STATE OF CHANGE Texas has one of the country’s REASONS TO SHINE A novel fluorescent polymer DEGREES OF SEPARATION Enticed by world-class most recognizable shapes. But you’ll be hard- could revolutionize cancer therapy and yield offerings and opportunities for professional ad- pressed to see that familiar form in the maps of breakthroughs in biosensing, immunology, vancement, thousands of students are choosing early cartographers. p. 26 drug delivery, and tissue engineering. p. 32 UT Arlington’s graduate programs. p. 36

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Whistling While They Work

NBA REFEREE NFL OFFICIAL Monty McCutchen ’88 Undrey Wash ’86 ROUNDUP Future Mavericks learn what it takes to succeed at UT Arlington during a new student orientation session in the E.H. Hereford University Center.

ii UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 1 Contents Fall 2010 Message from the President

Features TALK 7 A few words with White House UTArlington MARRIED TO THEIR intern and social work graduate Vol. XXXII • No. 3 • Fall 2010 RESEARCH (AND student Vivian Walker. EDITOR EACH OTHER) 18 Milestone After Milestone Mark Permenter Brazil natives Jorge Rodrigues and Maeli Melotto are one by James D. Spaniolo ASSISTANT EDITORS of three couples who Jim Patterson collaborate in the laboratory The University of Texas at Arlington is on a mission. garage. At the heart of College Park will be a beautiful Jessica Bridges and on the home front. Our goal is clear and focused—to transform our uni- welcome center for UT Arlington—a new front door ART DIRECTOR versity into one of the next great American research for prospective students and their families. Joel Quintans institutions, to become a Tier One university in every Our campus infrastructure isn’t the only thing respect. growing. True to our strategic initiative to dra- DESIGN CONSULTANTS CRASH COURSE 8 When you’ve set the bar as high as we have, prog- matically increase our enrollment without sacrific- DJ Stout and Daniella Floeter Bart Weiss’ Video for iPhone class ress is measured not in incremental or baby steps, ing quality, last fall we experienced unprecedented Pentagram Design teaches students to create short- but in major milestones. Each calculated stride must double-digit growth—reaching a total enrollment of form videos in a small format. EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS be bold, confident, and strategic. more than 28,000 students. Herb Booth A bellwether of our vision for the future is cap- We continued that trend with record enrollment O.K. Carter FACULTY 11 tured in our magnificent new Engineering Research for both this past spring and summer. And we’re an- John Dycus HIGHER CALLING 22 David Keller’s research aims Complex, which faculty members will begin moving ticipating enrollment of more than 30,000 students Sherry W. Neaves Undrey Wash and Monty to help astronauts better into in just a few months. this fall. Teresa Newton McCutchen have risen to the cope with the physical What better way to demonstrate our commit- While the numbers are remarkable, the academ- Traci Peterson highest levels of pro sports consequences of space travel. Kristin Sullivan ment to cutting-edge research than this state-of-the- ic quality of our incoming students is what’s most im- Danny Woodward officiating. Wash worked this art facility dedicated to engineering and science lab- pressive. We continue to attract and enroll a diverse year’s Super Bowl in Miami, and FUTURE 13 oratories and instruction. The students and faculty mix of students who are at the top of their high school UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHERS McCutchen refereed two Liping Tang of Taiwan forsees members who build their careers in this complex will class and who are attracted to an outstanding institu- Robert Crosby games in the 2010 NBA Finals. people using an adult stem cell generate new ideas and new knowledge that will de- tion like UT Arlington. Beth McHenry bank just like a blood bank. fine the next generation of research at UT Arlington. This fall’s entering class was welcomed as no oth- ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR THE LONE STAR SHAPE 26 As one construction project ends, another one er class before them—with the support and guidance COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING Over the centuries, the area (or two, or three) begins here at UT Arlington. Con- of our new University College. Appropriately housed P. David Johnson now known as Texas underwent struction is well under way on our spectacular $78 in Ransom Hall, our oldest building located right in some curious cartographic million special events center. It won’t be long before the center of campus, University College brings to- VICE PRESIDENT permutations before taking this hub of downtown activity will be hosting con- gether a wide range of services, including academic FOR COMMUNICATIONS today’s familiar shape. certs, commencements, lectures, volleyball, basket- advising, tutoring, and counseling, that are essential Jerry Lewis ball, and numerous other community events. The to student success. PRESIDENT GLOWING RESULTS 32 promise of this facility will soon be fulfilled, and our Finally, on a smaller yet no-less-meaningful James D. Spaniolo China native Jian Yang’s Mavericks will finally have the home court scale, the magazine you’re reading represents an- development of a fluorescent advantage they so richly deserve. other milestone for UT Arlington. For the UTArlington Magazine is published material that’s nontoxic and Right next door to the special first time in the history of the University, three times a year by University biodegradable could boost events center site, we’re breaking we’re mailing our flagship publication, Communications for all alumni, as well as for faculty, staff, and friends cancer treatment, tissue GALLERY 14 ground on one of our most ambi- UTArlington Magazine, to all of our of the University. Reproduction in engineering, and drug delivery. Student sculptures gave Lake tious projects yet—College Park. alumni, as well as to our growing list whole or in part without written Arlington Golf Course an This mixed-use development of friends and supporters—approxi- permission is prohibited. BACK TO SCHOOL 36 artistic ambience last summer. represents a growing partner- mately 145,000 of you to be exact. Doctoral candidate Sanchali ship between the University and We hope UTArlington Magazine The comments and opinions Deb of India is among a record SPORTS 17 the City of Arlington and is the helps you discover, or perhaps redis- expressed in this magazine do number of students who are The Oakland Athletics drafted not necessarily represent manifestation of our plan for cover, all that makes UT Arlington those of The University of Texas flocking to UT Arlington’s Michael Choice with the 10th downtown Arlington’s revital- such a special place. We look forward at Arlington or the staff of graduate degree programs. overall pick in the 2010 Major ization as a thriving college town to sharing our news with you three UTArlington Magazine. League Baseball draft. district. College Park will include times each year, and we look forward Copyright © 2010, The University of a residence hall, student apart- to hearing from you as well. Please Texas at Arlington. An equal oppor- Columns ments, retail shops and restaurants, keep in touch. We hope to see you on tunity/affirmative action employer. Alumni News and an impressive 1,800-car parking campus soon. ON THE COVER MESSAGE 3 Undrey Wash (’86) officiated the President James D. Spaniolo ALUMNI GALA 40 2010 Super Bowl, and Monty says UT Arlington is on track to Meet the 2010 Distinguished McCutchen (’88) refereed Games 2 and 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals. become a Tier One university. Alumni Gala honorees. KAREN BY DAVISON ILLUSTRATION President Spaniolo has FACEBOOK 4 NEW DIRECTOR 41 put UT Arlington on Sophomore Alexzandria Siprian Lora Malone joins the course to become one displays her dancing skills Alumni Association of America's next great research universities. in a campus musical. as executive director.

