UTA In The News — Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Hero alumnus
Ali Alrubaiee, Baghdad native and UTA nursing alumnus, was one of the first Iraqi translators to help the U.S. military during the war in Iraq before he ever became an American citizen, WFAA ABC 8 reported. Alrubaiee came to the U.S. in 2007 and soon decided to pursue a career in nursing. He graduated from UTA in 2015 and is now a manager at the Dallas VA Hospital.
Disaster reconnaissance
Nick Fang, an assistant professor in the UTA Department of Civil Engineering, received a $299,000 National Science Foundation grant to use unmanned aerial vehicles to perform reconnaissance after natural disasters and more accurately and quickly assess damage to buildings, ScienMag reported. The use of UAVs could accelerate the conventional insurance adjustment process, which can take months.
Safer medications
Yan Xiao, UTA professor of nursing and patient safety specialist, is leveraging a new four-year, $2.5 million grant to develop interventions to reduce unsafe use of medications, ScienMag reported. Xiao is overseeing the Partnership in Resilience for Medication Safety Learning, or PROMIS, Lab—a consortium led by UTA.
Future of bone healing
The National Institutes of Health has given significant funding support to a UTA research team that is looking at groundbreaking treatment to speed up the healing of cranial injuries, Hospital & Nursing Home Daily reported. Venu Varanasi, an associate professor at UTA’s Bone-Muscle Research Center, is leading the project.
Studying infertility
Sen Xu, assistant professor of biology at UTA, received a five-year, $1.89 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to use cutting-edge genomic approaches to understand the genetic mechanisms of parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction, ScienMag and News Medical reported.