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Research in the Rock Fall 2015 Research in the Rock . Fall 2015 Research in the Rock Editors/Writers Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Amy A. Manning Paula Casey, JD Emily Davis Interim Vice Provost for Research Photography Staff Megan Douglas Tammie Cash, BS, CRA Director Contributing Photographers Tina Kennedy Monica L. Guzman Administrative Specialist III Krista Smith Grants and Contracts Processing and Submission UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture Sharon Kaufman, BS, CRA UALR Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences Associate Director UALR Office of Communications Dan Shelton, BBA Ken West Photography Grants and Contracts Specialist Kenji Yoshigoe Emily Davis, MA Editor/Grants and Contracts Administrator II Electronic Research Administration Christina Laurentia, MBA Research Technology Specialist Grants and Contracts Management and Accounting Gayle Lenard, BS Associate Director Juanita Sherman, BA Grants and Contracts Specialist Kristen Dickson, MBA Grants and Contracts Coordinator Michael O’Bryan, MS Grants and Contracts Specialist The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at UALR provides information, services, and support to members of the UALR community to enable them to compete successfully for outside funding to conduct scientific research; create works of art; compose music; write books and articles; improve their performance in the classroom; and better serve their students, professions, and the public. In accomplishing this mission, ORSP ensures accountability, compliance, and stewardship for sponsored programs as directed by all applicable federal, state, local, and institutional policies, procedures, and regulations. To find out more about ORSP, visit ualr.edu/orsp/. You can reach us at 501.569.8474 or at [email protected]. Contents Letter from the Interim Vice Provost for Research 4 Digital Detectives 5 7 Tiny Weapons, Giant Battles Meet Bailey Barnes 8 9 Nature and Nurture What’s the Big Deal about Big Data?10 11 Keeping the “Beauty and Reverence” Alive A City Transformed 13 14 Marine, Author, Investigator, Governor Online Exhibit Chronicles “The Man in Black”15 16 Thinking STEM? Start Early Paying Attention to Prevention 18 19 Meet Brenda Branham 21 Digital Hostages Meet Samer Al-khateeb 20 22 Ready to Research Letter from the Director of ORSP 23 Fall 2015 3 Up for the Challenge UALR Students Ready for the 21st Century As I write this letter, we are ending the summer 2015 semester, and my staff is processing applications for graduation. Completing a student’s final paperwork is an intensive task but, oftentimes, a bittersweet one. We are proud of our students’ accomplishments and know that they will be missed by their classmates and faculty “UALR is leading the way mentors. The best part for us is hearing about their successes as they enter their careers or doctorate programs. in many disciplines and fields. Our students leave UALR is one of five research universities in the state of Arkansas. Our innovative facilities and programs have attracted academic here fully prepared to take talent from all over the world, which is great news for our faculty on the global challenges and even better news for our students. Our programs and proliferating as the 21st resources create a culture of intellectual growth. We are proud century surges ahead.” of the ample opportunities our students have to conduct their own projects. Of course, this is true for other research-intensive universities, but UALR is leading the way in many disciplines and fields. Our students leave here fully prepared to take on the global challenges proliferating as the 21st century surges ahead. Paula Casey, J.D. In this premiere issue, we feature several of our student researchers, Two UALR researchers, Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, director of the UALR both graduate and undergraduate. They talk about working side George W. Donaghey Emerging Analytics Center, and Dr. Alexandru by side with their faculty advisors, conducting projects in hard Biris, director and chief scientist of the UALR Center for Integrative sciences such as nanotechnology, medicine, systems engineering, Nanotechnology Sciences, are connected to ARA. Dr. Cruz-Neira is UALR’s and chemistry, as well as social sciences such as criminal justice, first ARA Scholar and Dr. Biris was selected one of the first ARA research political science, and cybercrime. fellows last fall. Both researchers are profiled in this issue. In the UALR Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, Every spring, we get the privilege of seeing some of the research our we have faculty and student teams working on cutting-edge students are doing. We hold an Undergraduate and Graduate Research technologies that seem ripped from the pages of a Star Trek script: and Creative Works Exposition on campus where students publicly display creating 2D nanostructures to override chemo-resistance in cancer their research projects, and winners receive awards. Their research cuts cells, using a printer to produce human