UTA In The News — Wednesday, May 1, 2024
UT Arlington’s first deaf student mentor profiled by City of Arlington
Lei-Sea Sky, UTA’s first deaf student mentor, talked with the City of Arlington about her success at UTA and her passion to help ensure other students who are deaf receive equal access.
UTA financial aid officers reach out to students about FAFSA forms
Despite challenges with the rollout of the Department of Education’s new free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) form, UT Arlington’s financial aid officers have narrowed UTA’s gap in completed forms significantly, Karen Krause, executive director of financial aid and scholarships, told the Arlington Report and Open Campus Media. UTA now is doing an outreach to area high school students who have yet to submit their FAFSA applications.
Dallas-area growth depends on labor
Tarrant and Denton counties are among the 10 fastest-growing counties in the country, and construction is the third-largest creator of jobs in the Metroplex, UTA finance and real estate professor Sriram Villupuram told Yahoo! News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
UTA scientists test for quantum nature of gravity
For decades, scientists have been trying to achieve a quantum definition of gravity. A new study in Nature Physics from UT Arlington reports on this effort using ultra-high-energy neutrino particles detected by a particle detector set into the Antarctic glacier at the south pole, reports Innovations Report.