WUNDERKINDS A 12-year-old math whiz SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE Many people share HEALING TOUCH College Park Center’s is following in the footsteps of other more about themselves through social media sports medicine facilities provide world-class extraordinary UT Arlington students who than they do in person, but revealing too much treatment for athletes while serving as a earned degrees as young teenagers. p. 20 online can come back to haunt you. p. 30 hands-on classroom for student trainers. p. 34

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When Arlington State College (now UT Arlington) students lined Main activities to the spring, and deep-sixed the parade. But this year the Street in 1965 to watch the Homecoming parade, their experience flatbeds and fall weather returned. UT Arlington’s 2012 Homecoming was a bit different from today’s Mavericks. The celebration started was held in November and featured a parade through the College Park in 1932 when the University was known as North Texas Agricultural District. Other festivities included a street party before and after the College. For years Homecoming took place in the fall and featured a men’s basketball game against the University of Oklahoma, which drew traditional parade with large floats, a bonfire, and a football game. a record 6,421 fans to College Park Center. Whether the togas make a After the University dropped football in 1985, organizers redesigned reappearance for future parades is anyone’s guess. Photo courtesy of Homecoming to make basketball the featured sport, moved the Special Collections, UT Arlington Library. HOMECOMING HYSTERIA Excitement and confetti filled the air at the 2012 Homecoming parade in November. With College Park Center providing a striking backdrop, the procession featured more than 80 entries cruising down Spaniolo Drive. Contents Winter 2012 Email Features FACULTY 11 Back” article. As a mom to and scholarships while he was Daniel Armstrong’s recent two young kids, I watch with there. After he graduated, UTArlington Cultivating genius 20 examination of a popular dread the awful news stories he auditioned for the USMC Vol. XXXV • No. 1 • Winter 2012 A 12-year-old math prodigy and controversial workout about kids getting picked Military Band and has been is the latest in a line of stimulant put his name in the on mercilessly and driven to a percussionist for that fine EDITOR brilliant students to begin mainstream media. drastic action. Knowing that organization for almost three Mark Permenter their UT Arlington careers researchers at my alma mater years. We are very proud of at a remarkably early age. FUTURE 13 are studying the issue and him and very grateful for the ASSISTANT EDITORS Jessica Bridges Two aerospace engineering working to understand and fine education he received in Jim Patterson professors won a prestigious hopefully lessen the impact of the Music Department. We Amber Scott NASA research award to BATTLING THE BULLY and found that workplace bul- bullying makes me hopeful for have the highest respect for investigate novel methods of The last issue of UTArlington lying was one of the leading the future and proud to call Dr. Michael Varner, who was a EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS achieving hypersonic flight. Magazine had a great feature emerging sources of stress. myself a Maverick. huge influence on Jonathan. Herb Booth on bullying, picturing the Beyond physical bullying is John Dycus LAURA MCCARTHY '01 DEBBIE SCHMITTOU Bridget Lewis right faculty campus leaders the interpersonal abuse and Burleson, Texas Plano, Texas Teresa Newton on the subject. This is impor- growing lack of civility. Not Traci Peterson tant stuff. Bullying goes be- good, not healthy! “Fighting Kristin Sullivan yond the schools. During my Back” is the right thing to do. HIGH NOTE ART APPRECIATION 2000-01 faculty development I would like to congratulate Thank you for the article on ART DIRECTION JAMES CAMPBELL QUICK leave, I visited Cary Cooper your staff on the outstand- Nancy Palmeri. While I was a Brody Price maverick personified 24 Arlington, Texas Joel Quintans in England at the University ing magazine you publish for student at UT Arlington, my Many people will point to of Manchester Institute of alumni and the community. (now) wife and I took many the College Park District as UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHERS Science and Technology. He OFFERING HOPE It is very well written and I classes with her. Aside from Robert Crosby James D. Spaniolo’s most GALLERY 14 and his colleagues were do- I just finished reading the look forward to reading it, as being a tremendous artist, Beth McHenry significant achievement. But Burl Washington ’77 was one ing early workplace bullying summer 2012 issue of the a parent of a UTA graduate. I she is also an amazing teacher the retiring president will of the first artists to paint the research. The late Andy Baum magazine, and I wanted to especially enjoyed the article and a wonderful mentor. It's ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR leave a legacy that goes far COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING history of the buffalo soldiers. in UT Arlington’s Psychology say how impressed I am with “Duty, Honor, College.” My always great to open up the beyond physical structures. P. David Johnson Department had us complete my University. I had no idea son, Cpl. Jonathan Schmittou, latest issue and see UT Arling- COMMUNITY 17 a review of workplace stress of the depth of the research graduated from UTA in 2009 ton’s art community featured VICE PRESIDENT TOO MUCH Dressed as superheroes, for his Handbook of Stress activity happening right with a music performance alongside articles on cutting- FOR COMMUNICATIONS INFORMATION 30 fraternity members delivered Science (2011). We did a there on campus! I especially degree with highest honors edge research and sports Jerry Lewis Dubbed “oversharing” by toys to sick children in 10-year review of the science appreciated the “Fighting and received many honors achievements. But it was sociology Professor Ben PRESIDENT Texas and Louisiana. especially nice to see Nancy’s Agger, revealing too much James D. Spaniolo work this time around. about ourselves when CHAMPS 19 UTArlington Magazine is published communicating electronically ADAM WERNER ’05 Alumnus Derrick Obasohan three times a year by University can lead to unfulfilling from the Editor Fort Worth, Texas played for the Nigerian Message Communications for all alumni, as relationships—and worse. Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy Education Program, Haire is profiled in well as for faculty, staff, and friends basketball team at the London debuted the idea of six degrees of our story on the University’s new Sports of the University. Reproduction in 2012 Olympics. RESIDENT ROMANCE TRAINING GROUND 34 separation in a 1929 short story. The Medicine Center and how its cutting- whole or in part without written As a mom, reading about From San Francisco to concept that any two people are separated edge equipment prepares students for permission is prohibited. the time my son Dean and Charleston, S.C., graduates by no more than six intermediate successful careers. I am among Haire’s daughter-in-law Emily were in The comments and opinions of UT Arlington’s Athletic Alumni News connections gained popularity with 500-plus Facebook friends. residence at the “Love Shack” expressed in this magazine do Training Education Program the 1993 filmSix Degrees of Separation, One of my friends is Jocelyn Zee, who not necessarily represent with HIGHEST HONORS 39 made me smile. Up until are showcasing the skills adapted from the play of the same name. graced the cover of our spring 2002 issue. those of The University of Texas The Alumni Association they told me about being they learned as students. How does the theory play out in social She enrolled at UT Arlington at age 13 at Arlington or the staff of recognized graduates from as interviewed for the article in media circles? Last year researchers at the and graduated with a microbiology UTArlington Magazine. far away as China at the 2012 the spring 2012 issue, I had no Copyright © 2012, The University of University of Milan analyzed 721 million degree at 17. Now a doctor, Zee is part of Distinguished Alumni Gala. idea of the hall’s nickname. I Texas at Arlington. An equal oppor- active Facebook users and their more our article about academic prodigies who Columns just love real-life love stories. tunity/affirmative action employer. than 69 billion friendships. They found nurtured their genius at UT Arlington. To all the “Brazoonians” who TALK 7 that, on average, any two individuals are That’s four acquaintances linking ON THE COVER met, fell in love, and married, Having already landed roles in connected by just 4.74 acquaintances. three stories. The final article, which ties Under the leadership of retiring may you have many more two major films, junior Robert We tested the findings using the four them all together, explores our tendency President James D. Spaniolo, happy years together. UT Arlington has vaulted into the Hayes is eyeing a Hollywood feature articles in this issue. to reveal too much personal information national dialogue about top-tier career after he earns his Our cover story on retiring President when communicating via Facebook, CYNTHIA PETERSON research universities. communication degree. James D. Spaniolo examines his nearly Twitter, and other social media sites. Wichita Falls, Texas nine-year administration, which brought It stems from sociology Professor Ben CRASH COURSE 8 unprecedented growth in enrollment, Agger’s book Oversharing: Presentations YOUR THOUGHTS? An architecture design ON THE FRONT LINES 40 research activity, philanthropic support, of Self in the Internet Age. Send letters to the editor studio challenged students During her more than eight and the physical campus. President Today’s world is much more connected to [email protected], to think critically about years as a Navy nurse, Kelly Spaniolo has more than 700 Facebook than Karinthy ever could have imagined. or comment on magazine the form, function, Bowman ’03 spent time in Iraq friends, one of whom is Ryan Haire. content at uta.edu/ and future of bridges. caring for wounded soldiers. A senior in the Athletic Training – Mark Permenter utamagazine. CAMPUS CAMPUS YouTube Tweets Trending Many thanks to the great @DorroughMusic killed it at COLLEGE PARK CENTER crowd at UTA College Park UTA today! One of the 6 last night! Don’t you ever – @LindseyBrown9 The energy is electric at #calaveras I secede! – @sethmeyers21 the College Park Center made for the MAVSMEET AFTERPARTY I changed my mind. I wanna at UT Arlington! @UTA_LSH Where can you put on paja- We had SO much fun at the go to UT Arlington. – @DowntownArlTx display at the mas and slippers, bowl a few UTA Homecoming parade – @ASAPKayla UC. #UTArling- frames in the dark, ride a zip tonight! #gomavs #beatou Cool suites at #UTA. Premium ton #paper- line, and devour a Belgian @UTArlingtonAXO It’s learnin’ time, y’all! See, season tickets include suite source #diy waffle with unlimited top- don’t I already sound more access @College Park Center. #Diade pings? The 2012 Maverick Getting my acceptance to educated? (@ University of – @markjoeckel – @Silver- Stampede Welcome Week University of Texas at Arling- Texas at Arlington) Blades1 offered all these activities ton made my day!!! :D – @KadyJ09 Flo Rida … and I got to touch and more. The centerpiece #collegebound his hand!!! So much fun! of Maverick Stampede was – @Riah_Baby20 Just got that “Your UT @College Park Center. the MavsMeet Convoca- Arlington Diploma Has Been – @rahpatz tion, which officially kicked First day of class at UT Arling- Mailed” email :) off the fall semester. Held ton today. =) – @anna1bnana – @ShaylaReiana Looking forward to talking to My main college I’m trying Christian recording artist in College Park Center for @SheetalJPatel’s class today to go to now is University of TobyMac fills College Park the first time, the academic Much luv UT Arlington dance Exciting what Scott Cross has over Skype at UT Arlington. Texas at Arlington! Center for Eyes on It tour. gathering drew thousands team at last night’s concert. done w/UT Arlington MBB – @newmediaclay – @Bigshot2303 – @isayitsallgood of students who spilled – @official_flo program. One of top coaches onto The Green at College in the NCAA. I definitely love #UTA and I got to pie the president of UTA doing it big with the Park lawn for the Mavs- Awesome show UTA! Love – @ScottLacefield College Park. Thank you for one of the fraternities here at College Park Center. Meet AfterParty. Other Texas! Next stop Detroit. having our very own frozen UTA! Hahahaha! – @futureRT_tobi events that welcomed new – @KickMix After I get my master’s degree yogurt! – @anamarie_08 – @mayrenaisamar and returning students to from UT Arlington, I want to Oklahoma survives hard road campus included Success U, New University of Texas at work for the @dallasmavs Fun way to spend a Friday Shout out to Pie Five at UTA. game against mid-major Residence Hall Move-In Day, Arlington dormitory has or the @celtics. They are my night, watching UTA basket- It’s the Subway of pizza. Go UT Arlington 63-59. Great Wet ‘n’ Wild, Pajama Jam, washing machines that text favorite basketball teams. ball with family. Thanks there. – @ITweetHerWrong atmosphere at UTA’s new MavSwap, Waffleopolis, Big students when the load is – @Mrs_Tennessee @ArtGarcia92. – @aandro College Park Center. Howdy Party, and Maverick done. – @DaveLieber UT Arlington’s own Hunter – @ChuckCarltonDMN Cookout. Watch a Welcome Found where all the hipsters UT Arlington cited among Pence with a sac fly and run Week video at youtube. I got into UT Arlington :) at UTA hide. #einsteinbros schools offering lower-cost scored in #WorldSeries play. It’s going down tonight! 5pm, com/UTArlingtonMavericks. – @Nemosaysrawr – @beesmer degrees – @DallasBizNews – @CJOffTheBench UTA College Park Center. Bring your crew and canned goods too! – @osatoWTK

Flickr We can promise you there MASKED MAVERICKS will be more excitement and Students transformed the energy at the UTA College E.H. Hereford University Park Center than the Death- Center mall into a festive star today. – @phenhamm street party during the fall Carnaval extravaganza. The annual masquerade attracted LET’S SOCIALIZE several hundred students and Check us out online and on featured stilt-walkers, danc- your favorite social media ers, and interactive booths. sites. We welcome your Inspired by the popular Latin comments, posts, tweets, American Carnaval celebra- and photographs. tion, the event was part of uta.edu/utamagazine UT Arlington’s Hispanic Enjoy an interactive experience Heritage Month observance. and view Web-only content. Activities included mariachi facebook.com/utamagazine bands, poetry readings of "Like" us and get updates in works by Hispanic authors, your newsfeed. an exhibition showcasing twitter.com/utarlington notable Hispanic leaders, a Follow our tweets for the soccer tournament, and latest Maverick news. movie viewings. See more linkedin.com/in/utamagazine Carnaval photographs at flickr. Link in and tell us about your com/photos/utamagazine. career achievements.

4 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 5 CAMPUS Robert Hayes, Actor and Communication Junior Talk

You’ve had roles in a couple Tell us about your first paid of major Hollywood films. acting job. My last movie was American It was a G.I. Joe commercial. I CampusBuzz Reunion. I played Bo, who was 12, and it’s hard to explain UT Arlington and the world is kind of an antagonist to what that felt like. I was even the main characters. My big at a loss for words on the set. break, though, was The Lucky There are a whole bunch of One. I played Victor, who is lights on you, cameras, and Zac Efron’s character’s best people everywhere. I loved it. friend. Most people in your shoes What was it like when you might have already packed found out you got a part in their bags and headed to The Lucky One? Hollywood. Why are you I had just gotten back to my still at UT Arlington? room in Arlington Hall after a Acting isn’t a guarantee. workout at the MAC. My mom Something could happen at called and told me the news, any moment that would keep and I just picked up my room- me from acting, but nobody mate and twirled him around can take my education away. the room for, like, a minute. With a degree in communica- Then I was yelling, running tion, I could still pursue any down the halls. I couldn’t number of career opportuni- believe it. ties that would allow me to do what I love best—connecting What sparked your interest with people. in acting? When I was 8, I was involved Where does your belief in my church youth ministry. in the value of a good The youth director asked me education come from? to recite Martin Luther King It comes from my mom. I “Our students Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech could never bring home less now have a for Black History Month. My than an A. She was very strict, Urban Vibe mother, being the encourag- and like a typical kid, I didn’t destination ing woman she is, convinced like it then. But now I see the Multi-use College Park development ramps up college town zeal me I could actually memo- purpose in it. She has taught The most ambitious construction project in ground floor of the building. These include Pie Five where they rize the entire thing rather me so much that not only UT Arlington history is now complete. On Nov. 19 the Pizza Co., which specializes in personal-size pizzas than read it. And I did. It was matured me as an actor but as final phase of the College Park District, the mixed-use assembled and baked in front of the customer; Pho can live, study, interesting because I couldn’t the young man I am today. College Park facility, held its grand opening. Xpress, a Vietnamese-style noodle house; Blaze’s Sports dine, and even see the audience, really. Practically a campus in itself, the College Park District Grill, a sports-themed eatery located across from the I got caught up in the words, What does the future hold? creates a true college town environment in downtown College Park Center entrance; GRIP Mediterranean catch a show in how to enunciate and I see me finishing my degree. Arlington where students, neighbors, and visitors can Grill; Coolberry Yogurt; Digg’s Taco Shop; and Smiling deliver them well. And when That’s first and foremost. intermingle while enjoying entertainment, sports, and Moose Deli. or a game.” I was done, people ran up to Then I see me going to Hol- restaurants. Earlier this year, the area’s centerpiece, In addition, College Park houses an 1,800-vehicle me, crying and emotional. It lywood, pursuing my career College Park Center, opened to wide acclaim, along parking facility for both the University and the city; a amazed me that I could pro- full-throttle. I’m focused on with its neighbor, The Green at College Park. University police substation; and the 7,000-square-foot voke such a strong reaction my education right now. But The last piece to the puzzle, College Park, features Dan Dipert University Welcome Center, named after in people. once that’s done and over two state-of-the-art residential complexes, The Lofts the CEO of Dan Dipert Travel & Transportation Ltd., with, I will be successful in at College Park and Vandergriff Hall, both of which who contributed to its funding. The center serves as How remarkable to find acting. That’s a promise. opened in August. The facilities add about 600 students the new front door for UT Arlington, showcasing the your calling at such a to the University’s thriving residential population, which University as a destination for prospective students, young age. now numbers more than 5,000. their families, and visitors. It is expected to attract Absolutely. And honestly, I “The students are really excited to live here and more than 20,000 visitors a year. never looked into the future are impressed by how nice it is,” says operations “It’s thrilling to see Arlington’s first urban village take and pictured myself on the management senior Chris Ehiogu, one of Vandergriff root on the UT Arlington campus,” President James Anchored by College Park big screen. At that age, I Hall’s residential advisers. “When people come to games D. Spaniolo says. “Our students now have a destination Center, the College Park could only think of being in District features a residence or special events, they’ll get a glimpse of Vandergriff and where they can live, study, dine, and catch a show or a hall and apartments for 600 local plays or something. The Lofts and see all the growth UTA is experiencing.” game. The College Park District is a beacon for everyone students, restaurants, parking Students living in College Park are just a short who wants to experience the excitement of a thriving structures, a welcome center, walk from a number of restaurants located on the college town.” and a park.