cells, and developing an across various fields, which fosters inspiration for collaborative projects— updraft tower to generate electricity for one building. Many of research critical to the human issues we’ll face in the years, decades, and these projects are born from the minds of our students prepared to centuries ahead. change the world. We dedicate this new publication not only to our faculty, staff, and UALR’s funders include federal agencies such as the National students, but to our community supporters in all areas of business and Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the National government, and to those with a personal interest in seeing Arkansas Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Defense, the National become the standard for academic research. Endowment for the Arts, and the National Aeronautics and Space Sincerely, Administration, as well as state agencies such as the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, the Arkansas Space Grant Paula Casey, J.D. Consortium, Winrock International, the Arkansas Science and Interim Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School Technology Authority, and the Arkansas Humanities Council. Our students, both graduate and undergraduate, are receiving research experience on the highest levels. Oftentimes, our students will travel with faculty nationally and internationally to see collaboration within the global community firsthand. Our research initiatives just keep growing, and our students are reaping the benefits. In 2007, the Arkansas legislature approved the appropriation of start-up operational funding for the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA), an organization dedicated to accelerating economic development and encouraging a vibrant, knowledge- based economy in the state. Our chancellor, Dr. Joel Anderson, was immediately invited by then-Governor Mike Beebe to join the15- person ARA board of trustees, recognizing UALR’s place at the forefront of national research. 4 Research in the Rock Digital detectives Looking for Clues inside the CAVE The classic science fiction film Fantastic Voyage tells the story of a group of medics trying to save a world-renowned scientist after an assassination attempt. This scientist has created a “shrinking machine” for military purposes. Using this new technology, the team shrinks itself to microscopic size, jumps into a minuscule submarine, then is injected into the scientist’s bloodstream to travel up to the brain and repair the damage done. Far-fetched, isn’t it? But inside the Computer Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) at the Emerging Analytics Center (EAC), the future, as they say, is here. “When I designed the first CAVE system in the early 90s, I really didn’t know what I was doing or the impact it was going to have,” College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) and chair of said Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, the director of EAC and co-creator of the EAC Data Science Advisory Board, would take the helm as EAC’s the CAVE. “When I finished the project, and it was shown in public first director. for the first time, there were people waiting in line for six and Located on the fourth floor of EIT, the EAC holds data visualization seven hours in Chicago to see it. Then it was on the news. I got systems that were among the first of their kind in the world: 35 invited all over the world to give talks.” screens and monitors with more than 50 million pixels providing high The CAVE looks unassuming enough. It’s about the size of definition resolution for both 2D and 3D applications. When Good a cubicle with three walls, each 12 feet tall. An image of an announced she was stepping down as director, Anderson already enormous human skeleton is projected on the back wall. UALR knew a potential candidate—the co-creator of the CAVE. researcher Carsten Neumann takes out a pair of red glasses for Cruz-Neira was serving on the board of the EAC where Anderson was the viewer to wear then says to look forward. Suddenly, the also a member. At the time, she was the William Hansen Board of skeleton explodes off the back wall into 3D, dominating the 144 Regents Endowed Superchair in Telecommunications, Electrical and square feet of the CAVE. Computer Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. “The Neumann holds what looks like a video game controller. He group here coordinated a short meeting with the governor [Beebe] pushes a button and a blue beam shoots out of the device and to introduce ourselves,” said Cruz-Neira. “He said, ‘We need to bring lands on the skeleton’s right rhomboid, the muscle that covers people like you to the state.’ The conversation sort of transitioned from the shoulder blade. He raises the controller, and the muscle lifts a casual coffee in the governor’s office, then it became serious.” upward then hovers in the air. He continues to remove muscles In August 2014, Anderson announced the appointment of Cruz- from the back, revealing the bones and nerves underneath. Each Neira as the new director of the EAC.
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