Funded
Grants
These grants cover everything from particle research to medical diagnosis
The Department of Energy awarded a $2.5 million, three-year grant to the Center for Excellence in High Energy Physics to further work on particle research and other physics exploration.
Associate Professors Samir Iqbal (electrical engineering), right, and Young-tae Kim (bioengineering) received a $480,000 National Science Foundation grant to build an inexpensive device that uses nanotechnology and a simple urine test to detect minuscule amounts of bladder cancer cells in patients.
Gautam Das, professor of computer science and engineering, won a $450,000 Army Research Office grant to develop efficient analytic techniques for combining and understanding the data stored in online social networks.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board awarded a $1.8 million grant to the College of Nursing and Health Innovation to lead a multi-institution study of clinical experience requirements for nursing school graduates.
The Division for Enterprise Development and the Department of Art and Art History received a $1.3 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to produce an oral history documentary for the U.S. mining industry.
Electrical engineers Yuze “Alice” Sun and Weidong Zhou received a three-year, $400,369 National Science Foundation grant to build a handheld device that could analyze a person’s breath to reveal whether certain dangerous gases are present that need more immediate medical attention.
UT Arlington’s Public Works Institute in the Division for Enterprise Development received a $486,234 contract to train city and county work crews on working in traffic safety zones.