6 UTArlington Magazine CAMPUS CAMPUS Crash Course A Bridge Too Far Awards MARIO ROMERO-ORTEGA A $12.8 billion impact The Metroplex Technology Business Council has named bioengineering Associate ARCH 4557 When Dallas opened the Santiago Calatrava– on North Texas economy Professor Mario Romero- designed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge earlier this year, it Take UT Arlington out of tors. Ray Perryman, president Ortega a 2012 Tech Titan in signaled the beginning of a new era for its predecessor, the North Texas and you’d have a of The Perryman Group, says the Technology Innovator Continental Avenue bridge. The 82-year-old structure will big economic hole to fill. the study reinforces his earlier category. He was honored for soon be converted into a pedestrian plaza, a transforma- An independent study by findings about the potential his work in developing better tion that architecture Professor Todd Hamilton decided The Perryman Group con - economic impact that addi- prosthetic arms that may to probe with his spring design studio, A Bridge Too Far. cluded that the University has a tional Tier One institutions allow injured military veterans Hamilton believed the Continental’s redesign provided an $12.8 billion annual economic can have on Texas. and other amputees greater opportunity to get his students thinking critically about the impact on the Dallas-Fort “When you look at the movement and restore their form, function, and future of bridges. Working in teams, the Worth Metroplex and fuels hard data, institutions like sense of touch. dozen seniors created new ideas and interpretations for the more than 122,000 jobs in UT Arlington are major centers structure. “My thought was that it’s time for architecture the area. Statewide, the num- of employment and spinoff eco- students to revisit the bridge idea and decide if it has gone bers grow to $13.6 billion and nomic benefits,” he says. “They far enough or is there more to be seen and heard,” Hamilton almost 132,000 jobs. generate business activity and explains. The students were encouraged to imagine such UT Arlington’s impact, opportunities for their imme- concepts as a bridge with urban housing and no cars and which includes spinoff research diate region, and they are one a “bridge of the forbidden” that cultivates a Las Vegas-like and alumni employed, reflects of the state’s most important atmosphere. about 4 percent of the North sources of talent and technol- Texas economy. Economic ogy—critical components of a activity associated with the healthy economy.” University leads to incremental The University’s construc- Fueling Discovery tax receipts of about $310 mil- tion projects and campus MAXINE ADEGBOLA lion a year to local governments improvements also gener - Shimadzu agreement boosts research The National League for Nurs- and $639 million to the state. ate a considerable economic Shimadzu Scientific Instruments and UT Arlington ing has selected Assistant The report assessed data stimulus. The report found that are partnering on a $25.2 million endeavor aimed at Professor Maxine Adegbola as ranging from enrollment and recent and ongoing construc- transforming research capabilities throughout the one of 32 Academy of Nursing ongoing operations to research tion has created a $502.7 mil- UT System and Texas. Education Fellows for 2012. activity and the workforce lion economic impact and 5,861 The UT System Board of Regents has allocated A College of Nursing faculty productivity of UT Arlington person-years of employment in $7.5 million from the Permanent University Fund toward member since 2008, Dr. Ad- graduates, among other fac- North Texas. formation of the Institute for Research Technologies at egbola’s areas of expertise UT Arlington. The institute will comprise the existing include sickle cell disease, Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analytical Chemistry, chronic pain, and genomics. the new Center for Imaging, and the new Center for Environmental, Forensic, and Material Analysis. ZOLTAN SCHELLY An in-kind gift from Shimadzu last spring enabled Chemistry Professor Emeritus the University to establish the Shimadzu Center for Zoltan Schelly has been Advanced Analytical Chemistry. The center includes awarded the 2012 Kerr Medal state-of-the-art chromatography, mass spectrome- for his contributions to the try, and spectroscopy equipment valued at more than field of electro-optics. $6 million. The Institute for Research Technologies Dr. Schelly joined the will be made possible by an additional $18.5 million UT Arlington faculty in 1977 equipment purchase from Shimadzu. and became director of “Shimadzu sees in UT Arlington an exciting energy, the University’s Center for great vision, and the potential to transform scientific re- Colloidal and Interfacial search and education,” says Shuzo Maruyama, president Dynamics in 1982. of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments in Columbia, Md. TOP TEACHERS History Associate Professor Elisa- The institute will offer students and faculty access JONATHAN CAMPBELL beth Cawthon is one of seven UT Arlington faculty mem- to state-of-the-art Shimadzu equipment and software, Biology Professor Jonathan bers to receive the 2012 UT System Regents’ Outstand- some of which will be available in North America Campbell has received the ing Teaching Award. The honor recognizes professors at exclusively at UT Arlington. 2012 Henry S. Fitch Award for UT System institutions who demonstrate extraordinary The Center for Imaging will strengthen the Univer- Excellence in Herpetology, a classroom performance and innovation at the undergradu- sity’s Genomic Core Facility by adding neurobiological national honor given by the ate level. Other UT Arlington recipients are political sci- and high-speed imaging systems and tomography plat- American Society of Ichthy- ence Professor Victoria Farrar-Myers, modern languages forms. It also will contain a cutting-edge brain-imaging ologists and Herpetologists. Associate Professor Christopher Conway, industrial and device currently used only in Japan. Dr. Campbell is chair of the manufacturing systems engineering Associate Professor Researchers expect the Center for Environmental, Biology Department and Jamie Rogers, curriculum and instruction Assistant Pro- Forensic, and Material Analysis to give scientists the director of UT Arlington’s fessor Kathleen Tice, English Senior Lecturer Jonathan ability to analyze particles from the nano scale to the Amphibian and Reptile Davis-Secord, and physics Lecturer Nilakshi Veerabathina. macro scale. Diversity Research Center.

8 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 9 CAMPUS CAMPUS Grants Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty CHENG LUO Mechanical and aerospace New Research Institute engineering Professor Cheng Luo envisions a day when a brings ideas to reality Daniel Armstrong cellphone can be folded like With more than 500 pub- How can we better care for ing, applied robotics, medical a wallet and a laptop rolled lications, 15 patents, and our aging population? Where technologies, energy, water, up and stored. Dr. Luo has numerous national and is the technology to reduce and the environment. received a National Science international chemistry dependence on nonrenewable “We are working to become Foundation grant to develop a awards, chemistry and bio- resources? When will we dis- the hub for commercialization process called micropunching chemistry Professor Daniel cover effective treatments for of research and university- lithography to create light- Armstrong long ago proved devastating diseases? industry alliance in the North weight, low-cost, and flexible his strength as a scientist. These are just some of Texas region and beyond,” polymer-based devices. But it was his recent exami- the questions that the scien- Lynch says. “We will be able nation of a popular and con- tists, engineers, and industry to help businesses adapt and troversial workout booster partners of the newly estab - refine cutting-edge technology called DMAA that put his lished UT Arlington Research for commercial applications.” name in the mainstream Institute are working to answer. To facilitate its goal of media last summer. DMAA The institute aims to become producing $100 million annu- is a stimulant known to nar- a global leader in the research ally in research expenditures, row blood vessels and arter- and development of advanced the UT Arlington Research ies, and some worry that its technology to help humanity. Institute plans to significantly use could lead to injury or Under the direction of increase its support staff. even death. Dr. Armstrong, retired Army Lt. Gen. Rick “Our University is commit- who holds the Robert Lynch, the institute focuses on ted to strengthening its role as A. Welch Chair in Chemis- strengthening links between an engine that helps drive the CARL GRODACH try, investigated whether University research and the North Texas economy,” Presi- Urban planner Carl Grodach DMAA—known as 1,3- commercialization of technol- dent James D. Spaniolo says. is the only urbanist in the Kid Friendly dimethylamylamine—in ogy. Goals include providing “The Research Institute will nation to receive a research numerous supplements affordable solutions to com- become a focal point for lever- grant from the National Lifelike robot aids autistic children came from natural or plex problems for areas most in aging technology and innova- Endowment for the Arts in A 2-foot-tall robot named Zeno could offer hope for synthetic sources. His team demand by potential private tion developed in our labs and 2012. An associate professor children with autism. found that it’s unlikely and public sector partners, classrooms to help our business in the School of Urban and UT Arlington researchers have teamed with col- the DMAA in supplements such as advanced manufactur- partners achieve their goals.” Public Affairs, Dr. Grodach leagues at the UNT Health Science Center, the Dallas derives from the geranium will examine 30 U.S. cities Autism Treatment Center, Texas Instruments, and plant or its extracted oil, as of varying sizes and their Hanson Robotics in Plano to rework Zeno and other companies sometimes claim. correlation to the arts. lifelike robots to improve early detection of the devel- The study was featured in opmental disorder. The Wall Street Journal busi- CHRISTOPH CSALLNER Led by electrical engineering Associate Professor ness section, Prevention The National Science Founda- Dan Popa, researchers believe Zeno can help diag - magazine, and on several tion has awarded a grant nose autism in infants and toddlers before traditional websites. Armstrong to a computer science and assessments that rely on speech and social interactions. believes the research could engineering team to rid The goal is to create a human-robot interaction for impact how the Food and computers of software flaws. early diagnosis and treatment of children with autism Drug Administration regu- Under the leadership of As- spectrum disorders. The work is funded in part by a lates DMAA. sistant Professor Christoph grant from the Texas Medical Research Collabora- Csallner, the researchers tive. Researchers aim to develop a robot that not only will explore techniques that interacts with autistic children but measures a child’s check for bugs in computer POWER OVER POWER Right now, energy provid- movement and indicates what therapies work best. programs that interact with ers control the Web-based smart meter applications that “It’s more than just seeing how autistic children large databases. help homeowners monitor and regulate energy consump- react when interacting with the robot,” says Dr. Popa, tion. But with a pervasive computing system developed director of the Next Generation Systems group at the ANDREAS STAVRIDIS by computer science and engineering Professor Sajal Das UT Arlington Research Institute. “Eventually, we want Civil engineering Assistant and doctoral student Giacomo Ghidini, consumers would to customize the robot to better fit individual needs of Professor Andreas Stavridis have the power. Funded by a National Science Foundation children with autism.” has received a National Sci- Innovation Corps grant, the sensor and monitoring sys- Pamela Rainville learned of the research from Dal- ence Foundation grant to tem records data that affects resource consumption, las Autism Treatment Center officials. It sounded like develop numerical simula- such as how many people are in a room, whether they’re something her 7-year-old son, Anthony, would enjoy tion tools to predict the engaged in physical activity, and how many appliances or and benefit from. performance and strength of lights are on. The data is analyzed to determine how much “It’s always good for Anthony to be put in different buildings in earthquakes. The energy is needed to cool or heat a home. Homeowners could situations, things outside his normal routine,” Rainville research could lead to stricter access information about optimal thermostat settings, for says. “Any time he can be around other people, it’s a building codes. example, via a smartphone and Web-based application. good learning and growing experience for him.”

10 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 11 CAMPUS CAMPUS Press Hypersonic Flight, 2053 Future YA’KE SMITH CNN Headline News inter- Testing center helping viewed filmmaker Ya’Ke Smith about Wolf, a film he wrote reshape Texas roads and directed about child sex Highways may soon be a lot over a pavement test section abuse in the church. Smith more recyclable. Civil engi- every six seconds. It allows is the Morgan Woodward neering Associate Professor researchers to simulate road Distinguished Professor in the Stefan Romanoschi is work- stress and measure durabil- Department of Art and Art ing with the Texas Depart - ity more efficiently than with History. ment of Transportation to current methods. determine the durability of “TxDOT is constantly recycled materials for use in searching for ways to improve road construction. or lengthen roadway life,” Dr. Romanoschi will focus Romanoschi says. “Seeing how on the strengths and weakness- the recycled asphalt performs es of asphalt mixes containing and how long it lasts could recycled asphalt pavement and help them change the way the roof shingles. While TxDOT agency maintains roads.” currently permits the use of The pavement testing both materials, there is little center is the first of its kind proof that they yield a better in Texas and likely will or longer-lasting road. attract new industry partners RAMON LOPEZ In preparation for the for University-led research, Physics Professor Ramon Lo- project, Romanoschi built an says College of Engineering pez was featured in a New York accelerated pavement testing Dean Jean-Pierre Bardet. Times article about a common machine that will be housed in “We are seeing much more set of science curriculum Breathing Easier the University’s new pavement private sector involvement in standards being developed for testing center in Fort Worth. highway construction,” he says. U.S. schools. Dr. Lopez, who is Researchers’ patented device battles SIDS The portable machine, which “This center is the perfect way on the committee writing the When Hung Cao saw his baby boy behind the big glass resembles a truck trailer car for businesses to determine standards, says it’s not likely window at the hospital, the UT Arlington graduate with an enclosed axle and which road materials work best they will make their way into student thought, “How can I be sure he’s fine?” wheels, can run a full-sized and how long those materials Texas classrooms soon. From that moment several years ago, a device was truck axle back and forth will last.” born that could save babies’ lives through improved DORA MUSIELAK and rapid detection of breathing problems, including A Los Angeles Times story sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). about an experimental air- Cao, now a newly minted doctoral graduate, teamed craft attempting to fly at with electrical engineering Professor J.-C. Chiao and Mach 6 speed included Heather Beardsley, a research engineer at TMAC, to comments from aerospace develop a wireless sensor system that can detect carbon engineering Adjunct Profes- dioxide exhaled by babies as they sleep. More impor- sor Dora Musielak. Experts tantly, the sensors know—quickly enough for interven- say that harnessing technol- tion—when infants are not expelling carbon dioxide. ogy capable of sustaining “This has the chance to save lives,” says Dr. Chiao, hypersonic speeds is crucial who holds the Janet and Mike Greene and Jenkins to creating the next gen- Garrett professorships in the College of Engineering. eration of missiles, military “Our system is more accurate than current systems and aircraft, and spacecraft. should reduce false alarms that desensitize parents or caregivers.” JASON SHELTON The researchers have received a patent for the device, Sociology Assistant Professor Small Size, Big Speed Something smaller than which can attach to a baby’s crib or car seat. Jason Shelton was featured the width of a human hair could make computers faster and The Texas Medical Research Collaborative recently Researchers Luca Maddalena and Luca Massa can only speculate about Mach 5, or about 3,500 miles per hour, and above. Hypersonic engines in a USA Today article that more energy efficient, thanks to a team of electrical engi- awarded the research team a grant to develop and test what a large hypersonic aircraft might look like. Their expertise lies pull oxygen from the surrounding air whereas rocket propulsion engines examined the impact of The neers from UT Arlington and the University of Wisconsin- a model, design a commercially viable carbon dioxide- not in the design of the futuristic vehicle, but in how to propel it at carry their oxygen source on board, which limits an aircraft’s payload. Jeffersons in the wake of Madison. Led by professors Weidong Zhou of UT Arling- based monitoring system, and manufacture a prototype. 3,500 mph. The aerospace engineering assistant professors have A commercial airliner travels between 500 and 600 mph, but hypersonic the death of actor Sherman ton and Zhenqiang Ma in Wisconsin, the researchers have TxMRC is a consortium of UT Arlington, UT Dallas, received a three-year NASA National Research Award to study novel vehicles could shorten a trans-Pacific flight by six to eight hours. Hemsley, who played George devised a 2-micrometer-tall laser for on-chip optical connec- the UNT Health Science Center, Texas Instruments, injector designs to support combustion at hypersonic speeds. The Maddalena and Massa say that fuel and oxygen at typical speeds inside Jefferson on the 1970s sitcom. tions. The laser has a vastly lower profile than current ver- and the Texas Health Research & Education Institute. work aims to reduce air travel times and make space access affordable. a hypersonic engine don’t have time to effectively mix and ignite, so Dr. Shelton said the show sions, which could make it cheaper and easier for manufac- It funds medical technology projects to address critical Drs. Maddalena and Massa are the only university researchers in the they believe the key to achieving ignition and combustion is a proper was the first post-civil rights turers to integrate high-speed optical data connections into health care issues. nation to garner the award. “This study on the effectiveness of new fuel design of the injectors. They’re investigating new configurations in movement comedy on a the microprocessors powering the next generation of com- TMAC is administering the projects on behalf of the injection schemes might lead to enabling affordable access to space for collaboration with NASA’s Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch major network to deal with puters. The research findings, published in Nature Photonics consortium. UT Arlington is partnering with UNTHSC large hypersonic vehicles,” Maddalena says. Hypersonic speed reaches at Langley Research Center in Virginia.

