Short Talks from the Hill

Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering and computer science, discusses the new ARIES institute. The institute builds on decades of U of A research with applications ranging from data centers to the electric grid.

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric condition characterized by a fear of weight gain and reduced calorie consumption that can result in dangerous weight loss. This condition is thought to affect around 1%-4% of all women, and those who suffer from it, or have suffered from it, are estimated to be three times more likely to die prematurely than those who have never had it.

This month on Short Talks from the Hill, Megan Rosa-Caldwell, assistant professor of exercise science at the University of Arkansas, discusses her research on anorexia nervosa and how it affects muscle biology.

In the latest “Short Talks from the Hill,” physicist Hugh Churchill, director of the new Arkansas Materials Institute, explains how researchers are working at the atomic scale to unlock new possibilities.

An eyewitness identifies the wrong person about one time in three. U of A psychologist Jim Lampinen explains the psychology — and the stakes — of memory.

Thomas Adam, a University of Arkansas political scientist, traces how students and teachers, not empires, spread the game across the globe in the 19th century.

Rosie Perez, a Ph.D. student in the Heat and Hydration Optimization Lab, discusses her research on tactical athletes like firefighters and police and shares what she knows about beating the heat. Perez, herself an EMT, is also conducting a study of cardiac disease in firefighters.

On the latest Short Talks from the Hill podcast, Will Richardson talks about the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in health care.

Younghye Song, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, discusses how nerve fibers in breast tumors may act as highways for the spread of cancer and the novel way she is studying this route.

Janine Chow, assistant professor of theater, talks about the process and history of theatrical sound design in the latest "Short Talks from the Hill" podcast.

Bioinformatics, also known as computational biology, links biological data with information storage, distribution and analysis to support many scientific research areas. In the latest Short Talks from the Hill, assistant professor Aranyak Goswami discusses how he's using computers to answer complex biological questions.