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News Releases 2014 Archive
November
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Veterans Day events planned
UT Arlington will mark Veterans Day with a full schedule of events highlighted by a breakfast for military veterans, wreath-laying ceremony and a resource fair.
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Cancer decoys
The research uses biodegradable polymers to build cancer traps that can be more easily eradicated.
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Cartoons and politics
UT Arlington Cultural Anthropologist Ritu Khanduri examines newspaper cartoons' importance to politics and culture in new book.
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Physics leader
The Texas Section of the American Physical Society honored Suresh Sharma for his contributions to the organization's success.
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Recognition
Fort Worth Business Press honors two UT Arlington leaders as Great Women of Texas 2014
October
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Reducing barriers
Nationally prominent foundation establishes scholarship program and supplemental support fund for UTA students with spinal cord injuries.
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Stem cell generation
A bioengineering professor is working on research that injects microscaffolding into a patient, spurring use of that patient's own stem cells.
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A diverse field
A new grant from the National Science Foundation will help UT Arlington’s Bridge to the Doctorate program increase diversity in science and engineering.
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Assistive technology
John Bricout, associate dean for research and community outreach in the School of Social Work, will use a federal grant to develop a human assistive robot learning network.
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Latino STEM Summit
Center for Mexican American Studies teams with Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities to host summit focused on Latino students interested in STEM opportunities.
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Public Health Advisory
UT Arlington is monitoring reports of Ebola virus in the U.S. Requests for travel to restricted regions must be reviewed.
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Traffic fix
The student team created a real-time monitoring system that analyzes traffic conditions and enables better vehicular flow.
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Threat behavior
Researchers will blend criminology theories with computer behavior to predict risk.
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Breath analysis
Electrical engineers will build a device to detect dangerous gases in a person's breath.
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Meeting of the Minds
UT Arlington prepares for major role in international gathering of mind, brain and education experts.
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Urban Water Sustainability
An engineer is looking to develop a tool that cities and counties can use to plan for needed infrastructure.
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Local inventors
Dozens of UT Arlington patent holders converge on National Academy of Inventors symposium.
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Metal fatigue
Research will detect problems in aircraft parts at the micro- and nano-scale level.
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Exploring a physics oddity
UT Arlington Ph.D. student Sarah Hernandez is working to understand the behavior of plutonium with support from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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The Textbook Project
UT Arlington will loan textbooks to students at no cost as part of a new pilot program developed by the University Libraries.
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Meeting the need
School of Social Work Associate Dean Debra Woody will use a $1.4 million grant to help increase the numbers of mental health and substance abuse workers in the U.S.
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Sensors to the rescue
Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program project aimed at helping soldiers.
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Reducing waste
The EPA Food Recovery Challenge has recognized UT Arlington for its leadership in reducing food waste before and after meals are served.
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Innovate and create
UT Arlington prepares to unveil state-of-the-art Fab Lab featuring cutting-edge technology for research at Central Library.
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Going with the flow
A new paper from UT Arlington's Biophysics and Physiology Lab explores how fluid flow affects neurons connecting as they do in the body.
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Mining safety
UT Arlington's Division for Enterprise Development and Department of Art and Art History have won a $1.3 million federal grant to develop a documentary and safety training for the U.S. mining industry.
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Pain management
A UT Arlington multi-disciplinary team will analyze data to help physicians make better, more informed decisions about treating patients’ pain.
September
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The "Just City"
World-renowned architects, planners, criminal justice experts, sociologists and journalists will explore the idea of “Building the Just City” at the 3rd annual David Dillon Symposium.
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Detecting dangers
A UT Arlington research team has developed a new radiation detection method that could lead to advances in medical safety and homeland security.
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Asking the right question
UT Arlington professor says system could lead to improved decision making.
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Real-world experience
UT Arlington’s Center for Metropolitan Density has teamed with acclaimed architects HKS Inc. to embed graduate students in an Advanced Design Studio, giving the students a feel for what the professional world will be like.
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School of rock
The National Science Foundation has chosen UT Arlington geophysicist W. Ashley Griffith for its Faculty Early Career Development Program.
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Leader in Diversity
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities names UT Arlington its 2014 Outstanding HACU-Member Institution.
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Harvesting water
Engineering researchers develop device, inspired by the beaks of birds, to help harvest water from fog and dew. The artificial beaks could help drought-stricken areas around the world.
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A research network
UT Arlington has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to give researchers a faster computer network.
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Preparing teachers
Education professor, Ann Cavallo, is leading efforts to better prepare new science and math teachers, and the National Science Foundation has taken notice.
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Playing it safe
A UT Arlington kinesiology professor has been chosen to work with local youth football players in a national safety program.
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Water as a right
UT Arlington's Wasiu Lawal took top honors in a national American Association for the Advancement of Science contest.
