Robert Hayes, Actor and Communication Junior
You’ve had roles in a couple of major Hollywood films. My last movie was American Reunion. I played Bo, who is kind of an antagonist to the main characters. My big break, though, was The Lucky One. I played Victor, who is Zac Efron’s character’s best friend. What was it like when you found out you got a part in The Lucky One? I had […]
Erica Castillo, Goldwater Scholar
As UT Arlington’s first Goldwater Scholar, how do you plan to use the scholarship? I’d like to continue doing research in biomechanics. In engineering we deal with stress and strain with metals, but our bodies feel stresses and strains, too. When I was introduced to this idea, I liked it because it combined engineering and nature. Little by little, we’re trying to understand ourselves. We […]
William Nutt, Anthropology Graduate Student
You made national headlines for an archaeological discovery. Tell us about it. Last summer we were in field school in Italy. While there, I unearthed a fragment of a ceramic vessel that is more than 2,600 years old and is thought to be the earliest representation of childbirth in Western art. Did you know you had made a remarkable discovery? No. We were clearing off a […]
Emmitt Smith, Maverick Speaker
You recently spoke on campus about “A Championship Vision.” What does that mean? It’s seeing where you really want to go and developing a plan on how you want to get there. You always have to have a plan to achieve your vision. I wanted to play pro football, and that’s been achieved; now I’m working on the plan to make sure the rest of my […]
Benoit Lecomte, ’11 Master of Architecture
When did you think you could do something as epic as swim the Atlantic Ocean? I was following the progress of a French rower who was rowing across the Atlantic. I realized that I was swimming faster than he was rowing and thought it was something I could do. I was already swimming so much, and I felt like it was a natural progression. What […]