FALL 2010 3 CAMPUS CAMPUS Facebook E-mail Tweets @CristieKibler Just did an AT THE FOREFRONT OF terest in science, technology, taken by your staff photogra- been a great experience. And interview with UTARadio.com SCIENCE EDUCATION engineering, and mathemat- phers truly captured both the as always, when working this :) Big thanks to UTA for being I found your magazine quite ics (the STEM areas), the more importance of the ongoing very “fossiliferous” site, I can’t so supportive! by accident. As I was search- likely they will be to pursue dino dig and the essence of wait for what is yet to come! @utabusiness Dana Gibson ing online for information one of these fields as a career. the dig site and of the people (’93 Ph.D.) is sole finalist for about improving math per- I look forward to the day involved. They did a top- DARLENE SUMERFELT Sam Houston State University formance in schoolchildren, when, indeed, we will be able notch, bang-up job! Well done Allen, Texas president. I came across “Creating the to create the next generation and thank you. @mikecuta1102 Is getting anx- Next Einsteins” from your win- of Einsteins. MORE THAN A HOBBY ious about the draft! 6 o'clock! ter 2010 issue. As a longtime DEREK J. MAIN Thank you for the excel- MLB network! Direct TV! Be watchin’ for ya boi! educator, I have seen first- SARAH DAVIDSON Arlington, Texas lent, and faithfully accurate, hand the declining interest Phoenix, Ariz. coverage of my life’s work in @UTAMAVS UT Arlington draft in math and science among P.S. Send us some diggers. We “The Final Word on Stress.” I picks Rett Varner and Jason Mitchell have each signed elementary, junior high, and DIGGING THE COVERAGE always need help out there. am very impressed with the professional contracts. high school students. It is Thank you for the outstanding way O.K. Carter was so on very encouraging to know job by your staff on cover- CONTRIBUTIONS TO point in capturing the inten- @JoanieCakes At home getting ready and I don't wanna leave. that universities like yours are ing the Arlington Archosaur SCIENCE BRING REWARDS tions as well as the words in That sleep was so good and aggressively trying to engage Site in the winter issue of UT I really enjoyed your article my research and practice. so needed after a late night of more students in these critical Arlington Magazine. The thor- on the Arlington Archosaur Robert Crosby helped my editing at UTA. fields. I believe that the earlier ough research of your writers Site. The story and photos home life, too, because my @utashorthorn Oakland A’s we start to pique children’s in- and the high-quality images thoroughly captured the es- wife, Sheri, was very pleased choose Choice during draft. sence of what makes the site with the photo you chose to “Everything he’s worked for is so unique. As a member of the accompany the article. My coming true,” Charea Choice. dig crew and preparator of former running buddy from @M_I_Williams A new chapter YouTube the fossil bones for two years, accounting called stress my begins: Off to #Alcon for first ONCE A MAVERICK, ALWAYS A MAVERICK I can’t begin to express all the hobbyhorse. For me, it was, is, day at work and then summer school at UT Arlington. A record number of graduates celebrated their hard different areas of satisfaction and always will be one of my work with pomp, circumstance, and plenty of cheers at I've experienced working passions. So, I guess the final @BeAMaverick Did you know spring commencement ceremonies in Texas Hall. View at the site. From the great word is not out yet. the spring class this May was the largest graduating class in the “UT Arlington Commencement 10” video at reward of contributing to UT Arlington history? There www.youtube.com/utarlington. science, to the making of new JAMES CAMPBELL QUICK were 3,116 members of the Class and dear friends, it has truly Arlington, Texas of 2010. @vegastar Clouds dispersing. Hanging w UTA shorthorn ALEXZANDRIA SIPRIAN reporters. Noticed UTA media Even during rehearsal, services w vidcameras. iPhone bat running low. everything looks clearer Flickr from on stage, Spanish AUTUMN EXPOSURES @mavengineering Check out all major Alexzandria Siprian Each fall launches a new the great engineering stories in UTA's research magazine, In- says. At her parents’ urging, academic year, bringing quiry! www.uta.edu/research- Siprian challenged herself renewed excitement as a magazine to venture beyond her resi- fresh generation of Mavericks @UTA_Alumni If you just dence hall room and get in- embarks on a potentially life- graduated, don’t forget to take volved in campus life. She’d changing journey. Fall also advantage of our First Year always wanted to try acting means the State Fair of Texas Membership for only $20! www. but never found the time— and, if we’re lucky, leaves uta.edu/alumni/membership until last spring when she that turn brilliant shades landed a role in the Theatre of yellow, orange, and red LET'S SOCIALIZE Arts Department’s produc- before falling to the ground. Check us out on your fav- tion of the musical comedy When seen through the orite social media sites. We My Emperor’s New Clothes. lens of photography senior welcome your posts, tweets, “Now I’m part of something Andrew Buckley, autumn and photographs for possible special that pushes me to imagery can represent the inclusion in the next issue of perform well in everything unexpected: fog rolling past UTArlington Magazine. I do,” she says. 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4 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 5 CAMPUS Vivian Walker, Social Work Graduate Student Talk You recently served a Did you get to meet White House internship. the president? Where did you work? Yes, and I was able to hear from I was in the Agency Liaison Vice President Joe Biden, Chief CampusBuzz Department of the Office of of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and UT ARLINGTON AND THE WORLD Presidential Correspondence. first lady Michelle Obama The office receives about 65,000 during an intern speakers letters a week and something series. Mrs. Obama was my like 100,000 e-mails a day. Some favorite; she is so genuine. are requests for congratula- tory messages to Eagle Scouts What was the most or newlyweds, but others are challenging part about more serious. My department the internship? specifically dealt with letters that Being away from my husband could be characterized as “cries and son was very difficult. But for help.” the biggest challenge came not from the work itself, but What are those? from the logistics. For me to They’re letters from citizens get academic credit for the facing different crises, such as internship, a licensed social foreclosure, IRS garnishment, worker had to supervise my College Park or delayed veterans’ benefits. work. Originally, I made an One letter I handled was from arrangement with someone will help create an elderly man who had a Social from the Office of Presidential Security problem. When it was Correspondence staff, but she a true college straightened out, he ended ended up resigning because of town through up receiving a sum of about medical and family issues. For $50,000 for back payments. a while I really thought I would its shops and have to come home. Sounds like a rewarding job. offices and The internship overall was just How were you able to stay? a great learning experience. Thankfully, Ellen Murphy, the through those I’m much more aware of what’s School of Social Work’s direc- who take going on outside my own tor of field instruction, was able world now. to get in touch with a professor advantage from Howard University, which is located nearby. She agreed of the new to take over my supervision Urban Vibrancy parking garage and even let me participate in workshops at Howard. City of Arlington supports University’s mixed-use development project for special Was it smooth sailing Come 2012, UT Arlington and the city of Arlington will The special events center, scheduled to open in late 2011, events center after that? begin the next phase of their relationship. That’s when will be home to UT Arlington basketball and volleyball activities. Not quite. I had quit a full-time College Park—a mixed-use development just north of but also the site of community events such as concerts job to take the internship, but the planned special events center—is expected to open. and high school commencements. —James D. Spaniolo, everything in Washington, “College Park will play a critical role in building the “This is a model for town-gown partnerships,” UT UT Arlington President D.C., is more expensive than life of our city,” Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck says. “It Arlington President James D. Spaniolo says. “More and I realized. My family’s budget will be a living and shopping destination and also provide more, our students are demanding high-quality residences was really strained, and again I vital parking support for major downtown events.” close to class, and College Park will help meet that need.” faced the possibility of having The $80 million project includes residence halls Spaniolo credits Cluck with crafting a collaboration to return home. But I wrote to wrapped around an 1,800-vehicle parking garage with that will benefit all who want to see increased activ- President Spaniolo explaining street-level retail and office suites south of UTA Bou- ity downtown and in the University district. The First the situation, and he awarded levard, between Pecan and Center streets. College Park Baptist Church of Arlington is another partner in the me a Presidential Scholarship. also will include a campus welcome center, a satellite project, donating 1.5 acres in exchange for use of the That allowed me to finish my campus police station, and—in response to rising de- parking facility. This conceptual College Park internship. mand for on-campus housing—81 apartment units. “College Park will help create an urban vibrancy, a true rendering will move closer to reality following groundbreak- The development marks the largest partnership to college town, through its shops and offices and through those ing ceremonies Oct. 11. The So you wrote your own “cry date between the University and Arlington. The city has who take advantage of the new parking garage for Special project includes a residence for help” to the president? committed up to $18 million toward the parking structure, Events Center activities,” Spaniolo says. hall, apartments, parking Seems appropriate, doesn’t it? which will serve visitors to UT Arlington’s 6,600-seat Designed by Jacobs Engineering Group in Fort garage, and retail space. special events center currently under construction, as Worth, the facility mixes glass with metal, brick, and well as visitors to other downtown venues. stone in an update to the prevalent campus architecture.

