UTA In The News — Friday, February 14, 2020
Nursing shortage
Tammy Eades, UTA clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, talked about what the University is doing to address the growing nursing shortage in Texas, KUVN Univision 23 reported. UTA student Joselyn Guitierrez also was featured in the story.
Training new generation of nurses
UTA is working to reduce the state’s nursing shortage by educating an entire generation of nurses, having produced more than 19,000 students through its online RN-to-BSN program, D Magazine reported.
ATLAS upgrade
Haleh Hadavand, UTA assistant professor of physics, is supervising part of an upgrade to the ATLAS experiment, the largest general purpose particle physics project at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, 7thSpace.com and Mirage News reported.
Donation starts financial markets lab
Sam Mahrouq, chairman of ikonGPS and an entrepreneur, donated $500,000 to the UTA College of Business to establish a financial markets lab, the Fort Worth Business Press reported. Mahrouq graduated in 1991 from UTA with a major in journalism and minor in business.
Jefferson Science Fellow
Edmund Prater, professor in the UTA College of Business' Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, has been appointed a Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Fed News reported. He will spend a year at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, Office of American Spaces, starting in August.
Professor elected fellow
The Royal Aeronautical Society has elected Luca Maddalena, a UTA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, as a fellow in the world's oldest professional body dedicated to the aerospace community, Targeted News Service and U.S. Fed News reported.
SEC filing
Arlington-based Greenway Technologies Inc. reported in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it raised $118,000 in equity funding, Dallas Innovates reported. Greenway Innovative Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenway Technologies, conducted a successful gas-to-liquid test at UTA’s Conrad Greer Laboratory, which Greenway helped fund.
Curb appeal
A UTA study determined that curb appeal in residential housing could account for up to 7% of a home's value when sold, Targeted News Service and U.S. Fed News reported. Sriram Villupuram, associate professor in the UTA College of Business, led the study by using photos from Google Street View, a deep-learning classification algorithm and a variety of visually attractive controls.
Shrinking cities
Ivonne Audirac, a UTA associate professor of planning and landscape architecture who has studied shrinking cities, said cities cannot go back to where they were, reported Yahoo! News and The Guardian, both in Great Britain. The story focused on what cities can do to fight that reality or cope with the idea of shrinking.
Repurposing shoes
Sahadat Hossain, UTA civil and environmental engineering professor, said finding alternative uses for your worn-out shoes is important because some of the product’s material could take 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill, Fashionista reported. Hossain is the director of UTA’s Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability