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UT Metroplex Day 2008
Due to the success of the first "UT Metroplex Days," hosted by the UT - DFW Initiative for Biomedical and Engineering Sciences, a similar event will be hosted this year on Friday, February 15, 2008 at UT Southwestern. UT Metroplex Day is designed to create a greater awareness of interdisciplinary biomedical-related (broadly defined) research, as well as to stimulate even greater collaborations among scientists at UT Arlington, UT Dallas and UT Southwestern. The goal is to stimulate thoughts about scientific opportunites where the biobehavioral and physical sciences overlap. For more information, please use the following link.
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1000-97

Chemistry Professor passes away after battle with cancer.
Dr. Dmitry Rudkevich, an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, passed away on Saturday, August 4th. He had many significant achievements in his relatively short academic life. He was a Sloan Fellow and his research was supported by the National Science Foundation. He was a dedicated teacher, mentor and family man who will be sorely missed by his family, colleagues, and students.

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1000-81
The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
UT ARLINGTON GEOLOGY PROFESSOR APPOINTED TO NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PANEL
ARLINGTON—John Holbrook of The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences was recently appointed to a two-year term on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Panel convened for the Sedimentology and Paleontology Program.
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The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
GEOLOGY PROFESSOR RECEIVES NSF GRANT TO STUDY RESPONSE OF LARGE RIVERS TO CLIMATE CHANGE
ARLINGTON—Professor John Holbrook of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Texas at Arlington has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation titled “Rates, Processes, and Implications of Big Changes in the Shape and Style of the Missouri River.” The grant totals $342,000 and will fund research to examine the rates and processes by which the Missouri River changes its pattern and erosion trends in response to climate change.
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1000-79
The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
PLANETARIUM SHOW, "COSMIC CSI," SEARCHES UNIVERSE FOR LIFE
ARLINGTON—“Cosmic CSI: Looking for Life in the Universe,” an original new show developed with a grant from NASA, is opening this week at The Planetarium at UT Arlington. The production takes its cue from “CSI,” its spin-off series, “CSI: Miami” and “CSI: NY” and numerous other television shows featuring sharp-minded investigators armed with high-powered forensic gadgetry that have burst into popular culture in the last few years. The new planetarium show takes the investigation out of our solar system, using tools that were non-existent just a few years ago, to search for life in the universe. It investigates planets around nearby stars, extreme life forms on planet Earth and future missions to answer that great galactic question. . .got life?
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The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
THE COLOR OF GOLD IS SUBJECT OF LECTURE
ARLINGTON—Back in 1856, scientist Michael Faraday spent almost a year researching the amazing variety of colors manifested by metallic gold. Today, cognitive-historical analyses of his research, including replications of some of the research, reveal much about the dynamics of his discoveries. This will be the subject of the upcoming “Frontiers in Science,” a series of informal presentations on popular science topics presented by the College of Science.
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The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
UT ARLINGTON DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY OFFERS "MICRO...CAMP' FOR GRADES 8 THROUGH 12
ARLINGTON—The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Biology will offer a microbiology camp for high school students from 8 a.m. until noon, June 18-22. The camp will challenge high school students to research and conduct experiments. The program is laboratory-based, but involves field work, which will require the students to actually collect samples from different sites on the University campus.
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The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY OFFERS SUMMER SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
ARLINGTON—The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Biology is hosting its Fifth Annual Biology Summer Science Institute, “Understanding the Sciences,” for students who have completed the sixth, seventh, or eighth grade.
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The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
GEOLOGY PROFESSOR RECEIVES NSF GRANT TO STUDY RESPONSE OF LARGE RIVERS TO CLIMATE CHANGE
ARLINGTON—Professor John Holbrook of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Texas at Arlington has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation titled “Rates, Processes, and Implications of Big Changes in the Shape and Style of the Missouri River.” The grant totals $342,000 and will fund research to examine the rates and processes by which the Missouri River changes its pattern and erosion trends in response to climate change.
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The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
UT ARLINGTON GEOLOGY PROFESSOR APPOINTED TO NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PANEL
UT Arlington Geology professor Appointed to National Science foundation Panel ARLINGTON—John Holbrook of The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences was recently appointed to a two-year term on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Panel convened for the Sedimentology and Paleontology Program.
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The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Public Affairs
DISTINGUISHED BLACK PHYSICIST TO SPEAK AT UT ARLINGTON MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
ARLINGTON—Ronald E. Mickens, Distinguished Fuller E. Calloway Professor of Physics at Clark Atlanta University, will present a colloquium at The University of Texas at Arlington Friday. In addition to his research in mathematical physics, Mickens is known for his efforts to open the field of physics to blacks. He serves as historian for the National Society of Black Physicists and recently was elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society, a rare distinction limited to less than one percent of the membership of the society. In 1999, Mickens published a history book, “The African-American Presence in Physics,” and in 2002 he published “Edward Bouchet, The First African-American Doctorate.”
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GEOLOGY PROFESSOR AWARDED NSF GRANT
Professor John Holbrook of the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Texas at Arlington has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation titled "Rates, Processes, and Implications of Big Changes in the Shape and Style of the Missouri River." The grant totals $342,000 and will fund research to examine the rates and processes by which the Missouri River changes its pattern and erosion trends in response to climate change.

