Building to Survive Earth’s Killer Crust

Earthquakes can’t be stopped or predicted, but they can be understood. Research by UT Arlington scientists and engineers shows promise in mitigating the types of disasters that recently devastated Japan and Haiti.

On a pleas­ant March after­noon ear­lier this year, Paul Hayashi and his dog were tak­ing one of their twice-daily strolls along red brick foot­paths in a pic­turesque neigh­bor­hood park in Katori, Chiba Pre­fec­ture, Japan.

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Excellence Personified

UT Arlington bestows highest alumni honor for accomplishments, dedication

Six alumni and a for­mer pro­fes­sor were rec­og­nized for their pro­fes­sional achieve­ments and ser­vice to the Uni­ver­sity at the annual Dis­tin­guished Alumni Gala in Octo­ber. Jane Avila ’90, Lon Bur­nam ’79, Harry Dom­broski ’79, Al Ellis ’65, and Keith Weiss ’73 received the Dis­tin­guished Alumni Award. Mus­taque Ahmed ’81 received the Dis­tin­guished Inter­na­tional Alumni Award, and Karin McCal­lum received the Hon­orary Dis­tin­guished Alumni Award. Avila […]

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Goolsby Leadership Endowment

BNSF Railway

Invest­ing in tomorrow’s lead­ers can yield imme­di­ate pay­back. That’s a ben­e­fit Fort Worth-based BNSF Rail­way real­ized through its sup­port of UT Arlington’s Goolsby Lead­er­ship Acad­emy, a rig­or­ous two-year pro­gram for about 60 junior and senior busi­ness majors. Acad­emy schol­ars enhance their busi­ness edu­ca­tion by tak­ing spe­cial­ized courses and par­tic­i­pat­ing in activ­i­ties that enhance lead­er­ship skills. BNSF Rail­way has been a long­time sup­porter of the acad­emy […]

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Battlefield DNA Sensors, 2040

A sol­dier return­ing from the bat­tle­field is unknow­ingly car­ry­ing a con­t­a­m­i­nant. But sen­sors embed­ded on a small elec­tronic chip detect the harm­ful mat­ter, alert­ing per­son­nel to treat the sol­dier, poten­tially sav­ing his life and avoid­ing harm to fel­low troops. Such a scene could play out. Mate­ri­als sci­ence and engi­neer­ing Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Seong Jin Koh leads a team at work on tiny sen­sors that could detect […]

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Speedy Mavericks

Every year our For­mula SAE (Soci­ety of Auto­mo­tive Engi­neers) team designs, builds, and races cars at com­pe­ti­tions around the globe. Mechan­i­cal and aero­space engi­neer­ing Pro­fes­sor Robert Woods talks about what it takes to win the chal­leng­ing com­pe­ti­tion, while Lena Gerry, the For­mula SAE team cap­tain, takes us through this year’s project.

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Raising Our Game

Move to Western Athletic Conference coincides with College Park Center opening

It’s a whole new ball­game for UT Arling­ton ath­let­ics. When the Mav­er­ick bas­ket­ball and vol­ley­ball teams take the court in fall 2012, they’ll be play­ing in a new con­fer­ence and a new arena. UT Arling­ton has accepted an invi­ta­tion to join the West­ern Ath­letic Con­fer­ence, a move expected to ele­vate the University’s com­pet­i­tive sports pro­grams and increase its national pro­file. UT Arling­ton becomes the 10th mem­ber […]

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

This has been a remark­able year for phil­an­thropy at UT Arling­ton. Thanks to the gen­eros­ity of our alumni […]

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NEW ENGINEERING DEAN TAKES REINS IN JANUARY

Jean-Pierre Bardet looks for­ward to work­ing with UT Arling­ton fac­ulty, staff, stu­dents, and alumni to achieve great things. […]

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IMPRESSIVE, EH?

The men’s bas­ket­ball team breezed through its sum­mer exhi­bi­tion tour of Canada, win­ning all five games by an […]

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INTRODUCTION TO MIDDLE EAST POLITICS

Tweets and texts ear­lier this year caused polit­i­cal sci­ence Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Brent Sasley to change the course syl­labus. […]

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PROVEN LEADER

UT Arling­ton embarked on a new era in aca­d­e­mic lead­er­ship this fall as Ron Elsen­baumer became provost and […]

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CLASS OF THE CLASSROOM

Eng­lish Pro­fes­sor Stacy Alaimo is one of nine UT Arling­ton fac­ulty mem­bers to receive the 2011 UT Sys­tem Regents’ Out­stand­ing Teach­ing Award. The honor rec­og­nizes pro­fes­sors at UT Sys­tem insti­tu­tions who demon­strate extra­or­di­nary class­room per­for­mance and inno­va­tion at the under­grad­u­ate level.

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JOURNEY OF HOPE

A col­lege sopho­more vol­un­teers for a cross-country bike ride aver­ag­ing 50–100 miles per day, and he’s not even […]

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STORMY STARS

Want to know the weather in space? UT Arling­ton physi­cists can help. The Uni­ver­sity is one of 11 […]

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FOLLOW THE LEED

It’s not just the schol­ars inside the new Engi­neer­ing Research Build­ing who are work­ing to make the world […]

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BREATHING EASIER

If the air seems a lit­tle clearer on the UT Arling­ton cam­pus, your eyes—and nose—aren’t deceiv­ing you. On […]

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ENTERING GREEN PARKING

To accom­mo­date a grow­ing stu­dent pop­u­la­tion, UT Arling­ton recently opened a new park­ing garage with 1,100 spaces. The […]

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Not many NCAA bas­ket­ball play­ers enter their final sea­son with a col­lege diploma in hand. But LaMar­cus Reed […]

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DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND TESOL FACULTY

Lin­guis­tics Pro­fes­sor Colleen Fitzger­ald is wak­ing up Native Amer­i­can lan­guages on the brink of extinc­tion. The Depart­ment of […]

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The fourth sea­son of UT Arlington’s mar­quee lec­tures, the Mav­er­ick Speak­ers Series, con­tin­ues in Novem­ber with the men […]

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DEFENSE IS THE KEY FOR YOUTHFUL WOMEN’S TEAM

Tak­ing stock of her team enter­ing its farewell sea­son in the South­land Con­fer­ence, Saman­tha Mor­row sees just that. […]

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Jennifer Fox

On the music scene, Jen­nifer Fox is known as “the girl with the blue fid­dle.” The account­ing senior plays the col­or­ful instru­ment in her family’s band, Fox Coun­try, which includes her par­ents, Gary and Teri, and younger brother, Justin. A fid­dler since age 3, Fox looks up to Mar­tie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks. “The man who taught her taught me,” she says proudly. The blue fid­dle is a hand-me-down from her dad, a 1978 UT Arling­ton grad­u­ate. She uses the 45-minute drive from Wax­a­hachie each day to think about her other job—Student Con­gress pres­i­dent. “I can see how easy it would be to not be involved on cam­pus,” she says of com­mut­ing. Instead, she joined Fresh­men Lead­ers on Cam­pus and has been actively involved ever since. “I want to let stu­dents know that Stu­dent Con­gress is here for them. I want to bring the stu­dent voice to the admin­is­tra­tion.” After earn­ing her bachelor’s degree, Fox plans to pur­sue a master’s in edu­ca­tion with an empha­sis on higher edu­ca­tion. Her desire to work with stu­dents is so strong that she turned down an account­ing job in Hawaii. But a music career would be harder to dis­miss. “If I had the oppor­tu­nity,” she says, “I would jump at the chance.”

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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