CAREER grant to help UT Arlington professor study earthquakes, create teacher Geocorps

A UT Arlington professor will use part of his CAREER grant to team with Teach for AmericaA UT Arlington assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences has been awarded up to $400,000 from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program to study how rock structures react to events such as earthquakes, meteor impacts and explosions. W. Ashley Griffith also will use the new grant to partner with Teach for America – Dallas - Fort Worth to create the TFA Geocorps. His project will involve secondary school teachers in research and provide them with