University of Texas Arlington

High speed rail

A future high-speed rail line that parallels the I-30 corridor could include a connector rail line and stop at UT Arlington, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Civil war violence in Syria

Brent Sasley, a UT Arlington political science assistant professor, was quoted in a CW 33 story about a local resident who has experienced some of the civil war violence in Syria. "The number of killings is getting higher," Sasley said in the television report. "The brutality of the violence has not been lessening."

New ethics teaching tools

The Direct Selling Executives Foundation has launched new ethics teaching tools, the DSEF website reported. The package is developed by Larry Chonko, the Thomas McMahon Professor in Business Ethics at The University of Texas at Arlington.