Friday, Jul 28, 2023
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Remembering goals
Hunter Ball, UT Arlington assistant professor of psychology, said reminders and a strategy called cognitive offloading have benefits and pitfalls for people remembering goals,
The Washington Post and
Newsday reported in an article about how people set goals but fail to achieve them.
Hybrid additive
Emma Yang, UT Arlington assistant professor in the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department, was awarded a U.S. Department of Defense grant to purchase state-of-the-art hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing equipment,
Bioengineer.org reported.
Barndominium reform
Sriram Villupuram, UT Arlington professor of finance and real estate, said he’d like to see reforms that hold bad faith builders accountable, like an insurance program, the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in an article about how consumers who are building “barndominiums” should be protected.
Airspace mapping
Kamesh Subbarao and Animesh Chakravarthy, UT Arlington professor and associate professor, respectively, in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will participate in building an airspace integration roadmap,
CityBiz reported. The project is part of a $1.25 million federal contract that Fort Worth-based Galaxy Unmanned Systems landed.
National award
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics selected UT Arlington’s Luca Maddalena, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, for its 2023 Ground Testing Award, a top award in the field,
Mirage News reported.
New oximeter
Researchers at UT Arlington are developing a “green light” technology they hope will solve a crucial problem highlighted by the pandemic: the limits of pulse oximeters in patients with darker skin,
WebMD and
Head Topics reported. Sanjay Gokhale, a UTA research scientist in bioengineering, and George Alexandrakis, a UTA bioengineering professor, are leading the research.
NASA grant for STEM
NASA is investing more than $14 million in 19 U.S. colleges and universities, including UT Arlington, to grow their STEM capacity to participate in critical spaceflight research and prepare a new generation of diverse students for careers in the nation’s science, technology, engineering, and math workforce,
NASA.gov and
Top Tech News reported.
Music set to the stars
The Planetarium at UT Arlington will feature a live music series Friday,
KXT 91.7 FM reported. A band called Housekeys led by physics major Tiffiny Costello will kick off the series.