African-American race issues. in July, have received worldwide attention. on the SIDS technology project. DURKE STEPHEN BY ILLUSTRATION

12 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 13 CAMPUS CAMPUS Gallery African-American History Numbers Cason named vice president for research 572,715 Atop the Park North and Park “With our focus on biomedi- Central parking structures cal technologies, Dr. Cason in the College Park District is ideally suited to lead the sit 1,638 photovoltaic panels. charge toward expanding our Burl Washington ’77 Through October, the panels research influence,” Dr. Elsen- Little-known aspects of had generated 572,715-kilo- baumer says. “She excels at U.S. history shape much of watt hours of electricity since building relationships and will painter Burl Washington’s they began operating Sept. further our efforts to organize nationally recognized 27, 2011. faculty and student research artwork. With a keen eye teams to tackle the most press- for detail, the UT Arlington ing societal concerns.” alumnus and Fort Worth Cason holds a master’s resident captures bygone 2,000 degree in nursing from the More than 2,000 Chinese events that made America UT System School of Nurs - students have graduated great but often are omitted Carolyn Cason is committed ing and a doctoral degree from the Asia Executive MBA from history books. “When I to increasing UT Arlington’s in educational psychology program offered through the was growing up, history was cross-disciplinary approach to from UT Austin. She joined College of Business. The pro- boring. Now it’s just a gold research and to ensuring that the UT Arlington College gram is one of the largest of all mine,” he says. “The more the University’s discoveries of Nursing in 1997 and is foreign universities operating you dig, the more you find. benefit society. a co-founder and former in China. It’s inspiring.” Washington, In her new role as vice administrator of the Uni - who works primarily with Mystery Solved? president for research, versity’s Smart Hospital, the watercolor and watercolor Dr. Cason oversees UT Arling- Smart Care program, and board, often focuses on Physicists aid likely discovery of Higgs 400,000 ton’s growing research enter- the Genomics Translational College Park Center is ex- buffalo soldiers, African- Summer 2012 will go down as a monumental time prise and leads divisions that Research Laboratory. pected to draw up to 400,000 American cowboys, and for physicists worldwide, including members of manage technology develop- Her recent research has patrons in its first year of op- women of the West. With UT Arlington’s Center of Excellence for High Energy ment, intellectual property, focused on diversity in the eration. Since opening in Feb- work on display internation- Physics. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at and the University’s centers health care workforce and ruary, the 7,000-seat events ally and with featured exhib- CERN in Switzerland announced the discovery of a new of research excellence. simulation learning environ- venue has hosted UT Arlington its at the Booth Western Art particle in July and believe there’s a good chance it’s the A former associate dean in ments in nursing education. volleyball and basketball Museum in Carterville, Ga., Higgs boson, or “God particle,” they’ve been seeking. the College of Nursing, she had “Our goal,” she says, “re - games, concerts, and com- and the National Buffalo Sol- “Without the Higgs, how particles get mass was an served as interim vice president mains to become recognized mencement exercises, as well diers Museum in Houston, unsolved mystery in science. I would classify this as one for research since November as a university of research as major sporting, cultural, he is educating people with of the biggest discoveries in physics during the past 30 2011. She succeeds Ronald excellence and to compete and community events. his artistic vision of history. years,” says Kaushik De, a physics professor and coor- Elsenbaumer, who was named with other top national insti- “There’s just a lot of our his- dinator of the ATLAS group at UT Arlington. ATLAS provost and vice president for tutions for public and private tory that people don’t know is one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. academic affairs last fall. support.” about, and I want to bring But last summer’s news doesn’t mean the potential it to their attention. That’s for scientific breakthroughs is fading. Scientists still 9,052 UT Arlington conferred a re- the whole thing. I want need confirmation that the new particle is the Higgs. cord 9,052 degrees in 2011-12. people to walk away from UT Arlington professors and students will continue The breakdown: 5,768 under- my art and be as inspired as to participate in ATLAS, both through on-site work graduate, 3,120 master’s, 164 I was when I made it.” in Geneva and in the United States with the massive doctoral. The total represents ATLAS Southwest Tier 2 Center for grid computing an 18.4 percent increase over on campus. Faculty and students also are designing the 7,647 degrees awarded the clockwise from top detectors for the International Linear Collider, a “Bass Reeves, Behold a Pale previous year. Horse” 31-kilometer electron-positron collider. “Pea Ball Champ” In October UT Arlington hosted the International “Planting of Colors” Workshop on Future Linear Colliders. Organized by 71,392,047 physics professors Andrew White and Jaehoon Yu, the The University’s total research MELTING POT U.S. News & World Report ranks conference drew hundreds of scientists to campus and expenditures for 2011-12 UT Arlington seventh nationally for providing a racially featured a lecture by Nobel Prize-winning physicist reached nearly $71.4 million, and ethnically diverse campus. The magazine evaluated Steven Weinberg of UT Austin. an all-time high and more undergraduate enrollment based on proportion of minority “The Higgs announcement allows us to take the linear than triple the amount of 10 students and the overall mix of ethnic groups. Schools were collider idea to the next level,” Dr. Yu says. “With the years ago. Fueling the rise is assigned an index from 0.0 to 1.0, with 1.0 the most diverse. ability to collide beams of particles 14,000 times every expertise in bioengineering, UT Arlington’s index was 0.69. In fall 2012 about 54 percent second at energies as high as 500 GeV (gigaelectron- medical diagnostics, micro- of the University’s undergraduates identified themselves as volts), the linear collider could give us a host of new manufacturing, national African-American, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian/Alaska information about this new particle and help address defense, and information native, Pacific Islander/native Hawaiian, or multiracial. other mysteries like dark matter and dark energy.” technologies.

14 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 15 CAMPUS CAMPUS Service Heroes for Hope Community UTA VOLUNTEERS Tutoring children at the Boys New Libraries dean & Girls Clubs of Arlington and promoting voting awareness brings focus on service were among the projects Rebecca Bichel probably won’t undertaken by UTA Volun- hunt you down if your books teers this fall. The student are overdue, but the new dean group plans, promotes, and of the UT Arlington Libraries participates in volunteer and does plan to have a big impact service programs that benefit at the University. the University and surround- Formerly a Florida State ing communities. Other an- University senior library nual activities include The Big administrator, Bichel brings Event, Mavericks on a Mission, an extensive record of library the Hunger Banquet, and experience and leadership. One Night Without a Home. She joined the University to facilities and staffing to sup- capitalize on the opportuni- port undergraduate and gradu- ties that academic libraries like ate students and faculty schol- UT Arlington’s provide for arship. She is credited with scholarly and community updating services, improving engagement. customer service, and develop- Poignant Voices “I am delighted to join the ing services for patrons with Conservationist Jeff Corwin highlights University,” she says. “I am so disabilities. impressed with UT Arlington’s As dean, Bichel leads a staff Maverick Speakers Series this spring ambitious climb to Tier One of about 115 employees and status, and I look forward to manages a collection of more The fifth season of UT Arlington’s marquee lectures, supporting that goal by work- than 1.2 million print volumes, the Maverick Speakers Series, continues in the spring ing with colleagues to shape 275,000 electronic volumes, MILITARY MUSTER with astronaut Mark Kelly and the Animal Planet’s a world-class library system and 72,000 serial titles. She Injured service veterans Jeff Corwin. serving students, faculty, and also directs UT Arlington’s learned about adapted Kelly, a retired Navy captain and best-selling author, the North Texas community.” Special Collections, includ- sports and recreation at the speaks Feb. 19, 2013, in Texas Hall on “Endeavoring to At Florida State, Bichel ing its renowned cartography Military Muster in August Build a Better America.” Tickets will be available Jan. oversaw the development of a holdings and extensive archive at UT Arlington. The event 22. Kelly flew his first of four missions in 2001 aboard Learning Commons and Schol- of historic photos, manuscripts, was co-hosted by the Movin’ the space shuttle Endeavour, which he commanded on ars Commons, with specific and other materials. Mavs wheelchair basket- its final flight in May 2011. ball team, U.S. Paralympics, He became the center of international attention Paralympic Sport Arlington, after the 2011 assassination attempt on his wife, former and Wounded Warriors as an Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Kelly’s effort to address the mental, identical twin brother is also an astronaut, and they are physical, and academic needs the only twins and only siblings to have both traveled of military veterans making in space. the transition to college life. Corwin, a TV host and nature conservationist, closes Other University initiatives the season with “100 Heartbeats: A Global Movement” include a workshop series to March 27 at College Park Center. Tickets will be avail- HEROIC EFFORTS A squad of superheroes charges into a help student veterans suc- able Feb. 28. Best known as the host of the Animal Planet children’s hospital. Their steps are purposeful and deter- ceed in the classroom. show The Jeff Corwin Experience, he has worked to mined, their smiles huge and warm. They’re not here to do protect endangered species and ecosystems worldwide battle, but to bolster others for battle. For kids fighting COLLABORATIVE CARE for nearly three decades. serious illnesses from a hospital bed, a visit from a hero can Improving holistic care For his conservation efforts, Corwin was named make all the difference. Beta Theta Pi’s Heroes for Hope for patients is the goal of a ambassador of climate change and endangered spe- program devotes time, energy, and money to make sure federal grant awarded to the cies on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, a prominent COLLEGE PARK COMEDY For one night in Novem- kids who need a morale boost get one. Fraternity members College of Nursing. Using conservation organization. His book 100 Heartbeats: ber, College Park Center transformed into an oversized com- and friends dress as Superman, Spider Man, Batman, Won- funding from the Depart- The Race to Save Earth’s Most Endangered Species was edy club. As part of the Maverick Speakers Series, Saturday der Woman, and an array of other characters and distribute ment of Health and Human published in 2010. Night Live star Seth Meyers entertained a sold-out crowd toys and comics at area children’s hospitals. During spring Services Health Resources The 2012-13 Maverick Speakers Series kicked off with an hour-long stand-up routine. “I hope Texas doesn’t break, the group brings joy to kids from Texas to Louisiana. and Services Administration, in September with a lecture by legendary sportswriter secede from the union,” he joked. “I wouldn’t want to look “It’s beyond rewarding,” says senior Chris Dinh, director of the college will work with the and novelist Frank Deford. Other fall speakers were back on Friday Night Lights as a foreign film.” Meyers, who the program. “The kids at the hospitals and charity events School of Social Work to ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts and is in his sixth season as head writer and 11th as a cast mem- are always so excited to see their favorite superheroes.” improve connections comedian Seth Meyers (see story at right). ber for SNL, also answered about a dozen questions from the between nurses and social Free general admission tickets are available at audience. His appearance capped off Homecoming week and workers before they meet in utatickets.com. Visit uta.edu/maverickspeakers to the dedication of the College Park District, which took place the health care workplace. watch video highlights of past speakers. earlier that evening.

16 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 17 CAMPUS CAMPUS Sports Baseball Champs DERRICK OBASOHAN Former basketball star Derrick Building on Success Obasohan’s dream of playing in the Olympics came true Under the guidance of coach Scott Cross, Mavericks seek to continue winning ways last summer in London. The 6-foot-6 guard started every HUNTER PENCE Leading the Mavericks to a record 24 wins and a berth game and averaged 10 points When the 2012 Major League in the National Invitation Tournament last year has as a member of the Nigerian Baseball season began, given men’s basketball coach Scott Cross a taste for more. team, which finished 1-4. Hunter Pence hoped to lead “I think our success helps give our kids confidence Nigeria was in the same group the Philadelphia Phillies that we can win a championship,” he says. “Our coach- as the Olympic champion to a World Series title. But ing staff is aware that players tend to relax after a United States squad with NBA Philadelphia traded the successful year, so we’ve been even more intense and superstars LeBron James, former UT Arlington star to demanding on our guys.” Kevin Durant, and Kobe Bry- San Francisco mid-year, so Returning starters Kevin Butler and Jordan Reves ant. Obasohan will play pro- he helped the Giants win combined for nearly 20 points a game last season and fessionally in China this year. the World Series instead. are providing senior leadership. Yahoo! Sports selected Pence had four hits in San the 6-foot-10 Reves as the Best Defender in the Western Francisco’s four-game Athletic Conference heading into the 2012-13 season. sweep of the Detroit Tigers, Junior Shaquille White-Miller, who started 31 games and he played a key role as at point guard, is also back. the Giants battled from two The Mavericks brought in six transfers and a pair of games behind in both the freshmen to counter the loss of leading scorers LaMar- National League division and cus Reed and Bo Ingram. Top newcomers include 6-2 championship series. “We guard Jamel Outler, a transfer from Texas Tech, and 6-5 didn't allow doubt to ever forwards Greg Gainey from South Plains College and creep in,” he said. "We had Vince Dillard from Colby (Kan.) Community College. our backs against the wall, “Jamel Outler should be a big-time scorer and sharp- and we knew it wasn't going shooter for us,” Cross says. “He should help offset the State and Idaho went to the College Insider Tourna- CROSS COUNTRY to be easy.” His three-run scoring and shooting that we lost from last season.” ment, and regular-season champ Nevada, now in the The men’s cross country team double in the third inning UT Arlington moves to the WAC this year, and pre- Mountain West, received an NIT bid. took four of the top 10 spots propelled San Francisco to season polls put the defending Southland Conference Louisiana Tech and San Jose State are the other WAC to win UT Arlington’s first a 9-0 win in the deciding champions in the middle of the pack. “The competition holdovers. They are joined by UT San Antonio, Texas Western Athletic Conference game of the National League will be much tougher in the WAC,” Cross says. “We know State, Denver, and Seattle. The Mavericks begin WAC championship in any sport. Championship Series. Pence we’ll have to step it up and be ready to play every night.” play Dec. 29 against New Mexico State at College Park Virgilio Martinez, above, played for UT Arlington The WAC sent four teams to the postseason last year. Center and will compete in the Sears Bracket Busters placed fifth and was named in 2003 and 2004, and the New Mexico State won the conference tournament and event in February for the second consecutive year. The WAC Freshman of the Year. Houston Astros drafted represented the league in the NCAA Tournament. Utah WAC Tournament is March 12-16 in Las Vegas. Craig Lautenslager, Emil Blom- him in the second round. berg, and Ryan Tilotta finished After a stint in the minors, seventh, eighth, and ninth, he joined the Astros in 2007 respectively. Hannah Nilsson and played there until mid- Women’s team ready for challenge placed 12th as the women’s season 2011 when he went Experience abounds for the Walker led the team with 5.8 homa State—the Mavericks team finished fifth in the meet to Philadelphia. He is a two- women’s basketball team as rebounds per game. open WAC play Dec. 29 at held in October in Ruston, La. time Major League All-Star. the Mavericks lost only one The Mavericks added three New Mexico State. The first John Sauerhage was named senior from last year’s squad. junior college transfers and home conference game is WAC Coach of the Year. Coach Samantha Morrow three freshmen. Aron Garcia, Jan. 10 against UT San Anto- anticipates big improvements a 6-1 forward from Hill Col- nio at College Park Center. JARED CONNAUGHTON after suffering through a 7-21 lege, and Laila Suleiman, a 5-3 “The WAC is a much more Former sprinter Jared campaign in 2011-12. “We want guard from Redlands (Okla.) challenging conference, no Connaughton competed for to put a great product out there Community College, are two doubt,” Morrow says. “The Canada at the 2012 Summer and have our fans come watch of the top newcomers. travel will be different for us, Olympics. He advanced to the us play. We’re going to be a dif- “Our new players bring but they have to travel here, semifinals of the 200-meter ferent team this year.” more intensity and more com- too. I believe we are com - dash and ran the third leg of Eleven players returned. petition to the court,” Morrow mitted to standing up to the the 4x100-meter relay. The Only leading scorer Bianca says. “They’re challenging our challenge.” Canadians thought they had Sauls is gone from a team that returnees for playing time.” The WAC tournament is earned a bronze medal in the finished 5-11 in the Southland UT Arlington joins the March 12-16 in Las Vegas. All relay but were disqualified Conference. Guards Sabreena Western Athletic Conference conference teams participate, because Connaughton Briana Walker DeNure and Kiara Parker, who this season. After a rugged with the top six seeds receiv- stepped out of his lane. He led the team started 43 games between nonconference slate—George ing a first-round bye. The win- earned widespread media in rebounding them last season, are the only Washington, Michigan State, ner advances to the NCAA praise for how he handled the last season. seniors. Junior forward Briana Oral Roberts, Memphis, Okla- Tournament. disappointment.

18 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 19 Whiz kid When not outshining classmates in his UT Arlington math courses, 12-year-old Ewin Tang works in his father’s nanotechnology lab.

Cultivating Genius Twelve-year-old Ewin Tang is the latest in a line of wünderkinds to begin their UT Arlington careers while other students their age are still in elementary school or junior high. History suggests he’ll continue to amaze. By Sherry W. Neaves

win Tang’s classmates tend to overlook the slight, “Other students just seem kind of amazed,” he says. “They ask about my age, what I’m bespectacled youth sitting in the front row until he majoring in. Some of them actually take pic- tures of me. They’re pretty cool with it, though; answers the professor’s queries—all correctly. Then they really don’t bother me a lot.” Although the E age gap usually prevents Ewin from forming they ask their own questions. “Who is this guy?” “Why is close friendships with his classmates, many are eager to work with him once they recog- he here?” And always, “How old is he?” At 12, Ewin, the son nize his abilities. Ewin’s college career began after he com- of bioengineering Professor Liping Tang, is the youngest pleted every math course available in his K-12 private school. His intellect had already student on campus and among the youngest in UT Arlington prompted school officials to move him from third to seventh grade, but it was soon appar- history. Since taking his first college courses at age 10, he ent that he needed more. After he scored 1920 on the SAT at age 10, his parents and school has completed 20 hours, including classes in calculus and officials explored college enrollment. Dr. Tang acknowledges that having an im- differential equations, all with a 4.0 GPA. mensely bright child can be challenging. “There

