Northwest Arkansas Community College is a full-service community college in Bentonville, Arkansas, that offers transfer and professional academics, remedial and advanced programs, college life activities and a full range of student services. Academics include professional degrees in healthcare and business, such as: * Marketing * Nursing * Physical Therapy * Respiratory Therapy Other programs of study include transfer degrees in the arts and sciences, such as: * Drama * Film * Fine Arts * International Languages * Environmental Regulation * Psychology * Sociology High-performing degree candidates also have the option of enrolling in the school’s honors program. North Arkansas Community College has an adult education division, as well, which offers GED-prep and classes in ESL and Computer Literacy. Student life activities are available to students in all divisions. Some examples of these activities include performing arts clubs, academic and professional clubs and other types of student organizations. The career services division sponsors a range of activities, including career readiness workshops, job fairs and on-campus recruiting seminars. They also provide career counseling and job-search assistance. Most programs have an open admissions policy, which allows anyone with a high school diploma or GED to enroll, simply by filling out an admissions application. Healthcare programs have additional requirements. Students may receive academic, departmental and other types of scholarships, as well as federal financial aid awards like grants and loans.
The Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I³R) at the University of Arkansas is a new model of public research and economic development. It works with commercial, philanthropic, non-profit, and governmental organizations to deliver positive societal impact by bringing the discoveries of the future to the world in real-time.
AMBOTS Inc. is commercializing the patent-pending swarm 3D printing and assembly technologies. This technology aims to automate manufacturing with a swarm of smart and autonomous mobile robots, from everyday products to houses and infrastructures. Just like how a swarm of bees or wasps would work together to build their nests, the swarm of smart mobile robots can work together to print and assemble products based on digital models on demand. AMBOTS stands for Autonomous Mobile ROBOTS and Advanced Manufacturing ROBOTS.
SIEV Technologies, founded in 2020 and based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, specializes in catalytic membrane technology aimed at transforming biomass waste into valuable bio-products. The company's innovative approach involves designing and fabricating a tunable catalyst that functions similarly to natural enzymes, achieving high selectivity and conversion rates. Unlike traditional enzymes, SIEV's technology can operate at elevated temperatures with greater efficiency, allowing clients to harness a diverse array of biomass sources for the production of sustainable chemicals. This advancement positions SIEV at the forefront of the bio-products sector, promoting environmental sustainability through the effective utilization of waste materials.
The University of Arkansas, located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has a rich tradition exemplified by Senior Walk, a unique feature consisting of over three miles of sidewalks embedded with the names of more than 150,000 graduates spanning nearly 140 years. This initiative reflects the university's dedication to its students and alumni. Additionally, the institution manages an endowment fund, which is overseen by its executive management team, contributing to its financial stability and ability to support educational programs and initiatives.
CelluDot is a biopolymer company that is working to solve the problem of agrochemical drift. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Operator of an engineering platform intended to focus on biotechnology, microelectronics, and nanotechnology. The company's platform assists the healthcare, energy, and defense industries and also helps in the transition of novel biomedical, chemical processing, microelectronics, nanomaterial, and photonics technologies, enabling healthcare, energy, and defense industries to easily design, prototype, package, screen, qualify and produce application-specific integrated circuits for terrestrial and harsh environments.
Lapovations is a healthcare company focused on the development of innovative medical devices for laparoscopic surgery. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the company aims to redefine the field of laparoscopy by creating products that minimize invasiveness and simplify surgical procedures. Their medical devices are designed to enhance surgical outcomes, allowing medical professionals to perform surgeries with increased safety and efficiency.
Cloud services have become ubiquitous to all major 21st century economic activities. However, cloud services and technologies can be significantly more powerful than they are now. A persistent barrier to further advancement has been the lack of a large-scale and open cloud research platforms. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chameleon project will provide such a large-scale platform to the open research community allowing them explore transformative concepts in deeply programmable cloud services, design, and core technologies. Chameleon will allow users to explore problems ranging from the creation of Software as a Service to kernel support for virtualization. This broad range of supported research includes many other areas such as developing Platforms as a Service, creating new and optimizing existing Infrastructure as a Service components, investigating software-defined networking, and optimizing virtualization technologies. The Chameleon testbed, will be deployed at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will consist of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5PB of total disk space, and leverage 100 Gbps connection between the sites. While a large part of the testbed will consist of homogenous hardware to support large-scale experiments, a portion of it will support heterogeneous units allowing experimentation with high-memory, large-disk, low-power, GPU, and co-processor units. The project will also leverage existing FutureGrid hardware at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center in its first year to provide a transition period for the existing FutureGrid community of experimental users. To support the broad range of experiments experiments described above, the project will support a graduated configuration system allowing full user configurability of the software stack, from provisioning of bare metal and network interconnects to delivery of fully functioning cloud environments. A special feature of Chameleon is that it provides for an exceptionally close integration of clouds and networks, which substantially enhances the capabilities of both. In addition, to facilitate experiments, Chameleon will support a set of services designed to meet researchers needs, including support for experimental management, reproducibility, and repositories of trace and workload data of production cloud workloads. The project is led by the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and partners from the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Ohio State University, and University of Texas at San Antonio, comprising a highly qualified and experienced team. The team includes members from the NSF supported FutureGrid project and from the GENI community, both forerunners of the NSFCloud solicitation under which this project is funded. Chameleon will also form a set of partnerships with commercial and academic clouds, such as Rackspace, CERN and Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), and will partner with other testbeds, notably GENI and INRIA's Grid'5000 testbed.