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Strength in numbers
Engineering growth drives UT Arlington enrollment to new fall record approaching 35,000 students.
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Open ideas
UT Arlington has been selected to be part of a new edX initiative to offer free online classes for high school students.
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Efficient energy
A research team has discovered a way to cool electrons in chips that could enable electronic devices to function with very little energy.
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Teen substance abuse
New research led by Eusebius Small, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, points to parental education as a factor in teens at risk of alcohol and marijuana use.
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Big Data
Computer scientist to use genomic network for determining best materials to manufacture products.
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Maverick Speakers Series
The event featuring legendary sportscaster Bob Costas will be rescheduled for spring. Ticket holders will be contacted by email.
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Global influence
Two UT Arlington chemistry and biochemistry professors are being honored by their colleagues in India.
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Latino Literacy
Bilingual educators Lidia Morris and Luis Rosado earn international recognition from the American Library Association.
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Research leader
Mickey McCabe, a composite materials expert who has led research efforts at the University of Dayton, takes the helm at the UT Arlington Research Institute.
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A place in the lab
A new UT Arlington program aims to increase retention of science majors by giving them early access to research.
August
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Online learning decoded
UT Arlington's new LINK lab is kicking off the fall semester by announcing talks from digital learning leaders.
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Stimulate your mind
Legendary sportscaster Bob Costas will kick off the 2014-2015 Maverick Speakers Series. The season includes notables from the world of politics, the military and science.
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A changing ocean
UT Arlington biologists looked at the lineages of Caribbean coral and found older species appear more hardy.
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Robotic small motor manufacturing system
The aim of the Walmart funding is to bring manufacturing back to the United States.
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Detecting neural glitches
Research compares brain patterns to patients with mental illnesses.
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A life-saving link
UT Arlington's College of Nursing is working with a national health care company to pioneer valuable remote skill assessments.
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Beyond the solar system
A UT Arlington physics team say they've made a breakthrough in the difficult task of finding moons outside our solar system.
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Rogers involved in sustainable engineering
The Institute of Industrial Engineers named UT Arlington's Jamie Rogers a fellow at its recent annual conference.
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Tops in the classroom
The UT System Board of Regents has named its outstanding teachers of 2014.
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Coursework includes building UVS
Graduate-level certification will help meet industry needs.
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Greek Life
FIJI alumni aim to expand campus membership to 50 by the UT Arlington chapter's 50th anniversary in 2018.
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Supporting tomorrow's leaders
A new UT Arlington, Arlington school district collaboration will create a STEM Academy for high school students, starting in 2015.
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Preserving history
UT Arlington Central Library set to begin construction on world-class cold storage vault for millions of photographic negatives documenting hundreds of years of history in North Texas.
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Alumni Support
The University affirms support for its alumni and members of the UT Arlington Alumni Association.
July
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Student Life
Timothy Quinnan, an expert in student success and leadership education, is appointed Vice President of Student Affairs
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Alumni Relations
UT Arlington will establish an Office of Alumni Relations and alumni advisory groups as part of its efforts to expand alumni engagement.
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Alumni Engagement
President Karbhari affirms ongoing support for and commitment to alumni engagement.
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National honor
The U.S. Army Cadet Command has named Lt. Col. Lora A. Rimmer, Commander of the Army ROTC at UT Arlington, the nation’s Professor of Military Science of the Year.
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Breaking ground
A UT Arlington geophysicist will use federal grant funding to examine rock fractures at the surface and below ground.
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Building stronger communities
A UT Arlington researcher found that foundations that developed their own models of partnership with residents were more successful.
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Big data
A UT Arlington engineering professor has won a three-year NSF grant to develop an interactive gene expression database.
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Vital health message
Communication researchers examine sexual health messages aimed at young college adults about the female condom.
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Enthusiasm and excellence rewarded
A UT Arlington biology student was one of 15 in the nation to earn the prestigious UNCF Merck Science Research Scholarship Award.
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Economics, cost to society enter into education model
The College of Engineering is offering a sustainable engineering minor based on student and industry demand.
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Four on-board computers fine-tune formula car
Students use design, computer code, engineering know-how to build race car each year.
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Understanding the Pledge
Education researcher finds that many middle and high school students do not understand the concepts or purpose of the Pledge of Allegiance, despite saying the oath often at school.
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Students will travel to Spain for collaborative effort
Aim of grant is preparing infrastructure, technology for disaster.
June
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Students win at IEEE conference
Robotics teams win international challenges against professionals.
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New method could help patients with genetic conditions
Team uses photothermal delivery to pinpoint cancer treatment.
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Gender and journalism
Despite decades of progress by women in the nation’s newsrooms, female writers are still a rarity on the op-ed pages, a UTA communication researcher finds.
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Corporate governance expert appointed distinguished chair
Professor's research includes studying impact of appointing politically connected directors.
