Ground Control selected to join the design team for I3R at the University of Arkansas

We are delighted to announce that we've been selected to join our friends and collaborators at HGA and HUFFT, to participate in the planning and design of the University of Arkansas’s new Institute for Integrative & Innovative Research.

In a follow-up to his annual State of the University address, Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz describes the vision for the Institute for Integrative & Innovative Research (“I3R”) at length. In simplest terms, the I3R will be a flexible and state-of-the-art facility that empowers multidiscipline research and collaboration. It will introduce the needed high-quality research space for faculty and students, as well as future industry partnerships. The I3R will also primarily be focused on five identified innovation clusters: material science, data science, bioscience and bioengineering research and education in metabolism, food and technology, and integrative systems neuroscience. Uniquely so, the I3R will not be owned or administered by a specific academic unit. Instead, it is a university-wide institute, following a hub and spoke model; the I3R will serve as the center for multiple innovation hubs on campus.