Arkansas State University
Mohammad Abrar Alam, assistant professor of chemistry at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, was recently recognized by the Arkansas Biosciences Institute with its New Investigator of the Year award for 2017.
Alam’s research work includes three recent grants funded through the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence, two involving novel pyrazole compounds and an instrumentation grant for cryogenic storage for mammalian cells.
Catherine Calloway, professor of English at A-State, recently presented a paper on American literature written about the Iraq War at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Philological Association in Little Rock.
Fabricio Medina-Bolivar, professor of plant metabolic engineering at A-State, and Carole Cramer, professor of molecular biology, along with graduate student Tianhong Yang, were recognized by Altmetric for their work with Worcester Polytechnic and the University of Wisconsin on plant tissue scaffolding. Their work was No. 53 on Altmetric’s Top 100 list of research projects that have attracted the most attention worldwide in 2017.
Kathy White Loyd, the interim dean of the College of Business at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro, and Melanie Taylor, vice president of customer service for Entergy Arkansas in Little Rock, have been elected to the board of directors of the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas.
See more of this week’s Movers & Shakers, and submit your own announcement at ArkansasBusiness.com/Movers.
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