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Engineering, UT Southwestern collaborate on project
New device would require only urine sample instead of a blood draw to detect bladder cancer.
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Revered for research
Herpetologists from around the world honored UT Arlington professor Jonathan Campbell for his contributions to the field.
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Students improve after treatment
Published paper details use of functional near infrared spectroscopy to map brain activity responses during cognitive activities.
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The why of Y
UT Arlington biologists studying the evolution of beetles have a new hypothesis about why some species lose their Y chromosome.
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Better business online
Corporate learning and MOOCs are the subject of a two-day virtual conference hosted by UT Arlington and CorpU.
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Online with edX
This fall, UT Arlington will offer a course called "Data, Analytics and Learning" with popular MOOC provider edX.
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A test for safe water
The National Science Foundation is helping a UT Arlington team bring a new analyzer for water contamination to the market.
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Acclaimed behavioral researcher comes from Yahoo!
A former Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard scientist brings his ideas of business efficiency through data-driven decisions to the University.
May
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Addressing water questions
A team of UT Arlington scientists is helping North Texas water conservation districts examine private well water.
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Supporting student success
A UT Arlington nursing professor is comparing the experience of online and traditional master's level students.
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Global engagement
UT Arlington pledges to join national initiative designed to double the number of college students who study abroad by the end of the decade.
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Bound for Success
The collaborative program provides high school students deferred early admission provided they earn their diploma and meet other criteria.
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U.S. Commerce Department appointment
Carolyn Cason, UT Arlington vice president for research, has been appointed to a Department of Commerce advisory board that helps drive innovation, create and retain jobs.
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Preserving language
The world's leading language researchers are heading to UTA for a major institute funded by a National Science Foundation grant to Linguistics Professor Colleen Fitzgerald.
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Componation to start July 7
New industrial engineering department chair sees University as launching pad for new jobs.
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Tuition savings
Guaranteed Tuition Plan locks in tuition rate, allows undergraduates to earn rebates as they complete a four-year degree.
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Funding boost for particle physics
The University of Texas at Arlington's Center of Excellence in High Energy Physics was awarded a three-year, $2.5 million grant from the Department of Energy, which represents a 25 percent increase over their previous base funding.
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New Construction Management degree offered
The interdisciplinary civil engineering program will include architecture, accounting, business and management courses.
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Nationally recognized faculty
The National Athletic Trainers' Association will honor three UT Arlington faculty members with awards this summer.
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Spotting depression
A College of Nursing professor surveyed available research to find a way to help depressed teenagers.
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Creative writing awarded
Samantha Jones, a senior English major, has won The University of Texas System Board of Regents’ Outstanding Student Award in Arts and Humanities.
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Academy member appointed
National Academy of Sciences member David Nygren will join UT Arlington's Physics Department this fall. He is widely known for inventing the “Time Projection Chamber” and current work investigating neutrinos.
April
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Prestigious appointment
The American Council on Education has selected Political Science Professor Victoria Farrar-Myers for its 2014-15 class of the ACE Fellows Program.
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A better test
A UT Arlington research team says they have a better technique for measuring the water content in pharmaceutical components, a major challenge for manufacturers.
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Architecture alumnus heads list of notable speakers
A number of compelling stories can be found in this year's record number of graduates.
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Excellence honored
English Professor Kenneth Roemer to be inducted into the 2014 UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
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Hispanic-Serving Institution
Increasingly diverse student population makes UT Arlington eligible for numerous grants that can be used to expand and enhance academic offerings.
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Seeking a cancer solution
A Department of Defense-funded UT Arlington physicist believes he has a way to improve photodynamic cancer therapy.
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New method cuts time in generating bone tissue, comforts patients
Researchers at UT Arlington and Arlington Memorial Hospital are studying alternative ways of creating bone tissue for patients who need it.
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Coursework to lead to certification
Certification program to meet supply in high-demand engineering area.
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A new era
Anne Bavier, a nationally recognized leader in health care and former National Institutes of Health official, will lead the UT Arlington College of Nursing to national recognition and influence.
March
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Art research
Art Professor Mary Vaccaro has been named a visiting professor at Villa I Tatti-The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Italy.
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Bright futures
UT Arlington undergraduate Jessica Dawn Stevens was among less than 300 U.S. students awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.
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Accounting named tops for third year in a row
College of Business' Department of Accounting is named a top tax program.
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Searching the universe
A team of UT Arlington physicists says scientists searching for habitable planets shouldn't overlook F-type stars.
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Final Four experts
As college basketball's biggest game marches into town, faculty members such as Cynthia Trowbridge, associate professor of kinesiology, are available to offer expert analysis of the game and related news topics.
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Multiple media
World class glass art auction expands to highlight work from sculpture, painting, photography and other media.
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Innovative space
Technology-rich lab to launch fall 2015 in the UT Arlington Central Library, bringing together student inventors, artists, engineers and more.
