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  • Spring 2016

    Spring 2016: Premium Blend

    Found in everything from space shuttles to dental fillings, composite materials have thoroughly infiltrated modern society. But their potential is still greatly untapped, offering researchers ample opportunity for discovery.

  • Fall 2015

    Fall 2015: Collision Course

    Within the particle showers created at the Large Hadron Collider, answers to some of the universe’s mysteries are waiting.

  • Spring 2015

    Spring 2015: Almost Human

    Model systems like pigeons can help illuminate our own evolutionary and genomic history.

  • Fall 2014

    Fall 2014: Small Wonder

    UT Arlington's tiny windmills are bringing renewable energy to a whole new scale.

  • Winter 2014

    Winter 2014: Overdue for an Overhaul

    The stability of our highways, pipelines, and even manholes is reaching a breaking point.

  • 2012

    2012: Mystery solved?

    Scientists believe they have discovered a subatomic particle that is crucial to understanding the universe.

  • 2011

    2011: Boosting brain power

    UT Arlington researchers unlock clues to the human body’s most mysterious and complex organ.

  • 2010

    2010: Powered by genetics

    UT Arlington researchers probe the hidden world of microbes in search of renewable energy sources.

  • 2009

    2009: Winning the battle against pain

    Wounded soldiers are benefiting from Robert Gatchel’s program that combines physical rehabilitation with treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

  • 2009

    2007: Sensing a solution

    Tiny sensors implanted in the body show promise in combating acid reflux disease, pain and other health problems.

  • 2006

    2006:Semiconductors: The next generation

    Nanotechnology researchers pursue hybrid silicon chips with life-saving potential.

  • 2005

    2005: Imaging is everything

    Biomedical engineers combat diseases with procedures that are painless to patients.

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Funded

Grants

These grants cover everything from particle research to medical diagnosis 

The Department of Energy awarded a $2.5 million, three-year grant to the Center for Excellence in High Energy Physics to further work on particle research and other physics exploration.

Samir IqbalAssociate Professors Samir Iqbal (electrical engineering), right, and Young-tae Kim (bioengineering) received a $480,000 National Science Foundation grant to build an inexpensive device that uses nanotechnology and a simple urine test to detect minuscule amounts of bladder cancer cells in patients.

Gautam Das, professor of computer science and engineering, won a $450,000 Army Research Office grant to develop efficient analytic techniques for combining and understanding the data stored in online social networks.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board awarded a $1.8 million grant to the College of Nursing and Health Innovation to lead a multi-institution study of clinical experience requirements for nursing school graduates.

The Division for Enterprise Development and the Department of Art and Art History received a $1.3 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to produce an oral history documentary for the U.S. mining industry.

Electrical engineers Yuze “Alice” Sun and Weidong Zhou received a three-year, $400,369 National Science Foundation grant to build a handheld device that could analyze a person’s breath to reveal whether certain dangerous gases are present that need more immediate medical attention.

UT Arlington’s Public Works Institute in the Division for Enterprise Development received a $486,234 contract to train city and county work crews on working in traffic safety zones.

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