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1000-29

UT ARLINGTON GENOME RESEARCHER AWARDED GRANT FROM NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
ARLINGTON-Assistant Professor of Biology and member of the Genome Biology Group Dr. Cedric Feschotte has been awarded a research grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institute of Health (NIH). The title of the project is: "Human DNA transposons: evolutionary history and genomic impact" and the total amount of this five-year award is $811,000. Feschotte is the principal investigator.
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1000-28

SCIENCE EDUCATION WORKSHOP SERIES
Friday, February 2, 2007. 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Life Science Building, Room 100. Prof. David Hanson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SUNY - Stony Brook. Implementing POGIL Techniques in a Science Classroom. Refreshments will be served at 3:00.

1000-27

ACTIVE LEARNING WORKSHOP
Thursday, February 1, 2007. 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Nedderman Hall, Room 100. Prof. David Hanson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SUNY - Stony Brook. The POGIL Approach to Active Learning. Refreshments will be served at 2:00, and the workshop will begin at 2:30. Faculty from across the university are invited to attend. Sponsored by the College of Science and the Office of the Provost.

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1000-26

NOBEL LAUREATE TO DELIVER PRESIDENTIAL PUBLIC LECTURE IN PHYSICS
Nobel Laureate David M. Lee from Cornell University will deliver the Presidential Public Lecture in Physics titled Superfluidity, a Century of Discovery on January 25 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 100, Nedderman Hall. A reception will follow the presentation at 5 p.m.
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NOBEL LAUREATE TO DELIVER PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE IN PHYSICS
Nobel Laureate David M. Lee from Cornell University will deliver the Presidential Lecture in Physics at the Physics Colloquium at 4 p.m. Wednesday, January 24, 2007 in the Planetarium in the Chemistry and Physics Building. He will speak on Matrix Isolated Free Radicals: Chemistry and Physics Below 3 K.
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1000-24

CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR NAMED TO EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr. Rasika Dias of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has been appointed to the editorial advisory board of Inorganic Chemistry. Inorganic Chemistry is published by the American Chemical Society and is the premier journal in that field.

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1000-23
University of Texas at Arlington Public Affairs
BIOLOGY PROFESSOR TO HELP SHAPE FEDERAL POLICY ON INVASIVE SPECIES
The University of Texas at Arlington Honors College Dean and Professor of Biology Dr. Robert McMahon has been named by the U.S. Department of Interior as a member of the Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC),
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MavBalls
For the start of the 2006-2007 season, the NBA is changing their official game balls. For many years the league had been using leather basketballs, which showed a great deal of variation from ball to ball.
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1000-20

SCIENTIFIC SCOOP ON GOSSIP OFFERED
Want to learn about gossip? (In a scholarly, academic way, of course!) The Department of Psychology is presenting a colloquium on the ¡°Evolutionary Psychology of Gossip,¡± by Dr. Frank McAndrew from Knox College, a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Ill. McAndrew will discuss his research project that led to the article ¡°Of Tabloids and Family Secrets: The Evolutionary Psychology of Gossip,¡± which was published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. The free public colloquium will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, in room 122 in the Life Science Building, 501 S. Nedderman Drive.