6 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 7 CAMPUS CAMPUS Crash Course Video for iPhone Awards JUDY LEFLORE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Nursing Associate Professor Judy LeFlore has been named FUELS STUDENT SUCCESS a fellow in the National League ART 4397 What classes should I take my freshman year? Where can I find a for Nursing's Academy of Nurs- Instead of banning cell tutor to help me prepare for my macroeconomics final? Can I talk ing Education for her innova- phones in his classroom, with a counselor about balancing the stress of school with family tive contributions to the field. film Associate Professor demands? These answers and more are easier to find this fall with She is a leader in the college's Bart Weiss put them on the the debut of University College in the renovated Ransom Hall. Uni- use of advanced technology to syllabus. In his Video for versity College is a one-stop shop for academic advising, tutoring, educate nurses. iPhone class, he teaches supplemental instruction, and a range of counseling services. “This how to write, produce, is a welcoming place for students,” says Donald Bobbitt, provost and ZDZISLAW MUSIELAK and direct videos for and vice president for academic affairs. “They won’t leave this building Physics Professor Zdzislaw with Apple’s popular smart without someone understanding their problem and at least starting Musielak has won his second phone. There’s an art to toward a solution.” The three-story Ransom Hall, which opened in international Humboldt Prize creating moving, effective 1919, is the oldest building on campus. But a $1.7 million remodeling for his research into the sun short-form videos in such a has given it a modern feel. Maverick orange and blue mix with sleek and solar-type stars. The award, small format, and Weiss and celadon green counters and contemporary furnishings. The main one of the most prestigious in his students are leading the entrance shares a plaza to the north with the E.H. Hereford University science, recognizes the world’s way. In fact, theirs may be Center. Better yet, University College pulls together academic and top physicists. the only such college course counseling services—previously scattered across campus—under in the country. In addition one roof. Audio/visual equipment, Wi-Fi, and high-speed Internet Gift of Gab to creating the videos, the aid the instructional process. A large conference room is available students can also try their for group sessions, while private tutoring and counseling suites Donation establishes Center for Critical hand at developing a video provide quiet space for one-on-one interaction. The renovation is Languages and Area Studies application for the device. part of the University’s larger effort to recruit top scholars, improve student retention, and help more students earn their undergradu- A new $1.16 million endowment will help future stu- ate degrees in a timely manner. Dr. Bobbitt says UT Arlington will dents at UT Arlington develop a better understanding do what it takes to help first-year students achieve a grade-point of global languages and cultures. average that will help them advance toward whatever major they Betty Ruch donated $580,000 on behalf of herself choose. “If we can get them to their sophomore year,” he says, “we and her late husband, Roger, to establish the Charles know they can succeed.” T. McDowell Center for Critical Languages and Area Studies. The contribution will double through Maverick ADONIS ROSE Match, a program that matches major gifts using the Jazz artist-in-residence Adonis University’s natural gas royalties. Rose won a 2010 Grammy as a Dr. McDowell, who died in 2007, was a distinguished member of the New Orleans UT Arlington professor who established the Center for Jazz Orchestra, as the group’s Post-Soviet and East European Studies at the University Book One took the prize for in 1968. The Ruch endowment gives the new center Best Large Jazz Ensemble within the College of Liberal Arts a global focus, includ- Album. Rose is a visiting profes- ing Russia, the Baltic States, the Caucasus, Central Asia, sor with UT Arlington’s Jazz Eastern and Central Europe, and the Balkans. Studies Program. In addition to the study of critical languages and the history of cultures in these geographic areas, the center MICHAEL MOORE will sponsor lectures by experts and provide annual Working with the Center for scholarships for exchange students. Political science Distance Education, Michael Professor Mark Cichock is the interim director. Moore, senior vice provost and “The contributions of the McDowell center will be associate professor of political FLYING DIRT immense in terms of our commitment to global under- science, received a Gold Best Construction is under way on the special events center on the standing,” President James D. Spaniolo says. “Endow- Practices Award of Excellence eastern edge of campus. Designed by HKS Inc., the $78 million ments like this play a major role in the University’s work in Distance Learning Teaching multipurpose venue will rise between Second and Third streets east to become a nationally recognized research institution.” from the United States Dis- of South Pecan Street. The center offers UT Arlington’s basketball The Ruches were the host family to 28 exchange tance Learning Association. and volleyball teams a state-of-the-art home court and gives down- students. They met McDowell in 1970 during their 17- town Arlington a signature facility for world-class concerts, confer- year quest to host a student from the Soviet Union. The KEVIN SCHUG ences, commencement ceremonies, and other community events. couple admired McDowell’s work and shared his desire Chemistry Assistant Professor Expected to open by December 2011, the special events center to provide students from other nations a broad-based Kevin Schug has been named will accommodate up to 7,600 patrons for a center-stage concert education and exposure to American life. the lone recipient of the 2010 and more than 6,600 for a traditional court-based athletics event. “The center is a fitting way to honor a man who Eli Lilly Young Analytical Scien- Tossing the first shovels of dirt during groundbreaking ceremonies devoted his career to giving exemplary service to his tist Award. The national honor last spring were, from left, KTVT news anchor Karen Borta (’87 university, his country, and communication between recognizes researchers whose BA), Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck, UT Arlington President James the peoples of the world,” College of Liberal Arts Dean work has applications in the D. Spaniolo, and Mavericks basketball player Marquez Haynes. Beth Wright says. pharmaceutical industry.

