University of Texas at Arlington

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

5/9/2013 1:14 PM EST

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

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

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...

Two UT Arlington faculty members named to new UT System Academy of Distinguished...

5/3/2013 10:51 AM EST

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Two University of Texas at Arlington faculty members have been inducted as inaugural members of the new University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Mary Lynn Crow, professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions, and David Silva, vice provost for faculty affairs and a linguistics professor in the College of Liberal Arts, were...

Two University of Texas at Arlington faculty members honored with national dista...

5/3/2013 10:41 AM EST

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The United States Distance Learning Association has honored two University of Texas at Arlington professors for their efforts to promote the development and application of distance education.

Peggy Semingson, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions, received the organization’s Platinum level – Best Practices Award for Excellence in...

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

4/26/2013 4:54 PM EST

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

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

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...

New center hopes to offer support and accountability to UT Arlington students re...

4/15/2013 1:28 PM EST

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The University of Texas at Arlington will launch a new Center for Students in Recovery this fall to provide support, resources and a safe environment for students who are recovering from alcoholism or drug addiction.

The center will operate under the UT Arlington Division of Student Affairs and be funded in part by a $100,000 grant from The University of...

UT Arlington Math Department wins national honor for exemplary Ph.D. program

4/15/2013 12:03 PM EST

The American Mathematical Society honored UT Arlington for doubling the size of its doctoral program over five years and bolstering those ranks with historically underrepresented student groups, including women and minorities.
The American Mathematical Society has named The University of Texas at Arlington the winner of its 2013 AMS Award for an Exemplary Program or...

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