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Create@State Podcast Features A-State Research Designation

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This is A-State Connections on KASU.  This is the weekly segment called “A-State Connections and Create@State: Making Connections That Count”.  In this interview, we get more reaction about the new research designation for Arkansas State due to the amount of research activity going on at A-State.  The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education revealed that is has elevated Arkansas State to the category, "Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity."  KASU News Director Johnathan Reaves talked with Dr. Tom Risch, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Interim Executive Director of the Arkansas Biosciences Institutue and Emily Devereux, Executive Director of Research and Technology Transfer at Arkansas State University.  Reaves asked Dr. Risch what this designation means for research.  Click on the Listen button for the entire interview. 

To hear more interviews like this one, you can subscribe to the Create@ State Podcast at the Create@State podcast page on KASU.org. It is also available on iTunes or Google Play, or you can listen on the NPR app.  Please tell others about the Create@State Podcast, also leave us a review. We would love to hear from you. 

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.