UTA In The News — Friday, December 3, 2021
CPRIT awards
The University of Texas at Arlington, along with two other Dallas-Fort Worth universities, was awarded a total of $24 million by The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded for the recruitment of established and emerging researchers, The Dallas Morning News reported. The academic research grants are part of the taxpayer-supported agency’s most recent $38 million funding round and are used to attract talent to Texas to work alongside scientists at the state’s research institutions.
COVID hits the Cowboys
Public health experts, including Erin Carlson, director of graduate public health programs at UT Arlington, are weighing in on COVID-19 concerns within sports as an outbreak hits the Dallas Cowboys, The Dallas Morning News reported. Several factors can increase the risk of virus transmission on a sports team, including the environment in which a sport is played and how much exertion it requires, Carlson said.
The future of blood reading
UT Arlington scientists are working on a non-invasive device that will be wearable and help many people who need to monitor their hemoglobin levels in the future, Spectrum News reported. Developed in partnership with Shani Biotechnologies in Austin, the noninvasive device that would “read the blood through the skin.” Preliminary results suggest the device can estimate hemoglobin with better accuracy and consistency than other comparable methods.
Award for Movin’ Mavs player
Clarence ‘CJ’ McCarthy-Grogan, a UTA senior studying public health from Darwin, Australia, was named 2021 Sportsperson of the Year by the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC). NAIDOC is an organization that strives to celebrate and honor the history, culture and achievements of Indigenous Australian communities such as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.