8 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 9 CAMPUS CAMPUS Grants Department of Kinesiology Faculty DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS The National Science Founda- COMMERCIALIZATION tion has awarded UT Arlington $987,000 for 2010-2012 to in- GRANTS BOOST ECONOMY crease the number of students Breakthroughs in cancer detection and synthetic fuels helped UT attaining doctoral degrees in Arlington earn the most awards for Texas Ignition Fund (TIF) science, technology, engineer- projects of any UT System institution. UT Arlington has received ing, and mathematics. Funding $475,000 for 10 projects, the latest being mechanical and aero- for the Bridge-to-Doctorate space engineering Assistant Professor Huang Haiying’s work on fellowships comes from the unpowered, wireless ultrasound sensing systems. Dr. Haiying’s NSF’s Louis Stokes Alliance for grant was awarded in the last of five rounds of TIF support. The Minority Participation program. UT System Board of Regents created the $2 million TIF grant program in December 2007. The initiative is designed to stimulate DAVID KELLER commercialization of research discoveries at the 15 UT System He's not an astrophysi- institutions by providing early-stage funding for the development cist, an astronomer, or an and maturation of such discoveries into marketable intellectual engineer. Yet David Keller's property, particularly to help bridge the gap between discovery research may be instrumen- and invention. “It’s extremely difficult to get money for proof- tal in helping astronauts of-concept work in today’s economic environment,” says Ron better cope with the physi- Elsenbaumer, UT Arlington’s vice president for research and cal consequences of space federal relations. “It’s a huge leap forward for the UT System to travel. The kinesiology do this. It shows tremendous forward thinking on the System’s assistant professor is an ex- part.” Another UT Arlington recipient, bioengineering Professor Good Chemistry pert on human physiology Hanli Liu, is developing a low-cost, real-time, optically guided and cardiovascular distress. BABAK FAHIMI needle biopsy system that improves prostate cancer diagnosis. In UT Arlington receives $1 million endowment He’s also the principal inves- Electrical engineering Associate a third project, mechanical and aerospace engineering Assistant from Dionex Corp. to create professorship tigator on a NASA-funded Professor Babak Fahimi has been Professor Brian Dennis and industrial engineering Professor project focusing on how awarded a prestigious Fulbright John Priest are building a microreactor that converts North Texas Energy, health care, and other industries could ben- body temperature is regu- Scholarship. He will spend eight Barnett Shale natural gas to synthetic gasoline, diesel, and jet efit from a new endowed chair in the Department of lated. Specifically, Dr. Keller months in Aachen, Germany, fuel. Other UT Arlington-awarded TIF projects involve research Chemistry and Biochemistry. is looking at the differences next year conducting research on drug development, solar cells, prosthetic skin, sensors, energy Dionex Corp. recently donated $500,000 to create between arm and leg cycling on energy conversion and conversion, and a blood oxygenator. the Hamish Small Chair of Ion Analysis. The amount as an effective exercise power electronics. will double as a result of Maverick Match, a program mode for astronauts. By that leverages UT Arlington’s natural gas royalty funds. examining the similarities YUE DENG, AMIR FARBIN Small invented suppressed ion chromatography, between the cardiovascular Physics Assistant Professors the technique by which most ions are analyzed. “He and thermal responses to Yue Deng and Amir Farbin is one of the giants of modern analytical chemistry,” the respective exercises, he have received early career says Christopher Pohl, Dionex senior vice president of hopes to judge their useful- awards from the National research and development. “We at Dionex wanted to ness in helping astronauts Science Foundation and honor his many contributions to analytical chemistry undergo heat acclimatiza- the Department of Energy, by permanently endowing a chair named in his honor. tion in space. “If people are respectively. Dr. Deng is UT Arlington is a perfect setting for such an honor.” going to be less able to reg- studying energy output from Pamela Jansma, dean of the College of Science, ulate their temperature, and the magnetosphere and its notes that the Dionex gift is the California-based com- as a result, be at increased impact on the planet’s upper pany’s first such endowment and is particularly note- risk for fatigue and heat ill- atmosphere. Dr. Farbin is worthy for the company’s multinational presence and ness, including heat stroke examining dark matter and work with academic organizations. or even heat death, upon dark energy using the ATLAS “UT Arlington has the leading ion chromatography exposure to microgravity, detector at the Large Hadron research group in the world,” Dr. Jansma says. “So the how can we correct that?” Collider in Switzerland. endowment is a natural fit.” he asks. That’s the next step DNA DISCOVERY UT Arlington researchers have con- UT Arlington researchers have conducted basic for Keller. And that’s one MATTHEW WRIGHT cluded that there’s more than one way to transfer DNA studies on eluent generation and suppression, car- giant leap for mankind. Computer science and engi- among species. Genome biologist Cédric Feschotte and post- bon dioxide removal, online concentration, charge neering Assistant Professor doctoral researchers Clément Gilbert and Sarah Schaack detection, and capillary-scale ionic separation and Matthew Wright has received found the first solid evidence of horizontal DNA transfer— detection techniques. a five-year Faculty Early Career the movement of genetic material among non-mating spe- Small never worked for Dionex, but his efforts to Development award from the cies—between parasitic invertebrates and some of their ver- develop novel ion exchange columns and an ion suppres- National Science Foundation. tebrate hosts. The long-held theory is that mammals obtain sor helped pave the way for companies like Dionex, the He is designing an anonymity genes vertically, or handed down from parents to offspring. market leader in ion chromatography instrumentation. system that can provide more Bacteria receive their genes vertically and also horizontally, Ion chromatography enables the separation of effective and efficient Internet passed from one unrelated individual to another or even ions based on their charge. It is widely used in diverse privacy protection than exist- between different species. The findings were published industries, from power generation to water analysis to ing designs. in Nature, one of the world’s foremost scientific journals. pharmaceuticals to semiconductor fabrication.

