News : UT Arlington

Khosrow Behbehani named dean of the UT Arlington College of Engineering

5/24/2013 4:39 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington College of Engineering serves more than 4,000 students, includes more than 200 faculty members and has total research expenditures exceeding $30.6 million.
ARLINGTON – Khosrow Behbehani, a noted biomedical researcher, inventor and chairman of the UT Arlington Department of Bioengineering, has been appointed dean of the University’s College of Engineering.

Behbehani joined...

NASA Johnson Space Center, University of Texas at Arlington team to enhance envi...

5/23/2013 3:56 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

Agreement to benefit Space Center's external clients as well
NASA Johnson Space Center and The University of Texas Arlington’s Division for Enterprise Development are partnering to develop best practices for enhancing environmental, health and safety training in support of current and future missions and initiatives.

UT Arlington will gain insight into training offered at a NASA Voluntary Protection Programs...

New America Foundation names UT Arlington one of six national “Next Generation U...

5/22/2013 6:29 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington is one of six universities nationwide to be named a “Next Generation University” in a new study published by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on public policy issues.

The list was created to highlight universities that are “models for national reform” and are “continuing their commitment to world class research while increasing...

UT Arlington appoints Arlington Deputy Police Chief Kim Lemaux as next Universit...

5/22/2013 5:00 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

Lemaux is a UT Arlington alumna with more than three decades of law enforcement experience and expertise in training, operations and event safety management.
Kim Lemaux, an Arlington, Texas, deputy police chief with more than three decades of law enforcement experience and expertise in training, operations and event safety management, has been named chief of the UT Arlington Police Department.

Lemaux is a UT...

University of Texas System Regents award UT Arlington student for exceptional wo...

5/9/2013 1:14 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A University of Texas at Arlington student has received The University of Texas System Board of Regents’ Outstanding Student Award in Arts and Humanities for his exceptional work in the visual arts.

Bryce Bennett was recognized for outstanding two-dimensional work for his photographic series, Beneath and Inside Out. Bennett is a senior photography major who works as a photo lab technician in a...

Aerospace engineering research on testing to produce safer, faster, more reliabl...

5/8/2013 11:53 AM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

Office of Naval Research grant studies composites using variety of methods
A University of Texas at Arlington aerospace engineer is developing diagnostic and predictive tools that can aid aircraft manufacturers in analyzing composite structures used to make aircraft safer, faster and more reliable.

Andrew Makeev, an associate professor of Mechanical...

UT Arlington electrical engineer using quantum nature of light to boost Internet...

5/7/2013 5:20 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

Research could increase capacity, speed, too
Michael Vasilyev’s goals in his research are simply stated: increase by tenfold the amount of information that can be securely transmitted via the Internet and the distance over which that data can be transmitted.

Vasilyev, a UT Arlington associate professor of electrical engineering, is participating in an $8 million research project funded by the Defense Advanced...

UT Arlington Commencement Week 2013 features Graduation Celebration with Kal Pen...

4/26/2013 4:54 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

UT Arlington will confer more than 4,500 degrees this spring, a 14 percent increase compared with the Spring 2012 semester.
The University of Texas at Arlington will award a record number of degrees during Commencement Week 2013, which features a free, Friday night festival with fireworks and remarks by actor, producer and political activist Kal Penn.

Graduation Celebration begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 10,...

UT Arlington research shows early dialogue between parents and children most eff...

4/24/2013 4:54 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

Study also shows negative strategies are less effective
Early, substantive dialogue between parents and their grade-school age children about the ills of tobacco and alcohol use can be more powerful in shaping teen behavior than advertising, marketing or peer pressure, a University of Texas at Arlington marketing researcher has shown.

The findings of Zhiyong Yang, an associate professor of marketing in the UT...

UT Arlington criminology professor, students partner with the Arlington Independ...

4/19/2013 3:23 PM EST - University of Texas at Arlington

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The University of Texas at Arlington’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice is partnering with the Arlington Independent School District to try to better understand and reduce the district’s teenage truancy rates.

Jaya Davis, UT Arlington assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice, and 10 of her students are spending two to four hours a...

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