Mary Yang
A professor of information science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been awarded a $75,000 Arkansas Research Alliance grant and a spot in the Arkansas Research Alliance Academy.
Grant recipient Mary Yang, also director of MidSouth Bioinformatics Center at UA Little Rock, has received numerous awards for her research, including National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Awards, the Engineering and Information Technology Faculty Excellence Award in Research, and the Innovative Research-Education Integration Award from the American Council on Science and Education.
Yang, who studied engineering at China’s Hunan University, received two master’s and a doctorate in engineering-related fields from Purdue University. She also worked as a professional software engineer at the Shenzhen Electronic Industry and Trade Co.
The professor is among a cohort of seven other academics to join the ARA Academy this year. The ARA fellowships “recognize scientists and engineers who reside at a university or institution in Arkansas for their ongoing, exemplary contributions to the state’s core research focus areas,” a UALR news release said.
“Each ARA scholar and fellow is a research powerhouse in their own right,” Bryan Barnhouse, president and CEO of ARA, said in a statement. “Combined partnership with the state and the researchers’ host institutions, the ARA academy represents a collaborative juggernaut of research talent pursuing bold, interdisciplinary ideas to support statewide economic development.”
The ARA Academy was founded in 2016 to facilitate collaboration between researchers in Arkansas.
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