Sparking a Transformation

Rarely does the opportunity arise to forever change the face of a university. But College Park Center is just such a history maker. Not only does the dazzling facility fulfill the long-held dreams of a generation of alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends, it represents a symbol of UT Arlington’s rising arc of excellence.

The grand opening of College Park Center was a night like no other in UT Arlington’s 117-year history, the electricity of the moment rivaled only by the promise of what lay ahead.

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Wranglers: Loud and Proud

The Wranglers, a new student spirit group, raised the decibel level for basketball games at College Park Center during the record-setting 2011-12 season. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how the Wranglers formed and what it takes to become one of these super fans.

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The Price Is Right

University bucks national trend by holding the line on tuition and fees

Jennifer Fox will experience déjà vu when she gets her bill for the fall 2012 semester. For the first time in more than a decade, UT Arlington will not increase tuition, fees, or student room and board. The decision was good news for Fox and the more than 33,000 students pursuing degrees at the University. As Student Congress president, she hears the stories of fellow Mavericks […]

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Award-Winning Short Film 8

Julie Gould ’10

Author Joan Didion said grief is a place none of us know until we reach it. Alumna Julie Gould reached it the day her husband, Clay, died from colon cancer in 2001 at age 29. As a filmmaker, she captured a glimpse of it in her experimental documentary 8, her husband’s number when he played and coached baseball at UT Arlington. The movie follows Julie […]

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Department of Physics

Ramon Lopez

Physics Professor Ramon Lopez knows that solar wind, radiation, and changing electromagnetic fields can put a glitch in modern technology much like rain can ruin a picnic. Dr. Lopez is a co-principal investigator of the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling. He helped create the technology used to predict a hurricane’s path, and his long-term projects include developing computer simulations of space weather. To Lopez, […]

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Day Trippers

Alum’s travel show wins TV’s highest honor

Life is a highway, and Joe Gumm ’01 rode it straight to an Emmy with his wife and four young daughters in tow. As creator and executive producer of Traveling With the Tribe, Gumm took his family on excursions throughout Texas, highlighting vacation spots and day trips for other families. Their adventures happened in places like Twin Elm Guest Ranch in Bandera, where they rode longhorns, […]

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MESSAGE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS

A new day has dawned at UT Arlington, one full of energy and promise. The opening of the […]

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A HINT OF HIGGS

UT Arlington’s high energy physics group is helping illuminate one of the biggest mysteries of the universe. The […]

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NEW ATHLETICS DIRECTOR SEES PROMISING FUTURE

Jim Baker’s first day on the job was one of the most exciting in UT Arlington sports history. […]

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NEW TAKE ON OLD THEORY MAY BOOST BOTTOM LINE

Many business owners consider speed the key to success: how quickly they can enter the marketplace, promote their […]

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SENSING SLEEP SOLUTIONS

Sleep apnea—the chronic interruption of breathing during sleep—affects 15 percent of adults nationwide, but detecting the disease can […]

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FRUIT FLY FOCUS

To most people, flies are pests. To Esther Betrán, they’re fascinating creatures (and only sometimes pests). The biology […]

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BASEBALL

Hunter Pence says this off-season was no different from any other. He was in the batting cage honing […]

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BONE BREAKTHROUGH

Our understanding of bones just took a leap forward, thanks to a study by kinesiology Assistant Professor Rhonda […]

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STARRY, STARRY NIGHT

A group of UT Arlington astrophysicists hopes its work will help NASA determine whether life exists in a […]

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STAGE FLIGHT

If it’s possible to shrink the history of Texas Hall into a single story, it’s this one: When […]

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FORENSICS FOR NURSING

The term “forensic nursing” may conjure images of nurses tending to lifeless bodies, but that’s dead wrong. As […]

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SPEED RACERS

For three decades, a group of UT Arlington students has been building race cars. Also unmatched portfolios, unparalleled […]

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ALICIA SHAFFER

Senior libero Alicia Shaffer became the UT Arlington volleyball team’s career digs leader last season. She broke Ashley […]

