Recognized
Awards
See recent news about our inventors, writers, architects, historians, and national winners.
Four UT Arlington faculty members and senior administrators have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors: Frank Lewis, electrical engineering professor; Carolyn Cason, vice president for research; Ron Elsenbaumer, provost and vice president for academic affairs; and Vistasp Karbhari, University president.
Daisha Cipher, associate director of the Center for Nursing Research, was part of a research team that received the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Elizabeth and Sidney Licht Award for Excellence in Scientific Writing in Rehabilitation Medicine.
Political science Professor Victoria Farrar-Myers was chosen as an American Council on Education 2014-15 fellow.
Five faculty members and students were honored for their architectural drawings in the 2013 Ken Roberts Delineation Competition, widely considered the most senior architectural drawing competition in the world: Lecturer Dustin Wheat, Associate Professor Steve Quevedo, Associate Professor John Maruszczak, and students Eduardo Casteneda and Alexei Dukov.
Daniel Armstrong, the Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, was named a 2014 American Chemical Society National Winner. Dr. Armstrong, often called the father of pseudophase separations, is well known for developing ways to separate chiral compounds.
The American Journalism Historians Association awarded Erika Pribanic-Smith, assistant communication professor, with the 2013 Maurine Beasley Award for Outstanding Paper in Women’s History. Her research focuses on how women used 19th-century magazines to rally support for the preservation of George Washington’s estate.