UTA In The News — Monday, December 10, 2018
Detecting malware
Jiang Ming, an assistant professor in the UTA Computer Science and Engineering Department, co-authored a paper detailing a new, highly effective way to detect malware on Windows-based computers using a common obfuscation technique known as binary packing, Targeted News Service reported.
UTeach grant
The UTeach Arlington secondary math and science teacher preparation program at The University of Texas at Arlington has been selected for a grant by the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation to benefit UTeach students and youth served by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County, Arlington-TX.gov and U.S. Fed News reported.
DOE project
UTA researchers have won a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a detector that may offer a key insight into the lingering mystery of the universe's matter-antimatter imbalance, Targeted News Service reported. UTA Presidential Distinguished Professor of Physics David Nygren is leading the research.
Engineering partners
UTA’s Electrical Engineering Department is partnering with Liaison International’s EngineeringCAS™, SFGate.com and several other media outlets reported. The system is aimed at streamlining the graduate engineering admissions process.
Political issues discussed
Rebecca Deen, UTA associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, told KUT 90.5 FM and the Texas Standard listeners that GOP leaders in Tarrant County are set to vote on whether to remove Shahid Shafi, a sitting Southlake council member, because of his religion, but not everyone is on board with that. Deen touched on a number of other issues on the radio broadcast.
ADA history
Former Shorthorn adviser John Dycus was quoted in a story about one of former President George H. W. Bush's biggest accomplishments, the Americans with Disabilities Act, published in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Abilene Reporter News. Dycus, who grew up with cerebral palsy and is an Arlington freelance writer and editor, remembers what life was like before the landmark act became law. "It brought people into the mainstream," Dycus said of the ADA. "People who deserved to be there. When I think of the ADA, I think of curb cuts that allow people in wheelchairs to get from one side of the street to the other — and get there safely." The story was orginally published by the USA Today Network.
Special Collections photo
A Dallas Morning News opinion column said a South Dallas neighborhood wrecked by a freeway could become whole again. The article featured a UTA Special Collections picture of the neighborhood as construction of the South Central Expressway was taking place in 1995.