Nitin Agarwal
US Army Funds UA Little Rock Project to Combat Social Media Manipulation
A $5 million grant will help professor Nitin Agarwal evaluate and develop methods to defend against "emerging cognitive threats" in cyberspace. read more >
UA Little Rock Researcher Awarded $95K to Study Social Media Safety
The grant from the National Science Foundation will help develop novel big data mining algorithms. read more >
UA Little Rock Makes COSMOS a Designated Research Center
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) Lab has received approval from the Arkansas Department of Education to become an established research center on campus. read more >
COSMOS, Attorney General Develop Website to Combat COVID-19 Misinformation
The Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Arkansas attorney general's office are partnering to combat misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
UA Little Rock Researcher Awarded $600K for New Health Study
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is one of five institutions sharing a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a multi-scale integrative approach to digital health. read more >
UA Little Rock’s Nitin Agarwal Gets $2.4M for Cybersecurity Grant
Nitin Agarwal, director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, gets a three-year, $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. read more >
ARA Names Six Researchers To Fellows Program
Six new Arkansas Research Alliance Fellows were named Thursday during a news conference at the state capitol with Gov. Asa Hutchinson. read more >
UA Little Rock Professor Shows Ways of Fighting Propaganda
On May 2, UA Little Rock professor Nitin Agarwal attended the kickoff of the U.S. State Department’s Tech Demo program to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation. read more >
UA-Little Rock Professor Awarded $1.5M to Study Cyber Propaganda Campaigns
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock announces that information science professor Nitin Agarwal has received more than $1.5 million to research ways to aid U.S. military forces in the fight against cyber propaganda campaigns. read more >
Chelsea Wakefield To Lead Program Within UAMS Psychiatry Department (Movers & Shakers)
Wakefield will establish a program to treat those with issues related to interpersonal relationships. She was previously an assistant professor at the university. read more >
UALR Student Asks: Web Privacy — Do You Care?
The impact of technology on privacy is often covered in the media, but how aware of privacy issues are we, especially when it comes to how our information is shared online and on social media? read more >
UALR Professor Nitin Agarwal Fights Terrorists
Propaganda from "Deviant groups" like ISIS is being disseminated more quickly than would have been possible with traditional methods, according to Nitin Agarwal of UALR. read more >
University of Arkansas at Little Rock: Cutting Edge Research Strives for Important Breakthroughs (Sponsored Report)
The faculty of the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) at UALR helps educate the next generation of Arkansas’s engineering, IT and construction professionals. And EIT’s professors also participate in cutting-edge research aimed at creating important scientific breakthroughs and increasing the body of knowledge in critical subject areas. Below are highlights of five EIT researchers’ work. read more >