Funded
Grants
These grants and gifts cover everything from aircraft safety to social services
Mechanical
and aerospace engineering Assistant Professors Luca Maddalena and Luca Massa were awarded a
three-year, $640,000 NASA National Research Award to study novel injector designs
to support combustion at hypersonic speeds.
Through a grant from the American Library
Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the UT Arlington
Library was awarded a collection of materials to educate readers about
Muslim cultures in America
and around the world.
Physics professor Zdzislaw E. Musielak was
awarded a three-year, $301,339 National Science Foundation grant to investigate
Alfvén waves in the sun, a phenomenon vital to understanding Earth’s nearest
star.
Aerospace engineering Associate Professor Andrew
Makeev received a $559,427 grant from the Office of Naval Research to study
ways to improve how composite aircraft structures are designed and
manufactured.
Michael Vasilyev, associate professor
of electrical engineering, is participating in an $8 million research project
funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency to study advanced
quantum communications.
Yue Deng, an assistant physics professor, was
awarded more than $400,000 in NASA funding to develop a 3-D look at how
electrodynamic energy from solar winds enters and moves throughout the Earth’s
upper atmosphere.
The Simmons Family Foundation gave $1 million to the School
of Social Work’s Innovative Community Academic Partnership program to
initiate, support, and fund research ideas to help social service agencies
develop better evidence-informed practices.