Short Talks From The Hill

Alan Mantooth discusses ARIES, the UofA’s new electronics research institute, its MUSiC silicon carbide facility and why extreme-environment electronics matter for Arkansas.

Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering and computer science, on the new AIRES institute.

Megan Rosa-Caldwell, an assistant professor of exercise science, on how anorexia nervosa affects skeletal muscle.

Physicist Hugh Churchill, director of the new Arkansas Materials Institute, talks with Todd Price about 2D materials, quantum applications and why the UofA is strong in materials science.

Hugh Churchill, professor of physics, on the new Arkansas Materials Institute that he directs.

UofA researcher Jim Lampinen talks with Todd Price about eyewitness identification, lineup procedures and how memory can be swayed by outside information.

James Lampinen, chair of the Department of Psychological Science, on the science of witness identification.

A U of A political scientist traces how 19th century students, not empires, spread the game across Europe and the Americas, turning it into modern soccer.

Thomas Adam, professor of political science, explains how soccer became a global game in the late 19th century.

Padma Viswanathan, who teaches in the UofA MFA in Creative Writing and Translation, discusses her shortlisted translation of Ana Paula Maia's Brazilian novella "On Earth As It Is Beneath."