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Dr. Sahadat Hossain [Photo: UTA]
UTA Researcher Tests Plastic-Infused Asphalt That Could Extend Road Life in Texas Heat
by Maddie Preston | Mar 5, 2026
A one-mile pilot road in Rockwall and test sections at UT Arlington are evaluating pavement made with recycled plastic designed to improve durability and reduce waste.
by Maddie Preston |
Oct 10, 2025
The funding comes as DFW’s tech workforce nears 379,000, making it the nation’s second-largest. With a $28.8 billion annual economic impact in Texas and Carnegie R1 status, UTA is focused on fostering innovation and developing talent to meet statewide workforce needs.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 3, 2025
The new federal Alzheimer's hub joins an elite network of 37 centers nationwide. Scientists from UT Southwestern, UT Arlington, and UT Dallas will decode dementia by exploring hypertension's role, analyzing voice patterns with AI, and creating virtual patient models.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 23, 2025
A photo of astronauts sparked a patent-pending innovation that UT Arlington researcher Michael Nelson believes “should become the new standard” for cardiac MRI. His gravity-simulating gear is designed to help doctors better assess heart function inside the MRI.
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AI and digital twin systems like the one in development at UTA are designed to help simulate evacuation scenarios in real time during disasters. [Illustration: iambuff/istockphoto]
UTA Researcher Builds AI Tool to Help Emergency Managers Plan Smarter Evacuations in Real Time
by Lance Murray | Jun 30, 2025
With support from UTA’s Research Enhancement Program, assistant professor Mahmoud Bayat is developing a digital twin platform to help officials adjust evacuation routes on the fly. The platform could inform future systems across cities, counties, and states for what he calls “truly resilient communities.”
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by David Seeley |
May 21, 2025
In 2025, wildfires across Texas have burned over 1 million acres as of May 16. With support from a NASA grant, a UTA professor is working to develop an early-warning system that can alert the public to wildfire smoke dangers—even hundreds of miles away from a fire.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 23, 2024
Ashraf was quoted in a recent New York Times article, "Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way," about using 2,000-year-old Roman secrets to create concrete for underwater use in bridges, breakwaters, and artificial reefs. But unlike the volcanic ash used by Roman engineers as a key concrete ingredient, Ashraf and her team are using clay mixed with the mineral kaolinite. The recipe required heating to about 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit—only half the temperature needed to produce modern Portland cement.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 4, 2024
Lee is one of three UT Arlington faculty members who've been awarded $1.6 million from the Department of Energy to help boost the reliability of Texas's electric grid. The team is exploring the use of "behind-the-meter" energy devices that may help cut down on electricity consumption—and even upload energy to the grid itself, writes Fort Worth Report's Shomial Ahmad.
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From left: Ronald Banks, CISO at Toyota Financial Services, will be honored with the 2024 DallasCISO Leadership Award on Feb. 8, while Pamela McNutt, CIO of Methodist Health System of Dallas, will receive the Dallas CIO Leadership Award on Feb. 9, each at their respective award ceremony.
North Texas IT Excellence: DallasCISO and DallasCIO ORBIE Awards to Honor Top Tech Leaders in Consecutive Events
by Lance Murray | Feb 2, 2024
The ORBIE Awards are set to recognize North Texas’ top information technology talent with back-to-back award events on Feb. 8 and 9. The DallasCISO and DallasCIO ORBIE Awards events will spotlight chief information security officers (CISOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) driving innovation and shaping the digital landscape at major North Texas organizations....
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by David Seeley |
Nov 14, 2023
A next-generation technology called "rotating detonation rocket engines" is turning up new possibilities that could advance in-space propulsion to the Moon and beyond. Here's how a team at UT Arlington aims to help the mission.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 8, 2023
UTA researcher Mohsen Shahandashti, an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, is building a price estimation and visualization tool for the Texas Department of Transportation through a $200,000 U.S. DOT grant.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 3, 2023
BioNTX, a leading nonprofit bioscience and healthcare innovation organization in North Texas, has appointed Jon Weidanz to its board of directors. Weidanz brings extensive experience as an immunology researcher, academic leader, biotech entrepreneur, and founder....
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UTA Electrical Engineering Professor Yan Wan [Photo: UT Arlington]
UTA Professor Gets $800K To Develop Drone Computing Platform for First Responders
by David Seeley | Aug 21, 2023
Electrical Engineering Professor Yan Wan has received $800,000 in National Science Foundation funding to develop an open-networked airborne computing platform for drones used by first responders. Networking a system of "robots in the air" can help find disaster victims, guide rescuers, and more. Her work could also be used for drone delivery and other commercial applications, UTA says.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 23, 2023
The Founders Arena WealthTech Accelerator—a 10-week program aimed at early- to growth-stage startups—will be offered beginning September 4. It aims to connect participants with potential customers and investors while supporting "the creation of innovative products that banks and wealth management companies can use to better serve their clients." Broderick Green, executive director of the Arlington EDC, calls the accelerator "a first of its kind not only for Arlington but globally."
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![Shirin Nilizadeh, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working on the vulnerabilities of AI to online misrepresentation. Misrepresentation is part of the word cloud that depicts artificial intelligence challenges. [Sources: DI, Illustration Rob Wilson/Shutterstock]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AI-Word-Cloud_970_Shutterstock-DIedit-360x203.jpg)
by David Seeley |
Jun 8, 2023
The whole world's abuzz about the wonders of ChatGPT, Bard, and other generative AI systems. But there's also buzz about AI's many dangers. See how adversaries might try to "poison" these systems with false information—and what UT Arlington's Shirin Nilizadeh is doing to protect the systems from attack.
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by David Seeley |
May 16, 2023
Some things you just gotta keep cool: your temper on the Tollway at 8:45 a.m., your drink after work, and—maybe we should've put this first—data centers. All those endless rows of servers generate heat, which is why cooling accounts for nearly half of a data center's electricity usage. Now a team led by UT Arlington's Dereje Agonafer is developing hybrid cooling technology that could save "a massive amount of money in energy costs" for both current and future servers.
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