LAUDED
Fellows
Decades devoted to creating life-altering advancements have earned these professors the title of fellow
Eusebius Small, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, was named a Fulbright Scholar for the Republic of Sierra Leone at the University of Sierra Leone's College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences.
Three faculty were named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors: Duane Dimos, vice president for research; David Nygren, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Physics; and Kenneth Reifsnider, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Their appointments bring the total number of UTA fellows to 13, the highest for a Texas university and the second-highest in the nation.
Pranesh Aswath, vice provost for academic planning and policy and a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, was named a fellow of ASM International, the world's largest association of metals-centric materials scientists and engineers.
Landscape architecture Professor Pat Taylor was elected to the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows for 2016. The fellowship is among the highest honors the organization awards its members.
Yi "Leaf" Zhang, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, was named one of four 2016 Greater Texas Foundation Faculty fellows.