Arkansas Academy of Science

The Arkansas Academy of Science began meeting in 1917 as a group of scientists wishing to establish regular avenues of communication with one another and promote science and the dissemination of scientific information in the state. The Academy is a volunteer, non-profit, non-partisan, non-political, professional organization consisting of scientists who pay dues to join with other scientists to promote science in the state and region. The specific areas of science include (but are not limited to) Medicine, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Astronomy, Botany, Plant Science, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science and Conservation, and Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrate and Vertebrate Zoology.