- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/yupo-chan/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:42:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professors named 鈥榁isionary Arkansans鈥 /news-archive/2018/12/10/visionary-arkansans/ Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:42:54 +0000 /news/?p=72924 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professors named 鈥榁isionary Arkansans鈥]]> Two professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have been named鈥 by the Arkansas Times for their extraordinary research accomplishments. The list recognizes 鈥渋nspired men and women who are making great things happen.鈥澛 Dr. Yu-Po Chan, chair of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of Systems Engineering, is part of a trio of 鈥渟paceflight cubed鈥 researchers who are designing CubeSats, low-cost, miniature satellites. “We are planning in the long run to have a constellation of these satellites … flying in formation,” Chan said. “This would be Arkansas’s very first with our name on it. Many other states bigger than us have already launched, so we are catching up, basically.” His collaborators are Dr. Po-Hao Adam Huang, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at 糖心Vlog传媒 Fayetteville, and Dr. Edmund Wilson, a chemistry professor at Harding University in Searcy. Their first CubeSat model, ArkSat-1, is being designed by Huang and should be delivered to NASA by the end of 2019 and launched in early 2020. In October, Chan received a $24,900 grant from NASA to develop a different CubeSat project. Called SAMSAT (solar and atmospheric measuring satellite), the research will eventually map the presence of water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere above Arkansas. Chan will then compare that information to data collected by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-16, which is one of two weather orbiters operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. GOES weighs in at over 3 tons, according to NASA’s website 鈥 about the weight of a Hummer H2. SAMSAT will probably weigh around 3 pounds. “We are using the big satellite’s data to validate that what we see is accurate,” Chan said. “We’re talking about billions of dollars in the big satellite, thousands of dollars in these small satellites.” Additionally, 鈥淗istory Detective鈥 Dr. Brian Mitchell, a professor of history at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, has been highlighted for research that is filling in the gaps of the Elaine Massacre, one of the deadliest race riots in American history.
Dr. Brian Mitchell

Dr. Brian Mitchell

鈥淩eceiving the honor took me by surprise,鈥 Mitchell said. 鈥淚f I had to say anything, I would thank the students who worked with me on the projects, past and present. I would also thank my colleagues Drs. Barclay Key and Guy Lancaster, noted author and distinguished attorney Grif Stockley, Congressman French Hill and his staff, the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the Solomon family for their assistance and support.鈥 In September 1919, after one of several meetings black farmers held with representatives of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union, a white deputy spying on the meeting was fatally shot. Acting at the urging of the Phillips County sheriff, a mob of whites roamed the county, killing hundreds 鈥 some estimates are as high as 800 鈥 of black residents. Five whites were killed, but only African Americans were arrested and jailed. Twelve black men were quickly found guilty of murder by an all-white jury and sentenced to death. They were imprisoned while their appeals in two famous cases traveled to the state and U.S. supreme courts. Their convictions were overturned, and they were sentenced to time served and released. But fearing they’d be lynched, all 12 fled the state, along with hundreds of other African Americans from Elaine who feared for their lives. Mitchell and his public history graduate students have searched census records, city directories, vital records, and newspaper accounts to discover what happened to the Elaine 12. So far, they have discovered the locations of six of their graves. The students are writing biographies of the men for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Encyclopedia of Arkansas. They also are raising funds to place markers on their graves, a project 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is doing in collaboration with the National Park Service and other agencies and with the help of private individuals. A previous class worked to transcribe the death certificates of African Americans killed in the race massacre and created a database. The database has been provided to the Arkansas State Archives for public use. In the spring, Mitchell鈥檚 History of Racial Violence class will look at the connections between race and violence in America from first contact through the 21st century. ]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock researcher awarded nearly $25,000 to monitor Earth’s atmosphere /news-archive/2018/10/18/yupo-chan-research/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:03:03 +0000 /news/?p=72364 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock researcher awarded nearly $25,000 to monitor Earth’s atmosphere]]> Dr. Yupo Chan, a professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has received $24,900 from NASA to measure the earth鈥檚 atmosphere to monitor its health and future climate. 聽 Chan is working with Dr. Edmond Wilson, professor of chemistry who heads the at Harding University, and Dr. Po-Hao Adam Huang, associate professor in the . The research team will map and monitor water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, hydroxyl radicals, oxygen, ozone, and oxides in the earth鈥檚 atmosphere using a solar and atmospheric measuring satellite called SAMSAT, a low-cost, miniature satellite used for space research. The goal of the project is to establish a set of baseline data in the state of Arkansas that will show the present state of the earth鈥檚 atmosphere and predict future trends. The information is of great value to Arkansas and beyond. The data collected by the research team will be compared to more conventional forms of satellite data collection such as the NASA/NOAA Geostationary Operational 聽Environmental Satellite. The validation of this new and inexpensive data-collection method will show the accuracy and uniqueness of SAMSAT. This is the second year that the research team has received funding for this project. This NASA grant is funded through the , a program that provides seed funding for aerospace research in the state of Arkansas. Contributing Editor Lydia Perry / Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Photo by Benjamin Krain  ]]> Donors establish innovative workshop to promote transportation and telecommunications research /news-archive/2017/08/24/rising-star-workshop/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:10:50 +0000 /news/?p=67709 ... Donors establish innovative workshop to promote transportation and telecommunications research]]> A recent anonymous donation to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will fund a workshop designed to promote academic breakthroughs and career counseling for academics studying the intersection of transportation and telecommunications research. The Chan Wui and Yunyin Rising Star Workshop brings together early-career academics and senior fellows with at least 30 years of experience for a unique, one-week workshop to promote collaborative research and career success. 鈥淭ransportation and telecommunications research is what I would call the cutting edge of the future of transportation,鈥 said Dr. Yupo Chan, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professor of systems engineering who has been selected as director of the Rising Star Workshop. Chan pointed to the development of driverless cars as a well-known application of transportation and telecommunications research and a potential research topic that could be discussed at the upcoming conference. 鈥淭he benefits are quite tremendous,鈥 he said. 鈥淭heoretically speaking, driverless cars would allow a lot more traffic on the street to be accommodated. If everyone drives at the same speed, there would be no congestion and no accidents. There would be very smooth traffic flow.鈥 The Rising Star Workshop will be held in the Como Lake region of north Italy, near Bellagio, in summer 2019. The anonymous donors agreed to pay for all expenses for the workshop and each participant鈥檚 travel. In addition, the donors signed a second gift agreement to contribute $27,000 annually to support a graduate assistant in the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock George W. College of Engineering and Information Technology who will help plan and promote the workshop. Mustafa Alassad, a first-year doctoral student in the systems engineering program, is the first graduate assisted to be funded through the Chan Wui and Yunyin Research Assistantship Fund. During the workshop, participants will have in-depth discussions about the critical research questions raised by recent changes in transportation and telecommunications. Additionally, the senior fellows will provide career advice and guidance to the early-career academics on the skills essential for success in academic careers.聽After the workshop, each participant will author a paper for publication in an academic journal. Research papers written by participants of the first Rising Star Workshop, held in 2016, will be published in a 2017 edition of the Transportation Research Record Journal, a widely recognized journal of the Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences and Engineering. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is partnering with Imperial College, the University of Munich, and the University of Kentucky in a joint Steering Committee to plan and operate the workshop. For more information, contact Dr. Chan at 501.569.8926 or yxchan@ualr.edu. In the upper right photo,聽Christian O’Neal, vice chancellor for university advancement, shakes hands with Rising Star Workshop Director Yupo Chan in front of the portrait of the Baileys in the Bailey Alumni Center.聽]]>