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PURNENDU DASGUPTA

Purnendu “Sandy” Dasgupta, the Jenkins Garrett Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was quoted in an MSN Health story […]

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HEALTHY GIFT

The largest nursing program in Texas has received its first endowed faculty chair. A gift from the Moritz […]

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One Night Without a Home

It was cold, near freezing, last November when more than 50 students huddled together to spend the night on the library mall. They slept in cardboard boxes and ate chili and saltine crackers. It wasn’t much, but it was more than many homeless Americans have on a given evening. That was just the message Alysia Castillo, director of health and homelessness for UTA Volunteers, hoped to send. “Students give up their shelter for a night so they can get a better understanding of homelessness,” she says of the University’s annual One Night Without a Home event. “Education and awareness are the keys to lasting reform.” This year UTA Volunteers partnered with the National Coalition for the Homeless and the Arlington Life Shelter during National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week. A vigil walk and five speakers from the shelter, four of whom had been homeless themselves, brought the message into focus. “We try very hard to create programs that not only educate but expose our volunteers to the complexity of it all,” Castillo says. “The more people who can be reached, the better chance we have at changing lives.”

Alumni Buzz

TRAVELING COACH

Amy Nichols (BA, Journalism) is an account executive for Traveling Coaches, a Dallas-based training, application configuration, and user adoption consulting partner to law firms and corporate legal departments.

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DIVERSITY OFFICER

Jose S. Jimenez (BS, Electrical Engineering) is chief diversity officer for Computer Sciences Corp., a software and technology management company in Falls Church, Va.

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GOOD NEWS

Daniel Armbruster (BA, Broadcast Communication) is a reporter/anchor for KBTX-TV in Bryan/College Station. Previously, he worked at KXII in Sherman.

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TEACHER FEATURE

Karen Marx (BA, Kinesiology) was named 2011–2012 Teacher of the Year by the Dallas Independent School District.

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BOLD WOMAN

Mia Hall (MEd, Educational Administration) received the Bold Award from Girls Inc., which recognizes women in the community for being exceptional role models.

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POETIC REWARD

Ken Hada (PhD, English) won the 2011 Western Heritage Award for Poetry from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City for his book Spare Parts.

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ART OF LANDSCAPING

Lara Moffat (MLA) is director of marketing and recruitment for Lambert Landscape Co. in Dallas. She is publishing a guidebook developed from her master’s thesis, Art and the Built Landscape in the Central Business District of Dallas: Influences from an Identifiable Era in the Late Twentieth Century.

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8

Julie Gould (’10 BFA, Art) co-directed the short film 8, which was the short winner at the SXSW festival in Austin this March. The film’s name comes from the jersey number of her late husband, Clay Gould, who played and coached baseball at UTA.

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DOCTOR OF MUSIC

Danny Mekonnen (’03 BM, Music) is in the music doctoral program at Harvard. His group, Debo Band, has recorded albums and performs regularly in the Boston area.

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EXCELLENT NURSING

Harold Magee (’08 BSN), nurse manager at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, earned the Student Excellence in Clinical Nursing Award from UTA’s College of Nursing for the fourth straight year.

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GROUNDBREAKER

Brianna Hinojosa-Flores (’07 MBA) is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the Coppell City Council. She is also a patent research attorney Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry smartphone.

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INTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL

Chris Watkins (’08 BA) works in the intramural sports area of the Rice University Recreation and Wellness Center. His career in intramural sports began at UT Arlington.

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JUSTICE SERVED

Jeff Vaden (’90 BBA) joined Bracewell & Giuliani LLP as a partner in its white collar defense, internal investigations and regulatory enforcement practice. Read more about his distinguished career.

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BUDDING BRILLIANCE

Lisa Van Gemert (‘05 MEd) was recently named American Mensa’s gifted youth specialist. Read the press release.

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MERIT AWARD

Amelia Potee (’07 BSA) and Brandon Allen (’01 BSA) were honored with the TSA Special Merit Award for their Exploring Architecture program. Read more on the TSA blog.

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