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UT ARLINGTON HOST OF 2006 JOINT MEETING FOR PHYSICS EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS
UT Arlington is hosting the Fall 2006 Major Joint Meeting of the Texas Sections of the American Physical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers, Zone-13 of the Society of Physics Students, Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics, National Society of Hispanic Physicists, and National Society of Black Physicists, from Oct. 5 through 7.
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1000-16

UT ARLINGTON CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS BUILDING RECEIVES AWARD FOR BEST DESIGN
The University of Texas at Arlington¡¯s new Chemistry and Physics Building, designed by the Dallas office of Perkins and Will, has been awarded the best design in Higher Education for 2006 by Texas Construction magazine.
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Middle School Students Spend Summer Prepping For College


The University of Texas at Arlington's College of Science is hosting an ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp July 13 to 25. The College of Science received a grant to host 48 middle school students for a two-week residential science, technology, engineering and math camp. The campers are members of groups underrepresented in the sciences, and they are attending free of charge. The campers have had the opportunity to explore topics in biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, math, physics, and technology through very hands-on experiments and activities. In addition, campers have been to Lockheed-Martin's manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Bass Hall, the Dallas World Aquarium, and the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science. Bernard Harris, the first African American to walk in space, visited the camp on Tuesday, July 22, and the event was covered by the DFW metroplex NBC affiliate.
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Dr. John Holbrook Elected to the SEPM Counsel


Dr. John Holbrook, professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, has been elected to the SEPM Counsel (Research Counselor), the main international organization for those in the geology of sediments field. 2008 New Council Members
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The Shorthorn

Psych Chair Gets $1.5 Million Grant



Written by Julie Ann Sanchez, The Shorthorn staff
TUESDAY, 01 APRIL 2008 06:56 PM

The Department of Defense recently awarded Psychology chair Robert Gatchel a $1.5 million grant to further research on patients suffering from both musculoskeletal injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The grant creates a new phase of study combining both diseases and treating the physical and emotional aspects of soldiers' injuries, Gatchel said.

The research will focus on cognitive behavioral therapy for soldiers at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, dealing with PTSD and muscular injuries.

"A lot of the soldiers in the first study also had PTSD," Gatchel said.

Cognitive behavioral therapy includes helping patients deal with some of the negative thoughts and memories, coping skills, and dealing with stress, he said.

His previous research centered on assessment and treatment of soldiers with musculoskeletal injuries and the pain associated with muscular wounds endured, like walking with packs weighing more than 50 pounds while on tour in Afghanistan and Iraq, among other things.

The research was done at Wilford Hall for four years with data yielding positive results, Gatchel said. Soldiers who finished the functional restoration program were able to return to active duty.

Gatchel said that, in some instances, soldiers didn't view themselves as survivors and focused on negative thoughts.

"They are looking at 'If we didn't survive,' " he said, adding that new therapy would aim to change the perceptions and thoughts of soldiers.

He said that, before, physical injuries would be treated on the surface and not take into account the emotional side. He plans to change that.

"The mind and the body are not separate," Gatchel said.

Research from the grant will begin in two to three months and continue to use soldiers at Wilford Hall. Graduate students will help the university handle data and write reports, he said.

In the meantime, Gatchel must deal with paperwork between university administration, Fort Dietrich in Maryland, which awarded the grant, and Wilford Hall. Besides the paperwork, he said, the majority of the study would be manpower driven with seasoned personnel from the previous research to be used.

"We have people ready to go," he said.


