UTA In The News — Monday, October 21, 2019
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, Technology.org reported.
Fight against opioids
UTA's School of Social Work will be able to train more addiction recovery specialists with a new $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Opioid Workforce Expansion Program, Targeted News Service reported. The multi-institutional project, led by Debra Woody, senior associate dean in the School of Social Work and director of UTA's Center for Addiction and Recovery Studies, will allow UTA to award scholarships to advanced graduate social work students to intern in different health organizations and federally qualified health centers.
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, Targeted News Service reported.