UTA In The News — Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Optimizing power grid
Ramtin Madani, an assistant professor in UTA's Electrical Engineering Department, recently was awarded a $325,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop massively scalable computational methods to increase the efficiency, reliability and security of the national power grid, Energy Central News, World Industrial Reporter and Techsite reported.
Keeping corals healthy
Laura Mydlarz, UTA associate professor of biology, said coral immunity scholars hope to see a shift to what keeps corals healthy – not just what makes them sick, Popular Science and Vaaju.com reported in a story about a new research paper on that subject.
New cancer treatment
UTA researchers at the College of Nursing and Health Innovation have developed a new nanoparticle-based platform for simultaneous imaging and treatment of esophageal cancer, ChinaGate.com, ecancernews, Science and Technology Research News and other websites reported. Zui Pan, an associate professor of nursing and one of the authors of the paper on this nanoparticle, said the long-term goals of the research are to help prevent this tumor from forming and to find better, safer and more targeted treatments for esophageal cancer.
Eye movement navigation
UTA has been awarded a patent for a revolutionary new technology that is able to scan a user’s eye movements and enable them to navigate mobile platforms, such as electric wheelchairs, Greece’s news.makedonias and MobiHealthNews reported. Christopher McMurrough, a UTA computer science and engineering lecturer, developed the technology.
Supreme Court nominee discussion
UTA’s Allan Saxe, associate professor of political science, said he was a little surprised at President Trump’s selection of Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court Justice nominee, KTRH 730 AM reported. Saxe said he thought Trump might have picked a woman like Amy Coney Barrett, a circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to be the nominee. Saxe also was heard on KLIF 570 AM, WBAP 820 AM and Cincinnati’s WLW 700 AM about the Kavanaugh appointment.
UTA at British Grand Prix
Former and current UTA formula SAE racing teams are in the United Kingdom to participate and race in opening festivities at the Great Britain Grand Prix, Arlington-tx.gov reported. UTA’s 1998 FSAE car will race with the original team as part of the festivities.
Political movies
Bart Weiss, UTA associate professor of film in art and art history, writes that politics and movies about politics might soothe people or spur them to take action in his Theater Jones monthly column. Weiss rattles off many of the all-time great movies that center on politics as well as some movies that are more obscure.
White-collar dreamers
Alex Medrano was one of the dreamers profiled in a Bloomberg story about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama administration program that President Trump has signed an order to end. The story was about while-collar Dreamers. Medrano took business classes at UTA. The story also ran on msn.com and The Malaysian Reserve.
Movin' Mavs host event
The UTA Movin’ Mavs and the Arlington Mayor's Committee on People with Disabilities will host the Ability Experience Journey of Hope South cycling team for the 22nd year on Friday, July 13, at the Maverick Activities Center, U.S. Fed News reported. Journey of Hope cyclists are traveling from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., on their cross-county trip across America. Both the 10 a.m. welcome and the 1 p.m. wheelchair basketball game are free and open to the public.
UTA hosts ArlingCon
UTA played host to the Arlington Public Library’s ArlingCon, a recent annual pop culture convention, U.S. Fed News reported.
UTA alumna appointed
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Rossy Fariña-Strauss to the State Pension Review Board, the Houston-based Guidry News reported. Fariña-Strauss received a UTA bachelor’s degree in architecture.