10 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 11 CAMPUS CAMPUS Press Adult Stem Cell Center, 2030 Future CÉDRIC FESCHOTTE Nye is an engineer, educator, comedian, author, and The New York Times quoted Lend Us Your Ears inventor who has focused on helping foster a scientifically biology Associate Professor literate society with Bill Nye the Science Guy, which has Cédric Feschotte about his Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns won 28 Emmy Awards. His appearance is part of UT commentary in Nature maga- kicks off 2010-2011 Maverick Speakers Series Arlington’s Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students. zine regarding the discovery All Maverick Speakers Series lectures are free of bornaviruses in the human The third season of UT Arlington’s marquee lectures, the but require a ticket, which can be obtained at www. genome. Similar articles ran in Maverick Speakers Series, begins in September with an utatickets.com. For more information, visit www.uta. Wired and Current. Oscar-nominated filmmaker and will include an iconic edu/maverickspeakers. baseball player, a celebrity chef, a beloved scientist, and BEN AGGER a groundbreaking TV journalist. 2010-2011 Maverick Speakers Series The Christian Science Monitor Ken Burns, whose documentaries include the Oscar- Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker quoted sociology Professor nominated The Brooklyn Bridge, The Civil War, and Sept. 24, 2010 - 7:30 p.m., Texas Hall Ben Agger in a story about National Parks, will speak Sept. 24. That’s just three why parents of young teens days before the debut of his newest film,Tenth Inning, Rick Bayless, celebrity chef allow their children to engage a two-part continuation of the Baseball series that aired Oct. 14, 2010 - 7:30 p.m., Lone Star Auditorium in risky adventures, such as 16 years ago to an audience of 48 million viewers. Burns’ the couple who let their teen appearance at UT Arlington—the only collegiate stop Lisa Ling, journalist and TV host daughter sail around the world Nov. 24, 2010 - 7:30 p.m., Texas Hall in summer 2010. Dr. Agger noted that the parents report- Cal Ripken Jr., baseball Hall-of-Famer edly were talking with a reality Feb. 17, 2011 - 7:30 p.m., Texas Hall TV program. He said America is developing a “culture of Bill Nye, scientist and TV host narcissism." March 23, 2011 - 7:30 p.m., Texas Hall

