U of A physicists Charles Paillard, Laurent Bellaiche and Gregory Salamo will investigate at the atomic level a ferroelectric material that could be integrated into existing silicon computing platforms.

Anastasia Makhanova, a psychology professor at the University of Arkansas, will lead a five-year study on how stress and illness may cause bias in healthcare workers.

Biological sciences researchers argue that statistical “noise” leads to perceived increase in evolutionary rates over short times scales.