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CELEBRATE GRADS
A new generation of the Maverick community will soon strike out into the world prepared to meet the challenges ahead. To celebrate them, we need your help! Share messages, photos, and short videos offering cheers, congratulations, shout-outs, and words of wisdom using #ForeverMaverick for a chance to be featured in the May 17 livestream event: Cheers! To the Class of 2020. Thank you for supporting our new Maverick alumni!
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MAVERICK HEROES OF COVID-19
Across Texas and beyond, thousands of Maverick heroes are providing essential support and care during the COVID-19 pandemic—and proving how the UTA community is a force for good. Here are three more stories: an emergency medicine physician, a gatekeeper for COVID-19 testing, and a social work student caring for the homeless, each showing how Mavericks are making a difference. READ MORE
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AIMING TO LEAD IN HEALTH INFORMATICS
UTA has taken a major step toward fulfilling its goal of becoming a leader in health informatics by hiring Marion Ball, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and Gabriela Wilson, who served as chair of the University of Southern Indiana’s Health Informatics and Information Management Program. Together they will establish the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics at UTA, enhancing the University’s robust Health and Human Condition portfolio, while continuing to advance its trajectory to achieving Tier One status in Texas. READ MORE
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PULITZER FINALIST
Alumnus Tom Fox ’91, a senior visual journalist at The Dallas Morning News, was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist this year for his breaking news photography of a masked gunman outside a federal courthouse in downtown Dallas last summer. To learn more about the award-winning shot, check out an interview UTA conducted with Fox last summer. READ MORE
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WOMEN IN TECH
Two members of the Maverick community were included on the Dallas Business Journal’s annual “Women in Tech Awards” list: Sharareh Kermanshachi, assistant professor in UTA’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the director of UTA’s RISE Lab, and alumna Deepti Padakanti ’06, director of networks business transformation at Ericsson.
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MEDICATION SUPPLY CHAIN
Working with artificial intelligence, Erick Jones, professor of industrial, manufacturing and systems engineering at UTA, is developing a rapid-response supply chain designed to quickly deliver COVID-19 medications, once they are available, to vulnerable urban populations in Texas. READ MORE
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