Garrison Financial Institute to Host 'How Can I Afford Retirement?' Workshops at Fayetteville Library

Research shows that individuals in the 50- to 70-year age group believe they are prepared for a comfortable retirement, but many may have not saved enough to achieve that goal. The Garrison Financial Institute in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is collaborating with the Fayetteville Public Library to host the “How Can I Afford Retirement?” series of workshops.

The workshops are non-commercial and free, but participants must register in advance at: http://gfi.uark.edu. The first workshop, “Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement” will be offered at the Fayetteville Public Library at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, or at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. The session will be taught by Glenn E. Atkins, CFA, Garrison Asset Management, LLC.

These workshops have been made possible by a grant from the Investor Protection Trust, a non-profit organization devoted to investor education. Since 1993, the trust has worked with states to provide independent, objective investor education needed by all American to make informed investor decisions. To learn more about Investor Protection Trust, visit their Web site at http://www.investorprotection.org.

The other sessions will be offered in 2010: Session 2 – “Closing the Gap: Investment and Expense Strategies – Even for Late Starters!”: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, or 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 13; Session 3 – “Investing Wisely to Avoid the Financial Risk of Longer Life Expectancy”: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 11, or 10 a.m. Saturday, March 13; and Session 4 – “Protecting Your Investments – The Best Defense is a Wise and Safe Investor: Fall 2010.”

For more information, contact Rochelle M. Costrell, Associate Director, Garrison Financial Institute, Sam M. Walton College of Business 479-575-4399, rcostrell@walton.uark.edu

Reception Honoring Lonnie Williams, Silas Hunt Legacy Award Recipient

A public reception will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the Multicultural Center (Arkansas Union Room 404), to honor the Silas Hunt Legacy Award recipient, Lonnie Williams (B.S.B.A. 1978, M.Ed. 1984, Ed.S. 1991, Ed.D. 2001). After a long career in student affairs at the University of Arkansas, Williams is currently the associate vice chancellor for student affairs at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

The award recognizes African Americans for their significant contributions to the community, state and nation. Throughout the 2009-10 academic year, recipients will visit with students and the community on the University of Arkansas campus. The year of celebration will conclude at a black-tie event in April — the second of its kind. The other recipients are Johnetta Cross Brazzell, Ronnie Brewer and Gerald Jordan.

Remarks will be given by Chancellor G. David Gearhart, Dr. Charles Robinson and Williams.

Animal Science Lecture Nov. 9

James Dale Caldwell, Jr. will present “Impacts of Condensed Tannins on the Ruminant Animal” at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9 in the Hembree Auditorium.

20 Years Later: The University of Arkansas Commemorates the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, putting an end to the division between the East and West German states, signaling the beginning of freedom for the citizens of Communist East Germany, and laying the groundwork for the two countries to be united again less than a year later.  This Wednesday marks the beginning of two full weeks of events at the University of Arkansas marking this historic occasion.  All events are free and open to the public.

Nov. 5-20 – The work of Professor Bryan Gott’s graphic design students (art) and the historical maps of Dr. Fiona Davidson’s geography students (European studies) will be on display along with artifacts from the former East Germany in the display cases in the Fine Arts Building.

Wednesday, Nov. 4 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in 421 Old Main, Dr. Evan Bukey, history, and Dr. Thomas Grischany, history, will present “Inside Communism: Personal Recollections of Everyday Life behind the Iron Curtain.” They will discuss their experiences living in the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union / Bulgaria, respectively, and share photos with the audience.

Thursday, Nov. 5, 11a.m. to 1 p.m. in J.B. Hunt 207 -- Dinner and a show: The East German Western Apachen (Apaches). Bring your lunch and come see one of the many Westerns the East Germans made, in which the Indians are the good guys and the Cowboys are the ruthless capitalists.  Introduction by Dr. Kathleen Condray, German.

Monday, Nov. 9 from 4 to 5 p.m. in Kimpel 105 – Dr. Lisa Corrigan, communication, will discuss the rhetorical context surrounding the fall of the wall by looking at the public discourse of Ronald Reagan.  This lecture is will be followed by a question and answer session.

Tuesday, Nov. 10 from 4 to 5 p.m. in Kimbel 210 – “99 Red Balloons and the Youth of America.” Dr. Jennifer Hoyer, German, will discuss how the only four West German pop songs to make it onto American charts were all about the conflict between East and West in the Cold War.

Wednesday, Nov. 11 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Ozark 25 – Symposium: "The West's Political Reaction to the Fall of the Wall." The panel will include Alessandro Brogi, history: United States, Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, history: Great Britain and

Thomas Grischany, History: West Germany.

Each panelist will offer remarks for 15 to 20 minutes followed by questions and discussion.

Skinner to Present CSES Seminar Nov. 9

The Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Fall Seminar Series will continue at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the Larry Coombes Auditorium, Plant Sciences 009, with a presentation by Vaughn Skinner, director of Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center, on Development and Use of Spatial Information Technologies to Manage an Agricultural Experiment Station.

Poultry Science Lecture Nov. 11

Dr. Heather Paxton of the Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom, will present a seminar entitled "Locomotor Design Constraints and Musculoskeletal Compromises in the Broiler Chicken" at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in POSC A-211 (the second floor auditorium in the Center of Excellence for Poultry Science). Coffee and cookies will be provided beginning at 3 p.m. in the second floor atrium. Interested faculty and students are welcome.

La Verdad Sospechosa (The Liar) Production Set for Nov. 11-12

Spanish470V presents the Spanish production: La Verdad Sospechosa / The Liar at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 11-12, in the Student Union Theater. It is a comedic play about a man that doesn’t know when to stop lying and learns a hard lesson. This play will be performed by Spanish students and sponsored by the Multicultural Center. Admission is free.

