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The College of Engineering at University of Arkansas recently celebrated the outstanding achievements of its faculty members during a faculty-staff meeting held on May 5, 2023. Among the esteemed honorees was Dr. Suman Mitra, who was presented with the highly esteemed Dean’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Public Service. The Dean’s Excellence Awards are bestowed upon…Continue Reading Dr. Mitra receives Outstanding Public Service Award from College of Engineering

Adedolapo Ogungbire, a current research assistant at the ZeRo lab, has been awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the University of Arkansas. The Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship (DDF) is a prestigious award offered by the Graduate School at the University of Arkansas to provide financial support to outstanding incoming doctoral students. The DDF is a merit-based…Continue Reading Adedolapo Ogungbire awarded the Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship (DDF)

The duo of Adedolapo Ogungbire and Arna Nithila, both current masters’ students of the civil engineering department at the University of Arkansas have emerged awardees of the Carolyn Clark and Harold Langston Endowed Graduate Fellowship contributing towards their graduate studies. This is a one-time award for the 2022-2023 academic year above any usual funding each…Continue Reading Arna Nithila and Adedolapo Ogungbire from ZeRo labs awarded the Carolyn Clark and Harold Langston Endowed Graduate Fellowship.

Students from ZeRo lab represented and shine at the 2022 meeting of Missouri Valley Institute of Transportation Engineers (MOVITE) which took place in Overland Park, Kansas. Students from the lab engaged and came out top in the Traffic Bowl, Design and Poster competitions that took place at the event. More about the achievements can be…Continue Reading ITE Student Chapter Dominates at Annual MOVITE Meeting

Ride 4 Smilies held its full launch on the 12th of May, 2022 in the city of Fort Smith, with eight stations strategically located within the city. This is part of a pilot project, SMILIES (Shared Micromobility for Affordable-Accessible Housing), funded through the National Science Foundation grant awarded to the University of Arkansas’ College of…Continue Reading Ride 4 Smilies Launches! Featured on several media outlets

Ride 4 Smilies bike-share program held its full launch on the 12th of May, 2022 in the city of Fort Smith. With eight stations spread across the city, Ride 4 Smilies is designed to ease the transportation burden of low-income earners and improve their quality of life. This event was covered by several media outlets…Continue Reading Ride 4 Smilies featured on Times Record

Adedolapo Ogungbire, a masters student of ZeRo lab, and David González Niño, a civil engineering Ph.D. student, have just been named the Graduate Student of the Year award winners of 2022. While David emerged as an awardee for the Ph.D. category, Adedolapo was named the Graduate student of the year award for the masters’ category….Continue Reading Adedolapo from ZeRo Lab awarded the Graduate Student of the year award (Masters) 2022

The ongoing SIMILIES bikeshare program has been recently featured on betterbikeshare.org detailing the research work done so far and going forward. More details on the feature can be read here….Continue Reading SMILIES program featured on betterbikeshare.org

The ongoing SMILIES project in Fort Smith has recently been featured on the NCMM website. You can read the full article here….Continue Reading SMILIES Project featured on National Center for Mobility Management

Farzana Tuli, a PhD student, and Adedolapo Ogungbire from AcceSS lab recently got awarded fellowships for their academic and research diligence. Farzana Tuli was awarded the P K Kuroda Endowed Graduate Fellowship, while Adedolapo Ogungbire was awarded the Reginald R. “Barney” & Jameson A. Baxter Graduate Fellowship. Published: February 11, 2022…Continue Reading Students of ZeRo lab received Fellowship Awards