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Nanotechnology and the Hogs.
What, you ask, do these seemingly non-related subjects have in common? INOV8 is here to explain.
Before long, one will join the other as one of the state’s most well-known commodities. In the meantime, a nanotechnology conference has been scheduled for January on Petit Jean that will address the state’s nanotech advances in the health-care arena.
Arkansas university scientists are making breakthroughs in nanotechnology that, one day soon, may have the regulars at the local diner buzzing about something other than the Hogs and deer season (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
In addition to the work being done by scientists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences involving nanotubes and the tracking and destruction of cancer cells, the University of Arkansas system board recently approved a bond issue that will enable UALR to construct a new $9 million nanotechnology center.
The new center will be devoted exclusively to UALR’s nanotechnology research and increase its footprint from 8,000 square-feet of shared space in the ETAS building to more than 40,000 SF.
The city of Little Rock is envisioning a research park for midtown that will tie the medical research being performed at UALR, UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital, and nanotechnology could play a big role in it.
Arkansas will always be known as home of the Hogs. And that’s just as it should be. And we’ll always be known for giant discount retailers, chicken empires, Clintondom and the outdoors.
But one day soon, wouldn’t it be cool to add nanotechnology to that list?
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