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Advances in detection
A UT Arlington team has come up with a new, vastly more sensitive method for finding evidence of performance enhancing drugs.
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Software aids
Two information systems professors have determined that using design patterns can be of great use for successful software programming.
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Working & walking
New research by an assistant professor in the School of Urban and Public Affairs shows benefits of employees using treadmill workstations.
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Games for good
A video game simulation to teach doctors and nurses to communicate more effectively has won national acclaim.
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Workplace violence
Two management professors argue that employers can prevent tragedy by keeping potentially dangerous employees positively engaged and closely supervised so that they can get the help they need.
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Selection focuses on culture and curriculum that caters to veterans
UT Arlington's College of Business was named one of the best for veterans.
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New leader
An assistant professor of modern languages and an expert in Spanish and Afro-Caribbean literature has been appointed the new director of the University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
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Connecting to research
Undergraduate Emmanuel Fordjour is already doing award-winning research on ways to fight a dangerous disease that he saw firsthand as a hospital volunteer.
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Tracing tumor growth
College of Science professors are working together to determine how BPA may promote growth of breast cancer tumors.
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Career advancement
The Arlington school district, Arlington Police Department and UT Arlington partner in new criminal justice education "Fast Track."
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Worldwide partners
Agreements with four Jordanian institutions will further UT Arlington’s global mission of expanding access and excellence for education and research.
February
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Unstoppable?
The Movin' Mavs quest for an 8th championship title brings a different kind of March Madness to basketball fans.
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Water quality questions
A UT Arlington chemist who examined water quality and natural gas wells in 2012 is starting a new study.
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Risk and profit
Sarah Rose, a labor and disability historian, says multi-billion dollar baseball industry is largely responsible for steroid abuse by some players.
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Measuring space weather
Yue Deng's work will help predict what effect space weather has on power distribution systems and near-earth satellites.
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Time to React
Political scientist Heidi Hardt examines the efficiency of international organizations in crisis response.
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Worldwide influence honored
Daniel Armstrong has published more than 550 scientific works and technology he invented is on its way to a comet. In March, the American Chemical Society will give him a second prestigious national award.
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A hotspot for change
Scientists at UT Arlington explore vertebrate DNA using pigeons as models and find hints of a "slippery gene."
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In demand
Students continue to flock to engineering, online nursing and education programs.
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Position will give University impact, influence
The associate dean of engineering research has been appointed to chair the National Research Council's soil mechanics unit.
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Technology recruits stem cells for reconstruction
Kytai Nguyen's National Institutes of Health work will make angioplasty, stenting procedures safer.
January
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Language testing
New research led by Jodi Tommerdahl, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, focuses on helping children with language difficulties.
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Poetry Prize
Spanish language and culture expert earns prestigious international award for his book of poetry.
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New model drastically reduces run times
Paper proposes new computer model that accounts for nano-scale measurements and movements.
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Education's Middle-Level Program honored
The College of Education’s Middle Level Educator Preparation Program is one of five Texas universities to receive the Exemplary Field-Based Instructional Practices Award from Quest for Quality, a collaboration between the Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
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Living laboratory
Education Professor Marc Schwartz directs the Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education that is helping to bridge the gap between scientists and the public through a new innovative partnership.
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University part of nationwide plan to get drones airborne
Four researchers will work on various aspects of unmanned aerial systems that could boost use of those systems.
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Device also could power homes
Inexpensive micro-windmills could solve many energy challenges.
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The future for learners
George Siemens will head a new lab at UTA to examine the intersection of technology and higher education.
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Advancing the Dream
Nationally-syndicated columnist Roland Martin to give keynote address at Jan. 17 UT Arlington event paying tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A changing Amazon
An assistant professor in the UT Arlington biology department recently published new discoveries about Amazon deforestation.
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Events
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MavsArt Fall 2014
Thu, Nov 6 – All Day -
Digital Photography
Thu, Nov 6 – 8:00 am -
The Price of Manifest Destiny: Maps relating to Wars in the Southwest
Thu, Nov 6 – 9:00 am -
Walk-In Hours - The Career Development Center - 9:00AM - 11:45AM
Thu, Nov 6 – 9:00 am -
Art Exhibition in The Gallery at UTA: Philip Van Keuren / Liz Ward
Thu, Nov 6 – 10:00 am -
Walk-In Hours - The Career Development Center - 1:00PM - 5:45PM
Thu, Nov 6 – 1:00 pm -
Global Grounds
Thu, Nov 6 – 4:00 pm -
AHM - Global Grounds
Thu, Nov 6 – 4:00 pm -
Department of Biology Colloquium Series
Thu, Nov 6 – 4:00 pm -
BIZ Network Event Featuring Bell Helicopter
Thu, Nov 6 – 5:30 pm