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UTA In The News — Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020
New speaker
Thomas Marshall, UT Arlington political science professor, said the presumptive Texas House speaker, Beaumont’s Dade Phelan, is regarded as a cautious politician who won’t “throw bombs just to do it,” the
Dallas Observer
reported.
Broken hip can be devastating
Kathryn Daniel, a gerontological nurse practitioner and associate dean for academic affairs in nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington, said when someone breaks a hip, “it’s often devastating and expensive and drastically changes the course of their life,”
The Dallas Morning News
reported in a story about the importance of hip health.
Skip large family gatherings
As Thanksgiving nears, COVID-19 cases are soaring in North Texas, the
Dallas Observer
reported. Erin Carlson, an associate clinical professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, said big family gatherings are simply not worth it this year because of that spike. She offered safety tips to people who will have such gatherings.
Food waste to energy
Melanie Sattler, a UT Arlington environmental engineering professor, is helping the North Central Texas Council of Governments determine how much more energy can be generated by diverting food waste from landfills to anaerobic food digesters,
AZO Life Sciences
,
Scienmag
,
Bioenergy Insight
and
U.S. Fed News
reported.
Global Entrepreneurship Week
UT Arlington is hosting some of the events during Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov. 16-20,
Patch.com
reported.
Construction decisions during pandemic
Mohsen Shahandashti, UT Arlington assistant professor of civil engineering, is using a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research grant to identify challenges that impact workforce decision-making processes in the transportation construction industry during the pandemic,
Texas Contractor
reported.
Tarrant County still probably Republican
Thomas Marshall, UT Arlington political science professor, said it could take several more years and arduous work for Democrats to eventually hold Tarrant County offices, San Antonio’s
Spectrum News 1
reported. “I think we’re looking at 2024 or 2028 even before we see that down ballot demographics kick in,” Marshall said.
UT Arlington students’ films featured
Films by UT Arlington students are some of the films featured on
DADA.org’s website
. The films also will be featured on KERA’s Frame of Mind on Nov. 19. Bart Weiss, UT Arlington associate professor of film, is host for Frame of Mind. The work of UT Arlington student filmmakers Faheem Rashid and Erin Spence is featured.
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