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The University of Arkansas is the state’s only doctoral/research university-extensive institution, as categorized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In simple terms, the university is in the top tier of 150 research universities among the nation’s more than 4,000 post-secondary institutions — and growing in research activity and expenditures each years.

As a land-grant and state university, the institution considers research, scholarship and creative endeavor — all leading to the advancement of knowledge — a significant component of its primary mission. The university’s faculty members are active researchers and scholars who consistently attract international attention in the arts, sciences, humanities, technology, business and education.

Research expenditures at the University of Arkansas for fiscal year now exceed $100 million per year, making research activity a significant academic element at the university and an economic engine for the state. It’s also not uncommon anymore for research awards to the university to rise at double-digit percentage rates, and such awards also are approaching the $100 million level.

In addition to the work performed by faculty through individual and collaborative efforts in their academic departments, special research and outreach programs — often interdisciplinary — are conducted in approximately 50 centers and organized research units around campus.

Among the leading-edge facilities driving the work of these centers and research activities are:

• The RFID Research Center laboratory conducts research in the most efficient use of radio frequency identification and other wireless sensor technologies throughout the supply chain, with a particular emphasis on the retail supply chain. Positioned in northwest Arkansas at the epicenter of retail activity, the RFID Research Center laboratory is a multidisciplinary “supply chain in a box” devoted to examining the technology as used in retail, storeroom and warehouse environments.

• The Center for Sensing Technology and Research features a 9.4 Tesla Fourier transform mass spectrometer, which uses a high-powered magnet that improves the resolution of images of molecules and provides detailed information about their structure. Coupled with other instruments in the High Performance Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, the mass spectrometer offers high-resolution laser desorption mass spectrometry, which is not available at any other public laboratory in the country.

• The Chemical Hazards Research Center has the largest ultra-low-speed boundary layer wind tunnel in the world. The wind tunnel simulates releases of heavier-than-air gases into the atmosphere. It has been used to simulate potential disasters and to trace the path of disasters that have occurred, such as the catastrophic 1984 Union Carbide leak in Bhopal, India.

• The High Density Electronics Center has established itself as one of the top electronics packaging research and education facilities in the world. HiDEC has executed contracts from government and industry totaling more than $30 million. Projects have ranged from multichip module design to the development and evaluation of new technologies and electronic products.

• The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies has been recognized nationally for its data storage and retrieval warehouse, GeoStor, by the Urban & Regional Information Systems Association. The center works with people across campus in various disciplines, offering researchers the latest in innovative technologies. This has led to interdisciplinary collaboration in fields as diverse as engineering, agriculture, anthropology and sociology.


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