Researchers in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have analytically demonstrated non-touching confinement of nanoparticle systems by using electrostatic forces. The team, led by Dr. Brandon Kemp (right), professor of electrical engineering, includes of Cheyenne Sheppard, instructor of electrical engineering, and graduate students Nandine Mitra, lead author, and Tamal Sarkar. An abstract from their Journal of Applied Physics article is online.

Sandra L. Combs, associate professor of multimedia journalism production and Herald adviser, is one of four recipients of the Honor Roll Adviser Award from the College Media Association (CMA), the nation’s largest organization dedicated to serving collegiate media advisers. The award is for professionals who have advised for five years or less. Recipients will be recognized Nov. 1 in Washington, D.C. Details are online.

A paper by Dr. Ferebee Tunno (right), associate professor of statistics, and graduate student Miranda Perry has been published in Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. In "Signal Discrimination Without Denoising," they reveal that two previously established tests for autocovariance equality between stationary autoregressive moving average processes can also be used to discriminate between harmonic signals embedded in noise without reconstruction or modeling. The article is online.

Dr. Gauri Guha, associate professor of economics, was recognized by Georgia-Pacific LLC recently in a company news release. Georgia-Pacific announced it is making $70 million in upgrades to its plywood and lumber production operations in Gurdon.  The company sought Guha's expertise in estimating the investment's economic impact, which Guha predicts will be at least $169 million in the southern Arkansas region.

Rodney Carmack, instructor in accounting, recently completed the requirements to attain ABD status toward a Doctor of Business Administration degree at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. A CPA with 30 years of experience in public and private accounting, Carmack joined A-State's accounting faculty in 2009. He holds bachelor degrees in communication studies and accounting, along with a Master of Business Administration, from A-State.