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NTXIA Partners with UTA and UTD To Launch Urban Resilience Fellowship

by | 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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NASA Awards UT Arlington Team $900K To Develop More Powerful Rocket Engines for Space Travel
by | 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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UTA Greenlights $6M Imaging Center, Cutting-Edge MRI for Brain Health Research, and More
by | 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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UTA Professor Gets $800K To Develop Drone Computing Platform for First Responders
by | 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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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]

UTA Researcher Gets $568K NSF Grant To Explore AI Systems’ Vulnerability to Misinformation

by | 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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UTA Team Gets Nearly $3M From DOE To Develop Data Center Cooling Tech
by | 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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UT Arlington Gets $12 Million Gift From Alumnus Kelcy Warren, Its Largest Donation Ever
by | May 10, 2023
UTA alumnus Kelcy Warren, executive chairman and chairman of the board of directors of Dallas-based Energy Transfer LP, has made a $12 million gift to help elevate UT Arlington to the forefront of the growing resource and energy engineering (REE) field. "Texas faces a critical need for highly skilled graduates who can manage energy resources," Warren says, "and this innovative REE program will help meet that demand.”
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In a Texas First, UT Arlington Team Is Using Plastics To Repair Roads
by | Feb 8, 2023
"One word: plastics." That's the famous career advice from the movie The Graduate. A professor at UT Arlington must have gotten the same message, because 56 years later he's making history by using plastics to repair and stabilize roadways in the DFW area. Dr. Sahadat Hossain—a UTA civil engineering professor and director of the school's Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability—got a grant of around $950,000 from the Dallas district of the Texas Department of Transportation to achieve the first use of “plastic road” material in Texas. The project will begin with work on roads near Kaufman, southeast of Dallas.
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The Last Word: UT Arlington’s Yi Hong on Landing $400K to Develop New ‘Bioactive Materials’ for Heart Research

Hong has received the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, receiving $400,000 in research funding support for five years. The award is given to established investigators in rapid growth phases of their careers, whose accomplishments continue to show promise. Hong's promise centers around his research on new "bioactive materials" to mimic the natural state of a body for heart research. That's important because cardiovascular disease remains the world's No.1 killer in the world, claiming nearly 18 million lives per year, UT Arlington says.
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The Last Word: UTA’s Allison Sullivan on Winning a $490K NSF Grant for Her Software Update Study
Sullivan, an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at UT Arlington, was recently awarded a three-year, $490,000 grant from the National Science Foundation "to explore testing software updates without testing unchanged parts of the code."
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UT Arlington Names VP of Business, Finance and Chief Financial Officer
by | Sep 5, 2022

John R. Davidson has been named vice president for business and finance and chief financial officer at The University of Texas at Arlington.

“As vice president for business and finance and CFO, John will serve as a key leader in helping UTA be one of the nation’s most inclusive and impactful research universities,” UTA President Jennifer Cowley said in a statement....

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UT Arlington, Texas A&M Partner to Advance Aerospace Manufacturing in Texas
by | Aug 11, 2022
From Lockheed Martin to NASA to SpaceX, Texas is a hotbed of aerospace activity. Now UT Arlington and Texas A&M want to make that hotbed even hotter—by collaborating to advance the state's aerospace defense manufacturing community.
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The UTA team includes, from left, Alexandra Hansard, Sanjay Gokhale, and George Alexandrakis.

UTA Team Develops Device That Can ‘Read the Blood Through the Skin’

by | Nov 2, 2021
The noninvasive technology—developed in collaboration with Austin-based Shani Biotechnologies—may enable real-time monitoring of vital blood parameters like hemoglobin, without taking blood samples or using expensive equipment. It could be especially useful for monitoring people of color, helping to close racial disparities in health care diagnostics.
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Meet the Six UT Arlington Student Startups Awarded $85K at the Maverick Entrepreneur Program and Award Fund’s MavPitch Competition
by | Sep 1, 2021
Established by an anonymous alumnus to encourage UT Arlington students to explore their business ideas, the Maverick Entrepreneur Program and Award Fund is one of the few student-focused entrepreneurship programs in the country that awards these levels of cash funding to assist emerging startups.
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UTA Joins Just Three Other Universities In Achieving the Prestigious ‘Texas Tier One’ Designation
by | Aug 19, 2021
UTA is the first university to achieve the designation in more than three years—joining Texas Tech, the University of Houston, and the University of Texas at Dallas as a recognized research university.
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Fasten Your Seatbelts: Arlington Launches First On-Demand Public Self-Driving Shuttle Service
by | Mar 23, 2021
The City of Arlington has partnered with Via, May Mobility, and UT Arlington to launch the RAPID pilot program, the first autonomous driving shuttle initiative to integrate with an existing public transportation service.
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