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1000-104

Nanotechnology Paper Published By UT Arlington Assistant Professor of Physics


Both the Nanowerk and Nanotechweb web sites have noted the recent publication of an article in Nanotechnology by UT Arlington Assistant Professor of Physics Wei Chen and collaborators. The article, titled "Diffusion of nanoparticles into the capsule and cortex of a crystalline lens", chronicles research into the causes of cataract formation and potential treatments using cadmium tellurium nanoparticles. For further descriptions of the work, view the Nanowerk Article, the Nanotechweb Article, or the Nanotechnology Article.
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50 Years Of Space Plasma Observations: What Next?


Dr. Tom Moore of NASA's Goddard Space Center will be presenting a seminar at 2:30 on November 7th. Dr. Moore will give his talk in the Planetarium at UT Arlington (Chemistry and Physics Building) at 2:30 pm. This talk, the details of which can be found by following the link below, will appeal to a wide audience. ...More
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A New Drug


The Shorthorn: Sharad Singhal, biochemistry research associate professor, holds up his cancer research involving mice that was highlighted in the journal Lead Discovery. Singhal collaborated with other university researchers, including his wife, Jyotsana, in the 14-month study.Sharad Singhal’s cancer research has earned international interest. The biochemistry research associate professor's findings, a collaboration of work with biochemistry research professor Sanjay Awasthi, Sushma Yadav, chemistry and biochemistry research associate, and research associate Jyotsana Singhal, Sharad's wife of 16 years, were featured on June 14 in the U.K.-based medicine journal Lead Discovery. The report describes a possible new treatment for certain types of cancer that may replace conventional methods.
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University of Texas at Arlington Public Affair Newsrelease

UT Arlington Physics Professor Wins Grant From Office Of High Energy Physics


ARLINGTON–University of Texas at Arlington Associate Professor of Physics Andrew Brandt, along with only seven other principal investigators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Washington University at St. Louis, Iowa State University, University of Cincinnati, Texas Tech and University of California, Irvine, won a grant from The Advanced Detector Research (ADR) program.
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NYTIMES

A Planet Is Too Hot For Life, But Another May Be Just Right


So much for the Goldilocks planet. Astronomers and ordinary people alike were cheered at the discovery in April of a new planet only five times the mass of the Earth circling a dim star in Libra. The planet, known as Gliese 581c, orbits at a distance of about seven million miles, within the stars so-called habitable zone where it is neither too hot nor too cold for water to exist on its surface, making it the most promising spot for life yet found outside the solar system. "On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X" , said one member of the discovery team, Xavier Delfosse of Grenoble University in France. "Everybody got excited" , said Manfred Cuntz, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Arlington. " It is just too hot", said Dr. Cuntz, who was part of a team of theorists led by Werner von Bloh of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in Germany. He added, "I would not recommend mankind to move to that planet right now."
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The Shorthorn

New Planetarium Director Hired


A new Planeterium director will be joining the Physics Department family, Physics Chair James Horwitz said Wednesday. Marc Rouleau, director of the Paulucci Space Theater in Hibbing, Minn., formally accepted the invitation to take the reins of the Planeterium.
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Two Chemistry Professors Receive University Awards For Research


At a recent Spring Faculty Meeting Dr. Rasika Dias and Dr. Richard Timmons were recognized for their research achievements. Professor Dias received the Outstanding Research Achievement Award for his cutting edge contributions to the science of inorganic co-ordination chemistry which opens up technological application possibilities in synthetic chemistry, catalysis, polymer chemistry, and light-emitting diodes and displays. His work has been featured on prestigious journal cover illustrations and has led to international recognition of inorganic chemistry at the UT Arlington. Professor Timmons was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Scholars. This is a group of the top scholars at the University who have had a long record of research achievements. Dr. Timmons is well known for his research on pulsed plasma preparation and biocompatible materials. He is very active in interdisciplinary research with other professors in science and engineering. Dr. Timmons received the Distinguished Record of Research Award in 2001. Drs. Timmons and Dias are shown with Dean Paulus who received the Distinguished Record of Research Award at the same event.