize narratives, and fabricate perceptions,” Agarwal said. “In this project, we will develop and perfect methodologies informed by social science and computational social network analysis to study the information dissemination and coordination behaviors of social bots and to aid the development of detection tools ready for deployment in cyber operations.” In the next phase of the project, Agarwal will explore the content that social bots create, map their behavior, and explore their effectiveness in information campaigns.]]>