ANDREW BRANDT ESPN.com quoted physics NURSING PROGRAM COMBINES Professor Andrew Brandt about how the Texas Rangers Baseball ONLINE, ON-SITE LEARNING Club had underestimated the Nikki Gould sums up the best aspect of the recently launched distance of a record-breaking Academic Partnership Bachelor of Science in Nursing (AP-BSN) home run by slugger Josh program in one word: flexibility. “I can do a class at 9 at night if I Hamilton. Dr. Brandt used a want to,” she says. “Or 1 in the morning. I don’t do that, but some process based on a complex of my classmates do.” Gould, a junior who plans to be a pediatric set of variables to determine nurse, is among the first cohort of 40 students who began the that Hamilton’s June 27 homer 15-month program in January. The AP-BSN combines a media- into the Rangers Ballpark in he’s making in advance of his new film—coincides with enriched online format with extensive clinical experiences to ad- Arlington's upper deck traveled the University’s annual Leadership Summit. dress two aspects of the national nursing shortage: lack of faculty about 490 feet rather than the Chef Rick Bayless will speak Oct. 14. He is best known and insufficient clinical learning space. Clinical training for the initial estimate of 468 feet. for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time and for first cohort is at Baylor Health Care System, Medical City-Dallas, winning the first season ofTop Chef Masters on the Food and Parkland Health & Hospital System. The College of Nursing Network. He owns two eminent Chicago restaurants, plans to offer the AP-BSN program to the more than 170 hospi- Frontera Grill and Topolobampo, and is the man behind tals in the school’s Academic Partnership network. “Innovative the Frontera brand in supermarkets. He has several best- approaches to enrolling and supporting students into schools of selling cookbooks and is a James Beard Award winner. nursing are paramount, as we face a significant nursing shortage,” Lisa Ling, who hosts Explorer on the National Geo- says Rosemary Luquire, senior vice president and chief nursing graphic Channel and is a regular correspondent to The officer at Baylor Health Care System in Dallas. “We are eager to test Oprah Winfrey Show, comes to campus Nov. 24. She has new strategies with our UT Arlington College of Nursing partner.” gained recognition for her coverage of women’s issues With help from service provider Higher Ed Holdings, the program around the world, including the imprisonment of her is expected to substantially increase the college’s capacity to ac- sister, journalist Laura Ling, in North Korea last year. commodate qualified applicants and create a seamless transition If you could cure any disease, what would it be? Cancer? Diabetes? therapies.” The research team already has produced heart stem cells Lisa Ling also is a former co-host of The View. to the role of the registered nurse upon graduation. “The Academic Stroke? Bioengineering Professor Liping Tang and Ramesh Saxena, an outside the body, as well as muscle, fat, nerve, and bone cells. Cur- The spring semester will feature lectures by leg- Partnership-BSN program provides an effective strategy to produce associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, are rently, bone marrow is considered the most abundant source of adult ROLAND FRYER endary baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. in February and highly confident and competent new registered nurses,” says Beth shooting for all of the above with their research on stem cell produc- stem cells, as it can yield 500,000 stem cells from one patient. Tang’s A Time magazine article de- scientist Bill Nye in March. The latter’s Bill Nye the Mancini, College of Nursing associate dean and chair for under- tion and harvesting. They have discovered that by utilizing medical method can yield more than 100 million stem cells. “We have to do tailed research by Roland Fryer Science Guy TV show has been beloved by children for graduate nursing programs. In 2008 the college partnered with devices such as catheters, they can create 200 times as many adult stem more testing, but preliminary reports have been encouraging,” he says. (’98 BA) on paying schoolchil- two generations. Higher Education Holdings to expand the RN-to-BSN program. cells as other harvesting methods. Moreover, the adult stem cells cre- “The new cells are going home into the site of an injury.” The professor dren in New York, Chicago, Ripken, the former Baltimore Orioles infielder who Offering an accessible, affordable online option, the Academic ated are multi-potent, meaning they have all kinds of functions. “In our thinks that in two to five years donors could be using an adult stem cell Washington, D.C., and Dallas holds baseball’s all-time record for consecutive games Partnership RN-to-BSN program has grown from 100 students research, the stem cells recovered could be reintroduced into the same bank just like a blood bank. “Imagine people coming into the bank and to make good grades. Dr. Fryer played (2,632), was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007 to more than 2,000. The Master of Science in Nursing program person who produced them to help fight disease,” Dr. Tang says. “Those getting adult stem cells for their spinal cord injury or diabetes. That is a professor of economics at by 98.53 percent of voters—the highest percentage ever launched an Academic Partnership offering in nursing adminis- adult stem cells also could be used for tissue engineering and stem cell would be marvelous.”

Harvard University. for a position player and the third-highest total overall. tration in March. STEPHEN DURKE BY ILLUSTRATION

