UTA In The News — Wednesday, November 6, 2019
UTA Professor Works To Preserve Local Music
David Arditi, UTA sociology professor, has started a non-profit to preserve music unique to North Texas, KXAS NBC 5 reported. Arditi started the non-profit website MusicDetour.uta.edu to catalog and collect local rock band, rap artist, jazz quartet or country crooner open to being included. According to Arditi, the goal is to preserve local music history and influence others.
UTA event for Spanish-speaking families
Elizabeth Couch, assistant director of media relations, was interviewed on KSTR-TV about a UTA event at the Consulate-General of Mexico in Dallas aimed at Spanish-speaking students and their families who are interested in attending UTA. At the event, scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 7, UTA representatives will offer information to Spanish-speaking families about the University’s admission process and make two financial aid presentations.
North Texas Genome Center
Jon Weidanz, UTA associate vice president for research, was featured in NTX Magazine. Weidanz discussed precision health, UTA’s efforts in biomedical research to prevent disease and the ongoing work to establish UTA’s North Texas Genome Center.
Civics 101
Rebecca Deen, UTA associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, was featured in an episode of the New Hampshire Public Radio podcast Civics 101. The topic discussed was the Electoral College, the rationale of its creation, its workings, its celebrations, its critiques and its potential future.
Women in Aerospace Award
Wendy Okolo, UTA alumna and aerospace research engineer, received the Initiative, Inspiration, and Impact Award from the Women in Aerospace organization, AfricansLive and other media outlets reported. The award recognizes Okolo “for her work in systems health monitoring and unconventional control techniques for air vehicles/spacecraft and for being an inspiration to the next generation of scientist/engineers.”
Violent video games study
A recent study written by Michael Ward, UTA economics professor, published in The Contemporary Economic Policy journal found there’s not enough evidence to support claims that violent video games lead to acts of violence, Medical Xpress and other media outlets reported. The study examined data from more than 15,000 participants from 1995 when they were teens and then again in 2008 when they were adults. “While the data show that fighting later in life is related to playing video games as an adolescent, most of this is because, relative to females, males both play games more often and fight more often. Estimates that better establish causality find no effect, or a small negative effect,” Ward said.
UTA Student Sets Guinness World Record
Brett Williams, UTA student and member of the men’s track team, certified a vertical jump of 5 feet, 5 inches, entering the Guinness World Records for high standing jump, KLBK CBS 13 and other media outlets reported. Williams said it took him three years to attain the record and other records for UTA.