20 UTArlington Magazine Winter 2012 21 are no books, no guidance on exactly what to do. This rious,” he says. “I have to push all the buttons and in Bellmead, a small community near Waco. Her doc- (college for someone so young) is a totally gray area.” understand how things work.” toral studies focus on 20th-century African-American The Tangs met with then-Provost Donald Bobbitt His curiosity and desire to break things didn’t mesh religious history, especially the civil rights movement, and later with Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Under- with the corporate world. He worked as a software and the history of women in the church. graduate Studies Michael Moore. Ewin’s first classes, engineer and a security engineer, but quickly became “I feel called to preach,” she says. “I enjoy preach- an online course in history and an on-campus calculus bored. ing, and that’s what drew me in to studying the social class, were tests he passed easily. In 2007 he joined IBM as a senior security consul- justice movements of the 20th century.” “I think it makes a difference that I’m here,” tant, helping major corporations around the world This fall Lyons taught Introduction to Christian Dr. Tang says. “Ewin has a place to go and a built-in keep hackers at bay. He thrived in consulting and soon Heritage at Baylor, speaking to classrooms filled with support system.” was promoted to manage IBM’s payment security young students who sometimes remind her of those In addition to his University coursework, Ewin works consultancy. Today, Baritchi is a principal at Verizon long-ago days at UT Arlington. She remembers her part time in his dad’s nanotechnology laboratory. He is Enterprise Solutions, where he manages and delivers undergraduate career fondly but laughs a bit at how developing a probe to detect bacterial infection, some- security consulting engagements globally. much she still had to learn. thing that would greatly assist in diagnosing diseases. As the digital world continues its almost instanta- His career plans involve science or engineering, but he neous 24-7 evolution, those who protect information DOCTOR’S ORDERS hasn’t yet settled on a specialty. must be at the cutting edge. Baritchi prides himself on Learning comes easily for Jocelyn Zee, a third UT Ar- “Our main concern when we began this was his staying abreast of the latest threats and vulnerabilities lington prodigy turned successful professional. After social life,” says Dr. Tang, who notes that Ewin to protect his clients. He says the only way to maintain enrolling at age 13, she graduated in 2004 with a bach- attends a private high school with students his own your security is to periodically engage in penetration elor’s degree in microbiology and today is a hospital- age for some courses and activities. “Academically he testing, the practice of simulating an attack. It may be ist (a physician whose practice is entirely within the is fine, but we want him to stay in school and stay with fun, but it’s not the end-game. hospital) at John Peter Smith in Fort Worth. Only 17 kids his own age, to have friends his own age. So far “Clients hire us not just for our hacking skills but when she entered medical school, Zee’s training began it’s working out pretty well. Thanks to Dr. Moore, he’s for our broad security expertise. They want a partner with a warning about her age. having a very good experience.” who will show them where they’ve gone wrong and “I was told by one of the deans about another student Ewin spends part of Monday, Wednesday, and Fri- help them bolster their defenses.” who started young and didn’t make it through. He FAST STARTERS day at the private school, where he takes classes and Baritchi says information systems are vulnerable had some concerns about me starting out as well, but Andi Baritchi, above, participates in soccer, basketball, cross country, and primarily for two reasons. First, they are overly complex. it hasn’t been a problem. I have been called Doogie “Other students earned bachelor’s the Science Olympiad. He also attends UT Arlington Second, programmers often have a “so long as it works” Howser a few times, but other than that, no major just seem kind and master’s degrees on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and does research attitude. Features and deadlines are the top priority age-related setbacks.” at age 18. Now 31, he’s one of the in his father’s lab Tuesday and Thursday. As if that’s not while security is treated as an afterthought rather than Of course, medical school has its challenges. Dr. Zee of amazed. nation’s foremost enough, he works with a private tutor, studies Chinese, being properly ingrained at the design stage. remembers well the osteopathic manipulative medicine cybersecurity and plays the piano and erhu, a traditional Chinese Then there’s the human element. People are just course she took her first year, where students learn to They ask about experts. Jocelyn Zee, instrument akin to a violin. too trusting. diagnose and treat musculoskeletal complaints with 26, is a physician While it might seem that Ewin’s case is unique, “Don’t give out your passwords or sensitive informa- physical manipulation. my age, what in Fort Worth. She Moore and his predecessors in the Provost’s Office tion to someone who reaches out to you,” he warns. “We had to practice on each other,” she says. “Let’s graduated with a I’m majoring in. microbiology have seen others. Because such students don’t meet “You never know who’s on the other end.” This doesn’t just say that even in a class of 135, we all got to know degree at 17. traditional enrollment requirements, they are evalu- mean you should be afraid to shop online or use a each other very well—and the various soft tissue treat- Some of them ated case by case. credit card. “Just be careful. Only do business with ments (massages or adjustments) each week were an “Typically, there is a detailed conversation with the reputable vendors.” added bonus.” actually take parents about the challenges and rigors of college work When he’s not protecting clients from security She’s no stranger to the intensive care unit or the pictures of me.” as well as a thorough review of the student’s academic breaches, Baritchi spends his time traveling, road emergency room. history,” Moore explains. “Obviously, we are looking racing, and helping homeless dogs. “In the ICU, I work with residents and medical stu- for exceptional young men and women who show the dents responding to calls for critically ill patients. We ability to excel in the classroom as well as handle the A HIGHER CALLING also work with patients who present to the ER or are collegiate environment.” Courtney Pace Lyons, who also came to the University already on another floor but are deteriorating or cod- Over the past two decades, several of these at age 15, deals with a different kind of security. She’s ing—what most folks will recognize from TV shows exceptionally young and brilliant students have used an ordained minister, pursuing a doctoral degree at as seeing patients on the monitor who flatline while UT Arlington as a springboard to success. Baylor University. medical staff shout ‘code blue’ or ‘clear.’ ” Early college entrance is a tradition in the Pace fam- Zee gives much credit for her success to her older SAFE AND SECURE ily. Courtney’s mother, Janyce Johnson Pace, started sister, Jacqueline Howard, who also entered UT Ar- Andi Baritchi began his UT Arlington career at age classes here at age 16, and her dad was in college at age lington early and graduated at age 18. Howard’s major, 15. A math and science genius like Ewin, he completed 17. Courtney graduated from UT Arlington in 2004 at criminal justice, took her into law enforcement after a everything his high school had to offer by ninth grade. age 19 with a computer science and engineering degree. master’s degree in law and ethics from the University of College was the obvious next step, and soon Andi and “I liked the math side of computer science and Baltimore and a Ph.D. in public affairs from UT Dallas. his parents were meeting with then-Provost (and cur- engineering, but not the programming. Through my After working for the Arlington Police Depart- rent president of Prairie View A&M University) George involvement with the Baptist Student Ministry at UTA, ment and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Wright. I came to understand the calling to ministry I first felt Dr. Howard is now a senior crime analyst with the “He’s in large part responsible for where I am today,” as a teenager. Now I realize I am called to teach, to help Arlington County Virginia Police Department, where Baritchi says of Dr. Wright. “He was willing to take a students learn to think critically and ask questions. I she focuses on crime forecasting and research and chance on me.” want to equip ministers to understand and interact investigation of crime data. After graduating three years later with both bach- with the world in new ways.” And what about the future of UT Arlington’s lat- elor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and Since her UT Arlington days, Lyons has served as est wünderkind, Ewin Tang? “I haven’t come up with engineering, Baritchi initially struggled to find his place. a youth pastor and hospice chaplain, married and had anything that is really ingenious yet,” he says. “I fell into security because I’m naturally very cu- a son, and worked with her husband to start a church Be patient; he’s only 12. ✪

22 UTArlington Magazine Winter 2012 23 Maverick Personified With a clear vision and collaborative spirit, James D. Spaniolo has helped UT Arlington reach unprecedented milestones during his eight-plus years as president. The retiring leader believes the next president will join a university poised to achieve even greater accomplishments. By Danny Woodward

rom day 1, james d. spaniolo didn’t like his in University history. Research expenditures more odds. Among the five finalists for UT Arling - than tripled to $71.4 million last year, repositioning a F ton’s presidency in 2003, he was the only one commuter school into a research dynamo. In his time who lacked a Ph.D., who had ascended no higher than at the helm, more than a dozen buildings have been dean, whose university appointments could be counted constructed or renovated, including the landmark on one finger. Engineering Research Building and the striking College Even he voted himself least likely to succeed Robert Park Center. Enrollment, on-campus residency, and Witt, now chancellor of the University of Alabama graduation and retention rates are all at historic levels. MAKING HIS MARK System. Listen to what candidate Spaniolo told the And the man who was least likely to be UT Arling- As UT Arlington’s student newspaper that October: “I’m in awe of the ton’s president retires as one of its best, putting the seventh president, other four candidates’ qualifications. I knew coming University into the national dialogue about top-tier James D. Spaniolo in that I was a long shot. That said, that’s not a conces- institutions. guided the University’s sion speech. I want to be president of UT Arlington.” His decision met swift and stunned reaction when transformation into one In the end, the underdog landed on top. The Uni- announced in June. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram of the nation’s most versity went with the maverick. labeled it “a surprise retirement.” A nearly morose dynamic centers Now, nearly a decade later, Spaniolo is preparing Dallas Morning News editorial said, “A coach typically of higher education. to retire after what may be the seminal presidency doesn’t bow out during a winning streak.”

Winter 2012 25 For many, the question was why? For posterity, here’s There is no set date for Spaniolo’s departure; he will created a new narrative and boosted Maverick pride. erecting some buildings or beginning a few programs. “Jim created the answer: continue until his successor is in place. He saw a university that could excel athletically on a It took work far beyond Arlington’s borders. “Part of it is where I am in my career—at a stage For some, that won’t be long enough. After a recent national stage if given better facilities and a better “Jim paid close attention to all the issues, both aca- a tone that where the horizon is not unlimited anymore. I think meeting, a prominent faculty member approached chance, so he built a $78 million basketball palace and demic and infrastructure, that are important,” says you have an opportunity to make a contribution, and the president and asked if he’d reconsider. Spaniolo joined the Sun Belt Conference. He saw a university Teresa Sullivan, formerly the UT System’s executive bolstered it’s a limited window. At some point, you just start to told him no. “But I appreciate the sentiment. The fact that could grow stronger by leveraging partners, so he vice chancellor for academic affairs and now president plateau. The longer you stay, the more set in your ways that people want you to stay is a good thing. It’s better built bridges to peer universities, businesses, founda- of the University of Virginia. Dr. Sullivan chaired the the self- you get, and you run the risk of not being open to new to leave when they still want you there and not when tions, legislators, and city leaders. presidential search committee that brought Spaniolo confidence of ideas. I just have a voice in the back of my head that they’re pushing you out the door.” “There’s been a transformation of UT Arlington since to the table in 2003. “UT Arlington was already on a says this is about time.” No one’s pushing. The man who faced long odds President Spaniolo arrived,” says Arlington Mayor Rob- good trajectory, and he improved it further. He was the campus If those closest to him were shocked that Spaniolo will leave to long faces. ert Cluck, who in November announced that a street also a great public face for the University and gave it is leaving, they weren’t surprised by the way he’s do - “I guess I assumed he would always be there,” says running through the 20-acre, $160 million College good visibility in Austin.” that we could ing it. While he has contributed much—from rebuilt Elaine Marsilio Krift ’06, who covered Spaniolo when Park District would be renamed Spaniolo Drive. “The And everywhere else. compete campus infrastructure to a re-imagined future—much she worked at The Shorthorn. “President Spaniolo has foundation was laid by previous presidents, but Jim “President Spaniolo is by far the best brand ambas- remains to be done, such as a fundraising campaign made such a significant mark on the University that picked up the ball and scored.” sador UT Arlington could ask for,” says Vice President with anyone, CHANGE AGENT that’s in the developmental stages. it is difficult to picture UT Arlington without him.” He did it quickly and thoroughly. for Communications Jerry Lewis. “He tells the Univer- President Spaniolo offered “He felt strongly that we needed a new president with Kelly Elsenbaumer attended in 1998 and recently sity’s story with passion and conviction, and you know that we were words of wisdom to students the energy required over the next several years,” says returned to visit her father, Provost Ronald Elsen - it’s coming from the heart. He has been the driving “My pledge to you is that we will be strong and vibrant and at the 2012 Graduation Ralph Hawkins ’73, chair of the Development Board. “I baumer. “She walked around the campus and hardly force in raising the University’s profile, improving its as good as relevant during my tenure, and we will work together to Celebration, one of several was sad to learn of his retirement, but his logic as always recognized it,” Dr. Elsenbaumer says. “The Maverick reputation, and overcoming long-held misperceptions make it so.” † any campus traditions he established. had the University in mind rather than his own career.” Activities Center, the new Engineering Research Build- and stereotypes. When Spaniolo became UT Arlington’s seventh presi- ing, the Chemistry and Physics Building, new student “President Spaniolo embodies everything it means to anywhere.” dent in February 2004, it was a different place than it housing all over campus, and, of course, the new Col- be a Maverick. He’s bold. He’s clever. And he’s always is today. He challenged and pushed the University to lege Park District have forever changed UT Arlington.” the first person to roll up his sleeves and get to work.” achieve things it never had, to move from best-kept Count the new buildings and programs, tally the secret to best of the best. alumni engaged and traditions initiated, and you still “It’s not the president’s personal vision. It’s our shared He saw a university whose faculty numbers didn’t won’t have a comprehensive list of Spaniolo’s achieve- vision that emerges from conversations and consultation match its aspirations, so he replaced those who had ments. It’s more than a complex web of bricks and with all those who care about our university.” † left plus hired 100 more. He saw a university that could mortar. It is futures shaped and opportunities revealed transform students’ lives, so he enrolled almost 33,500 through education. Not everything has been smooth sailing for Spaniolo, of them—34 percent more than when he arrived—and “People may point to physical structures, and that’s nor for UT Arlington, these last eight-plus years. graduated twice as many. He saw a university short on important,” says former Provost Donald Bobbitt, now There was the 2006 removal of the Hall of Flags traditions, so he created some—the Maverick Speakers president of the University of Arkansas System. But in Nedderman Hall, a monument to the University’s Series, Graduation Celebration, MavsMeet Convocation, more important is that “Jim created a tone that bol- diversity that came down amid protests about displaying Parent and Family Weekend, Academic Excellence Week, stered the self-confidence of the campus that we could the national flag of Vietnam. Vietnamese-Americans the Official Maverick Class Ring. He saw a university compete with anyone, that we were as good as any and Vietnam War veterans protested, and at least one short on revenue, so he redesigned the Development campus anywhere. That’s what will last a long time, lawmaker threatened to block funding for the Engineer- Office and engaged record numbers of alumni, and the even after Jim leaves. It permeates the campus.” ing Research Building. Spaniolo did the only thing he endowment grew to a once-unimaginable $89.3 million. Spaniolo couldn’t accomplish all of this by focusing thought he could: Remove not only the Vietnamese flag, He saw a university that needed an identity, so he on just one thing. He couldn’t change the momentum by but all 123. The colorful display has been replaced by

Mavericks are leaders. They create, discover and achieve. They’re intellectual adventurers with novel ideas who ponder the questions as much as the answers. They’re free spirits with passion and ambition who travel down the path they create for themselves. They Major milestones of the Spaniolo administration seek out places where nobody limits what UT Arlington Fast Facts they can accomplish—places like The Timeline Founded: 1895 University of Texas at Arlington. Here they Enrollment: 24,825 Total Undergraduates: 19,205 Total Freshmen: 3,626 March Grand January join a dedicated community of active Number of Students Living on Campus: Approximately 4,100 learners and independent thinkers who Degree programs: 78 bachelor’s degrees, 74 master’s degrees, 33 doctoral degrees pursue degrees in nearly 80 undergraduate Degrees awarded (2005-06): 3,480 bachelor’s degrees, 1,939 opening and Relocation of September master’s degrees, 88 doctoral degrees fields. Be a Leader. Be an Innovator. Be an Faculty/student ratio: approximately 1 to 21 Student organizations: 300 Achiever. Be a Maverick. NCAA Division I athletic teams: 14 August First MavsMeet Mascot: Mavericks dedication of Fort Worth March Opening of

www.uta.edu Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning. Statistics are for the fall 2006 semester. Student Convocation. More May degree a Debutwithin option an denotes x of Commence- 124,000- Center to his- First NCAA 26,000-square- February than 1,800 students repre- August April First ment Convocation (now square-foot toric Santa Fe Tournament foot Civil Spaniolo begins senting 54 student organiza- Opening of Academic Graduation Celebration) with Chemistry Freight Building appearance Engineering as UT Arlington’s tions parade from University Studio Arts Excellence U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Physics in downtown September Grand opening for men’s Laboratory seventh president. Center to Texas Hall. Center. Week. delivering keynote remarks. Building. Fort Worth. of Maverick Activities Center. basketball team. Building.

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Areas of Study of Areas April Spaniolo May Opening March October February August August Opening of Smart November becomes first of Center for First NCAA First Parents Launch of “Be Beginning of September Hospital. October Launch of August Plan announced to UT Arlington Continuing Tournament Weekend. A Maverick” flat-rate tuition Grand opening Debut of Mavericks provide tuition assistance president in Education and appearance branding system that of University mascot Blaze Go Green, a to eligible employees, their 44 years to Workforce for women’s campaign. caps prices of Club faculty/ at men’s and strengthened spouses, and dependent be installed Development. basketball team. tuition and fees staff dining women’s sustainability children. during formal for 14 or more facility in Davis basketball initiative.

Investiture The University of Texas at Arlington O MAVBook 2007-08 credit hours. Hall. games. ceremony. † From President Spaniolo’s Investiture speech April 12, 2004

26 UTArlington Magazine Winter 2012 27 banners representing each nation. Spaniolo calls the Sullivan says. “Don’t be fooled: You get great results to put walls up to say it’s us against that university or situation the greatest regret of his presidency. from a great team only if there is also a great leader.” the city or the state, but Jim never did that. It’s remark- “I’m sorry that that was the only option, given the Elsenbaumer, beginning his third decade at able how collaborative he was.” attitudes that existed,” he says. “Not that I would UT Arlington, says he has never seen a team so in sync have done it differently, I just regret that there was and so singularly focused. “We will meet the challenges that face us, tell a new story no acceptable choice that involved leaving the flags. “As a leader, his most significant accomplishment was about UT Arlington, and make a brighter future for genera- In some situations, there isn’t a good decision, just a assembling an incredible leadership team. As you can tions to come. In the words of Robert Frost, we have prom- least bad one.” see, much gets accomplished in that kind of environ- ises to keep and miles to go before we sleep—and miles to Most times, the issue hasn’t been flags but finances. ment. Indeed, the synergies created by the deliberate go before we sleep.” † Early in Spaniolo’s presidency, the University faced a multiple accomplishments made by the team over time $16 million cut in state appropriations. In both will have a lasting impact on the institution.” Spaniolo’s calendar has long been stacked, his Black- Arlington and Austin, he worked diligently to ensure There is still one big thing to accomplish. Progress berry exhausted, his iPad gridlocked, his life dedicated that those cuts never happened. has been made, but it won’t be complete by the time to the University. Now? The miles are almost done. He tackled the football question, assuaged the com- Spaniolo leaves office. “It’s the first time I’ve had time to reflect on what I munity about natural gas drilling on campus, navigated North Texas is the largest metropolitan area in want to do next,” he says. “I want to have some freedom four legislative sessions and unprecedented economic the United States without a Tier One research uni- to come and go.” challenges, and through it all made sure the University versity. The entire state has only three. Spaniolo has That freedom includes time for himself and his thrived like never before. championed efforts to change that, to elevate as many family, especially his twin 1-year-old granddaughters “No matter whether things were going tremendously universities as possible, including his own. He was in Washington, D.C. But Spaniolo, 66, won’t disappear. well or we were in a difficult situation, his demeanor instrumental in the Legislature passing House Bill 51 Although he has no plans to be a university president same philosophy and style,” Bobbitt says. “I know I did. ARCHITECT OF PROGRESS did not change,” Dr. Bobbitt says. “I’ve never met any- and in voters approving Proposition 4 in 2009, which elsewhere, nor a CEO, he does want to engage in The table is set for the next president. The groundwork The opening of College Park one more calm and self-confident than he was. He’s a made more funding available as universities accomplish philanthropy or work with a private foundation. He’s is there for Tier One.” Center on Feb. 1, 2012, was remarkable, ethical leader that you don’t find very often.” Tier One-related metrics. also open to board service, although he intends to be Which means the next president will arrive at a a highlight of the Spaniolo If there is blame to place for anything, Spaniolo Finishing what Spaniolo started is up to the next selective about how he spends his days. pivotal time for UT Arlington. presidency. A street running says it’s on him. Where credit is due, he says, his col- president. “University administration is extremely interesting “Jim has laid a strong foundation and set the course,” through the College Park leagues deserve it. “Clearly, Tier One is a marathon, not a sprint, and and gratifying—especially if you’re as good at it as Jim Dr. Dunn says. “He has established the momentum. I District now bears his name. “The leadership team we have, including the vice we’re talking a decade or more,” he says. “We’re just is—but it is also all-consuming,” says sociology Associate expect the new president will not alter our course in presidents I work with every day, are the finest group a few years into that. And we’re making significant Professor Dana Dunn, who was provost from 2003 to dramatic ways, but rather bring an expertise to support of people I’ve ever worked with,” he says. progress. If the next president serves for up to a decade, 2007. “It’s hard to have a private life or personal time. the continuing evolution of UT Arlington as a major It’s a leadership team that evolved dramatically dur- it will be inescapably clear that we are on our way.” My first thoughts were for Jim as a person and how research university. A new president will have to hit “You get ing his presidency. In eight years there have been three Actually, it’s maybe a relay. While others run the nice it will be for him to take a real vacation. I always the ground running.” provosts, and almost every cabinet position turned anchor leg, it was Spaniolo who came flying out of urged him to travel to Italy, the home of his ancestors. For Spaniolo, the running soon will be over. great results over at least once. Spaniolo created two vice president the blocks. Now maybe he’ll do that or the many other things he’s “In my heart, I hope that I will have contributed in positions (communications and human resources) and “Having been in the Tier One conversation right from had to neglect to give his all to the University.” whatever way to UT Arlington achieving its destiny— from a great elevated the expectations of the development, alumni, the beginning, I can tell you that Jim was a unifying Spaniolo will have little involvement in the search becoming a truly great university that serves the needs and athletics operations. In doing all this, he altered force who brought the institutions together,” Bobbitt for his successor. He’ll offer advice if asked but believes of students and families and the citizens of Texas in a team only if the University’s priorities. What mattered most would says. “Jim knew it would only happen if everyone pulled the new president should be free to blaze a unique trail, way that makes a difference in all of those lives.” there is also a be performance. on the same end of the rope. All those universities owe just as he was able to do eight years ago. And maybe there is one thing left for him to do. “Jim is charmingly self-deprecating and will defer him a great deal that the Tier One bill even got passed. “If he or she is smart, they’ll study pretty carefully “I hope,” Dunn says, “I get a postcard from Italy in great leader.” credit for many things to those with whom he worked,” His smooth and calm voice made that happen. It’s easy how Jim did everything he did and try to adopt the the not-too-distant future.” ✪

January First August royalty payment Record set from Carrizo September Launch of April Opening May Invitation for private October Expansion of Oil & Gas for College Town UTA program of The Green at accepted to philanthropic November Maverick Promise financial aid six natural gas April Formal dedication to enhance University’s February College Park, compete in Sun support with Dedication of program to offer free tuition wells that went of Center for Innovation, relationship with Arlington, Record set for a 4.62-acre Belt Conference $23.3 million the 20-acre, to qualified students with into production which serves as a catalyst for build school pride, and enrollment with park south of beginning in 2011-12 fiscal $160 million household income of $65,000 in November technology-based economic engage neighbors and other 33,788 students. College Park in 2013-14 year. College Park or less. 2008. development. community members. Center. academic year. District.

