UTA In The News — Friday, June 24, 2022
Brown selected UTA provost
Tamara Brown, executive dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of North Texas, has been selected as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at The University of Texas at Arlington, Inside Higher Ed reported.
Planet alignment
Levent Gurdemir, UT Arlington planetarium director, discussed the alignment of many planets in the morning sky on WFAA’s Good Morning Texas.
Fellowship awarded
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz, a UT Arlington assistant professor in history, has received the David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality from the Library of Congress, U.S. Fed News reported.
How data affects analysis
Kevin Schug, the Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in UTA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, wrote a column in the LCGC blog of Chromatography Online, a leading publication for the separation science market, about his National Science Foundation grant studying how data science techniques could be used to advance complex online extraction and analysis systems. Schug is working with the Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, and Statistics in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering, led by professors Victoria Chen and Jay Rosenberger.
Professor, dog help at border
For decades, Jan Finch has dedicated her life to helping others as a therapist and social worker. With the help of her 5-year-old terrier mix, Allie, the adjunct associate professor of practice at UT Arlington’s School of Social Work recently extended a helping hand at an immigration center on the Texas border, U.S. Fed News and Mirage News reported. Finch and Allie, a trained therapy dog, recently completed two one-week-long visits to an immigration center along the South Texas border where children are waiting to be united with family in the United States.
Students visit School of Mines
A delegation of students and faculty members from The University of Texas at Arlington and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's School of Mines in Medellin recently spent a week at Colorado School of Mines, hosted by the Responsible Mining, Resilient Communities project, State News Service reported. Funding for the visit and project came from a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships in International Research and Education program and the Mines Humanitarian Engineering Program. The students had an opportunity to hear from School of Mines researchers, participate in workshops and share research.
Title IX revisited
Title IX, a U.S. civil rights law passed in 1972 that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school that receives federal funding, celebrated its 50th anniversary this week, The Dallas Morning News reported. Jody Conradt, legendary women’s basketball coach, was one of the women on the front lines of Title IX. Before winning several championships as UT Austin’s head women’s basketball coach, she coached UT Arlington in women’s basketball and volleyball. She talked about some of those early years in collegiate women’s athletics at UTA.