Economic Development: Locally, Nationally & Globally

Dr. David Rothwell, postdoctoral fellow in the department of social work at National University of Singapore, will present a case for asset-based interventions based on his research findings from an Individual Development Account (IDA) program with indigenous peoples of Hawai‘I from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main.

Refreshments will be provided.

Seasons in the Frigid Regions of the Solar System

Dr. Bonnie Buratti, a principal scientist and senior research scientist, will present a lecture entitled “Seasons in the Frigid Regions of the Solar System” as part of the fall 2009 Arkansas Public Lectures in Space and Planetary Science, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the Space Center Theater (Old Museum Bldg., room 201). Buratti received her Ph.D. in astronomy and space sciences from Cornell University in 1983. Buratti is the group supervisor of the Asteroids, Comets & Satellites group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  Her research focuses on:  seasonal transport of volatiles on the surfaces of the planets; the composition, distribution, and nature of dark material in the Solar System; and, the microphysical nature of planetary surfaces.  A description of her talk is below.

The planets and moons in the outer Solar System exhibit seasons just as the Earth does, and for the same reason: they are tilted with respect to the sun-planetary plane. The outermost bodies – Pluto and Triton - exhibit the transport of frost over decades instead of years. Careful photometric observations, many gathered by students, have detected seasonal volatile movement on Triton and possibly Pluto. Unlike the Earth, the volatile is nitrogen and methane rather than water ice.

Admission is free and open to all members of the university community and the public. 

For further information, contact the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences at csaps@uark.edu or 479.575.7625. 

Visit http://spacecenter.uark.edu for more information.

Geometry Through the School Years

The Fulbright College department of math will present "Geometry Through the School Years," a special lecture by Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, in room 132 of the chemistry building. The lecture is free and open to the public. Askey is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. He has 155 publications in a wide variety of international journals, in addition to a book on "Special Functions" published in 1999 by Cambridge University Press.

Much has been written about teaching arithmetic to children.  However, geometry has been ignored, yet it is the area of mathematics in which students do most poorly once they get beyond the stage of names for different figures. Askey will begin his talk with elementary school geometry. One essential difference between a triangle and a quadrilateral is that a triangle is rigid while a quadrilateral is not. Other topics will why there is a factor of 1/2 in the formula for the area of a triangle but 1/3 in the formula for the volume of a pyramid.

Activities to Mark 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall

Two weeks of events are planned to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. From Nov. 5 through Nov. 20 in the display cases in the Fine Arts Building will be the works of professor Bryan Gott’s graphic design students and the historical maps of Dr. Fiona Davidson’s geography students, along with artifacts from the former East Germany.

• From 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in 421 Old Main — A discussion of “Inside Communism: Personal Recollections of Everyday Life behind the Iron Curtain” by Dr. Evan Bukey and Dr. Thomas Grischany. They will discuss their experiences living in the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union / Bulgaria, respectively, and share photos with the audience.
• From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in J.B. Hunt 207 — "Dinner and a Show: The East German Western Apachen (Apaches)." Bring your lunch and come see one of the many Westerns the East Germans made, in which the Indians are the good guys and the cowboys are the ruthless capitalists. Introduction by Dr. Kathleen Condray.
• From 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Kimpel 105 — Dr. Lisa Corrigan will discuss the rhetorical context surrounding the fall of the wall by looking at the public discourse of Ronald Reagan. This lecture will be followed by a question and answer session.
• From 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Kimpel 210 — “99 Red Balloons and the Youth of America” by Dr. Jennifer Hoyer. She will discuss how the only four West German pop songs to make it onto American charts were all about the conflict between East and West in the Cold War.
• From 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in Ozark 25 — A symposium "The West's Political Reaction to the Fall of the Wall" featuring Alessandro Brogi, Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, and Thomas Grischany. Each panelist will offer remarks for 15 to 20 minutes followed by questions and discussion.

All events are free and open to the public.

Next Animal Science Seminar on Monday, Oct. 26

The next Animal Sciences Department Seminar will feature Amber Brooke Rayfield, who will present "A genetetic approach to parasite resistance in beef cattle," and Timothy Norton Rojas, who will present the "Impact of forage vs. conventional feeding on carcass quality and sensory of beef." The seminars begin at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, in the Hembree Auditorium, AFLS E-107.

Future seminars in the series will be at the same time on Mondays and in the Hembree Auditorium. They include:

• Nov. 2 – Juvenal Kanani – "Evaluation of nutritive value of forages in ruminants by internal markers"
• Nov. 9 – James Dale Caldwell Jr. – "Impacts of Condensed Tannins on the Ruminant Animal"
• Nov. 16 – John Thomas Richeson – "Stress and the acute phase protein response in newly received beef cattle"
• Nov. 23 – Lindsey Nicole Mehall – "The effects of pre-versus post-treatment fabrication on microbial load count of primal and sub primal cuts of red meat"
• Nov. 30 – Tifanie Kindle Silver – "Investigation into the incidence of intestinal helminthes in goat species"
• Dec. 7 – Eric Hatungimana – "Effects of Dietary Neutral Detergent Fiber on Performances of Lactating Dairy Cattle"

Author Zulfikar Ghose to Speak on the Question of a Writer's Identity

Zulfikar Ghose, a prolific author of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, will offer a public lecture titled "On Being a Native Alien: The Question of a Writer's Identity" at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in Kimpel Hall 105. Ghose was born in British India in 1935, an area that later became Pakistan. He attended Keele University in Britain in the 1950s, where he studied English and philosophy.  He was sports correspondent, based in South Asia, for the London Observer.  In the 1960s he began publishing poetry, short stories and his first novels. "The Murder of Aziz Khan" (1967), a harshly realistic look at the persistance of feudalism in newly independent Pakistan, is considered the first novel by a Pakistani published in the United States.  In the 1970s he gained international repute with his trilogy, "The Incredible Brazilian," which Thomas Berger called "a picaresque prose epic of Brazilian history."  Paul Theroux judged the work "a considerable feat of imagination and novelistic ventriloquism" and Anthony Burgess hailed it as "what fiction is meant to be about: life bigger than life."  His most recent novel is "Triple Mirror of the Self" (1992).  He is currently Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Texas-Austin, where he taught for many years.

As the title of his lecture suggests, Ghose defies -- and resists -- neat geographical or theoretical categorization as author and critic.

His talk is sponsored by the Pakistan Culture Club, the Latin American Studies program, and the King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. For more information on Ghose, go to http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1724

The Private Memory of Aggregate Shocks Lecture Topic

Carlos da Costa will present “The Private Memory of Aggregate Shocks” at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, in Walton College, room 431.  Dr. da Costa received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently a visitor at MIT.  He has recent publications in JPE (2008, 2005), JPub (2008), Review of Economic Dynamics (2009), among other top journals. More information can be found at http://epge.fgv.br/en/professor/carlos.eugenio.

University of Arkansas Hosts First Salute to Veterans Event

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas will host A Salute to Veterans at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 in the Arkansas Union Ballroom. This is the first event of its kind, and the public is invited to attend.

Speakers will discuss the connection between the military and educational opportunities at the University of Arkansas, and attendees will be recognized for their service.

Speakers include:

• George Westmoreland, chair of the Governor’s Yellow Ribbon Task Force and civilian aide to the secretary of the Army for Arkansas
• Major General William D. Wofford, adjutant general, Arkansas National Guard
• Vaughn DeCoster, team leader, Fayetteville Vet Center
• Hunter Riley, Pat Tillman Foundation program director and University of Arkansas alumnus
• G. David Gearhart, University of Arkansas chancellor
• Josette Cline, chair, University of Arkansas Veterans Task Force

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Danielle Strickland, manager of advancement communications
Office of university relations
479-575-7346, strick@uark.edu

Chemistry/Biochemistry Lecture Oct. 19

Franklin Davis, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry, Temple University, will present "Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines (N-Sulfinyl Imines)" at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in CHEM 144.

Davis was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2009. He has received numerous honors and awards from the ACS and various institutions.

His research interests are focused on the development of new reagents and methodologies for the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles and natural products employing sulfur-nitrogen reagents.

A reception will take place after the seminar in CHEM 105. The event is open to the public.

For more information see http://chemistry.uark.edu/1690.htm, or contact seminar chair Matt McIntosh, mcintosh@uark.edu.

"Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover"

Students and employees are invited to participate in the University of Arkansas’ “Living Library.”  A living library functions similarly to a regular library, except that the books are real, diverse, human beings, who teach others about themselves and their experiences through interpersonal dialogue. 

For students, this is an excellent opportunity to interview someone different from themselves, and may help to fulfill a diversity requirement for a class.  (Please check with the instructor to be sure.) 

For employees, the time spent having a dialogue with a new book can count as one hour towards their UA diversity certificate.  Participants in the Professional Development Institute can also receive credit towards their certificate. 

For everyone, this is an opportunity to learn from and better understand one another and our cultures.

You may visit http://libinfo.uark.edu/diversity/livinglibrary/faq.asp to learn more about the program, including a list of books and information on how to schedule your session. 

Please e-mail Mary Honoré Tucker at mhonore@uark.edu, or call Mary at 575-7096, to reserve your 45-minute session with a “living” book.  

All sessions with books at the Living Library will be held in the living room of Holcombe Hall, located at Garland and Maple.

The Living Library Program is organized and sponsored by the University Ombuds Office, the University Libraries' Diversity Committee, and the International Students and Scholars Office.

Department of Animal Science Graduate Seminar Series Schedule

The department of animal science graduate students fall 2009 seminar schedule follows. Presentations take place from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in Hembree Auditorium (AFLS E107).

Dates and topics are as follows:

Oct. 19: Cari Ann Keys – Free range vs. conventional methods to raise pigs and their effect on pork quality

Oct. 26: Amber Brooke Rayfield – A genetic approach to parasite resistance in beef cattle

Timothy Norton Rojas – Impact of forage vs. conventional feeding on carcass quality and sensory of beef

Nov. 2: Juvenal Kanani – Evaluation of nutritive value of forages in ruminants by internal markers

Nov. 9: James Dale Caldwell, Jr. -- Impacts of Condensed Tannins on the Ruminant Animal

Nov. 16: John Thomas Richeson – Stress and the acute phase protein response in newly received beef cattle

Nov. 23: Lindsey Nicole Mehall – The effects of pre-versus post-treatment fabrication on microbial load count of primal and sub primal cuts of red meat

Nov. 30: Tifanie Kindle Silver – Investigation into the incidence of intestinal helminthes in goat species

Dec. 7: Eric Hatungimana – Effects of Dietary Neutral Detergent Fiber on Performances of Lactating Dairy Cattle

Immigration Basics: General Information and Common Misconceptions

Elizabeth Young, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the School of Law and Roy Petty, attorney with the Petty Law Office in Fayetteville, will lead a Brown Bag discussion of frequently asked questions and hot topics in immigration, as part of the One Book, One Community program from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in room 326 in the School of Law.

Campus Clothesline Project on Display

The Campus Clothesline Project is scheduled to be on display at the Central Quad, the mall area in front of the Arkansas Union, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, and Tuesday, Oct. 6; and from 9 a.m. to about 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. The project is scheduled for extended hours on Wednesday to coincide with the second annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, a march to bring greater awareness and to speak out against violence against women. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes begins at 6 p.m. in the Arkansas Union mall area and is co-sponsored by RESPECT, White Ribbon, Greek Life and SARPA. The public is invited.

Middle East Experts Discuss Future of Israel and Palestine at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two noted experts on the Palestinian and Israeli conflict will lead a roundtable discussion at the University of Arkansas from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, in Room 105 of Kimpel Hall. Roane Carey and Yoram Meital will discuss “Palestine/Israel After Gaza: Futility or Hope?” The event is sponsored by the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. It is free and open to the public.

Roane Carey is managing editor of The Nation, co-editor of The Other Israel (2004) and editor of The New Intifada (2001). Carey was resident scholar this spring at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He traveled to Gaza in June with a group led by Code Pink: Women for Peace, the U.S.-based anti-war and social justice organization.

Yoram Meital is professor of Middle Eastern studies and director of the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East studies and diplomacy at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He is author of Peace in Tatters (2006) and Egypt’s Struggle for Peace (1997). He is currently resident scholar at Northeastern University in Boston.

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Joel Gordon, director
King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
479-575-4157, joelg@uark.edu

Steve Voorhies, manager, media relations
University Relations
479-575-3583, voorhies@uark.edu

Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Announces Seminar Schedule

The University of Arkansas department of crop, soil and environmental sciences will hold regular seminars at 3:30 p.m. Mondays, in PTSC 009. The schedule is as follows:

Sept. 28 – Andrew Scaboo - Evaluation of Inbreeding Methodologies and Molecular Markers for Developing Food-Grade Soybean Cultivars.

Oct. 5 – Michael Sweeney - Soil Quality in an Experimental Cow-Calf Management System Incorporating Novel Endophyte-Infected Tall Fescue.

Oct. 12 – Dr. Raymond Wheeler, senior plant scientist, NASA - Agriculture for Life Support Systems in Space: Past, Present, and Future Research.

Oct. 19 – Amanda Mathis - Performance Evaluation of Septic System Absorption Field Products with Differing Architectures in a Profile-Limited Soil.

Oct. 26 – Chris Rogers - Role of Fluvial Sediments in Modifying Phosphorus Export from the Illinois River Watershed. Bodie Drake - The Effect of Variable Elemental Composition, Temperature, and Light on Periphyton Phosphorus Uptake in Northwest Arkansas Streams.

Nov. 9 – Vaughn Skinner - Development and Use of Spatial Information Technologies to Manage an Agricultural Experiment Station.

Nov. 16 – Brad Davis - Response of Rice, Soybean, and Wheat to Low Rates of Glufosinate.

Nov. 23 – Adriano Mastrodomenico - Soybean Nitrogen Fixation and Nitrogen Allocation at Different Reproductive Stages and Water Regimes.

Nov. 30 – Channon Toland - Stormwater Runoff and Plant Survival on Mock Green Roofs at the Watershed Research and Education Center. Rob Rorie - Determining the N Status of Corn Using Digital Color Analysis.

Dec. 7 – Sanjeev Bangarwa - Alternatives to Methyl Bromide:  Integrated Approaches to Nutsedge Management in Tomato.

Bumpers College Schedules Academic Enhancement Workshops

Bumpers College Academic Enhancement workshops began in September and will continue through October and November. All workshops will be held from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in the Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center ROSE 201.

The following workshops are scheduled:

Oct. 13 - Early Progress Grades... Now What?

Oct. 22 - Test Taking 101

Nov. 10 - Dealing with Stress

Nov. 19 - End of Semester Wrap-Up... How am I Doing?

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N-ST*R at Pine Tree: http://aaes.uark.edu/NSTAR_video.html

Chemistry Lecture Sept. 18

Alumnus Howard Hendrickson, Ph.D. ’96, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at UAMS, will present a seminar “Targeted Metabolomics: Looking for Hay in a Haystack,” at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, in CHEM 144.

An open discussion will take place after his talk in CHEM 144 for undergraduate and graduate students interested in his research or study in pharmacy.

The event is open to the public

Hendrickson’s research is aimed toward the discovery and validation of new biomarkers of disease using “targeted-metabolomics.” The aim of targeted-metabolomics is to correlate the concentration of an endogenous small molecule (e.g., amino acid, lipid) to the pathology of a disease state. His laboratory works with a team of physician-scientists and scientists to identify new biomarkers of disease, including, radiation-induced organ damage, diabetes, and drug abuse.

Chemistry/Biochemistry Lecture Sept. 14

Professor David B. Collum, Cornell University, will present “LDA-Mediated Ortholithiations: Salt Effects and Autocatalysis,” at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, in CHEM 144. His research involves the mechanistic basis of organolithium reactivity and selectivity, always with the synthetic organic community in mind. Among the awards he has received are the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and a National Institutes of Health MERIT Award.  He has collaborated with and consulted for a number of pharmaceutical companies and has published more than 100 research papers.

A reception will take place after the seminar in CHEM 105.

The event is open to the public.

For more information see http://chemistry.uark.edu/1690.htm, or contact seminar chair Matt McIntosh, mcintosh@uark.edu.

Nadi Cinema Sets Fall Schedule

Nadi Cinema, the Middle East Film Club, screens films from across the Middle East and often beyond.  All films – classics, cult favorites, recent hits, comedies, tragedies, political thrillers, social commentaries, and romances, in black-white and living color – are subtitled in English.  Screenings are free and open to the public.  Nadi Cinema is hosted by Professor Joel Gordon of the department of history (joelg@uark.edu).

The films are show at 7 p.m. Wednesdays in 104 Mullins Library.

The schedule is as follows:

Sept. 9:  Shokaran / Hemlock (Iran 2000). A ‘subtle, provocative and elegant’ (New Times) tale of ‘temporary marriage’ – often called an Iranian adaptation of ‘Fatal Attraction,’ and starring the magnificent Hedieh Tehrani (Donya, Halfmoon) in the film that made her a star.  90 minutes/Farsi

Sept. 23:  Ha-Bu`a / The Bubble (Israel 2006). The latest film by gender bender Eitan Fox, the ‘bubble’ is Tel Aviv, a carefree, hip metropolis where young Israelis, even army reservists, can forget how close they live to Occupied Palestine – at least until Noam runs into Ashraf at a West Bank checkpoint. ‘Friends’ meets ‘Will and Grace’ in the shadow of a smoldering conflict.  118 minutes/ Hebrew

Oct. 7:  Izzat / Respect (Norway 2005) 107 minutes, Norwegian/Urdu. Hollywood gangster genre meets Norway’s multicultural urban – and underworld – landscape, as three young Pakistani-Norwegians, out of place in Oslo and disaffected from their parents’ immigrant traditions, became attracted to the East Side Crew. ‘Life’s a matter of honor.’ 107 minutes/Norwegian and Urdu

Oct. 21:  al-Liss wal-Kilab / The Thief and the Dogs (Egypt 1962) 124 min, Arabic. The celebrated adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz’s classic tale, brought to the screen by the great Kamal al-Shaykh, starring Shukri Sirhan and Shadia.  This is the elegiac story of a cat burglar, a product of social revolution, whose time has passed.    124 minutes/Arabic

Oct. 28:  Zinda Lash / The Living Corpse (Pakistan 1967). Second Annual Pakistani Fright Night -- the classic Dracula tale faithfully re-told, yet set far from Transylvania, this a must for horror/monster devotees and proof that ‘in the 1960s even Pakistan was swinging.’  ‘So hot it was banned on original release,’ Zinda Lash features, naturally, a few great musical numbers. 104 minutes/Urdu

Nov. 4: Agir Roman / Cholera Street (Turkey 1997) 115 min, Turkish. Based on a popular novel, the film is set in an old decaying district in Istanbul, home to gypsies, outlaws, prostitutes, those struggling to get by and those endeavoring to escape.  Described as evocative, suspenseful – and unforgettable.  115 minutes/Turkish

Nov. 18:  The Terrorist (India 1999).  ‘An utterly poetic, suspenseful film’ (Washington Post) and a featured selection at Sundance, this film follows a suicide bomber as she ‘marches toward the end of her life.’  Based on events surrounding the assassination of India’s Rajiv Gandhi.  ‘She’s a natural born killer.’  95 minutes/Tamil

Dec. 2:  Wahad min al-Nass / One of the People (Egypt 2006) 132 min, Arabic. A recent Egyptian social thriller with a characteristic cynical take, this is the story of a security guard who witnesses a crime and becomes ensnared in something larger than life – at least his life.  What place is there for the common man in a world of corrupt tycoons and political fixers?  132 minutes/Arabic

Akhmadullin to Perform Guest Recital

Natalia Bolshakova and Iskander Akhmadullin

The Fulbright College department of music will feature guest artist Iskander Akhmadullin on trumpet in a recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, in the newly renovated Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center on the University of Arkansas campus. Akhmadullin will be accompanied on piano by Natalia Bolshakova in a program consisting of works by Giuseppe Torelli, J.G.B. Neruda, Joseph Turrin, Richard Peaslee, Bert Truax, and Bernardino Bautista Monterde.

Iskander Akhmadullin is the assistant professor of trumpet at the University of Missouri and holds degrees from the Kazan Music College, the Moscow State Conservatory, and the University of North Texas. He has been a co-principal trumpet with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra for several seasons and has been a member of the National Trumpet Competition Faculty, as well as performed at numerous festivals and conferences, including the Moscow Autumn Festivals, the Russian Trumpet Guild Conferences, and the International Trumpet Guild Conferences. Together with his wife, pianist Natalia Bolshakova, Akhmadullin has given recitals and master-classes in the United States, Germany and Russia. He was among the first Russian trumpet players to perform on the baroque trumpet.

Natalia Bolshakova studied at the Moscow Conservatory and the University of North Texas. She has been a prizewinner in many competitions, including the New Orleans International Piano Competitions and the Ima Hogg Young Artist International Competition. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras across the United States and in Europe. In 1997, she was cited by the BBC Music Magazine as “one of the most promising musicians of the younger generation.” Bolshakova is on the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Missouri.

The Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall is located in the Fine Arts Building on the UA campus. Free parking is available in the parking deck, which can be accessed from Stadium Drive and is located directly to the west of the Fine Arts Building. The admission is free and the public is cordially invited to attend. For more information, please call the department of music at 479-575-4701 or see the Web at http://music.uark.edu/.

Morris Dees, Founder of Southern Poverty Law Center, to Speak at School of Law

Morris Dees. (Photo by Kevin Glackmeyer.)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Morris Dees, pioneering civil rights attorney and founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will give a presentation at the University of Arkansas School of Law at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. The talk is open to the public and will take place in Leflar Law Center in the E.J. Ball Courtroom.

“I am thrilled to welcome Morris Dees – a great, personal hero to me and so many others, to the School of Law,” said Cynthia Nance, dean and professor of law. “Truly, I can think of no better person to exemplify the monumental positive difference our profession can make than Morris Dees. I have no doubt he will inspire and educate us all.”

The son of an Alabama farmer, Dees achieved remarkable success as a lawyer and publisher in the 1960s. While snowed in at an airport in 1967, Dees decided to change course in his life and devote himself to helping others.

As he wrote in his autobiography, A Season for Justice, “I was ready to take that step, to speak out for my black friends who were still 'disenfranchised' even after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Little had changed in the South. Whites held the power and had no intention of voluntarily sharing it. ... I had made up my mind. I would sell the company as soon as possible and specialize in civil rights law. All the things in my life that had brought me to this point, all the pulls and tugs of my conscience, found a singular peace. It did not matter what my neighbors would think, or the judges, the bankers, or even my relatives."

Following this epiphany, Dees began taking on highly controversial civil rights cases across Alabama and the South, including, in 1969, filing suit to integrate the Montgomery YMCA. In 1971, he and his law partner Joseph J. Levin Jr. founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. Civil rights activist Julian Bond was the center’s first president.

The Southern Poverty Law Center works to educate the public about tolerance while its legal team fights discrimination and hate groups. The center’s Intelligence Project tracks and monitors hate groups and provides updates to law enforcement and the public. Its Teaching Tolerance program is one of the world’s most comprehensive resources for anti-bias information and education.

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Andy Albertson, director of communications
School of Law
479-575-6111, aalbert@uark.edu

Turf Crowd Turns Out for Field Day at Division of Agriculture Center

Graduate student Tara Wood discusses research on managing white grubs, which are Japanese beetle larvae, in different varieties of grass.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It’s a turf crowd that scientists and their graduate students perform for at the Turfgrass Field Day, but attendance has grown each year of the annual event at the Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center 2.5 miles north of the University of Arkansas campus on Arkansas Highway 112.

The turfgrass research area includes the largest putting green in Arkansas. It’s used for bentgrass research and is part of a horticultural research, extension and teaching complex provided by the University of Arkansas System’s statewide Division of Agriculture.

Assistant professor Aaron Patton, who coordinates the event, said most of the approximately 260 field day visitors work in the lawn care, golf course, athletic field and sod farm industries. The field day was held every other year until 2007 when it became a yearly event.

“I think we are meeting a real need by providing updates on research, demonstrations of recommended practices and new technology, and a trade show, which had 20 vendors this year,” Patton said. “It’s also good for networking with other turf people, vendors and university people.”

The field day includes pesticide recertification training for turf managers in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

A tour of research projects and demonstrations included a range of topics, such as grass variety trials, variety selection for various purposes including drought tolerance, managing putting greens, fertilization, and control of plant diseases, insect pests and weeds.

Reports on turf research and extension projects are provided in the “Arkansas Turfgrass Report” published annually by the division’s Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. To see the report online and event announcements, visit the Turfgrass Science Web site at turf.uark.edu.

Results of turfgrass variety trials in Arkansas and other states in the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program are online at www.ntep.org.

Bachelor’s and graduate degree programs in “horticulture, landscape and turf science” are offered by the horticulture department (hort.uark.edu) in Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas.

West Fork Watershed Celebration & River Cleanup on June 13

The 4th annual West Fork Watershed Celebration and River Cleanup will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at Riverside Park, located off state Hwy. 170 in downtown West Fork. Volunteers will check in from 8-9:30 a.m. at the park, then fan out to stations along the river and clean up targeted areas. The cleanup will end at 11 a.m., when a free chicken lunch will served to the first 150 people. Door prize drawings are scheduled for noon. In addition, there will be live music and educational booths. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

The West Fork of the White River flows into Beaver Lake, which is our supply of drinking water.  Each year, a clean-up of our river is conducted as part of protecting our source of safe drinking water and protecting wildlife habitats.

The event is being coordinated by the West Fork Environmental Protection Association. Sponsors and partners include the Watershed Conservation Resource Center, the City of Fayetteville, the City of West Fork, Kiwanis Club, Audubon Arkansas, Washington County Environmental Affairs, the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, Arkansas Stream Team, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, Arvest Bank, Bank of Fayetteville, Tyson Foods, the Arkansas Canoe Club and Beaver Water District.

For more information, call 225-1611 or visit www.wfepa.org.

Toastmaster Club Meeting

Worried about your next presentation? The Razorback Toastmasters Club meets from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of the month (June 3 and June 17). This month they will meet in room 104 in Mullins Library. Whatever your skills - learn to be ready for any public speeking situation, to think quickly and clearly on your feet and build strong leadership abilities.  Everyone is invited to visit.

Math Colloquium April 23

Dr. Kei Nakamura, Oklahoma State University, will present "Incompressible one-sided Heegaard splittings for hyperbolic once-punctured torus bundles" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in SCEN 322. Refreshments will be available in SCEN 350 from 3 to 3:30 p.m.  All are invited.

NPR Deputy GM to Lecture at University of Arkansas April 22

Philip Bruce, deputy general manager of NPR West at National Public Radio, will present the 2009 Roy Reed Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, at the Arkansas Alumni Association House. Bruce is a journalism honors graduate from the University of Arkansas, class of 1980. He has spent more than 25 years as a correspondent and bureau chief for network television affiliates in Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Little Rock and Fayetteville. His lecture is sponsored by the Lemke department of journalism.

Physics Fantastic Fun and Follies Fair April 4

The University of Arkansas Society of Physics Students in association with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers presents "Physics Fantastic Fun and Follies Fair" from 2 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Physics Building, 825 West Dickson Street. Everyone is invited for amazing demonstrations and liquid nitrogen ice cream! Admission is free. Fun for all ages. Come enjoy the wonders of science!

Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism Workshop

The Quality Writing Center (QWC), the Enhanced Learning Center, and the Office of Community Standards and Student Ethics will present the fourth and final spring installment of the Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism Workshop at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in Kimpel 206 B.

The two-hour workshop has three parts. First, the program defines plagiarism, describes consequences, and explains when students need to cite source materials. Second, the workshop teaches approaches to summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting, along with techniques for making proper in-text and bibliographic entries. The workshop culminates in a series of exercises that challenge students to practice the strategies and techniques learned.

Seats are limited. Interested students should reserve a spot online by clicking on the “Workshops” link at www.uark.edu/write. Questions about the workshop can be answered by QWC Director Bob Haslam at writcent@uark.edu. The workshop series will resume in the fall.

Biological Sciences Seminar March 26

Dr. Heidi Kluess, department of health science, kinesiology, recreation and dance, University of Arkansas, will talk about "Environmental modulation of sympathetic neurotransmission" at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in SCEN-604. Coffee and cookies will be available at 3:30 p.m. in SCEN-502.

