Usha Gupta

Professor Gupta, is Head of the Physics Library. In addition to collection management, she has completed several studies in evidence-based evaluation of chemistry and physics collections. She has played a vital role in converting several collections to the electronic media and has implemented Super Service as a way of revitalizing instruction and providing documents on demand to faculty and graduate students at the University of Arkansas campus. Together with University Professor Salisbury, she has conducted several comparison user studies with print and online versions of scholarly journals. She has also conducted targeted user surveys on specific online products. She does not have NSF support related to the proposed subject..

Lutishoor Salisbury

Luti Salisbury, University Professor , PI, is the Head of the Chemistry Library and is also Agriculture, Food & Life Sciences Subject Specialist at the University of Arkansas. She has introduced various innovative methods to reaching out to science faculty and in providing information literacy instruction for students at all levels. She had completed several studies in in evidenced-based collection management, in effectiveness of information sources and in information seeking behavior of scientists. She has also introduced innovate methods of reaching out to users who are at remote locations across Arkansas through the Arkansas Agricultural Extension Services.. She does not have NSF support related to the proposed subject.

Greg Salamo

Professor Salamo - Co-PI on a NSF MRSEC grant on the “Physics of Nanostructures” (DMR-9983678). He has published over one hundred papers in referred journals, given numerous contributed and invited talks, and contributed several book chapters. He also pursues the development of interdisciplinary research and education as co-PI on NSF-IGERT and GK-12 grants. Under IGERT he developed a new Ph.D. degree on microelectronics-photonics now with over 60 students. In the GK-12 program he has helped bring inquiry into science classes in the 6-7 grades in Northwest Arkansas. He has also developed a new nanoscience course and laboratory under an NSF CCLI grant and has worked as co-PI on an NSF-PFI funded program on entrepreneurship in education which has increased the number of Phase I SBIR’s in Arkansas by a factor of 5. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America

 Dave Wall

Dave Wall is Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Arkansas and Professor Emeritus at the City College of San Francisco. He is known for his traveling road show The Physics of Magic and Vice-Versa. opening and closing with traditional magical effects incorporating a physics patter. Between the opening and closing, he presents various physics demonstrations dressed up as magic tricks. The Pepper's Ghost demonstration, as shown at the left for example, is used to explain the concept of a virtual image in optics. This is a famous old illusion, first introduced to the public in 1863 by the director of The Royal Polytechnic, John Henry Pepper. Since then, Pepper's Ghost has become the principle behind many magical illusions.

Bill Durham

Bill Durham is Professor and department chair of the Chemistry Department and currently supported by NIH on biological electron transfer reactions that play an essential role in numerous important biological processes, including energy production in mitochondrial respiration and the synthesis of numerous cellular materials. Genetic defects in electron transfer proteins are responsible for a variety of human health problems. The long range goal of his research program is to develop a detailed understanding of the features which govern these reactions. He does not have NSF support related to the proposed subject but has been the primary force behind education reform in the University Chemistry Department. research laboratories across the country.