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Found in everything from space shuttles to dental fillings, composite materials have thoroughly infiltrated modern society. But their potential is still greatly untapped, offering researchers ample opportunity for discovery.
Within the particle showers created at the Large Hadron Collider, answers to some of the universe’s mysteries are waiting.
Model systems like pigeons can help illuminate our own evolutionary and genomic history.
UT Arlington's tiny windmills are bringing renewable energy to a whole new scale.
The stability of our highways, pipelines, and even manholes is reaching a breaking point.
Scientists believe they have discovered a subatomic particle that is crucial to understanding the universe.
UT Arlington researchers unlock clues to the human body’s most mysterious and complex organ.
UT Arlington researchers probe the hidden world of microbes in search of renewable energy sources.
Wounded soldiers are benefiting from Robert Gatchel’s program that combines physical rehabilitation with treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tiny sensors implanted in the body show promise in combating acid reflux disease, pain and other health problems.
Nanotechnology researchers pursue hybrid silicon chips with life-saving potential.
Biomedical engineers combat diseases with procedures that are painless to patients.
In an article for The American Naturalist, Sophia Passy, an associate professor of biology, demonstrated that species distribution in biological communities is driven by environmental favorability and species stress tolerance.
The leading neuroscience journal Experimental Brain Research published a study by Professors Yuan Bo Peng (psychology) and J.-C. Chiao (electrical engineering) about their effort to use electrical stimulation of a deep, middle brain structure to block pain signals at the spinal cord level without drug intervention.
In a paper published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, psychology Assistant Professor Jeffrey Gagne and graduate student Catherine Spann found that low attention control in early adolescence is related to a genetic risk factor for four different anxiety disorders.
William Ickes, UTA Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and doctoral students Vivian Ta and Meghan Babcock discovered that when two strangers meet and interact for the first time, words are more effective than non-verbal cues like gestures at developing a mutual understanding. Their findings were published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
In their meta-analysis of retail return policies, Narayanan Janakiraman, assistant professor of marketing, and doctoral candidate Holly Syrdal concluded that stores offering consumers more monetary rewards were likely to increase consumer purchases. Their work was published in The Journal of Retailing.
A new initiative of the College of Liberal Arts is expanding access to historical documents and using big data to analyze everything from medieval texts to Jay Z lyrics.
Through collaborative innovations in cancer detection, anger management, tissue repair, and more, UTA is emerging as a leader in the life and health sciences.