12 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 13 CAMPUS CAMPUS Gallery Golf Course Art Numbers ENGINEERING RESEARCH BUILDING NEARS COMPLETION Construction on the 234,000-square-foot Engineering Research 3,116 Building (ERB) near the corner of Cooper Street and UTA The spring 2010 graduating Boulevard remains ahead of schedule. “We’re more than 85 per- class was the University’s cent complete,” says Bill Amendola, senior project manager for largest, as 3,116 candidates PLANE AIR the UT System’s Office of Facilities Planning and Construction. crossed the Texas Hall stage. Local golfers saw more than “The ERB is dried-in, meaning all exterior doors and windows The class was 10.5 percent greens and fairways last are in place and the interior air is conditioned. We’re beginning larger than last year’s previous summer as Lake Arlington to install some of the casework and ceiling grids, starting on the high mark, with 2,247 students Golf Course displayed 13 top floors in each section and working down.” The building’s receiving undergraduate sculptures by UT Arlington north wing, along UTA Boulevard, has two sections, one six degrees and 869 earning students. Plane Air was stories and one five stories, and will house classrooms, offices, master’s or doctoral degrees. the brainchild of sculpture and laboratories for the Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Darryl Department. The four-story east wing, along College Street, will Lauster, who approached house labs for the Bioengineering Department and the College course officials with the of Science. The building’s exterior stone and masonry is in place. 28,813 idea of putting an exhibit The red brick matches the adjoining Nedderman Hall and the Enrollment hit a record 28,813 in an unexpected place. "Dormant" by Christopher Lee "Wishbone" by J. Rueben Melendez "Explorations of the Sublime" by Janet Morrow Engineering Lab Building, as does the smooth and rough-hewn Generous Act in spring 2010, a 19.4 percent The works were created limestone. A pedestrian bridge connecting the third floors of the increase over spring 2009. It was by students in Lauster’s ERB and the Engineering Lab Building is almost complete. The Gift from actor Morgan Woodward brings the first time spring enrollment 3-D Forms and Intermedia ERB is designed to meet requirements for Leadership in Energy Film Studies Program into sharper focus exceeded the previous fall’s to- classes (intermedia works and Environmental Design Silver certification. Its energy-saving tal. Another record is expected use less traditional materi- features include green and light-reflecting roofs, window designs The “Man with No Eyes” is doing his part to ensure a when enrollment figures are als). Some of the sculptures for improved use of available light, rain and condensate water bright future for UT Arlington film students. Morgan released later this fall. were site-specific and ad- capture and storage for landscaping, and use of recycled materials. Woodward, the actor best known for his portrayal dressed the course land- Furniture will be installed in November and equipment in Decem- of the chain-gang guard behind the mirrored shades 150,000,000,000,000 scape; others were abstract ber, with occupancy scheduled for January 2011. Ribbon-cutting in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, has established a That’s 150 trillion for those constructions designed to ceremonies are slated for March and will be held in conjunction $500,000 endowed professorship for the University’s unaccustomed to all the contrast with their envi- with the UT Arlington Development Board meeting. Film Studies Program. zeros. The world’s largest atom ronment. Lauster says the Woodward, 84, graduated from North Texas Agri- smasher, the Large Hadron classes found the venue cultural College (now UT Arlington) in 1948 and was Collider, has transferred more itself inspirational. “In the MAGIC WORDS Do what you do best and stick with it named a Distinguished Alumnus in 1969. He frequently than 150 trillion bytes of colli- studio environment, the were among the words of wisdom offered by Earvin “Magic” portrayed villains during an acting career that spanned sion data to UT Arlington since students typically would be Johnson during his Maverick Speakers Series lecture earlier more than 250 movies and TV shows, including Logan’s April. Physicists at the University told to create a piece within this year. The former Los Angeles Lakers star urged the Texas Run and Gunsmoke. are participating in the ATLAS a limited range of sizes. This Hall crowd to work hard and dream big. A three-time NBA “Mr. Woodward indicated a strong desire to give experiment at the LHC near project freed them from Most Valuable Player and member of the Basketball Hall of back to his alma mater and was prompted to make Geneva, Switzerland. those kinds of boundaries.” "Portrait of Mullie Wickers Battlefield Landscape "Allude" by Jared Holt "Spree II" by J. Rueben Melendez Fame, Johnson is now chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson En- this generous gift now in order to take advantage of The exhibit’s name derives Living in the Round" by Deb Gonzalez terprises, a company that focuses on urban communities. He the Maverick Match program, which will double the from the French plein air, signed copies of his best-selling book, 32 Ways to Be a Cham- impact of his gift,” said Jim Lewis, UT Arlington’s vice which means painting or pion in Business, and received a UT Arlington basketball jer- president for development. 6,000 drawing outside, as in the sey. Astronaut Sally Ride and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin Woodward has followed the University’s growth and The Rent-A-Text program open air. Students changed rounded out the spring 2010 Maverick Speakers Series lineup. the work produced through the Film Studies Program, offered by the UT Arlington the phrase to plane air as a which is part of the Department of Art and Art History Bookstore continues to nod to the sculptor’s plane, in the College of Liberal Arts. grow. Students rented about a carving tool. “I wanted to pass on my love for acting and film with 6,000 books in spring 2010, UT Arlington students by establishing the endowment and bookstore officials say to assist in recruiting of outstanding professors in the that number could double field of film, video, and screenwriting,” he says of his this fall. The program pro- $250,000 gift. vides a more affordable Professor Andy Anderson, founder of the film option to buying textbooks. program, says the endowment is timely. The program has three full-time faculty members but needs at least five with the recent addition of a Master of Fine 580,000 Arts degree. UT Arlington plans to add “It’s a fantastic endorsement of our 35 years of approximately 580,000 great work on a shoestring budget,” Anderson says. square feet of building space “It’s all the more important because Mr. Woodward by 2012. Since 2003 the "Spree I" by J. Rueben Melendez "Alluded 2" by Jared Holt "Rilly" by Lauren Papan is an acclaimed actor and knows what quality film University has added 1.3 work is.” million square feet.

14 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 15 CAMPUS CAMPUS Champs Baseball Sports JASMINE WALLS The Haynes legend took flight in summer 2009 Sprinter Jasmine Walls was when video of him jumping over 6-foot-3 Cowboys wide named the Southland Confer- receiver Roy Williams for a jaw-dropping dunk during ence women's outstanding a charity basketball game became an Internet favorite. track performer and finished Next came the greatest individual basketball season in her career as a 10-time SLC UT Arlington history, during which he led the nation champion. in scoring for a time before finishing third with 22.6 MICHAEL CHOICE points per game. Even after his college career TERI LYLES He broke the University’s 25-year record for points ended, Michael Choice con- Pitcher Teri Lyles received the in a season (678) and became only the second Maverick tinued to make history. The Southland Conference Fresh- with 1,000 points in a two-year span. He was named the Oakland Athletics selected man of the Year award in soft- Southland Conference Player of the Year and honor- the UT Arlington outfielder ball. She led the team in earned able mention All-American, and he participated in the with the 10th overall pick run average (1.78), wins (15), and NCAA’s slam dunk contest during the Final Four. in the June 7 Major League innings pitched (219.2). He wasn’t bad off the court, either. He got face time Baseball draft. Choice be- with Magic Johnson last spring when the NBA legend comes the first Maverick tak- SAMANTHA CHUMCHAL spoke on campus, and he was surprised to learn that en in the first round. He was Senior catcher Samantha Johnson knew who he was. Word spreads quickly when named the 2010 SLC Player Chumchal was named to the a player can score like Haynes. of the Year and Hitter of All-Southland Conference He earned a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary the Year and led the league softball first team. She had six studies in May and is playing professionally in France. with a .383 batting average, home runs, 28 runs batted in, 16 home runs, and 59 runs and a .994 fielding percentage. batted in. His 76 walks were HILLMAN’S JERSEY RETIRED the most in the nation and JASON MITCHELL a single-season conference Senior pitcher Jason Mitchell The No. 1 jersey worn by Trey Hillman from 1982-85 is off the record, and his .568 on-base struck out 113 batters, breaking market for future UT Arlington baseball players. The Mavericks percentage ranked sec- the UT Arlington single-season retired the number of the former Kansas City Royals manager in ond in the nation. In three record of 104. He also broke May. Hillman, the only three-time first-team All-Southland Con- seasons at UT Arlington, the the school record for strikeouts ference selection in school history, joins longtime UT Arlington 20-year-old junior set the in a game with 18 against head coach Butch McBroom (No. 30) and the late former player career home run record with Missouri State. and head coach Clay Gould (No. 8) as the only Mavericks to have 34. He ranks second in career their baseball jerseys retired. Hillman’s .442 batting average in batting (.392), runs batted 1985 led the Southland Conference and remains the school’s in (162), and total bases single-season record. In 1992 he became the first baseball player (393), and is third in career inducted into the UT Arlington Athletics Hall of Honor. After slugging percentage (.636). more than a decade coaching in the minor leagues, he spent five Choice is the first Maverick seasons in Japan’s professional baseball league managing the to be named a semifinalist High Riser Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. He led the perennial also-rans for the 2010 USA Baseball to the Japan Series and Asia Cup titles in 2006. In October 2007 Golden Spikes Award, pre- Record-setting season propels Marquez Haynes Hillman (’91) became the 15th manager of the Kansas City Royals sented to the nation’s top into the national basketball spotlight and guided the team until May 2010. amateur baseball player.