2009 2010 2011 2012

September Debut of January Creation of July $5 million March Ribbon- July Invitation February June Spaniolo Maverick Speakers Series Maverick Match, which pledge from cutting for the accepted Opening of May First UT announces with Pulitzer Prize-winning uses natural gas royalties to Carrizo Oil & 234,000-square- to compete 7,000-seat, Arlington com- retirement journalist Thomas Friedman. leverage new commitments Gas is largest foot Engineering in Western $78 million mencement after more than More than 10,000 people per toward UT Arlington’s single cash Research Building. Athletic College Park ceremony in eight years as year have attended. endowment. Program has commitment Structure opened Conference Center special College Park president. distributed nearly $9 million. April First Official in UT Arlington for classes and for 2012-13 events venue. Center. Maverick Ring history. research in academic year. Ceremony. January 2011.

28 UTArlington Magazine Winter 2012 29 Too Much Information

People often reveal more about themselves when communicating electronically than they do in person. Although the tendency to overshare is usually innocent, it can have consequences both personally and professionally. By Judy Wiley and Mark Permenter

ngry? Hate your boss? Hung over? Lonely? Many of the 1 billion people on Facebook and 500 million active Twitter users are A all of these and more. And they don’t think twice about telling the world. Anyone who visits social media sites sees it every day: the constant chatter about everything from what people ate for breakfast to who hooked up last night to how the job’s going. On dating sites, users describe themselves in intimate, sometimes exaggerated detail or post risqué photos as they search for companionship.

Illustration by Stuart Bradford

Winter 2012 31 We just can’t stop talking about ourselves. Whether you jeopardize your job by criticizing your “Facebook “There are a lot of things people will say under the boss in the conversation ultimately may be decided by is useful for guise of electronic media that they wouldn’t say in the courts. Meanwhile, plenty of people post photos person,” says Ben Agger, a professor of sociology and of themselves in compromising situations or complain catching up humanities and director of UT Arlington’s Center for about work without a thought to career implications. Theory. “People may reveal more about themselves News reports are full of cases where people were with friends when they type instead of talk. Self-revelation becomes disciplined or lost their jobs over Facebook. routine when you can’t see someone’s eyes. No one A teacher in Georgia says she was forced to resign distant in blushes or holds back.” after her bosses saw an expletive on her Facebook page ONLINE RESTRAINT That willingness is the topic of Dr. Agger’s book and photos of her holding beer and wine. Employees for time and Rebecca Neilson, director Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age an airline were disciplined after they joked on Facebook of Graduate Business (2012, Routledge). He uses pornography as a metaphor that their planes were crawling with cockroaches. A space, sharing Services and a Goolsby for what’s happening. Matters that used to be private, New England Patriots cheerleader was fired because Leadership Academy stories and both sexual and nonsexual, now commonly appear in she posted photos on Facebook of a boy who passed faculty member, urges public. This oversharing, he says, creates a “pornographic out and then was covered with graffiti, some of it anti- photos. But students to avoid public sphere” where everyone tells all, but few connect. Semitic, by pranksters. creating digital dirt that “The Internet is a breeding ground of grandiosity Tales of employer snooping are widespread. The it’s a petri dish may hurt their chances as people crow about themselves and express their National Labor Relations Board sees so many social of being hired. of narcissism, opinions,” Agger writes. “It also breeds the search for media-related cases that it has put out three reports in intimacy, even if this is electronic and not face to face.” the past year covering various incidents and addressing POST WITH CAUTION hired. Employers will simply say they chose a more and people workplace policies. Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Eliot A 2012 CareerBuilder survey found that 37 percent of qualified candidate. FAULTY CONNECTIONS Engel of New York introduced a bill that would prohibit should unplug companies use social networking sites to research job That’s a message Rebecca Neilson ’00 drives home Agger calls oversharing a product of the search for employers from requiring or requesting that employees candidates. Managers at a third of those businesses to scholars in the University’s Goolsby Leadership connection. Unfortunately, electronic connections provide user names and passwords to their social from it.” said they’ve discovered information that caused them Academy, a select cohort of junior and senior busi - are often “flimsy and largely unfulfilling” and rarely networking sites. not to hire a candidate, including inappropriate photos, ness majors. Neilson, who earned a master’s degree lead to real relationships, or what he calls community. The surge in employment-related situations prompted discriminatory comments, and posts bad-mouthing in human resource management from UT Arlington, Agger is no Internet-hating Luddite. As he sipped the UT Arlington Career Center to create a workshop, previous employers. is director of Graduate Business Services in the Col- coffee at a Starbucks near UT Arlington, he had a Managing Your Digital Dirt, to educate students about As vice president of Marshall Career Service, Jim lege of Business and teaches a leadership course as a smartphone at hand, which he used periodically for the pitfalls of a reckless online presence. Career Center Ashworth ’73 places senior-level accounting and finan- member of the Goolsby faculty. texts involving family matters. Send him an email and staff members conduct the seminar for campus groups. cial professionals with major corporations in North “We emphasize that how they portray themselves you’ll probably get a response in a half-hour or less. University College features the workshop as part of Texas. High-ranking executives aren’t exempt from in social media circles can derail their possibilities of But he does call for moderation, especially among its Success Series, a suite of programs to aid students bonehead mistakes, he says, citing one who posted a getting a job or perhaps keeping a job,” she says. “They young people. He believes public discourse is declin- at various levels of their academic careers, including graphic handbook (with photos) about sexual positions. need to keep their personal and professional lives sepa- ing as society, or at least the online segment, is more those students nearing graduation. But employers don’t browse online profiles just to rate and understand what is and is not appropriate to interested in gossip and day-to-day minutiae than real “Students need to understand that what happens in dig up dirt. Almost 30 percent of managers in the let their bosses and co-workers know.” issues. Even in news coverage, the many online blog- the fun of college life may not necessarily stay in what CareerBuilder survey said they’ve hired candidates Agger believes oversharing presents dangers to ger/reporters make it easy to mistake opinion for fact. they categorize as college life,” University College Execu- because of things they saw on Facebook, Twitter, or both individuals and society. In the opposite of his “It is good that everyone wants to be part of the con- tive Director Dawn Remmers says. “Their cyber-tracks LinkedIn. Darren Nelson ’07, ’08, director of recruit- “pornographic public sphere,” he writes that “people versation, but they need to be studious and analytical. can follow them to the workplace, and employers can ing for Dr Pepper Snapple Group, says his company wouldn’t simply lay themselves bare as they satisfy And the conversation, as I’m calling it, needs to be make judgments about potential employees based on discourages the use of anything other than candidate their voyeuristic and exhibitionistic tendencies, but about important matters.” those fragments floating in cyberspace.” résumés, interviews, and references in making hiring they would read, study, and debate deep issues such as decisions. But he understands why some corporations world overpopulation, global warming, domestic pov- “Their cyber- Google their top prospects. erty, and the loss of neighborhood, among other issues.” “Hiring the best talent is a daunting task, and there’s He’d like to see parents wait until kids are well into tracks can a great deal of risk involved,” he says. “Hiring manag- their teens before giving them cellphones and then cut ers in general may want to minimize that risk with as off usage at bedtime. As for adults, he suggests meet- follow them to much information as possible, such as forum posts, ing potential partners in person instead of relying on the workplace, Facebook pictures, LinkedIn pages, or any other public online dating, “which resembles a meat market and information that can be obtained through the Internet.” discourages real commitment.” and employers Agger would like to see more employers adopt the “Facebook is useful for catching up with friends dis- Dr Pepper Snapple policy of avoiding potential and tant in time and space, sharing stories and photos. But can make current employees’ social media pages because they’re it’s a petri dish of narcissism, and people should unplug judgments personal. But he concedes that “prospective employ- from it,” he says. “Secretly, we all know that it’s bor - ers, if they’re snoopy, will cross the line to look at your ing, but like many addictions, we can’t live without it.” about potential WHERE’S THE LOVE? off-hours activities.” Twitter gets an even harder slap: “We should In his book about What you think is your own business may not be at resign from Twitter because tweeting our every location, employees oversharing in the all, although cases are still working their way through activity, and random thought is pathetic and dumbs Internet age, sociology the courts. One lawsuit in federal court in Virginia down the culture.” based on those Professor Ben Agger involves a sheriff firing six public employees in 2009 Agger advises to keep some mystery in your life. fragments says most social media when he noticed that one of them had clicked “like” on “We will all be healthier and happier for tuning out connections are flimsy his political opponent’s Facebook page. and turning off the technologies of oversharing,” he floating in and rarely lead to When it’s a potential employer, you may never know says. “Only then can we begin really to share—to be meaningful relationships. whether your Internet sharing kept you from being intimate, to love, and to open ourselves to love.” ✪ cyberspace.”

32 UTArlington Magazine Winter 2012 33 Training Ground In addition to providing a first-rate game-day experience, College Park Center boasts one of the most advanced sports medicine facilities in the nation. It’s here that students work behind the scenes to prepare players for success and themselves for careers in the growing athletic training field.By Sarah Bahari

ust steps from the sleek arena floor, Roy Rude- Medicine Center became the unofficial nerve center wick stands in the middle of UT Arlington’s Sports of UT Arlington’s esteemed Athletic Training Educa- JMedicine Center surrounded by premier, state- tion Program, which prepares students to work in the of-the-art rehabilitation equipment. Hydrotherapy management, prevention, and rehabilitation of injured swimming pools. Underwater treadmills. Adjustable athletes. One of a handful to be accredited in Texas, treatment tables. Rows of taping stations. the program enrolls 50-60 students each year and Wrapper’s Delight “This center rivals those of the top universities across boasts nearly 100 percent job placement. Student trainer Jessica the country,” says Rudewick, associate athletic director UT Arlington’s investment in the center, more than Lair served a clinical of sports medicine. “It’s a top-notch facility.” half a million dollars, comes at a prime time in the rotation with the The bustling center, tucked inside the new 7,000-seat athletic training field. Spurred by a growing awareness women’s basketball team College Park Center, serves dual roles. It provides world- of sports-related injuries, demand for athletic train- and hopes to work in the class care and treatment for student-athletes while ers is expected to soar 30 percent from 2010 to 2020, NBA one day. serving as a hands-on classroom for student trainers. much faster than many other occupations, according When it opened in February 2012, the Sports to the U.S. Bureau for Labor Statistics.

Winter 2012 35 “In the past decade, there has been a big evolution in senior studying athletic training who has worked in tion helps build a strong educational foundation that ing when he was assigned to work with the Maverick the health and care of student-athletes,” says Rudewick, both places. “As a student, having the opportunity to supports a variety of career paths, says Paul Krawietz, baseball and softball teams. He quickly learned that “They come a 1989 UT Arlington graduate. “When moms and dads work in a facility of this caliber is incredible. I never director of the Athletic Training Education Program. reading about an ankle sprain or torn anterior cruciate to you when send their kids to school, they want to know they will imagined I would get this sort of hands-on training.” In 2003 UT Arlington became one of the first in ligament and responding to one are entirely differ- be taken care of. They want to feel comfortable their Like all students, Haire participates in clinical rota- Texas to receive accreditation from the Commission ent experiences. He tries to bring the same tenets of something children will get the best care possible.” tions, which are an integral part of the curriculum. By on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. education he received at UT Arlington to the students graduation, students will work 1,500 clinical hours. In “We truly have one of the top programs around,” he teaches. is wrong and HELPING ATHLETES SUCCEED addition to assisting UT Arlington athletes, students Dr. Krawietz says. “We provide an active, hands-on “On the field, things don’t always happen just like Volleyball players stop by to have ankles taped before are placed at high schools across North Texas, Southern learning environment. We have excellent faculty, excel- the books say,” Phan says. “Classroom instruction is put their practice. Basketball players come for treatments to con- Methodist University, the Fort Worth Cats baseball lent students, and, now, excellent facilities. We have important to develop a knowledge base, but you also trust in you. trol swelling or rehab muscle strains. While professional team, the Texas Brahmas hockey team, and private a lot to be proud of.” have to know how to solve problems and think outside and student trainers monitor their progress, in a nearby sports medicine centers. Opportunities for research abound. During her the box, and you learn that by doing.” You’re part of doctor’s office an orthopedic surgeon evaluates injuries. In addition, clinical rotations at Mission Arlington junior year, Lair worked with a professor to evaluate When Kristin Salinas graduated in 2008, she felt The Sports Medicine Center’s proximity to the arena and the University’s Health Services promote a knowl- age and gender differences in baseline balance test- prepared for her job as an athletic trainer at Clear Lake a close-knit floor makes it a fast-paced hub of appointments, drop- edge of general medical issues like asthma, high blood ing. She recently presented the results at the National High School in the Houston area, where she works with team.” ins, and examinations. At some point, nearly all of the pressure, and diabetes that can arise in athletic training. Athletic Trainers’ Association conference in St. Louis. coaches, students, and physicians to treat and prevent University’s 200-plus student-athletes representing 14 Last year Haire worked with the men’s basketball Professors in the program study mild traumatic injuries. She first knew she wanted to pursue this career NCAA Division I men’s and women’s teams will seek team, shadowing professional athletic trainers, taping brain injuries and concussions, methods for injury when she attended a Houston Rockets game as a girl treatment, advice, or assistance here. knees and ankles, and running rehabilitation exercises preventions, efficacy of modalities—or physical therapy and spotted an athletic trainer working with a player. In one corner, athletes settle into one of two hydro- with players. This fall he served as an athletic trainer agents—in the treatment of injuries, heat illnesses, But it wasn’t until she enrolled at UT Arlington therapy pools set at varying temperatures for different with the Trinity High School football team in Euless, and more. that she learned the ins and outs of the profession. injuries. A third, larger pool features a treadmill, cam- a regional and state powerhouse. After graduation trainers work in all sectors of ath- Immediately, she knew she’d made the right choice. eras, and resistance jets that allow athletes to begin For senior Jessica Lair, a clinical rotation with the letics, from storied high school football programs, big- “I’m not a behind-the-desk kind of person. Athletic rehabilitation more quickly as trainers observe and Maverick women’s basketball team helped reassure her time colleges, and professional franchises to hospitals, training keeps you on your toes. You have to be creative. guide their recovery. that she’d chosen the right field. She recalled the rush of the military, and the performing arts. Alumnus Jeff There’s nothing textbook about it.” “In the past The 4,000-square-foot center is also home to eight spending games on the sidelines, feeling like a part of Ferguson is director of football operations and sports When workplace issues arose her first year at work, treatment tables, six taping stations, a locker room, a something big. She wants to someday work in the NBA. medicine for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. He earned Salinas sought guidance from her former professors. decade, there study area, and numerous pieces of equipment, from “You are helping athletes succeed. They come to his master’s degree in 1995 and served as head athletic “They were there for me,” she says. “The professors has been a portable electromagnetic wave machines to fitted boots you when something is wrong and put their trust in trainer for the Maverick track and field teams as a are there for you while you’re in school, while you’re that help reduce swelling. you,” Lair says. “You’re part of a close-knit team. It’s an graduate student. looking for a job, and even after you leave. It’s a very big evolution Athletic trainers at UT Arlington spent several years incredible feeling.” Many others pursue graduate degrees, often in physi- cohesive group.” in the design phase, touring facilities around Texas cal therapy or occupational therapy. After completing In recent months, Phan and dozens of other athletic in the health and the United States, talking with other trainers, and LEARNING BY DOING his bachelor’s degree at UT Arlington in 2008, Kelvin training alumni have returned to visit College Park evaluating what worked and what didn’t. They knew Clinical rotations are crucial, but professors also stress Phan earned a master’s degree from Old Dominion Center and tour the new Sports Medicine Center. They and care they wanted a sharp contrast to the cramped room in classroom instruction. Students enroll in pathology and University in Virginia. He now works as an assistant all share a common sentiment. of student- Texas Hall with one treatment table, two taping sta- pharmacology, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, and the athletic director and coordinator of clinical education “They feel very proud,” Rudewick says. “And they tions, and an ice machine. biomechanics of movement, among other courses. The at the University of Charleston. usually admit to being a little jealous. They wish this athletes.” “It is night and day different,” says Ryan Haire, a combination of clinical rotations and classroom instruc- He recalls getting his first taste of athletic train- place had been around when they were in school.” ✪

HANDLED WITH CARE The state-of-the-art Sports Medicine Center features hydrotherapy swimming pools and rows of treatment and taping stations. Roy Rudewick, center, associate athletic director of sports medicine, says the facility helps keep student-athletes healthy while meeting the soaring demand for athletic trainers.

