Funded
Grants
These grants cover everything from global warming to film festivals
The National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $403,114 grant to Arne Winguth, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, for a three-year study examining global warming events that happened in the Early Paleogene, roughly 66 to 45 million years ago.
Kaushik De, physics professor and director of the High-Energy Physics Group, is leading a $1.06 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to upgrade the software that runs on the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to support extremely data-heavy scientific applications.
Robert Magnusson, UTA's Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics, won a three-year, $370,000 National Science Foundation grant to create engineered nanoscale amplifiers and lasers.
Computer science and engineering Professor Roger Walker is leading a two-year, $671,011 TxDOT project to assess whether scanning lasers can accurately measure the microtexture of aggregates, which are used in asphalt and concrete mixtures.
Associate Professor of art and film Bart Weiss received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for his annual Dallas Video Festival, which celebrates its 29th season this year.