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Hairy Roots
workshop on Thursday
Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolivar and Dr. Argelia Lorence,
Arkansas Biosciences Institute, have organized the first
International Workshop on Hairy Roots to be held at ABI this Thursday.
The workshop is near capacity with participants from several
countries. At the ABI laboratory,
hairy roots are
being used to produce valuable chemicals with applications in
medicine, agriculture and food science. For example, two current
projects in the laboratory are focused on using hairy root
technology to produce chemicals for treating cancer. A second
project is looking at the manipulation of the hairy roots to make
novel chemicals with potential applications in the treatment of
Parkinson’s Disease.
For more on the workshop program, click on the
workshop
website.
Or, contact the workshop organizers,
Dr. Medina-Bolivar or
Dr. Lorence.
William Allen's image
archive is featured
The online art image collection
compiled by Dr. William Allen, Art History, and Center for Learning
Technologies, is
Peregrination's featured website in the latest issue.
Click
here to visit the archive. According to th e
article, Allen has taken thousands
of photos of art-historical sites for use in his classes. Since 2000, he
has made these accessible to fellow teachers and medieval art
aficionados through the archive. The
photos often include details of works that are difficult to photograph, such
as interior mosaics and wall paintings. For art historians, Allen also runs the website
Digits, which
gives practical advice for teaching art history and incorporating
new technologies.
ADHE news on federal student
grants
The Arkansas Department of
Higher Education announced last week that the curriculum of the
Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship has been deemed rigorous
enough to assist students in qualifying for new grant programs
announced by the U.S. Department of Education. The new federal grant
programs are the Academic Competitiveness (AC) Grants and the
Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants. In
addition to the Pell Grant amount, up to $750 will be awarded to
eligible first-year AC recipients and $1,300 to second-year AC grant
recipients. Up to $4,000 (in addition to Pell Grant funds) will be
awarded to eligible National SMART Grant students, who are in the
third or fourth academic year of pursuing a four-year degree program
in mathematics, science, technology, engineering or in a critical
need foreign language. For more details, go to
www.federalstudentaid.ed.gov or call 1-800-4FEDAID or contact
finaid@astate.edu.
Blue Monday next Monday in
Paragould
KASU presents Olga
next Monday at 7 p.m. for Blue Monday-Paragould at Brittny’s Steakhouse,
downtown. Hailing from San Francisco of Austrian parentage, Olga
is among the vanguard of new blues artists combining innovation with
a deep sense of roots. Olga received classical training in
voice, piano, and violin at a young age with her friend's guitar and
the help of Jimi Hendrix. Soon thereafter, blues kidnapped her mind
and soul. Olga now calls Memphis and New Orleans her homes.
Admission to the Blue Monday-Paragould concert featuring Olga
is free thanks to sponsors Bank of Paragould, Child Art Studio, Joe
Holifield – Attorney at Law and KASU, but seating is limited.
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