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Nitin Agarwal

Education / Government & Politics

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 >
Nitin Agarwal, director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Education

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 >
Nitin Agarwal, director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Education

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 >
Nitin Agarwal, director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Education / Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

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 >
Nitin Agarwal
Education

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 >
Nitin Agarwal, director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Education / Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

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 >
Clockwise, from top left, are new Arkansas Research Alliance Fellows Nitin Agarwal, Jingyi Chen, Steven Foley, Xiuzhen Huang, Clint Kilts and Mansour Mortazavi.
Education / Government & Politics / Nonprofits

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 >
Nitin Agarwal
Education / Government & Politics

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 >
Nitin Agarwal
Education / Media & Marketing

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 >
Dr. Chelsea Wakefield of the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Education / Health Care

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 >
Terry Williams
Education

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 >
Nitin Agarwal
Education / Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

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 >
Dr. Cang Ye has developed a “smart cane” that will help visually impaired people travel more easily and safely.

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 >