UTA In The News — Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Plastic Roads
Coordinated by the UTA media relations team, Sahadat Hossain (College of Engineering) spoke with The Dallas Morning News about paving a stretch of a Dallas County highway—the first in Texas—with his plastic-infused asphalt technology.
Nature Livestreams
Coordinated by the UTA media relations team, Rebecca Mauldin (School of Social Work) was a guest on the Texas Standard radio show, Austin’s NPR affiliate, about her study on nature-focused livestreams fostering human connections. The story was shared by the Denton Record-Chronicle and KTTZ-TV in Lubbock.
Wearble Devices
Yue Liao (College of Nursing and Health Innovation) contributed to a study on how wearable health devices could help manage, and possibly prevent, long-term health risk in childhood cancer survivors. The study was covered by MSN.com, Science Magazine, Cardiovascular Business, Bioengineer.org, Philanthropy News Digest, FirstWord Health Tech, and The Munich Eye.
Expert Voice
J. Ping Liu (College of Science) was cited as an expert in a South China Morning Post article shared by MSN.com that focused on rare earth elements being used to produce high-performance magnets.
Paris Drawings
Michael Malone (College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs) wrote a story for The Architect’s Newspaper revisiting the drawings he produced during a trip to Paris. New York Metropolitan Magazine shared the story.
AI Research
Junzhou Huang (College of Engineering) recently received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an AI research project aimed at speeding antibody design and prep for future pandemics. Dallas Innovates reported the news.