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Quick Hits
Michelle Hummel, civil engineering assistant professor, is leading a $2.4 million National Science Foundation-funded project to help the Texas Gulf Coast monitor and plan for environmental hazards.
Biology Assistant Professor JC Buckner is using a four-year National Science Foundation grant to investigate the link between weight and sexual selection in squirrel monkeys.
The National Academy of Sciences selected earth and environmental sciences Associate Professor Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo as an early career research fellow in its Gulf Research Program.
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Investigating Earth’s ionosphere-thermosphere
A space physicist at UTA is playing a key role in NASA’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission aimed at improving our understanding of the planet’s ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system.
Quantifying the benefits of roadside vegetation
Construction management Assistant Professor Kyeong Rok Ryu is helping cultivate a better-looking Texas by creating best practices for roadside vegetation.
Evaluating smart traffic signal design
Civil engineer Pengfei “Taylor” Li hopes to make traffic signals smarter with new simulation techniques and big data.