Research Showcased in Magazine, Video, Online

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Research Frontiers

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Along with the fall issue of Research Frontiers magazine, readers will have the opportunity to see research in motion online.

The fall 2007 issue will feature video supplements for some of the stories, as well as more features and videos not in the current issue of the magazine.

“Some of the research and creative activity on our campus is best told through a visual medium,” said Melissa Lutz Blouin, editor of Research Frontiers. “The ability to show research in motion will give people a different perspective on the whole process.”

The fall 2007 issue includes stories about hands-on science education for children, ongoing research with biomedical implications in the Center for Protein Structure and Function, the work of the Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics, and a law professor’s new book on Wiley Branton, who was one of the pioneering African American law graduates at the University of Arkansas, defended the Little Rock Nine during the Central High Crisis of 1957 and went on to be a Civil Rights advocate.

Videos online include teachers talking about the impact of the science education program on their students; a discussion of how logistics research can help heal the health-care system by Ron Rardin, who holds the John and Mary Lib White Systems Integration Chair in Industrial Engineering; a description of the atmosphere during the Central High Crisis of 1957 by Judith Kilpatrick, professor of law; building environmentally sound neighborhoods through the work of Steve Luoni, director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, and Marty Matlock, associate professor of ecological engineering; and an update on research in the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, which was originally featured in the inaugural issue of the magazine.

There will also be an additional article and slide show on the Web, showcasing the summer work of graduate student Jeff Kimmons, who spent a few months working with the Audubon Society to help protect puffins that have been reintroduced to an island in Maine.

Finally, the UA Q&A will be updated on the Web site on a weekly basis. A new question and answer will appear weekly on the Web site, as well as in the Wednesday edition of the Daily Headlines e-mail distributed to the University of Arkansas community. Please log on to http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu to submit a question and to read and see more about research.