On Dec. 3, the Arkansas Research Alliance announced that Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering and holder of the Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Mixed-Signal IC Design and CAD, was one of its five inaugural fellows.
The ARA Fellows program is a companion to the well-established ARA Scholars program, which recruits research talent to Arkansas. The fellows program recognizes distinguished university research leaders from each of the five research universities in Arkansas. ARA Fellows are nominated by his or her chancellor and receive a $75,000 grant paid over three years.