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Protecting the Grid by Bolstering Cybersecurity
When 225,000 Ukrainians lost electric power in late December 2015, the failure marked one of the first confirmed cyber attacks to result in outages combined with physical impact. During the attack, multiple hackers orchestrated synchronized, coordinated intrusions,...
Fayetteville Ranked as 3rd Best Place to Live in the U.S.
Fayetteville has been growing more and more each year and with growth comes attention. The 2016 U. S. News World Report ranked the best places to live in the U.S. and Fayetteville, Arkansas came in third on the list. The report based out of Washington, D.C. and...
Fayetteville Ranked as 3rd Best Place to Live in the U.S.
Fayetteville has been growing more and more each year and with growth comes attention. The 2016 U.S News and World Report ranked the best places to live in the U.S. and Fayetteville, Arkansas came in third on the list. The report based out of Washington, D.C. and...
NSF Grant Will Help Researchers Change Power for Data Centers from AC to DC
Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas' Center for Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronics Systems, or GRAPES, have received $300,000 – part of a $1.1 million grant to Binghamton University – from the National Science Foundation to help...
Mantooth Named Arkansas Research Alliance Fellow
On Dec. 3, the Arkansas Research Alliance announced that Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering and holder of the Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Mixed-Signal IC Design and CAD, was one of its five inaugural fellows. The ARA Fellows...
GRAPES Center Receives Innovative Managing Director Grant
The NSF Center of Excellence in GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) received a $200,000 Innovative Managing Director Grant from the National Science Foundation. This is the second consecutive year that GRAPES has received this grant, which is...
APEI Powers Into R&D 100 for Second Time
For the second time in the company’s history, Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc. has been included in R&D Magazine’s list of the world’s top 100 technological product innovations. The R&D 100 awards — known as the “Oscars of Innovation” — have...
Researchers Develop Device to Mitigate Blackouts, Prevent Equipment Damage
A local power failure in Ohio ten years ago caused a series of cascading power failures that resulted in a massive blackout that affected 50 million people and caused billions of dollars in damage and lost revenue. Such blackouts could be prevented in the future,...
GRAPES Executive Director Discusses the Role of NCREPT in UA Research at SEC Symposium in February
Dr. Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering, talks about the University's National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission. Read more...
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MUSiC Topping Out Ceremony
Please join us for the Topping Out Ceremony of the University of Arkansas Multi-User Silicon Carbide Research and Fabrication Facility (MUSiC).
Food and drinks provided.
Thursday, April 18th from 1-3pm
MUSiC Site
2079 S Innovation Dr
Fayetteville, AR 72701
SiC+X Workshop
Please join us for the 2024 SiC+X Materials & Devices Workshop.
Monday & Tuesday, August 12-13, 2024 (Dinner on the 11th)
Hosted by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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