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Alumnithe world AND UTNews Arlington With Highest Honors University recognizes Distinguished Alumni for outstanding achievements Seven alumni and President James D. Spaniolo were Dr. Hunn is the chief scientist and director of the honored for their professional achievements and service technical staff at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire MARK KELLY to UT Arlington at the annual Distinguished Alumni Control. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees The astronaut and best- Gala in October. in mechanical engineering, he received his Ph.D. in selling author discusses Shirlee Gandy ’70, Charles Goodman ’64, David materials science and engineering, all from UT Arling- “Endeavoring to Build a Better Hunn ’78, ’80, ’92, Curtis Kayem ’66, and Wayne Watts ton. For the past several years, his research has focused America” as part of the Mav- ’76 received the Distinguished Alumni Award. Baker on development of lightweight armor and novel blast erick Speakers Series. 7:30 Jiang ’12 received the Distinguished International mitigation strategies for military vehicles. In 2009 he p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, Alumni Award, and Dale Martin ’78 received the Dis- was selected Inventor of the Year by Lockheed Martin Texas Hall. Tickets available tinguished Alumni Service Award. The Honorary Dis- Missiles and Fire Control. He has received 12 patents, Jan. 22 at utatickets.com. tinguished Alumni Award went to President Spaniolo, with seven pending. More information: uta.edu/ who announced his retirement in June (see p. 24). Kayem earned a bachelor’s degree in political sci- maverickspeakers Jiang earned an Executive Master of Business ence, but his career took a turn when he went to work in Administration degree after working with Walmart the business owned by his father. Today he’s president “FIDDLER ON THE ROOF” China for more than of that business, Tex-Isle The Maverick Theatre 15 years. He advanced Supply, a pipe and steel Company presents the Tony from store deputy gen- company that was one of Award-winning musical, eral manager to vice the first American busi- directed by Anne Healy. Feb. president of hypermar- nesses to develop a rela-

ang 27-28 and March 1-3, 2013, ket operations with tionship with Japanese Mainstage Theatre. More Walmart China, which steel mills and tubular ames Y information: uta.edu/theatre

y J has 369 Walmart and manufacturers. The com- Trustmart stores in 170 pany began in Houston, cities and generates more expanded twice, and now than $8 billion in sales has offices in Dallas and llustration B I annually. As regional South Texas. In 2011 the operations director of the company added Tex-Isle Northern China region Coating, which provides from 2007 to 2011, he led pipeline stringing opera- All in the Maverick Family a turnaround from deficit tions and pipe stocking to profitability. and distribution. AFRICAN-AMERICAN How one UT Arlington degree can launch a multigenerational legacy Gandy is a real estate Dr. Martin earned ALUMNI BANQUET Some families hand down heirlooms from generation “UT Arlington has so much to offer, and it has become investor, developer, and his bachelor’s degree in Sponsored by the African- to generation. Others keep recipes, stories, traditions. a top-tier institution in the state,” Alicia says. “It’s far “Continuous community leader with chemistry and went on American Alumni Chapter, Honored at the 47th Annual Distinguished Alumni Gala were, the 23rd annual event rec- Still others create legacies. from the commuter campus it used to be, and I know it learning is a passion for public ser- clockwise from top left, Dale Martin ’78, Shirlee Gandy ’70, Wayne to earn a dental degree. Beginning with George Arthur Hendricks, Class will give the kids the foundation they need in order to vice and historic preser- Watts ’76, Charles Goodman ’64, David Hunn ’78, ’80, ’92, James D. He has practiced pediat- ognizes deserving gradu- of 1942 at North Texas Agricultural College, the Hen- become successful in whatever ventures they choose.” encouraged. vation. After earning a Spaniolo, and Curtis Kayem ’66. Not pictured is Baker Jiang ’12 of ric dentistry in the Fort ates with the Outstanding dricks family has claimed four multigenerational Distinguished Alumnus David Hunn ’78, ’80, ’92, bachelor’s degree in polit- China, who received the Distinguished International Alumni Award. Worth area for more African-American Alumni UT Arlington graduates. chief scientist and director of the technical staff at It’s why I’ve ical science, she became than 25 years. He also Award. 6 p.m. Saturday, “My parents were from Fort Worth, and I was Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, can a political consultant. She later shifted her focus to has a law degree and has served as assistant regional March 9, 2013, E.H. Hereford familiar with the school from frequent visits from my attest to the foundation that UT Arlington provides. always been work with nonprofits on behalf of women, children, counsel for the Social Security Administration and the University Center. More infor- childhood,” says Randoll “Randy” Dean Hendricks ’72, Dr. Hunn is a second-generation UT Arlington gradu- proud to be and those with mental health issues. Her revitalization Department of Health and Human Services. He is on mation: utablackalumni.com George’s son. After hearing about his brother Barry’s ate, and his son and daughter have both enrolled in the of two historic properties in downtown Fort Worth— staff at Cook Children’s Hospital, Harris HEB, and ’65 experience at Arlington State College, Randy knew University’s joint degree and honors programs. associated now the Ashton Hotel and the Ashton Depot—earned the Texas Pediatric Surgery Center, and he serves as JEFF CORWIN UT Arlington was the school for him. “I got an excel- “It’s great to see them on this campus,” he says. “They her Downtown Fort Worth Inc.’s Trailblazer Award. a volunteer with the Children’s Oral Health Coalition The conservationist and host lent education there,” he says. “I enjoyed the classes have definitely flourished here.” with this Dr. Goodman had a long career in electric utility for Tarrant County. of the Animal Planet TV show and became quite comfortable in the business school.” As an adjunct professor in the College of Engineer- university.” research and development at Southern Company before Watts is senior executive vice president and general The Jeff Corwin Experience When son Eric ’02 transferred from Baylor to ing, Hunn not only has kept tabs on the University’s retiring in 2007. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in counsel at AT&T. He earned his bachelor’s degree in discusses “100 Heartbeats: A UT Arlington, he not only carried on the Hendricks growth, he has seen firsthand how students develop mechanical engineering, he earned advanced degrees business administration at UT Arlington before receiv- Global Movement” in the final family’s Maverick tradition, he added to it. Eric met his into leaders. at Tulane University. He began his career as a senior ing his law degree at SMU. He joined Southwestern lecture of the 2012-13 Maver- future wife, Alicia Rodriguez Hendricks ’01, on campus. “UT Arlington does more than just stuff facts into research engineer in 1971 with Southern Company, Bell Telephone Co. in 1983 as an attorney in Dallas. He ick Speakers Series. 7:30 p.m. Alicia herself is a second-generation UT Arlington your head,” he says. “Students are prepared for life which owns electric utilities in four southeastern states became general attorney for Southwestern Bell Publica- Wednesday, March 27, 2013, graduate; her father, Armando H. Rodriguez, earned through the building of leadership skills and self- and also provides optic and wireless communications. tions in St. Louis, then transferred to the mergers and College Park Center. Tickets a degree in mathematics from the University in 1970. confidence. Continuous learning is encouraged. It’s Advancing through leadership positions, Goodman acquisitions staff of SBC’s legal department. In 1989 available Feb. 28 at utatickets. Alicia and Eric hope their two young children con- why I’ve always been proud to be associated with this was promoted to senior vice president of research and he was named vice president-general attorney and com. More information: tinue the family legacy. university.” environmental policy. secretary for Southwestern Mobile Systems in Dallas. uta.edu/maverickspeakers

38 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 39 ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Alumni Camp Al Taqaddum, Iraq Snapshot Weather is business for alumnus Martin Lisius The air becomes ominously still. The incessant buzz of insects quiets. The gray clouds start to gather and swirl as sirens sound in the distance. Texas residents, especially 2012 ALUMNI GALA those in North Texas, know the Lillie Biggins ’75, Karen Blair, drill. Find cover in a window- and Chase Wilson at the 2012 less, fortified area and wait for Distinguished Alumni Gala the storm to pass. in October. Biggins, a 2007 But Martin Lisius ’86 takes Distinguished Alumna, served a different approach. Threat- as master of ceremonies. Select Company ening clouds and tornado sirens are his bread and butter. First lady lauds wheelchair athlete Gabe As founder of Tempest Tours, a Diaz de Leon for overcoming obstacles storm-chasing business based Tempest Tours so people can in Arlington, he guides people see our schedule a year in Alumnus Gabe Diaz de Leon seldom slows down for on twister safaris. Groups advance and arrange for time anyone or anything. schedule tours at www.tem- off, just like they would a cruise That’s one reason Michelle Obama asked him to pesttours.com, meet at a base or any other tour.” join her in London for the Summer Olympics. She led hotel for orientation, then To date, Tempest Tours has SCHOLARSHIP DINNER a delegation of Olympians and Paralympians as part depart on a several-day hunt intercepted 160 tornadoes. The Haywood Gordon ’07, junior of her initiative to encourage children to be active. The with tornadoes as targets. growing company has been fea- Brandon Esianor, and Provost two hung out together during U.S. basketball and field Sounds scary, but Lisius tured in Entrepreneur maga- Ronald Elsenbaumer at the hockey games. says there’s little risk. “We don’t zine, on CNNMoney, and in annual Alumni Association “It was a pretty big honor,” Diaz de Leon says of get into dangerous situations. Subaru’s Drive magazine, Scholarship Dinner in spending time with the first lady at the Olympics and We get close enough to shoot and an episode about Tempest August. Esianor received the the “Let’s Move! London” event for American military great pictures, but we never get Tours aired on The Weather African-American Endowed children and American and British children. Once those in a tornado’s path.” Channel. Scholarship. games ended, the San Antonio native stuck around for Extreme weather is a pas- Lisius is glad to continue the Paralympic Games as a coach for the U.S. track sion Lisius has turned into a teaching a healthy respect and field team. popular and lucrative business. for nature—and to celebrate Diaz de Leon was paralyzed in 1984 while serving “I got a lot of requests from it with like-minded custom- as an Army military police officer in Honduras. After regular folks who wanted ers. “Our guests are weather his discharge, he turned to sports. He spent four years to chase with me, but they geeks like us. They love weather on UT Arlington’s Movin’ Mavs wheelchair basketball couldn’t take off work when a and are more interested than team, playing on national championship squads in 1991 chase was coming up. I started afraid.” and 1992. He has since played on five U.S. Paralympic teams and five U.S. World Championship teams. FORT WORTH RECEPTION “I heard about the Paralympic Games and decided to Jaymin Darbari ’12 and his wife, make it a goal to go to them in Seoul in 1988,” he says. Shweta ’12, at a Fort Worth He did, and by 1992 he set a world record and earned alumni celebration at the UT a gold medal in the javelin at the Barcelona Games. In Arlington Research Institute. addition to his javelin gold, Diaz de Leon won a silver medal in the discus in 1992 and bronze medals in the shot put and discus in 1988, 1996, and 2000. His retirement in 2004 was short-lived, and he returned in 2008 to win the “A” Division of the American Wheelchair Bowling Championship. A member of the Kelly Bowman plans to cool her jets for a while after an early career best believed I was capable of handling certain situations, and they put me Athletes with Disabilities Hall of Fame, he coaches the described as a baptism by fire. The 2003 nursing alumna joined the Navy in them.” In a shift during her senior year, three of her four patients seated throwing athletes for the U.S. World Champion- while a UT Arlington student and spent eight months as an emergency coded and “people were dying and bleeding internally, but it was OK to ship teams and participates in disabled youth sports LOCKHEED MARTIN EVENT room nurse before deploying to Iraq. There she realized how her college carry on.” Bowman later trained Marine corpsmen on new standards for camps and the Wounded Warriors Project. David Gray and Craig Happel training prepared her for battlefield chaos and helped her develop casualty evacuations to medical ships in the Middle East. After stints at In her speech to the “Let’s Move! London” delegation, HORSEPOWER Neer Patel, president of the Alumni ’82 at a corporate alumni coping skills. “In Iraq you’re alone (with the patient) in that aircraft. Bethesda, Md., and Camp Pendleton, Calif., naval medical centers, she the first lady described how Diaz de Leon overcame his Association National Board of Directors and a 2006 event hosted by Lockheed It’s just you,” the former flight nurse says. “It makes you appreciate the is leaving the military and returning to North Texas for a civilian nursing injury to emerge as one of the world’s top wheelchair graduate, shows off his personalized UT Arlington license Martin Aeronautics in Sep- little things, like a crash cart that’s fully stocked. So when you get to career. “I gave the military a lot of my life,” she says. “I’m ready to put athletes. She concluded: “That’s my guy, Gabe. And plate. Offered through the Texas Department of Motor tember. Lockheed employs a hospital, you don’t get too flustered about anything. My professors down roots.” today he’s focused on inspiring and coaching other Vehicles, the plates are available at myplates.com/go/uta. more than 800 UT Arlington wounded warriors.” A percentage of each sale benefits student scholarships. graduates.

40 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 41 ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Spotlight School of Architecture Giving University shatters fundraising record Fueled by donations to boost trajectory,” Vice President for innovation and technology Development Jim Lewis says. in the College of Science, “We are very grateful to our philanthropic support for donors and friends and look LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Ralph and UT Arlington reached a forward to ensuring that their Dave Parker, vice president of Susan Hawkins record $23.3 million in gifts gifts help shape the University external affairs at AT&T, pre- The man who helped bring and commitments for 2011- for generations to come.” sented a check for $300,000 us Cowboys Stadium and 12. The total represents a Many donors saw the to President James D. Spani- College Park Center is doing 55 percent increase over the impact of their gifts doubled olo at the Leadership Summit his part to ensure that the previous year. through the Maverick Match in September. The donation next generation of archi- The University also ben- program, which uses natu- will support the University’s tects leaves its own legacy. efited from philanthropists ral gas royalties to leverage high school-based college Ralph Hawkins, chairman who established endowments new commitments toward readiness offices called GO and chief executive officer to support faculty and research the University’s endowment. Centers. of architectural firm HKS Smart Start in the College of Engineering The program, which matches Inc., and wife Susan recently and School of Architecture and gifts of $25,000 or more, has Shirlee and Taylor Gandy create $1 million committed $1.5 million to who established endowments distributed nearly $9 million the School of Architecture. scholarship for first-generation students for student scholarships. since it began in 2009. A portion of the funds dou- The total value of new gifts Among the notable gifts Shirlee Gandy was the first in her family to graduate bled in value through the and pledges has nearly tripled last fiscal year was a three-year from college. Now she and her husband want to help Maverick Match program, over the past five years. The software license worth an esti- other first-generation students achieve their dreams which leverages natural 2011-12 record also includes 55 mated $4.4 million from global of earning a degree. gas royalties to boost the new endowments, up from 41 information and analytics pro- FRANK DEFORD RECEPTION The Shirlee J. and Taylor Gandy First Generation University’s endowment. the previous year. Membership vider IHS to the Department Frank Deford, Marsha Baylor, Scholarship Program will benefit UT Arlington sopho- “I received a tremendous in UT Arlington’s 1895 Society, of Earth and Environmental and Michael Baylor ’69 at a mores on the basis of merit and financial need. The opportunity at UT Arling- which recognizes donors who Sciences. A $3 million equip- reception before Deford’s endowment was established through a $500,000 com- ton, and I want others to give $1,000 or more annually, ment donation from Shimadzu Maverick Speakers Series mitment from the Gandys that will double in value share those opportuni- increased more than 10 percent. Scientific Instruments estab- Lecture in September. through the Maverick Match program, which lever- ties,” says Hawkins, who “It’s clear that philanthropic lished the Shimadzu Center for ages the University’s natural gas royalties to encourage earned a bachelor’s degree support for The University of Advanced Analytical Chemis- philanthropic commitments. in architecture in 1973. A Texas at Arlington is on a steep try in the College of Science. Shirlee Gandy, president of RPM Commercial in longtime supporter of the Fort Worth, earned her bachelor’s degree in political University, he is chairman science from UT Arlington in 1970 and serves in a lead- of the Development Board. ership role on the University’s Development Board. She Besides the two Arlington has specialized in historic preservation of commercial venues, HKS has designed property, including the Ashton Hotel, the historic Santa numerous professional and Fe Depot, and the Santa Fe Freight Building—now the college sports complexes DIPERT WELCOME CENTER home of the UT Arlington Fort Worth Center. nationwide. The gift will Dan Dipert, state Sen. Wendy Taylor Gandy has been an owner and investor in be used in part to develop Davis, and Linda Dipert ’01 at commercial real estate in Fort Worth as a partner in a strategic vision for the the grand opening of the Dan Baron Investments and Ron Investments for the past School of Architecture. “We Dipert University Welcome 20 years. Previously, he practiced law for 30 years. He are in a strong position now, Center in September. has been active at Texas Wesleyan University and is a but we need to be nimble to former chairman of Downtown Fort Worth Inc. The stay current with practices couple recently led the campaign to establish the JFK of the future,” architecture Tribute in downtown Fort Worth. Dean Don Gatzke says. “We Shirlee Gandy says they were moved to create STILL BLAZING TRAILS Myrna Pickard’s legacy need to look at who we the scholarship because of their strong belief in extends beyond a name on a building. The College of need to be. We need to be a UT Arlington’s academic mission. “In my opinion, Nursing’s founding dean, for whom Pickard Hall is named, focal point for architectural education changes lives, builds confidence, and develops has included UT Arlington in her estate plans. She and issues in the future.” individuals with strong critical thinking skills. We her late husband, Bob, wanted to make a difference in COKIE ROBERTS RECEPTION wanted to make this financial commitment to help the university that meant so much to them. “Bob was an Linda Simmons ’77, Cokie first-generation students achieve their goals.” alumnus of Arlington State College (now UT Arlington), Roberts, Tom Simmons ’72, More than half of UT Arlington students say they and I was a university dean,” says Dr. Pickard, a charter and Becky Upchurch ’01 at are the first in their family to attend college, and about member of the Edward E. Rankin Legacy Society. “So it was a reception before Roberts’ two-thirds of undergraduates receive financial aid. In fulfilling to both of us to include a gift to UT Arlington in Maverick Speakers Series recent years the University has increased advising, our estate plans.” Established through a living trust, their Lecture in October. tutoring, and counseling to serve such students. commitment will benefit the College of Nursing.

