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Fledgling Program Claims Five Top National Awardees Among Its Students
-- Posted by tfisher on Friday, October 7 2005

A doctoral program at the University of Arkansas is the only one in the country able to claim a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellow, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Doctoral Fellow, a Canon National Parks Science Scholar and a Baldwin Fellow of the Leakey Foundation among its students this year.

The doctoral program in environmental dynamics, which was started in 1998, is an interdisciplinary research program that studies the complex interactions between natural systems and human activity.

Among the approximately 4,000 doctoral programs in all disciplines at U.S. universities, the UA program in environmental dynamics is the only individual program with active students who have earned these prestigious fellowships.

"Given the very competitive nature of the doctoral degree industry in the United States, I think these are remarkable achievements for a program in only its eighth year of operation," said Stephen Boss, director of the program.

To read the full release, please go to http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/5474.htm

Arkansas and Oklahoma Researchers Awarded $7.8 Million NSF Grant in Nanoscience
-- Posted by tfisher on Monday, October 3 2005

Materials researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Oklahoma have won a six-year, $7.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will renew funding for the Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures, or C-SPIN, which is one of 29 elite Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers in the United States.

"During the past five years, C-SPIN researchers have emerged as national leaders in nanomaterials research," UA Chancellor John White said. "Their work will help create new electronic devices that will be faster, more powerful and more stable, yet will take up less space and require less power to operate. Renewal and expansion of this prestigious grant rewards the researchers for their important work and is another example of our university's nationally competitive position in scientific research and education."

Thirteen similar centers nationwide were awarded a total of more than $152 million in funding this year. In addition to the UA-OU team, other institutions that will receive funding include Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, the California Institute of Technology and Northwestern University. Other centers are located at Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University and Yale University. The National Science Foundation currently supports 29 Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers with annual investments of $52.5 million.

To read more, please go to http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/5400.htm

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