Guard Marquez Haynes isn’t supposed to be the basket- ball player who was third in the nation in scoring last DAIANA NEGREANU season, whose spectacular dunks have 20,000 YouTube Alumnus Trey Hillman Junior Daiana Negreanu hits, who’s editor-in-chief of the UT Arlington record is the third person posted a 12-3 record and was book. He’s not supposed to be someone Magic Johnson in the history of the Mavericks baseball named to the All-Southland has heard of (Magic Johnson!). program to have his Conference first team. Both He’s not supposed to be any of those things, because jersey retired. the women’s and men’s tennis Marquez Haynes “ain’t supposed to be nothing.” At least teams finished second in the that’s what his mother was told. SLC Tournament. Marquez was just a kid when someone predicted to Angela Haynes that her children would never pan ZACK FISCHER out. She won’t say who it was, but it doesn’t matter to Junior Zack Fischer was named Marquez. He has heard doubts from everywhere and to the All-Southland Confer- everyone, and he blows past them like they’re flat-footed ence golf first team and was defenders. invited to participate in the “My teachers told me, ‘You’re probably not going NCAA Regional Golf Tourna- to play professional basketball,’ and I’m in class saying, ment in San Diego. He was ‘I’m different!’ And they’re telling me that I’m not. I’m second in the SLC with a 72.18 not sure how many of them even know what I’m doing stroke average. now. But it would be interesting to talk to them.”

16 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 17 As partners inside and outside the laboratory, these couples are raising eyebrows with groundbreaking work in microbiology, nanotechnology, and genomics. They’re skilled at raising families, too. BY JUDY WILEY Married to Their Research (and Each Other) It’s complicated. No, it’s really complicated, and this Dr. Melotto studies the secrets of immunity in plants— is not a movie. how they defend against bacteria and fungi and how they What do you get when you cross a plant biologist’s lab lose that battle. Her research could lead to non-chemical schedule with a microbiologist’s experiments? Or mix defenses that could save as much as $500 billion an- child-rearing and nanotechnology? How about having nually in crop loss. a baby and publishing genomic discoveries? Dr. Rodrigues focuses on microbes in the Amazon forest You get very busy, dedicated people who are passion- and, separately, bug guts—termite hindguts, to be exact. ate about both their home lives and their cutting-edge, Though microbes in the forest have a monumen- potentially world-changing research. You get people tal job—recycling nutrients so the trees in the world’s who are making it all work despite traveling all over largest ecosystem can use them—surprisingly little is the world, running laboratories, and thinking of ways known about them. Biologists know even less about how to save lives and the planet. they react to deforestation. Rodrigues’ work gauging Married couples Jorge Rodrigues and Maeli Melotto, that reaction will provide answers that could influence Donald Butler and Zeynep Celik-Butler, and Cédric conservation policy, considering the huge role microbes Feschotte and Ellen Pritham share a glimpse of three play in the forest’s ecology. approaches to life when beautiful minds meet and marry. His termite work has environmental implications in- volving ethanol production. Everyone knows termites MAELI MELOTTO AND JORGE RODRIGUES make short work of wood—they process a billion tons of Warm and engaging, pas- plant matter, or cellulose, every year. But what microbes sionate about their work within the termite’s gut get that done? The answers could and their family, these lead to a new means of producing ethanol, since cellulose Brazilian-born biology assis- can be used to make the fuel. Rodrigues is using genome tant professors have two kids, sequencing to address that question. two separate research paths, Besides their research, the couple balance admin- and a collaborative project. istrative chores, grant writing for funding, and travel They finish each other’s to conferences with raising two active, bright, and sentences in all those arenas, having forged a bond as personable sons ages 10 and 4. They’re as devoted to graduate students in 1990 that has withstood a move family at home as they are to research at work. On a from Sao Paulo to Lansing, Mich.; two pregnancies in typical Saturday, Maeli prepares a large lunch, their the midst of postdoctoral research; schedules that can big meal of the day, while Jorge cuddles the younger involve 3 a.m. laboratory visits; and necessary global son. The older boy comes in and out of the kitchen,

travel, usually one scientist at a time. tasting lunch and giving it his seal of approval. JOSH COCHRAN BY ILLUSTRATION

18 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 19 Jorge is lighthearted and funny by nature but firm It’s important, both scientists say, for their colleagues to when it comes to parenting: “If they don’t like what know they’re not going to always share the same opinions. we’re having,” he says, “I tell them turn on the TV and “My dean commented on how we don’t even sit watch what’s going on in Haiti.” together at meetings,” she says. “We talk about what Do the researchers bring work home? