Dr. Faith Yarberry has accepted the position of Lecturer I in Chemistry. Dr. Yarberry earned her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Texas in 2002. She had served as a visiting assistant professor in the UCA Department of Chemistry since 2006. Following her Ph.D., Yarberry worked in temporary faculty positions at the University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, Kent State University, and Stark State College of Technology (Ohio). A 1992 graduate of the University of the Ozarks, Dr. Yarberry returned to Arkansas in 2006.
Dr. Bhupinder Vohra has joined the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He has had several years of rigorous experience in the field of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology. He received his doctoral degree from Kurukshetra University in India. Vohra was awarded a fellowship by the Governments of India and China to explore the effects of traditional Chinese formulations on neuronal survival and the learning/memory process. He did his postdoctoral research in the Department of Neurology at the University of Minnesota where his work on the human subjects and animal models of a neuromuscular disorder. In order to broaden his research training, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he has been teaching at the Washington University School of Medicine for the past 3 years. He has a strong desire and high ambition to excel in biomedical research as well as an intense commitment to teaching.Dr. Barbara Clancy, associate professor in biology, received an award from Elsevier, one of the world’s leading publishers of science and health information. Clancy was notified that a 2007 publication, “Extrapolating brain development from experimental species to humans,” has become one of the “Top 10 Cited Articles” published in the last five years in the journal “NeuroToxicology.”
Dr. Patrick Carmack, assistant professor of mathematics, gave a research presentation entitled “A New Class of Semiparametric Semvariogram and Nugget Estimators” at the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings, held in Vancouver, Canada from July 31 to Aug. 5. The Joint Statistical Meetings, the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America, was attended by more than 6,000 people.
Dr. R. B. Lenin, assistant professor of mathematics, gave a research presentation “Modeling and Simulation of Super Computers (High Performance Cluster Computing Systems – HPCC)” in the Department of OB/GYN at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) on Aug. 6. Dr. Lenin plans to collaborate with the doctors and staff at the OB/GYN Department at UAMS to model their patient flow.
Dr. Umadevi Garimella, director of Arkansas Center for Math and Science Education, served as a National Selection Committee panelist for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching program. The National Selection Committee for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching program convened in Washington D.C. from July 28 to July 30 to review Science applications. Dr. Garimella reviewed 9 applications, watched related videos, wrote individual summary reports, and scored and ranked each application before convening at NSF. At the NSC meeting, Garimella participated in an intensive three-day review that included summary discussions, along with review of the applications and related videos.In Fall 2009, Dr. Bernard Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, proposed and taught a new course entitled “Data Mining” in the Computer Science Department. Three bioinformatics research papers generated by the course have been accepted and published in the 2010 international conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP 2010), Las Vegas, NV, July 12-15, 2010. Two of the three research papers were presented by undergraduate students, Michael Miller, Timothy Montgomery, Terrance Griffin, Christopher Rhodes, Christopher Kline, and Luke Irvin. Michael Miller also delivered an oral presentation (acceptance rate: 27%) titled “Clustering Using Positional Association Rules Algorithm on Protein Sequence Motifs” to an audience of bioinformatics experts. Christopher Rhodes presented his research results “Protein Sequence Motif Information Generated by Fuzzy – Hybrid Hierarchical K-Means Clustering Algorithm” in a poster session.
Bernard Chen, Michael Miller, Timothy Montgomery, Terrance Griffin, “Clustering Using Positional Association Rules Algorithm on Protein Sequence Motifs”, BIOCOMP2010 proceeding, pp. 75-80, Las Vegas, USA, Regular Research Paper (RRP) Accepted (Regular Research Paper Acceptance Rate: ~27%).
Vincent Yip, Bernard Chen, Sinan Kockara, “Extraction of Protein Sequence Motifs Information by Bi-Clustering Algorithm” BIOCOMP2010 proceeding, pp. 185-190, Las Vegas, USA, Regular Research Paper (RRP) Accepted (Regular Research Paper Acceptance Rate: ~27%).
Bernard Chen, Christopher Rhodes, Christopher Kline, Luke Irvin, ” Protein Sequence Motif Information Generated by Fuzzy – Hybrid Hierarchical K-Means Clustering Algorithm”, BIOCOMP2010 proceeding, pp. 198- 201, Las Vegas, USA, Short Research Paper (SRP) Accepted.
STEM Residential College Shirts Available
The response to our STEM Residential College shirts was overwhelmingly positive, so we are opening up our ordering site again! Shirts can be viewed and purchased online at www.uca.edu/cnsm/stemrc or go directly to the online order form at https://www.uca.edu/web/forms/view.php?id=208 To those of you who have ordered and not picked up your shirts, please call Leah Horton, 450-5920, email: lhorton@uca.edu or Leigh Ann Denhartog, 450-5971, email: ldenhartog@uca.edu.