UTA In The News — Friday, October 18, 2019
Paralympian feature
ESPN SportsCenter aired a feature on Darlene Hunter, a former member of the UTA Lady Movin’ Mavs wheelchair basketball team and current assistant professor in UTA's School of Social Work. After sustaining a permanent spinal cord injury at 4 years old, Hunter has gone on to become a decorated Paralympian and coach other wheelchair athletes.
Research to avoid medication-related harm
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, D CEO Healthcare reported. Xiao is overseeing the Partnership in Resilience for Medication Safety Learning, or PROMIS, Lab—a consortium led by UTA.
Higher education costs
Thomas Adam, professor of transnational history at UTA, joined Inside Higher Ed’s The Academic Minute to discuss why a college education is no longer free. Adam said a major reason is because higher education has become a personal pursuit, rather than for the public good as it used to be.
Army modernization
The Army center responsible for researching power solutions is partnering with UTA to improve batteries for the service's modernization priorities, the U.S. Army reported. David Wetz Jr., director of strategic initiatives at UTA's College of Engineering, said the goal is to allow the Army to determine the types and number of batteries that will be needed, while also minimizing the volume, for the large number of vehicle and weapons platforms that could benefit.
Coastal flooding research
Michelle Hummel, assistant professor of civil engineering at UTA, has received a three-year, $748,865 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to investigate ways to alleviate the increased flooding causing damage to infrastructure and natural areas on the U.S. coasts, Scienmag and Bioengineer.org reported.
STEM rock stars
The IF/THEN Summit will come to Dallas Oct. 21-23, bringing 125 female “STEM Rock Stars” from the across the nation who have been selected as American Association of Science IF/THEN Ambassadors, Dallas Innovates reported. Among the ambassadors is Minerva Cordero, UTA mathematics professor and associate dean in the College of Science.