UTA Magazine Summer 2024

Have a Maverick Summer

Optimize your summer activities with science-backed tips, tricks, and advice from our UTA experts.

Behind the Scenes of the World Series

UTA alumni connected to the Texas Rangers take us out to the ballgame by sharing their favorite memories of the team's remarkable World Series championship run.

Destination: Discovery

For a select few UTA students, summer break is more than a chance to kick back and relax; it's an opportunity to immerse themselves in hands-on research in their chosen fields. Thanks to the UT System's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Partnership Program, they can go all in.

A Farewell Exhibition

The Gallery at UTA hosted a tribute to retired faculty member Benito Huerta with an exhibit featuring art he created during his 26 years with the University.

Meet the Meat Guy

Matt Pittman (’97 BBA, Finance) went from local tailgates to national prominence with his company, Meat Church.

Pop Lit

English Lecturer Rachel Mariboho is taking her students on an Eras Tour of literature with her class, “Women in Literature (Taylor’s Version).”

Trailblazing Athlete

Newcomer Matro Jepkemboi hit the ground running in her first year with UTA’s track and field team, earning the Western Athletic Conference cross-country Freshman of the Year title.

Campus Buzz

Check out a snapshot of all the things Mavericks are buzzing about online.

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A Major Change

Once he completed his military service, Sebastian Molina was ready to pursue a career in engineering. But after enrolling at UTA and seeing fellow veterans in need of extra help inspired him to shift focus.

ALL'S QUIET

For the fourth time in five years, UTA students have won a noise control engineering national award.

Award-Winning Escapes

Jeff Garnett (’09 MArch, ’07 BS, Architecture), owner of an eponymously named architecture studio, has won the 2023 American Institute of Architects’ Fort Worth Design Award for his project at 110 Walnut Street in Glen Rose, Texas.

Big Business

From creating software solutions for gas station owners to revolutionizing single- use plastic straws to producing innovative meal kits tailored for weekend hikers, the latest winners of MavPitch exemplify the diversity in entrepreneurship among UTA students.

Changing Lives

Assistant Professor of Social Work Saltanat Childress was a trained concert pianist in her native Kyrgyzstan. But witnessing how women and children were being treated in a time of turmoil inspired her to make a career change.

Charting a Higher Risk

New UTA research revealed that foreign- born women of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent are 2.5 times more likely to have an undiagnosed case of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) compared to U.S.-born white women.

Collected

Read a 1689 letter written by expolorer Alonso de Leon, donated by Wesley Brown.

Design Build Excellence

In recognition of its exceptional contributions to the architectural landscape in Texas, UTA’s College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs’ (CAPPA) Design Build Studio won the prestigious 2023 Citation of Honor Award from the Texas Society of Architects.

Education Mindset

Former teacher Emily Cole (’23 MEd) wanted a career change outside of the traditional curriculum path, so she turned to UTA’s master’s degree in Mind, Brain, and Education, a unique online program about the science of learning.

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Mavericks Chase WAC Championship

The UTA men's basketball team concluded its season by defying expectations every step of the way, ultimately battling its way to the Western Athletic...

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What's in a Name

What you read today about the policies and practices related to the NCAA's Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) opporunities could be vastly different...

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Come one, come all

Fans have a lot to enjoy at College Park Center whien they catch a game: exciting sports, a ton of Maverick spirit, and now, a reimagined in-game...

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Quick Hits

Get the latest from Maverick athletics.

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A Trailblazer

The bar has been set high for Matro Jepkemboi, who was the Western Athletic Conference's (WAC) women's cross-country Freshman of the Year last fall...

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Bump, Set, Triumph

UTA's volleyball team achieved the program's highest single-season win total (21) in nine years and second best in nearly 20 by reaching the round of...

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Kids 'N Play

Approximately 50 students from Swift Elementary School, located maybe one long foul ball north of Allan Saxe Field, were asked last winter to draw a...

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Mavericks Chase WAC Championship

The UTA men's basketball team concluded its season by defying expectations every step of the way, ultimately battling its way to the Western Athletic...

Sporting Mavs -

What's in a Name

What you read today about the policies and practices related to the NCAA's Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) opporunities could be vastly different...

Sporting Mavs -

Come one, come all

Fans have a lot to enjoy at College Park Center whien they catch a game: exciting sports, a ton of Maverick spirit, and now, a reimagined in-game...

Sporting Mavs -

Quick Hits

Get the latest from Maverick athletics.

Sporting Mavs -

A Trailblazer

The bar has been set high for Matro Jepkemboi, who was the Western Athletic Conference's (WAC) women's cross-country Freshman of the Year last fall...

Sporting Mavs -

Bump, Set, Triumph

UTA's volleyball team achieved the program's highest single-season win total (21) in nine years and second best in nearly 20 by reaching the round of...

Sporting Mavs -

Kids 'N Play

Approximately 50 students from Swift Elementary School, located maybe one long foul ball north of Allan Saxe Field, were asked last winter to draw a...

Sporting Mavs -

Mavericks Chase WAC Championship

The UTA men's basketball team concluded its season by defying expectations every step of the way, ultimately battling its way to the Western Athletic...

Sporting Mavs -

What's in a Name

What you read today about the policies and practices related to the NCAA's Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) opporunities could be vastly different...

Sporting Mavs -

Come one, come all

Fans have a lot to enjoy at College Park Center whien they catch a game: exciting sports, a ton of Maverick spirit, and now, a reimagined in-game...

Sporting Mavs -

Quick Hits

Get the latest from Maverick athletics.

Educator Excellence

The University of Texas System Board of Regents selected two UT Arlington faculty members—Sonia Kania, professor of Spanish, and Christy Spivey, clinical professor of economics—as recipients of the 2023 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards.

Elevated Research

UTA is preparing to take its research to the next level with the approval to build a $6.2 million Clinical Imaging Research Center on its main campus.

For the Girls

Four sisters, four routine mammogram screenings, four breast cancer diagnoses.

Jun Liao, Jeannette Santos, Brady Killham, Michael Ikefuna, Juan Ramirez, and Justyn Jaworski

Innovation Winners

Four senior bioengineering students put what they have learned about technology and business into action, earning the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Coulter College for Healthcare Innovation competition.

Local Leader

Steve Montgomery ('10 MBA) turned to UTA Fort Worth for a career boost.

Postcard

Follow Julian Rodriguez, Jairo Becerra, and Griselda de la Rosa in their travels around the world.

Scene

When solving a crime comes down to something as small as determining if a fleck of paint could have come from a crime scene, it’s on a forensic lab analyst to make sure there is no room for doubt.

Solving the Problem

Hanli Liu, bioengineering professor, is working on a mathematical analysis to help detect when a baby is at risk for brain swelling and injury because of a lack of oxygen during delivery.

Tangible Philosophy

Eli Shupe recognizes that many philosophical concepts aren’t so easy to parse. But the assistant professor of philosophy and humanities has an answer for that: Make Philosophy, her collaborative, open pedagogy project.

UTA's Weekend Warriors

Some generous Mavericks—more than 240 volunteers and 35 site leaders—dedicated a Saturday in fall to making an impact in Arlington communities.

Well Read

Dive into fascinating books by Maverick authors.

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CHAT

Meet Matt Pittman ('97 BBA, Finance), founder and CEO of Meat Church BBQ.

Faculty Focus

To combat the ongoing issue of global warming, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Dr. Warda Ashraf and her team of researchers are working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Giving

Impactful donors further Maverick excellence.

Look Back

Before there was Blaze, UTA mascot Samantha Maverick hyped up students before the very first MavsMeet Convocation in 2004.

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