MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR
First semesters can shape your future. Handle the rigorous coursework and you’re on the road to graduation and […]
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A New Era of Discovery
Opening of Engineering Research Building brings engineers, scientists together
“The motivation behind the building was to enable UT Arlington to be more competitive for contracts and grants so that our research funding would continue to grow.”
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Fit to Print
Shorthorn editors have graduated to careers in law, filmmaking, acting, business, academia, and, of course, journalism. Leading the student newspaper, they say, has shaped what they've become.
In the E.H. Hereford University Center basement where UT Arlington’s venerable student daily is produced—a newsroom since 1994 but before that a bar, two things that some may say really aren’t so different—there’s an office festooned with beanbag chairs, stacks of yellowing newsprint, and a commanding view of computers and cub reporters. At various times, this office has been called, charmingly, the Fishbowl. That’s mostly […]
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Social Thinkers
Students in UT Arlington’s cohort programs say the group-learning method develops skills that benefit their careers through its team-based approach, networking opportunities, and quick pace.
Two men and a woman huddle, talking in the affable way friends do. “He probably went home and cried into his $30 million glove,” one of the men says. The other man, wearing a blue Texas Rangers baseball cap, concurs. “Yeah, and after that he probably curled up into his giant pile of money and got a good night’s sleep.” The woman snickers. “No kidding,” she […]
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Urban Vibrancy
City of Arlington supports University’s mixed-use development project
Come 2012, UT Arlington and the City of Arlington will begin the next phase of their relationship.
Engineering Research Building Nears Completion
Construction on the 234,000-square-foot Engineering Research Building (ERB) near the corner of Cooper Street and UTA Boulevard remains ahead of schedule. “We’re more than 85 percent complete,” says Bill Amendola, senior project manager for the UT System’s Office of Facilities Planning and Construction. “The ERB is dried-in, meaning all exterior doors and windows are in place and the interior air is conditioned. We’re beginning to […]
