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The University of Texas at Arlington says its new funding will revitalize facilities, foster innovation and develop top talent for Texas’ growing economy. [Photo: UT Arlington]
UT Arlington Secures $127M Regents Investment to Modernize Campus, Citing Talent and Innovation Goals
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.
by Maddie Preston |
Sep 29, 2025
UTA is part of a DOE-backed "moonshot" to cool the world’s AI infrastructure more sustainably—aiming to cut data center cooling energy from 40% to under 5% and slash the massive water use demanded by AI systems. The project includes partnering with next-gen liquid cooling tech startup, Austin-based Accelsius.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 29, 2025
UTA’s Dianqi Han has developed a remote system that uses millimeter-wave radar to spot signs of hardware trouble—like damaged propellers—without modifying the drone itself.
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by Maddie Preston |
Aug 8, 2025
The funding supports UT Arlington researcher Junzhou Huang, whose team recently ranked first in protein contact prediction and placed sixth overall in an international AI challenge competing against Google DeepMind, the University of Washington, and others.
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Behnaz Balmaki, assistant professor of research in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, says pollen is a powerful indicator of ecosystem health and a key to tracking how plant communities respond to environmental change. [Photo: UTA]
UTA and Partners Use AI to ID Allergy-Causing Pollen for Smarter Health and Planning Decisions
by Lance Murray | Jul 7, 2025
A new deep-learning system accurately distinguishes between nearly identical pollen grains from fir, spruce, and pine trees. The goal is to develop a comprehensive pollen identification system that can be applied across regions in the United States.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 2, 2025
UTA and UT Southwestern researchers have built BIT, a new computational framework that helps scientists identify the proteins that switch genes on and off in cancer and other diseases. The work could pave the way to more targeted treatments and boost gene research accuracy.
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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 Lance Murray |
Jun 3, 2025
Backed by a National Science Foundation grant, the project’s key innovation is WHEELCOM—a device that captures wheelchair movement data to help engineers design smarter, more inclusive buildings.
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UTA Social Work Associate Professor Philip Baiden [Photo: UTA; background image: designer491/iStock]
UTA Researcher: Children of Divorce May Have Increased Stroke Risk Later in Life
by Lance Murray | Feb 20, 2025
According to research by UTA's Philip Baiden, Americans aged 65 and older who experienced their parents divorcing as children were more likely to suffer a stroke compared to their peers—one in nine as compared to one in 15 for those whose parents did not divorce.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Jan 21, 2025
D CEO and Dallas Innovates' Innovation Award winners are working to resurrect extinct species, launching autonomous trucks, reinventing military aircraft, and bringing AI into the physical world—and that's just the beginning. The 2025 awards showcase game-changing achievements—including Texas' first newly minted decacorn—across 17 categories of innovation. Here’s a look at the innovators leading the way.
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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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by David Seeley |
Mar 21, 2024
Through the program, the North Texas Innovation Alliance will connect university students with community and industry partners to develop "innovative solutions to improve the everyday lives of the public." They'll do this across a wide range of sectors, from mobility to cybersecurity to sustainability and more.
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The Science & Engineering Innovation & Research building at UT Arlington. [Photo: UTA]
UTA Greenlights $6M Imaging Center, Cutting-Edge MRI for Brain Health Research, and More
by Quincy Preston | Nov 2, 2023
The new on-campus facility at the University of Arlington will be a major upgrade in research infrastructure for the Texas Tier One institution. A focus of the new center will be pressing issues in brain health.
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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 Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Aug 11, 2023
Already carbon neutral, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport hosted an internal competition with one goal: turning the airport into a zero-waste zone. “We need all hands on deck to get there," says Chris McLaughlin, EVP of operations at the airport.
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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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