Web Conference set to Examine Renewable Energy Projects

Join the University Libraries in exploring the possibilities of renewable energy projects on campuses nationwide by attending a Web conference titled "Onsite Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar, and Geothermal" at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in room 472B in the west side of the Mullins library. The conference, a part of the National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology program, features speakers in the field of renewable energy, and provides a question and answer session to encourage discussion among the participants and speakers. For more information please contact Patricia Kirkwood pkirkwo@uark.edu  or Joanna Person at ggg73@hotmail.com.

University of Arkansas Professor to Lecture on Rwandan Genocide Feb. 26

Professor Samuel Totten will give a lecture titled "The Suffering Doesn’t End Once the Killing has Stopped: The Plight and Fate of the Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" from 2 to 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room of Mullins Library. Copies of Totten's recent book The Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide will be available for sale on site by the University of Arkansas Bookstore.

Totten, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Arkansas, received a Fulbright Fellowship last year to work in Rwanda, where he helped establish a genocide studies program at the National University of Rwanda and interviewed survivors of the 1994 "machete genocide" there. He is writing a book from the interviews. He and a colleague have established a scholarship fund to raise money for survivors of genocide around the world to attend college. The Post Genocide Education Fund can be found at http://www.postgen.org/. Totten has written and edited numerous books about genocide and is the editor or co-editor of several journals on the subject.

This lecture is co-hosted by the University of Arkansas Bookstore, the university chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), the department of curriculum and instruction and the University of Arkansas Libraries.

University of Arkansas School of Social Work Celebrating Black History Month

During the month of February, the School of Social Work (SCWK) at the University of Arkansas is celebrating Black History Month. All UA faculty, staff and students are invited to visit the SCWK lobby to view "Silas Hunt: A Documentary". Hunt was the first African American student to attend the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1948. Law classes were held in the current School of Social Work building. This documentary was produced and directed by Chris Erwin and has received the following awards: Aegis Winner's Award, Aurora Gold Award,and Telly Bronze Award. The School also has on display a number of posters of notable African American social activists throughout history.

Nadi Cinema/Middle East Film Club to Meet Feb. 11

Nadi Cinema/Middle East Film Club at the University of Arkansas will present the film “Camur/Mud” (Dervis Zaim, Turkey 2003) 82 minutes, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in 104 Mullins. The film is free and open to the public.

Near the border between Turkish and Greek Cyprus, where black mud is believed to carry miraculous healing abilities, four Turkish friends deal with teenage memories of the Greek-Turkish war and, at the same time, try to strike it rich on the antiquities market.  A black comedy mixing surrealism with reality, “Camur” is a film about ‘rebirth.’  Turkish w/English subtitles

Scott Carrell Piano Recital Guest Artist set for Feb. 24

Pianist Scott Carrell will present a guest artist recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall at the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center. A reception will follow the performance.

Carrell has captivated audiences in the U.S. and Europe with his virtuosic flair, expressive playing and informative comments, by presenting innovative programs of both classical and jazz works, including discussion of the works and the composers.

A native of Texas, Carrell has performed numerous recitals as soloist and as collaborator, including concerto appearances with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Pine Bluff Symphony Orchestra, the Southwestern University Orchestra, the Plainview Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Civic Orchestra, the Little Rock Wind Symphony and twice with the Harding University/Community Orchestra.  An active chamber musician, he co-founded the Searcy Chamber Music Series and has performed on many of its concerts. 

Receiving degrees from Southwestern University, the University of Illinois and the D.M.A. from the University of North Texas, he studied with internationally-known artists Drusilla Huffmaster, Ian Hobson and Vladimir Viardo and participated in master classes with Abbey Simon, Gail Delente and Dominique Merlet.  The French Piano Institute awarded him a prize for the best performance of a work by Henri Dutilleux at the 1996 FPI Festival in Paris, France.  He was also honored with the Distinguished Teacher Award from Harding University for the 2003-2004 academic year. 

In 2007, Carrell released a new compact disc, Ragtime Memories, which consists of pieces in various ragtime style -- classic, novelty and player piano styles.  Composers represented include Joplin, Scott, Lamb, Confrey, Berlin and others, plus two original rags.  His previous disc, Crossings was released in 2005, including works by Chopin, Debussy, Haydn, Schulz-Evler and Carrell.  It features the world premiere recording of the title work, an original composition based on a painting by an Arkansas artist.

An active member of the Arkansas State Music Teachers, he has presented sessions at both regional and state conferences and served as the state coordinator for the student composition competition; he began serving as the MTNA South Central Division coordinator in 2004.  His judging activities include students at all levels, from local festivals to national competitions. Currently teaching piano, music theory and composition at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, Carrell is in demand as a soloist, collaborative artist, teacher and adjudicator.

Math Colloquium Nov. 20 at University of Arkansas

Professor Mikhail Feldman from the University of Wisconsin will present "Shock Reflection, Free Boundary Problems and Degenerate Elliptic Equations" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in SCEN 322.  Refreshments will be served from 3 to 3:30 p.m. in SCEN 350.  All are invited.

Lt. Governor to Answer Questions about Lottery

Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter will talk with University of Arkansas students and answer questions about Proposed Constitutional Amendment 3, the Scholarship Lottery Amendment. He will speak in room 510 of the Arkansas Union at 2:30 p.m., Monday, October 27. The talk is being sponsored by the Young Democrats in cooperation with the Hope for Arkansas Committee.

Unique Student Documentaries to Premier at Arkansas Union Theater

Four student-produced documentary films will premier at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at the Arkansas Union Theatre. The students made the films in graduate-level classes taught by two award-winning University of Arkansas journalism professors, Larry Foley and Dale Carpenter, who have collaborated on documentary films for more than 25 years. Each documentary presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the student filmmakers. The premiere is free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public.

