UTA In The News — Friday, May 27, 2022
Gallery director to retire
After 25 years, Professor Benito Huerta will retire in June 2022 from his position as the director and curator of The Gallery at UTA, an exhibition space on The University of Texas at Arlington campus, Glasstire reported. By far the longest-serving director in the gallery’s nearly 40-year history, Huerta has created an enduring legacy that will be hard to match. Though he is stepping down from his gallery position, Huerta will continue to teach studio art classes part-time in the Department of Art and Art History as part of a phased retirement program.
Center takes show on the road
Staff members from UT Arlington’s Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center (ARDRC) visited the Arlington Public Library recently for an interactive presentation, Targeted News Service and U.S. Fed News reported. Home to more than 200,000 specimens, the ARDRC is one of the most comprehensive herpetological collections on earth and the largest in Texas.
Brazos River Basin planning
Yu Zhang, a UT Arlington associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, will use a $100,000 Texas Water Development Board grant to gather information from the 1940s to the present about the Brazos River Basin that will help leaders secure water supplies for Texas’ growing population, U.S. Fed News and Mirage News reported.
UTA playwright’s work featured
Erin Malone Turner is the playwright of The Secret Keepers, which will air at 3 p.m. July 16 at the Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Broadway World reported. Turner, a UT Arlington alumna, will feature her play as part of the 2022 First Move Playwrights Festival.
Missiles impact
Brian Whitmore, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and an assistant professor of practice at UT Arlington, wrote an op-ed about nuclear-capable missiles being deployed in Belarus on the Ukrainian border, on the Atlantic Council website.