42 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 43 ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Class Notes Notable 1961 recognition, sharing their the board of directors for for the Travis Wolff regional She is vice president of the lington. Sheryl Skaggs (MA, of Illinois at Chicago. Patrick C. Roland Haden (BS, Electri- message through television, Alternative Petroleum Tech- accounting firm in Dallas. Harold Simmons Founda- Sociology) is an associate Hofer (BA, English) was cal Engineering) was named radio, and the Internet. nologies, based in Reno, Nev. Debra Rundles (BSN) was tion. Kathleen Helms (BSN) program head for sociology selected Teacher of the Year to a three-year term as He has more than 35 years honored as one of the Dallas/ was honored as one of the in the School of Economic, at Arlington’s Roark Elemen- president of the Wingfield 1971 experience developing and Join the Fort Worth Great 100 Nurses Dallas/Fort Worth Great 100 Political, and Policy Sciences tary School, where he teaches Family Society in June. He Kristy Libotte Keener (BFA, deploying hybrid liquid fuel Alumni Association for 2012. She works at Medical Nurses for 2012. She works at UT Dallas. Duane Thurston third grade. Jo Ann Coe also will serve as the Lord of Art) won a Gold Hermes technology. Debra Meeks Center of Arlington. at Lifecare Hospital in Fort (MEd, Education in Teach- Regan (PhD, Social Work) is the Manor of Wingfield, an of- Creative Award for graphic (BSN) was honored as one of Worth. Michael Nagra (BSN) ing) is principal at Orr Middle an accreditation specialist for ficial English title. Dr. Haden is design for a transportation the Dallas/Fort Worth Great 1990 is chief of the clinical model- School in Mansfield. John the Council on Social Work a UT Arlington Distinguished aviation cover for the North 100 Nurses for 2012. She Suzanne Dudek (’90 BA, ing branch in the manpower Van Zanten (MBA, Busi- Education in Washington, D.C. Rodney White Alumnus. Central Texas Council of Gov- works at Plaza Medical Center Today! History-Elementary Educa- division, program analysis and ness Administration) was Christopher A. Roberts White (’07 MEd, Educational ernments, where she is the of Fort Worth. Robert P. tion; ’00 MEd, Educational evaluation, of Army Medi- promoted to partner at the (BA, History) is head football Leadership and Policy Stud- graphic design coordinator. Shepard (BBA, Management) Administration) is a 2012 cal Command at Fort Sam Whitley Penn LLP accounting coach at Polytechnic High 1966 ies) is principal at the Young Jerry Newell (BS, Mechani- was elected to a third term Impact Grant Recipient in Houston, Texas. His article firm in Fort Worth. School in Fort Worth. For the Men’s Leadership Academy, cal Engineering) was named for District 6 on the Arlington the Arlington Independent “Human Capital Strategy: Tal- past three years, he was of- 1974 which opened this fall in to the board of directors at Gary Russell (BA, Exercise City Council. School District. Recipients are ent Management” appeared fensive coordinator/assistant 1998 Fort Worth. YMLA is the first Klotz Associates, an engi- and Sport Studies) retired educators with creative ideas in the October-December Matthew Cashion (BBA, MS, track coach and advanced single-gender school for boys neering, architectural, and after a 37-year career in and innovative projects. She 2011 US Army Medical Journal. Accounting) is director of placement government/eco- 1981 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS in the Fort Worth Indepen- environmental consulting the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Zoie Ohmes (BM) is a 2012 teaches at Amos Elementary Mendy Stogsdill (MSSW) financial reporting for Athlon nomics teacher at the school. dent School District. It has firm based in Houston. He is Independent School District. Impact Grant Recipient in ARE ONLY $45. School. Cynthia Kling (BA, is a social worker for Cancer Energy LP, an independent sixth- and seventh-graders vice president at Klotz and He was a high school math the Arlington Independent Includes free campus parking, UTA Bookstore History) was named Texas Re- Services Network in Abilene. oil and natural gas company 2000 and plans to add a grade level has been involved with water, teacher, junior high and high School District. Recipients discounts, Maverick Activities Center gion VII Secondary Teacher of She has more than 20 years based in Fort Worth. Jennifer Laral Coe (BS, Interdisci- discounts, access to the Maverick Discount each year. wastewater, and transporta- school counselor, and district are educators with creative Program, and more. the Year. She teaches art and experience as a social worker Hickman (BSN) was honored plinary Studies) is a 2012 tion projects in Texas for coordinator for counseling ideas and innovative proj- drawing and serves as prom in hospital and hospice set- as one of the Dallas/Fort Impact Grant Recipient in Joni McCoy nearly 40 years. Donald and guidance. Laurel Mayo ects. She teaches at Webb coordinator and one-act play tings. Worth Great 100 Nurses for the Arlington Independent For more information and to join, visit McCoy (’76 BA, Physical Edu- Stevenson (BA, History) is (’76 BA, ’92 MA, French) is a Elementary School. Zachary utaalumni.org or call us at 817-272-2594. assistant director at Athens 2012. She works at Baylor All School District. Recipients cation/English) was inducted chief administrative judge in faculty development special- Thompson (BSSW) is direc- High School in Athens, Texas. Saints Medical Center in Fort are educators with creative 1996 into the Texas Girls Coaches the Plano Municipal Court. ist in Classroom Support tor of Health and Human Bruce Winders (MA, History) Gary Manns (MEdT, Worth. David Mabry (MA, ideas and innovative projects. Association Hall of Fame in Services at UT Arlington. Services in Dallas. is a historian and curator at Education in Teaching) is English) was selected Teacher She teaches at Knox Elemen- July. She was head volleyball the Alamo in San Antonio. elementary principal of the of the Year by the local chap- tary School. Barry Creamer 1968 coach at Arlington Martin Jim McClellan (’68 BA, Politi- Texas Health Harris Methodist English-track Semiconductor ter of the Daughters of the (PhD, Humanities) is vice 1977 1982 1985 High School for 23 years, cal Science; ’70 MA, History) Lee Krystinik (BS, Geology) Glenn Garoon (MBA, Busi- Curt Culbertson (BA, Hospital in Fort Worth. Judy Manufacturing International American Revolution at Ar- president of academic affairs 1991 posting 677 wins and earning was proclaimed a Living Leg- was voted 2012-13 president- ness Administration) was Physical Education/History) LeFlore (BSN) received the Shannon Lynd (BA, English) Corporation School in Shang- lington’s Nichols Junior High and professor of humanities one state title. She retired in end by the city of Alexandria, elect by the American recognized as the Appraisal guided the Arlington Martin Excellence in Dallas Nursing was selected Teacher of the hai, China. National Semi- School, where he teaches at Criswell College in Dallas. 2004. Va., for his work in education Association of Petroleum Institute’s Volunteer of Dis- High School baseball team Award from D Magazine. She Year at Arlington’s Pope conductor funds the SMIC eighth-grade history. Tracy Good (BA, Commu- and human rights. A 1997 Geologists. A 1999 UT Arling- tinction for July in Region to the state tournament in is an associate professor in Elementary School, where schools in China. Valerie T. nication) is project man- UT Arlington Distinguished ton Distinguished Alumnus, VIII, which consists of Texas 2012. The Warriors advanced the UT Arlington College of she teaches first grade. Smith (’96 BA, History; ’99 1999 ager at Intelligent Discovery Alumnus, he is dean of lib- he is principal of Fossil Creek and New Mexico. He is the to the semifinals before being Nursing and director of the MA, Sociology) is dean of the Brenda Allen (BBA, Account- Solutions in Washington, D.C. eral arts at Northern Virginia Resources in Arlington. owner of Glenn Garoon Real eliminated. He was a member Pediatric, Acute Care, and 1992 Division of Mathematics, Be- ing) is a 2012 Impact Grant Robert G. Johansen (MEd, Community College. Estate in Fort Worth and was of the UT Arlington baseball Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Shelly Cole Hye (BFA, Art) havioral, and Social Sciences Recipient in the Arlington Education in Teaching) is 1978 a lecturer in the UT Arlington team from 1983-1985. programs. Anthony Odiorne opened Elm Street Stu- at Bunker Hill Community Independent School District. principal at Wood Elemen- 1970 Vinsen Faris (’78 BA, Political Department of Finance and S. Vance Renshaw (BS, Biol- (BBA, Finance) is one of seven dio, an art gallery, creative College in Boston. Bunker Hill Recipients are educators with tary School in Arlington. Dick Hill (BA, History) has Science; ’93 MPA, Public and Real Estate from 2004-2008. ogy) is facility medical direc- people appointed to the studio, and event venue in is the largest community col- creative ideas and innova- Previously, he was principal completed 38 years as a Urban Administration) is in his Mike Guyton (BS, Electrical tor for the north Fort Worth Governing Board of the Texas Keller. Jeanne Pakele-Curtis lege in Massachusetts. Matt tive projects. She teaches at Bray Elementary School police officer for the city of 25th year as executive direc- Engineering) was elected location of First Choice Emer- Indigent Defense Commis- (’92 MEd, Speech; ’01 MEd, Varnell (’96 BM, ’04 MEd, at Ditto Elementary School. in Cedar Hill. Jeongyi Lee Arlington and was the 1996 tor of Meals on Wheels of secretary for the board of di- gency Room, a freestanding sion by Gov. Rick Perry. He Educational Administration) is Educational Leadership and Amy Conner (BSN) was (MA, Linguistics) is a lecturer Daniel P. Hughes Arlington Police Department Johnson and Ellis counties. rectors of Leaders and Execu- emergency room system. lives in Georgetown and is an principal at Miller Elementary Policy Studies) is principal at honored as one of the Dallas/ of Korean in UT Arlington’s Hughes (’83 BA, Political Sci- Officer of the Year. He is a tives Advocating Diversity, a He was named a Top Doc in assistant public defender at School in Arlington. Sherrod Elementary School in Fort Worth Great 100 Nurses Department of Modern ence) was promoted to briga- member of the UT Arlington 1979 nonprofit organization in Fort Emergency Medicine by Fort West Texas Public Defender. Arlington. for 2012. She works at Texas Languages. Ben Myers (BS, dier general in the Army. He Athletic Hall of Honor, finish- Marsha Matlock Campbell Worth. He is vice president of Worth, Texas magazine in 2011. 1993 Health Presbyterian Hospital Economics) is executive vice serves as the Army’s director ing as the all-time leading (BA, History) is program customer relations for Oncor 1989 Mark McClellan (BBA, 1997 in Rockwall. John Dees (BA, president and editor of Urba- of systems integration, over- pass receiver for the football manager at Sabre Holdings in Electric Delivery. 1987 Larry Beaver (’89 BA, Crimi- Finance) was elected to the T.L. Arnold (BBA, Finance) Interdisciplinary Studies) is nation, a high-rise condomin- seeing efforts to modernize team. Carol D. King (BBA, Southlake. Robert Campbell Nola Schrum (BSN) was nal Justice; ’00 BA, Spanish) is school board of the Wylie is senior executive vice principal at Peete Elementary ium market research firm in tactical communications used Accounting) has published (BS, Biology) is an emergency 1983 honored as one of the Dallas/ principal at Berry Elementary Independent School District president and chief credit School in Tyler. He had been Toronto. Jeff Provence (MEd, by the infantry, armor, and three novels and several room physician in Mineral Don Taylor (’83 BS, ’85 MS, Fort Worth Great 100 Nurses School in Arlington. Previous- in Abilene. He is a consumer officer at OmniAmerican an assistant principal in the Educational Administration) aviation. He served in the poems after retiring from Wells. He was a member of Industrial Engineering) spoke for 2012. She works at Baylor ly, he was an assistant princi- loan officer at First Financial Bank in Fort Worth. Kelly Grand Prairie Independent is principal at Boles Junior Persian Gulf War in 1991. an accounting career. Gayle Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at at the UT Arlington College Medical Center in Irving. pal at Remynse Elementary Bank in Abilene and a former Hastings (’97 BA, English; ’02 School District since 2007. High School in Arlington. He Turbiville Lee (MSSW) co- UT Arlington. of Engineering Distinguished School in Arlington. Angie golf club pro. MEd, Educational Leadership Alan Dettlaff (’99 MSSW; had been principal at Lamar Tammara Webber wrote AWEtizm: A Hidden Key Speaker Series in March. He 1988 Moss (BBA, Accounting) is and Policy Studies) is principal ’04 PhD, Social Work) was High School in Arlington Webber (’05 BA, English) to Our Spiritual Magnificence 1980 is department head of the Ha Duong (BSN) was an audit partner at Sanford, 1995 at Young Junior High School awarded tenure and promot- since 2006. Charles “Chase” published her fourth novel, with her nonverbal autistic Fred Buckingham (’80 MS, Grado Department of Indus- honored as one of the Dal- Baumeister & Frazier LLP in Serena Connelly (MSSW) was in Arlington. Previously, she ed to associate professor at Tenney (BA, History) teaches Easy, which reached No. 19 on daughter, Lyrica Mia Marquez. ’93 PhD, Mechanical Engineer- trial and Systems Engineering las/Fort Worth Great 100 Fort Worth. Previously, she appointed to the North Texas was an assistant principal at the Jane Addams College of American history and is of- The New York Times e-book They are receiving global ing) is CEO and chairman of at Virginia Tech. Nurses for 2012. She works at was audit department head Food Bank board of directors. Martin High School in Ar- Social Work at the University fensive coordinator for the fiction bestseller list in July.

44 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 45 ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Briefly football team at Salado High communities. He previously 2004 project designer for Baskervill, Junior High in Arlington. Political Science) is director of at UT Arlington. Ryan McCoy as well as providing website program. John Parker ONLINE COMMUNITY School in Salado, Texas. worked at Nokia in Dallas. Devin Bowlin (BA, Interdisci- an architectural firm in Rich- Kristen Eriksen (MEd, Edu- governmental affairs for the (MEd, Educational Leader- design, printing, and signage. Scheideman (MS, Account- The Alumni Association web- Koonnamas Punthutaecha plinary Studies) is an assistant mond, Va. Yan Wing Sit (BBA, cational Leadership and Policy Fort Worth Chamber of Com- ship and Policy Studies) is the ing) is a tax associate at KPMG site works seamlessly with 2001 (PhD, Civil Engineering) re- principal at Little Elementary Marketing) is a global sample Studies) is principal at Keller- merce. A member of the UT science coordinator for the 2011 in Fort Worth. Kimberly social networking platforms, Diane Atkinson (BA, ceived the Thai government’s School in Arlington. Previous- and program deployment of- Harvel Elementary School in Arlington Alumni Association Venus Independent School Linda Beaverstock (BSN) Stelwagen (MEd, Educational allowing you to link Face- Criminal Justice) is director highest civil servant award ly, he taught fifth and sixth ficer for Avery Denison Corp. Keller. Previously, she was an National Board of Directors, District in Venus, Texas. Kelli was honored as one of the Leadership and Policy Studies) book, LinkedIn, or Twitter of events for Pony Xpress for his extensive work in civil grade at Morton Elementary in Hong Kong. Alan Tolleson assistant principal at South he previously was manager of Raibick (MSN) was honored Dallas/Fort Worth Great 100 is an assistant principal at Hill member pages to your Printing, one of the nation’s transportation in rural roads. School in Arlington. Shah- (BFA, Art) is vice principal at Keller Intermediate School. government relations for the as one of the Dallas/Fort Nurses for 2012. She works at Elementary School in Arling- profile page. It also features top promotional and apparel He is head of the mainte- veer Dhalla (BS, Biology) is Uplift Education’s Summit Rosa Orosco Newberry Arlington Chamber of Com- Worth Great 100 Nurses Texas Health Harris Method- ton. Riqui Wartes (BSN) was a Career Center and a tool to companies, based in Dallas. nance management develop- principal at Gunn Junior High International Preparatory (’06 BA, Advertising; ’12 MEd, merce. Jennifer Stephen for 2012. She works at Texas ist Hospital Hurst-Euless- honored as one of the Dallas/ find former classmates. Visit Previously, she was vice presi- ment system division for the School in Arlington. Previ- School in Arlington. Previous- Educational Leadership and (MSN, Nursing Administra- Health Presbyterian Hospital Bedford. Megan Harris (BSN) Fort Worth Great 100 Nurses utaalumni.org and click on dent of merchandise for the Bureau of Maintenance in the ously, he was an assistant ly, he was dean of students Policy Studies) is an assistant tion) was honored as one of in Dallas. Veronica Rendon was honored as one of the for 2012. She works at Baylor “First-Time Login” to create Texas Rangers Baseball Club. Department of Rural Roads in principal at Arlington High and taught art at SIPS, which principal at Carter Junior the Dallas/Fort Worth Great (’09 BA, Interdisciplinary Dallas/Fort Worth Great 100 All Saints Medical Center a personal, password-pro- Lisa Jackson (’01 BA, ’03 MS, Thailand. Pete Unseth (PhD, School. Janet Dodd (MA, is ranked No. 3 in Newsweek’s High School in Arlington. 100 Nurses for 2012. She is Studies; ’12 MEd, Educa- Nurses for 2012. She works at in Fort Worth. Francesca tected member profile. Psychology) is head women’s Linguistics) co-wrote an issue French) is a lecturer of French list of the nation’s Top 25 Steven Thomas (BA, History) health care education coor- tional Leadership and Policy Texas Health Harris Method- Washington (BA, Broadcast tennis coach at the University of the International Journal in the Department of Foreign Transformative High Schools. is head basketball coach at dinator at Cook Children’s Studies) is a coordinator for ist Hospital in Fort Worth. Communication) is a reporter of Alabama at Birmingham. of the Sociology of Language Languages and Literatures South Hills High School in Medical Center in Fort Worth. new student programs at UT Brandon Howard (MEd, for the East Texas news team ARLINGTO T N She spent the last seven years using the theme “Language at Southern Methodist Uni- 2006 Fort Worth. He played bas- Dallas. Jonathan Schmittou Educational Leadership and at KTRE-TV in Lufkin. U as an assistant coach at LSU, Use in Melanesia.” He is an versity. Chris Englert (MEd, Stephanie Baird (’06 BS, ketball at UT Arlington from 2008 (BM) is a percussionist with Policy Studies) is an assistant helping the school earn four associate professor at the Educational Leadership and Interdisciplinary Studies; ’09 Inelda Acosta (MEd, principal at Key Elementary 2002-2006 and ranks third in the U.S. Marine Band and is 2012 MAVERICKS NCAA tournament appear- Graduate Institute of Applied Policy Studies) is an assistant MEd, Educational Leadership career scoring and fourth in Educational Leadership and based in San Diego. Thierry School in Arlington. Kayla Derrick Crowder (MEd, Edu- ALUMNI ances. She was recognized Linguistics in Dallas. principal at Orr Middle School and Policy Studies) received rebounding. Policy Studies) is principal Tirado (’09 BA, French; ’11 Humphries (BA, Broadcast cational Leadership and Policy in 2007 as the Intercollegiate in Mansfield. Cherie James the pre-K-through-first grade at Crow Elementary School MA, Modern Languages) is a Communication/Advertising) Studies) was named Teacher Tennis Association Southwest 2003 (BSN) received the Ortho- award from the Arlington 2007 in Arlington. Previously, she senior lecturer of French in is a broadcast technician for of the Year at Cypress Creek Region Assistant Coach of David Dillard (MEd, Cur- pedics Excellence in Nursing Independent School District Diana Beaty (MSN) is a was an assistant principal at the Department of Foreign Norwegian Cruise Lines. Her High School and Secondary the Year. Michael Wyant riculum and Instruction) is Award from D Magazine. She AWARE Foundation Award pediatric nurse practitioner Carter Junior High School Languages and Literatures at duties include taking videos Teacher of the Year for the WEAR YOUR PRIDE (’01 BS, Interdisciplinary principal at Bebensee El- also was recognized as one of of Excellence. She teaches at in orthopedics at Children’s in Arlington. Brian Chen Southern Methodist of cruises, editing the foot- Cypress Creek Independent Looking for ways to show Studies; ’10 MEd, Curriculum ementary School in Arlington. the Dallas/Fort Worth Great Starrett Elementary School in Medical Center Dallas. Holly (PhD, English) is an assistant University age, and producing it into School District. His “Genera- your Maverick spirit? Check and Instruction-Science) is a Elizabeth Dinh (BA, Broad- 100 Nurses for 2012. She is a Arlington. Ben Bholan (MEd, Behl (BA, Spanish) operates professor and first-year commercials and DVDs for tion Green” project received out UT Arlington’s one-stop 2012 Impact Grant Recipient cast Communication) is a registered nurse at Method- Educational Leadership and Preciso Language Services, writing coordinator at OCAD 2010 purchase on the cruise ships. national and local media online shopping mall for in the Arlington Independent general assignments reporter ist Charlton Medical Center Policy Studies) is principal at a translation consultancy University, a school of art and Conner Covington (BM) Jesus J. Martinez (BM) was coverage. Lori Dunham (BBA, hundreds of T-shirts, hoodies, School District. Recipients are for KOMO 4 News in Seattle. in Dallas. LaQuana Price Ferguson Junior High School based in Grand Prairie. She design in Toronto. Tiffani is assistant conductor of honored by the state of Texas Real Estate) is a permit coor- caps, accessories, and other educators with creative ideas Shawn Duhon (MEd, (BA, English) is pursuing a in Arlington. Previously, he is a master-level licensed Owensby (MA, Teaching in the Memphis Symphony with a resolution commend- dinator in the design/engi- merchandise. The website and innovative projects. He Educational Leadership and master’s degree in project was an assistant principal at Spanish court interpreter Mathematics) received the Orchestra. He was invited to ing his composition “Threno- neering department for Time includes links to the Alumni teaches at Bailey Junior High Policy Studies) is principal at management at St. Edward’s Bowie High School and Boles in Texas. Matt Geske (BA, 2012 Faculty Excellence Award participate in the prestigious dy for 9/11.” He conducted the Warner Cable in Coppell. She Association store, UT Ar- School. Carroll Senior High School University. For the past eight at Northwood University in Malko Conducting Com- premiere of the work on the works with cities, contractors, lington Bookstore, athletics in Southlake. Previously, he years, she has worked as a Cedar Hill. She is chair of the petition in Denmark. Meri 10th anniversary of the terror and utilities on expansion store, Planetarium gift shop, 2002 was an associate principal child support officer and Mathematics Department. Elizabeth Geer (BS, Interior attacks. Patrick Modrovsky of the company’s network. and more. Go to uta.edu/ Russell Ghorishy (BS, Me- at Northwest High School investigator in the Office of Design) is a textile designer (BA, Broadcast Communica- M. Kate Helmes (BFA, Art) shoponline. chanical Engineering) is vice in Justin and an assistant the Attorney General of Texas. 2009 for Feizy Import and Export at tion) received a Lone Star had her work featured in the president of Ryan Corp. in principal at Dawson Middle Maryann White (MEd, Edu- Kim Danek (BBA, Account- the Dallas World Trade Center. Emmy Award as a producer Cohn Drennan Contemporary DAZZLING DEGREES Newport Coast, Calif. Chad School in Southlake. Jeff cational Leadership and Policy ing) was promoted to tax Joan Khalaf (BA, Journalism) of DQ Big Game of the Week: art gallery’s 2012 Summer Display your UT Arlington Harkey (BA, Political Science) Langhammer (BFA, Art) was Studies) is principal at Swift accountant at Sanford, is intern director at D Maga- The High School Spotlight Group Exhibition in Dallas. diploma in style. In partner- is assistant vice president for selected for the “Forty Under Elementary School in Arling- Baumeister & Frazier LLP in zine. Anthony Killoran (BS, for Fox Sports Southwest. She creates fabric sculptures. ship with Churchill Classics, risk management at Texas Forty” awards by the Fort ton. Previously, she was an Fort Worth after receiving Electrical Engineering) is an Ashley Montgomery (BA, Jason Holt (BA, Linguistics) is the Alumni Association offers Bank and Trust in Longview. Worth Business Press, which assistant principal at Blanton her certified public accoun- engineer with Oncor Electric Public Relations) works for president of Global Meta- more than a dozen framing Previously, he was an assistant annually names its top 40 Elementary School in Arling- tant certification. Stephanie Delivery in the Dallas/Fort TracyLocke, a creative ad phase LLC, a language service options for the sheepskin vice president and senior businesspeople under age ton. Willie Wimbrey (MEd, Kreiling (BSN) was honored Worth area. He was a member agency in Dallas. Patricia provider in Arlington. Katie you worked so hard to earn. compliance officer with J.P. 40. He is CEO and cofounder Educational Leadership and as one of the Dallas/Fort of Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Mwanza (BSN) is director of Palmquist (MEd, Educational You can even customize Morgan Chase & Co. in Dallas. of Illfusion Creative, a Fort Policy Studies) is an assistant Wear your UT Worth Great 100 Nurses for UT Arlington. David Muñoz nurses at Baraton Healthcare Leadership and Policy Stud- your frame. Alumni Associa- Mark Kammlah (MEd, Worth marketing agency. principal at Lillard Intermedi- PUT A Arlington pride for 2012. She works at Baylor All (MEd, Educational Leader- in Houston. Rona Ng’ethe ies) is an assistant principal at tion members receive a 10 Educational Administration) Jessica Lavy (BA, History) re- ate School in Mansfield. everyone to see. Saints Medical Center in Fort ship and Policy Studies) is (MSN) was honored as one of Keene Elementary School in percent discount on frames. is principal at Williams ceived the AWARE (Arlington RING Available in a variety Worth. Szu-Yen Liang (PhD, an assistant principal at Sam the Dallas/Fort Worth Great Keene, Texas. Andrea Robins Visit utaalumni.org and click Elementary School in Arling- Will Award and Recognize) 2005 of women’s and men’s Linguistics) was awarded a Houston High School in Ar- 100 Nurses for 2012. She (MEd, Educational Leadership on “Shop” to make your ton. Previously, he was an Foundation Award of Excel- Hetal Bhatt (MS, Civil Engi- styles in gold, white $100,000 grant from the lington. Previously, he was an works at the Texas Health and Policy Studies) is an assis- selection. assistant principal at Good- lence from the Arlington neering) is a traffic engineer ON IT! gold, and silver. National Security Agency assistant principal in the Fort Center for Diagnostics and tant principal at Boles Junior man Elementary School in Independent School District. for the city of Arlington. Lisa The O∞cial For more information, for the UTA StarTalk Program, Worth Independent School Surgery in Plano. Luke Saa- High School in Arlington. JOIN A CHAPTER Arlington. Chuks Onwuneme She teaches at Seguin High Mann (’05 BA, Speech; ’11 Maverick Ring call the Alumni Association which trains teachers as District. Rebecca Rury (BFA, vedra (BA, Criminal Justice Leslie Similly (PhD, English) For information on joining an (BS, Computer Science Engi- School. Christy Tidwell (’03 MEd, Educational Leadership at 817-272-2594 or Chinese language instructors Art) started her own business, and Criminology) is an Army is a visiting assistant professor alumni chapter, contact the neering) launched Personify, MA, ’11 PhD, English) is an as- and Policy Studies) is an as- go to utaalumni.org/ in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Rury Arts, in Midlothian. She second lieutenant stationed at Oklahoma State Univer- Alumni Association at 817-272- a Seattle-based startup that sistant professor of English at sistant principal at Arling- officialmaverickring. Dr. Liang is a senior lecturer specializes in graphic arts, in- in Germany. He was commis- sity. Ginger Slavens (BBA, 2594 or [email protected]. uses mobile technology to South Dakota School of Mines ton High School. David B. of Chinese in the Depart- cluding improving old photos sioned to active duty through Marketing) works in sales for To see a list of chapters, visit help people give back to their and Technology. Palmer (BS, Architecture) is a ment of Modern Languages with alternative processes the UT Arlington Army ROTC Home Depot in Arlington. utaalumni.org/alumnigroups.

46 UTArlington Magazine WINTER 2012 47 ALUMNI NEWS In Memoriam 1950s Memorial Methodist Hospital New Mexico state agencies. International Manufacturing. Floyd B. Turner Jr. (’58 AS, in Weslaco, Texas, from 1981- Most recently, she was bud- Previously, he was manager General Studies), 73, June 27 83. She later taught elementa- get and research department of the southwest territory for in North Richland Hills. Mr. ry school and was a school li- director for the city of Savan- Network Instruments. Turner retired from IBM after brarian. Marilyn Vickie Lane nah. She was a certified public more than 30 years of service. (’75 BA, Sociology; ’77 BA, accountant. 1990s English), 63, July 13 in Arling- Janice Liane Lambert (’90 TRUMAN BLACK ton. Ms. Lane worked in the MArch), 63, July 8 in Fort A professor emeritus in 1960s 1980s Robert O. Isham (’62 BBA, medical branch at Carswell Donald E. Horton (’82 BS, Worth. Ms. Lambert worked the Physics Department, Make A Lasting Impact Business Administration), 73, Air Force Base in Fort Worth. Electrical Engineering), at The Projects Group in Fort Truman Black died Sept. 12 July 28 in Decatur. Mr. Isham Tom R. Anable (’76 BBA, 64, May 2 in Arlington. Mr. Worth and was instrumental in Arlington. He was 74. Dr. was the owner of Rare Books Business Administration), 58, Horton was an embedded in redesigning the Fort Worth Black retired in 2011 after 45 Documents Art in Decatur. Aug. 18 in Fort Worth. Mr. software engineer at Lock- Museum of Science and His- years on the UT Arlington He was past president of both Anable was a certified public heed Martin. Charles Richard tory. Louis Laster (’90 BA, faculty. A pioneer in solid- the Wise Regional Health accountant and a founding Rushing Jr. (’83 BS, Chem- Psychology; ’96 MSSW; ’08 state research, he generated System board of trustees and partner of Anable & Associ- istry), 54, July 19 in Arling- PhD, Social Work), 43, March millions of research dollars the Decatur library board. ates in Fort Worth. Previously, ton. Mr. Rushing was senior 26 in Fort Worth. Dr. Laster for students and equipment, Edward Anthony “Tony” he worked in the accounting chemist at Kelly Moore Paint was an adjunct professor in helped create physics gradu- Goodwin Jr. (’64 BS, Medical and tax industry with KPMG in Hurst. Mikel E. Semler the UT Arlington School of ate programs, and wrote more Technology), 78, Aug. 3 in Fort Peat Marwick, Coopers & Ly- (’84 BA, Communication), 50, Social Work since 2007. Sue than 100 publications. He was Worth. Dr. Goodwin served brand, Texas American Bank, June 18 in Wichita, Kan. Mr. Scibek (’92 MSN), 67, June 17 known for his liquid nitrogen in hospital administration in Interfirst Bank, Leonard En- Semler worked 15 years as a in Graham. Ms. Scibek retired demonstrations that educated South Florida and in Texas terprises, and Chapdelaine & service training manager with as a nurse practitioner at the children through the Young at Galveston, San Antonio, Associates. Frederick Raynor American Airlines. Since 1999 Young County Family Clinic at People’s University. Black Houston, and at Harris loca- Daulton (’77 MA, Urban Af- he was director of trade sup- the Graham Regional Medical supervised the dissertation tions in North Texas. He was fairs), 74, June 22 in Arlington. port and service for celebrity Center. George Michael and thesis research of five a co-founder of the Brazos Mr. Daulton was an FBI agent cruises for Royal Caribbean Mosher (’94 BA, English), our thoughtful and careful gift planning can doctoral students and 23 mas- River Conservation Coali- for 20 years. After retire- Cruise Ltd. Susan Margaret 55, July 24 in Fort Worth. Mr. ter’s students, and mentored tion. Harlan Huffman(’65 BS, ment he continued to work in Ponce (’85 BA, Political Sci- Mosher was an attorney in transform lives and make the world a better place. dozens of undergraduates. Industrial Engineering), 69, investigation and security. He ence), 49, May 16 in Houston. Fort Worth and served as an Y May 6 in McGregor, Texas. Mr. was an active member of the Honored as a UT Arlington administrative specialist for Gifts through wills, trusts, life insurance policies, and retirement plans represent your vision and commitment Huffman was an engineer for Dallas chapter of the Society Distinguished Alumna in the U.S. Census Bureau. He LTV Aerospace and Defense in of Former Special Agents of 2006, Ms. Ponce was a lawyer received his juris doctorate to advance UT Arlington to new levels of excellence. Although long-range in nature, these contributions are Dallas. Erceal V. Doty Jr. (’69 the FBI. Mary Lynn Larmer and senior vice president for from Baylor Law School. BA, Mathematics), 64, July 9 (’77 BBA, Business Administra- Halliburton, which provides significant in their present and future forms. Each gift makes a difference by providing better educational in Denton. Mr. Doty worked tion), 57, June 10 in Lantana, products and services to the 2010s for General Telephone and Texas. Ms. Larmer worked in energy industry. During 22 Edward Walter Planche (’11 opportunities for students, enhancing research and teaching initiatives for faculty, and creating facilities Electronics (now Verizon) for human resource management years with the company, she BA, Interdisciplinary Studies), 29 years before retiring in in the insurance and banking developed the Environmental 36, July 3 in Arlington. Mr. that attract the best and brightest minds. By making an estate gift, you can build a brighter future for 1999. He also worked at XO industries. She was a partner Law Practice Group, oversaw Planche was a math instructor ALEX BURTON Communications in Dallas. in a private human resource 15 offices worldwide as chief at Starrett Elementary School Longtime radio and TV services company from commercial counsel, and in Arlington. UT Arlington and leave an indelible mark on the world. personality Alex Burton died 1970s 1988-2004 and then became became the company’s first Sept. 13 in Dallas. He was 80. William J. Foley (’71 BS, ’74 a special education teacher chief ethics and compliance Faculty and Staff A 1981 UT Arlington Distin- MS, Geology), 68, April 28 in in the Lewisville Independent officer. Laurence Stevenson- Shirley Fleischer Binder, To explore estate planning and gift options, contact Elizabeth Fernandez, development assistant to the guished Alumnus, Mr. Burton Arlington. Mr. Foley worked School District. Herbert Grund (’86 BA, Political Sci- 82, July 26 in Dallas. From earned a bachelor’s degree with Cities Service Oil and Gas Wynn Drumm Jr. (’77 BBA, ence), 48, March 19 in Frisco. 1996-2009 Ms. Binder worked director of gift planning, at 817-272-5388 or [email protected], or visit uta.edu/estategiving. in political science in 1967. and with Hunt Oil Co., both Accounting), 57, March 28 in Mr. Stevenson-Grund was at UT Arlington in various He worked at radio stations in Dallas. He was director of Waxahachie. After earning an accountant in the hotel capacities, including oversee- in the Rio Grande Valley and the North Texas Irish Festival his certified public accoun- food and beverage industry. ing enrollment services. at a San Antonio TV station in 1993-94 and worked with tant designation, Mr. Drumm He worked at the Embassy Kenneth Richard Halliday, before joining WBAP-TV in the festival in other capacities worked at Dallas Power and Suites-DFW for 20 years 65, July 16 in Athens, Ohio. Dr. Fort Worth. He was news di- for many years. Laura Holley Light in 1977 and continued before moving to Lombardi Halliday taught mechanical rector for Channel 39 in Dallas Jackson (’71 BA, Spanish), 72, with the family of companies, Family Concepts. Brian Karl engineering at UT Arlington before moving to KRLD radio July 14 in Waco. Ms. Jack- Texas Utilities and Oncor Walkup (’86 BSN), 55, May from 1977-79. Lanny Michael for 20 years. He also worked son was a master teacher in Electric, until his retirement in 18 in Joplin, Mo. Mr. Walkup Solomon, 66, July 12 in Kansas for WBAP radio, retiring from bilingual education for many 2011. Cynthia Anne Marietta was a registered nurse at City, Mo. Dr. Solomon was daily broadcasting in 1994. He years and later became a real (’78 MA, Urban Affairs), 60, Arlington Memorial Hospi- an accounting professor at was inducted into the Texas estate broker. Therona Adele Aug. 16 in Savannah, Ga. Ms. tal and Parkland Hospital in UT Arlington from 1978-98. Radio Hall of Fame, and the Anderson (’73 BA, Sociology), Marietta was the budget and Dallas. Roger Blake Ford Cecilia Thompson, 91, Jan. 16 Dallas Press Club honored him 60, April 14 in Lake Worth. Ms. research director for the city (’88 BBA, Finance), 48, May in Alpine, Texas. Ms. Thomp- as a Living Legend of North Anderson was the director of of Dallas before going on to 15 in Arlington. Mr. Ford was son taught Theatre Arts at UT leave a legacy Texas Journalism. volunteer services at Knapp manage finances for three a shelving engineer for TRS Arlington from 1963-67. gift planning at ut arlington

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