The documentaries include:

•    Bridge to a New Life: the Story of Miss Malen and the Couchsurfers (filmmakers Sarah Moore and Cheryl Sybrant). Synopsis: The film takes a look at the lives of homeless young adults, age 18-22, in Northwest Arkansas who are given a second chance in life when they enter Youth Bridge Transitional Living Program, run by the witty, and sometimes exasperated, Miss Malen Gardner.

•    Dogpatch USA (filmmakers Dixie Kline and Matthew Rowe) Synopsis: Arkansas built a theme park around Al Capp’s popular comic strip, Lil’ Abner, in the heart of the Ozarks. In spite of warning signs that it might fail, Dogpatch USA entertained a generation of people. A mountain of challenges finally crushed the park, but its ghost is still hanging around.

•    KURM RADIO: The Soapbox of the Air (filmmakers Kelly Millar, Hayot Tuychiev and Nikki Wise) Synopsis: There are only a handful of independent radio stations left in the United States. The film follows Colonel Kermit Womack and his staff as they show just how much a day at KURM radio differs from the average, conglomerate programming.

•    What Can Happen in Three Weeks (filmmakers Kevin Estes and Michelle Conty-deGroat) Synopsis: Each semester, the University of Arkansas hosts approximately 20 Japanese students from Shimane University for an intensive crash-course in American language and culture. The film documents the Japanese students and their experiences.

For more information, contact: Larry Foley, professor, Walter J. Lemke department of journalism, 479-575-6307, lfoley@uark.edu

Workshop for Teaching Assistants and TA Advisors

The Teaching Assistant Effectiveness Advisory Committee, a standing committee of the Graduate Council, strives to support teaching assistant preparedness on the UA campus. The committee will host two upcoming workshops for teaching assistants for TA's and TA advisors in all disciplines across the university.  “Online Communication Resources for Teaching Assistants” will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 or from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, both in Kimpel Hall 206B. The workshops will demonstrate for faculty and teaching assistants how they can use “wikis” and Facebook to create online discussion areas where teaching assistants can share ideas, problems, and resources.

For information contact Dr. Patrick Slattery at pslatter@uark.edu

Landscape Architect to Lecture on "Beyond Green"

An entry monument to High Desert in Albuquerque, N.M., one of several stylized images of blue grama grass, a drought-resistant plant native to the area. Courtesy Design Workshop, Inc.

Kurt Culbertson, who is the School of Architecture's 2008 John G. Williams Distinguished Professor, will launch the school’s 2008 – 2009 lecture series at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8, with a talk titled "Beyond Green: Toward Social Justice and Equity Through Design." The lecture will take place in Shollmier Hall.

Culbertson is principal, shareholder and chairman of the board for Design Workshop Inc., a landscape architecture, land-planning and urban-design firm with offices in Aspen, Colo., and Asheville, N.C. The firm, which the ASLA named Landscape Architecture Firm of the Year for 2008, is renowned for using sustainable development and design strategies to reconcile economic needs with the preservation of scenic, cultural and community values. Culbertson took a lead role on two key projects for Design Workshop: the master planning process for Flathead County, Montana, a 3.8-million-acre community experiencing rapid growth, and the design of High Desert, a residential development in Albuquerque, N.M. that uses open space planning to preserve natural drainage systems and views. These and other projects are discussed in depth in the 2007 monograph on Design Workshop, Toward Legacy.

A native of Shreveport, La., Kurt Culbertson received his undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree in business administration in real estate from Southern Methodist University. He has won more than 20 regional and national awards for design work that ranges from secluded sanctuaries to national parks. In addition to design work, he has conducted extensive research on the contributions of German-American landscape designers to the profession of landscape architecture and authored an award-winning biography, The Life and Times of George Edward Kessler.

Students In Free Enterprise Cook-Out Rescheduled

The Students In Free Enterprise cook-out has been postponed until Wednesday, Sept. 10, due to rain. Everyone is invited to attend to learn more about becoming involved in one of the greatest student organizations at the University of Arkansas!

Chemistry Seminar Sept. 5

Professor John Mclean of Vanderbilt University will present "Structural Separations by ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry: New Prospects for Complex Biological Systems," from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, in CHEM 144.

The event is open to the public.

Abstract:  Following the paradigm of the human genome project, much of current systems biology research entails characterizing, quantifying, and cataloging the biomolecular inventory of a sample at specific dimensions of space (e.g. cellular, tissue, or organism level) and time (e.g. point in the life cycle, healthy vs. Diseased state). In support of high throughput systems biology research, new measurement strategies are necessary that incorporate simultaneous “omics” data. Rapid (us-ms) two-dimensional separations based-on ion mobility-mass spectrometry (im-ms) techniques have demonstrated great utility in characterizing complex biological samples, primarily because different biomolecular classes (e.g. peptides, carbohydrates, oligonucleotides, lipids, etc.) Adopt structures in conformation space (correlation of structures vs. M/z), which are predictable based on prevailing intramolecular folding forces. This report describes recent results for a variety of biomolecular classes including those of interest in metabolomics, proteomics, lipidomics, glycomics and genomics. The aim of this work is to define the conformation space in which different classes of biomolecules are observed. Furthermore, we report molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate structural differences within a given molecular class. For example, structural differences for carbohydrates and glycans are observed in a predictable manner for different isobaric (same mass) positional and structural isomers. Analogously, isobaric lipids of different classes (e.g. sphingolipids and glycerophospholipids) adopt distinct structures owing to differences in the degree of coordination that the anhydrous molecules can achieve with alkali metals in competition with intramolecular hydrogen bonding forces. Based on these studies, we describe how the general position of signals in conformation space can yield information about which biomolecular class a particular signal belongs, and within a biomolecular class, what additional information can be interpreted from experimental structural determination.

For more information contact Charlie Wilkins, cwilkins@uark.edu.