Archive for the ‘Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences’ Category

Techpreneurship: Innovate Arkansas Technology Venture Showcase

The next IA Technology Venture Showcase will be in Little Rock at the Winrock HQ on March 17th from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

 

Techpreneurship: George Rathmann – Biotech Pioneer

In 1980, George and a few other intrepid techpreneurs and research scientists jumped out of their corporate jobs and academic positions to create a new kind of company…

 

Bioscience Research and the Arkansas Delta

The Arkansas Delta. That underachieving older sibling to the state’s golden children — the Ozarks and the Ouachitas. You know, the ones we clean up and shuffle out for guests.

 

The Planet of Laurel and Hardy, or Promoting Good Health for All

How do we support good health for all?

That was the question posed Friday by John Peters, PhD, of Proctor & Gamble’s R&D division. Peters asked it under the backdrop of data from the World Health Organization that indicates almost as many people worldwide suffer from overnutrition (more than 1.5 billion) as from undernutrition (2 billion).