UTA In The News — Monday, September 27, 2021
Medically vulnerable people
Erin Carlson, UTA associate clinical professor and director of graduate public health programs, was one of several professionals featured by the Wall Street Journal in a story about medically vulnerable people returning to the workplace amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Latinx studies grant
Through a three-year, $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, UTA will be part of a national initiative in Latinx studies called “Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative Directions,” Targeted News reported. UTA is part of a consortium of 16 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) that have R1 designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. A key component of the new grant project will be the creation of an intensive yearly summer institute on Latinx studies methodologies and theories and a mentorship program that aims to enhance rising scholars' comparative research skills, intellectual curiosity, creativity and critical thinking.