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Soft, air-powered exoskeleton eases muscle fatigue, reduces injuries and boosts workplace safety. [Photo: UTA]
UTA Engineers Develop Soft Robotic Exoskeleton to Reduce Workplace Injuries
by Maddie Preston | Jan 3, 2026
A study found the air-powered wearable reduced muscle activity by as much as 22% during lifting tasks, pointing to a potential way to ease strain in industrial settings.
by Maddie Preston |
Dec 23, 2025
A new satellite campus is adding hands-on training, lab capacity and startup support to Dallas’ growing life sciences ecosystem.
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by Maddie Preston |
Dec 5, 2025
The investment strengthens UTA’s pipeline for high-demand engineering talent and supports research on AI-enabled safety systems for nuclear plants.
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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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UTA Engineer Develops Remote Radar to Detect Drone Failures, No Sensors Required
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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by Lance Murray |
Jul 17, 2025
Current materials crack under stress. Shiyao Lin's nature-inspired composites could make aircraft parts and car components significantly tougher.
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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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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 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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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 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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Transmission towers at dusk. [Photo: Trong Nguyen/istockphoto]
The Last Word: UTA’s Wei‑Jen Lee on $1.6M DOE Grant To Help Boost the Texas Grid
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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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 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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