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News about the
center from the University of Arkansas
Space Center Draws Chemical Engineers Into Research
Orbit.
Spring 2005 Barringer Lecture by Larry Nittler.
UA Researcher traces origins of meteorites in a new
book
Keck Foundation Awards $500,000 to Fund Search for
Life on Mars.
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Participating colleges and departments
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The Arkansas Center for
Space and Planetary Sciences is a research institute at the University of Arkansas
which is a partnership between six departments (chemistry/biochemistry,
physics, geosciences, biological sciences, chemical engineering and
mechanical engineering) in four colleges (Arts/Sciences, Engineering, the
Honors College and the Graduate School). We conduct research on astronomy and
planetary science and the geology and biology of planet, asteroid and comet
surfaces and we design instruments and plan missions for the exploration of
our solar system and other planetary systems. Since we are a university
research center, we are student-oriented and in partnership with the academic
departments, we offer masters and doctoral programs in space and planetary
science, and we offer concentrations in space and planetary science in the
departmental graduate programs physics, biology, geology and geography.
We also offer a program of summer research for undergraduates. Finally,
we try to take the excitement of our research to the general public and to
future generations of scientists and their teachers in the grade schools.
Please explore this site to learn more about us, our students, our research,
and other activities. Please contact us if you would like to study at the
center as an established scientist, as a student interested in graduate
school, as a summer intern or high school teacher. Please contact us also if
you are a curious person with interests to share.
Derek Sears
Director
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Hot spots!
New
W. M. Keck
Laboratory for Space Simulation
Graduate
Degrees in Space and Planetary Science
Undergraduate Summer
Program
Visiting
Researchers Program
Summer
Workshop for Teachers of Grades 4-8
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