CatalyzeH2O creates nanotechnology and electrochemical clean water solutions.
AMBOTS Inc. is commercializing the patent-pending swarm 3D printing and assembly technologies. This technology aims to automate manufacturing with a swarm of smart and autonomous mobile robots, from everyday products to houses and infrastructures. Just like how a swarm of bees or wasps would work together to build their nests, the swarm of smart mobile robots can work together to print and assemble products based on digital models on demand. AMBOTS stands for Autonomous Mobile ROBOTS and Advanced Manufacturing ROBOTS.
Zebra Analytix, Inc. specializes in the development and commercialization of miniature gas chromatography systems utilizing microelectromechanical systems technology, which is exclusively licensed from Virginia Tech University. The company's flagship products include the Zebra-GC Model L and the Modular Zebra-GC Model M, both designed for enhanced versatility and portability in volatile compound analysis. These systems feature microfabricated chips that allow for multi-channel separations, significantly reducing instrument size while increasing the speed of results. Zebra Analytix also offers services such as column refurbishment and custom designs for specific research applications. Its solutions are widely utilized across various industries, including food and beverage quality control, environmental monitoring, chemical production, pharmaceutical research, and the petroleum and energy sectors. Established in 2017, Zebra Analytix is headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Lapovations is a healthcare company focused on the development of innovative medical devices for laparoscopic surgery. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the company aims to redefine the field of laparoscopy by creating products that minimize invasiveness and simplify surgical procedures. Their medical devices are designed to enhance surgical outcomes, allowing medical professionals to perform surgeries with increased safety and efficiency.
Ouachita Baptist University, established over 120 years ago, is one of the oldest private universities in Arkansas, located in the picturesque town of Arkadelphia. The institution offers bachelor's degrees across various disciplines through its several schools, including the School of Business, School of Christian Studies, School of Fine Arts, School of Humanities, School of Education, and School of Natural Sciences. With a strong emphasis on integrating faith and education, Ouachita encourages students to explore and apply Christian teachings in their academic pursuits. Admission requires an online application along with transcripts and SAT scores, and applicants are expected to demonstrate a commitment to Christianity. The university also manages an endowment fund that supports scholarships, professorships, and academic programs, with the earnings overseen by its executive management team. Financial aid is available through federal, state, and private sources, requiring eligible students to complete the FAFSA application for federal assistance.
SurfTec was founded to develop a novel low-friction, durable coating developed at the University of Arkansas. This technology enables the use of PTFE coatings that are exceptionally thin in applications that are traditionally off-limits for fluoropolymer coatings due to wear, operating conditions, or decomposition of conventional resin binders. We are currently seeking partnerships in the development process and are interested in learning more about your application needs.
OsteoVantage, Inc. is a company focused on developing osteogenic spinal instrumentation technology to enhance surgical outcomes for spinal fusion procedures. Founded in 2012 and based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, OsteoVantage offers a product called OsteoHeal, designed specifically for treating spine injuries. The company's innovative technology aims to minimize pain, enhance mobility, and improve clinical results for individuals suffering from back injuries, fractures, degenerative diseases, and various orthopedic, craniomaxillofacial, and dental disorders. By integrating non-pharmacologic, osteoinductive capabilities into existing implantable instrumentation, OsteoVantage utilizes metal hardware for mechanical stabilization and anchoring, which delivers osteogenic electrical stimuli to the injury site, thereby promoting healing and recovery.
SurfTec was founded to develop a novel low-friction, durable coating developed at the University of Arkansas. This technology enables the use of PTFE coatings that are exceptionally thin in applications that are traditionally off-limits for fluoropolymer coatings due to wear, operating conditions, or decomposition of conventional resin binders. We are currently seeking partnerships in the development process and are interested in learning more about your application needs.
WattGlass LLC, founded in 2014 and based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, specializes in developing innovative water-based anti-reflective coatings designed to eliminate reflection, glare, and fogging on glass and other transparent materials. The company's proprietary nanoparticle technology, initially developed during research at the University of Arkansas, offers a safe and environmentally friendly alternative to hazardous materials typically used in coatings. WattGlass's solutions cater to various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, architectural glass, and solar photovoltaic applications. The company has secured exclusive licensing for its technology and has filed multiple patents to further enhance its product offerings.
OsteoVantage, Inc. is a company focused on developing osteogenic spinal instrumentation technology to enhance surgical outcomes for spinal fusion procedures. Founded in 2012 and based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, OsteoVantage offers a product called OsteoHeal, designed specifically for treating spine injuries. The company's innovative technology aims to minimize pain, enhance mobility, and improve clinical results for individuals suffering from back injuries, fractures, degenerative diseases, and various orthopedic, craniomaxillofacial, and dental disorders. By integrating non-pharmacologic, osteoinductive capabilities into existing implantable instrumentation, OsteoVantage utilizes metal hardware for mechanical stabilization and anchoring, which delivers osteogenic electrical stimuli to the injury site, thereby promoting healing and recovery.
Boston Mountain Biotech is a contract research organization that offers business and research services which is focused on pharmaceutical manufacturing. The Lotus Technology of the company allows manufacturers to reduce host cell protein load in downstream processing through cell line modifications and simplifies the development and manufacturing of recombinant protein therapeutics, vaccines, and enzymes. It provides services from upstream cell line development to downstream protein purification. Their mission is to support scientists by allowing them to focus on what they do. Their facilities are equipped to handle both the small scale needs of academic and clinical researchers as well as the larger scale needs of research teams entering pre-IND development. The Lotus platform links downstream contaminating host cell proteins to potential upstream cell line modifications, causing a boost in chromatographic efficiency. Boston Mountain Biotech is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2011.
WattGlass LLC, founded in 2014 and based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, specializes in developing innovative water-based anti-reflective coatings designed to eliminate reflection, glare, and fogging on glass and other transparent materials. The company's proprietary nanoparticle technology, initially developed during research at the University of Arkansas, offers a safe and environmentally friendly alternative to hazardous materials typically used in coatings. WattGlass's solutions cater to various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, architectural glass, and solar photovoltaic applications. The company has secured exclusive licensing for its technology and has filed multiple patents to further enhance its product offerings.
The Arkansas Science & Technology Authority (the Authority) was created by statute in 1983. The mission of the Authority is to advance the talent and innovation necessary for Arkansas to prosper. With a vision to see Arkansas prepared to compete and prosper in the global economy, the Authority addresses strategies to promote scientific research; technology development; business innovation; and math, science, and engineering education.
Fauxsee Innovations develops a device that fuses information from multiple sensors to provide the blind with the real-time position, speed, and heading information in rural, suburban, and urban areas.
NanoWatt Design
Grant in 2013
NanoWatt Design operates in business that includes providing non-commercial research. It commercializes low-power semiconductor technology developed at the University of Arkansas. In collaboration with a $5B defense/aerospace partner, NanoWatt applied its expertise to image processing, and the company continues to work on defense-related contracts. Nanowatt Design was founded in 2011and is based in Fayetteville, Arizona.
OsteoVantage, Inc. is a company focused on developing osteogenic spinal instrumentation technology to enhance surgical outcomes for spinal fusion procedures. Founded in 2012 and based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, OsteoVantage offers a product called OsteoHeal, designed specifically for treating spine injuries. The company's innovative technology aims to minimize pain, enhance mobility, and improve clinical results for individuals suffering from back injuries, fractures, degenerative diseases, and various orthopedic, craniomaxillofacial, and dental disorders. By integrating non-pharmacologic, osteoinductive capabilities into existing implantable instrumentation, OsteoVantage utilizes metal hardware for mechanical stabilization and anchoring, which delivers osteogenic electrical stimuli to the injury site, thereby promoting healing and recovery.
Silicon Solar Solutions is an Arkansas-based startup focused on addressing the high material costs that hinder the solar industry's growth. The company has developed a patented technology that allows for the production of silicon-based solar cells and thin-film modules using less material while enhancing power generation. This innovative approach employs large grain polysilicon technology, which is effective in both wafer-based and thin-film applications. Additionally, the materials used in their technology are abundant, non-toxic, and recyclable, minimizing environmental impact while promoting sustainability in solar energy production.
CardioWise, Inc. develops and commercializes heart analysis software that combines with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and provides quantitative analysis of myocardium, arteries, and valves. It offers a CardioWise, a non-invasive cardiac CT analysis software that produces Stretch Quantifier for Endocardial Engraved Zones (SQuEEZ), a quantified 4D image model of the human heart. The company’s CardioWise SQuEEZ software enables a quantitative diagnostic evaluation of the heart system using the data from high resolution cardiac CT scan that requires an acquisition time of a single heartbeat. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Ozark Integrated Circuits provides design techniques, modeling and design tools for integrated circuits and systems on chip for extreme environments.