UTA’s new arc-heated, hypersonic wind tunnel—one of just a handful of its kind in the United States and the only one at a university—will be used in Navy grants that support the development of heat shields for hypersonic vehicles and advanced laser-based measurements of plasma flow. Read more.

In the decade since its inception, the College of Nursing and Health Innovation’s RN-to-BSN program has earned a reputation for excellence and become a magnet for working nurses looking for a high-quality education at a competitive price. Read more.

Todd Castoe, associate professor of biology, is using a new grant to look for ways to eradicate a stubbornly resistent parasitic disease called schistosomiasis. The project uses cutting-edge genomic approaches to learn why the disease persists in areas where extensive control measures against it have been implemented. Read more.

Jia Rao, an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, was awarded a National Science Foundation Early Career Development, or CAREER, Program grant—the NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty—to redesign abstractions in virtualized systems to improve efficiency. Read more.

The Collaborative Laboratories for Environmental Analysis and Remediation has extended its collaboration with the Apache Corporation to study surface and groundwater quality in the company's Alpine High play in West Texas. Read more.