Faculty Expertise

UTA scientists, engineers and scholars engage in thoughtful exploration and devise products and processes that foster a healthier, safer and more productive society. Explore the expertise of the model 21st-century urban research university and the fourth institution in the state to receive Texas Tier One designation.

Strategic Research Themes

UTA's strategic plan, with its five broad research themes, sets a path to unprecedented excellence in research, teaching, and community engagement. We are connecting the themes by embracing innovation across disciplines.

Health and the Human Condition

UTA focuses on health and the human condition through an understanding of complex interactions. We explore health management within physical, mental, emotional, and social contexts. Health innovations will be distinguished by diagnostic, prognostic, and technological advancements. We will explore the effects of transformations in cultural expression, social networks, and the material world on the human condition. Together the focus will help people live healthier and happier lives.

Sustainable Communities

UTA fosters interrelationships between natural, built, economic, cultural, and social environments on community sustainability and works with community partners to implement ideas to improve livability of cities, the metroplex, the state, and beyond. Learning from the past and present to ensure a sustainable future, UTA will understand and interpret demographic change and the broad spectrum of human capital. We will strengthen inter-connectedness between individuals and the community by fostering an appreciation for the varieties of human experience, and through the creation of a vibrant creative and cultural ethos.

Culture & Societal Transformations

UTA encourages the open-ended exploration of the complex interactions that constitute the diversity of human experience: cultural and artistic expressions, social environment, and the physical world.

Data-Driven Discovery

UTA focuses on research that integrates big data from multiple fields and develops data analytics and science that explore data from a wide variety of sources. We use data to discover and share new knowledge, as well as enhance current knowledge.

Global Environmental Impact

UTA addresses critical issues that affect our planet, including climate change, energy, water, disasters, and pollution. By analyzing global population dynamics, we will develop an understanding of our world—and solutions for its problems—through avenues ranging from environmental economics to history.

Research Highlights

  1. Agents of Change
  2. Eradicating Inequities in Health Care
  3. The Way Forward

Agents of Change

Researchers at UT Arlington are helping shape a better future.

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Eradicating Inequities in Health Care

Researchers at UTA are addressing decades-long racial gaps in the U.S. medical industry.

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The Way Forward

UT Arlington is taking an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to making public transportation more accessible and equitable for all.

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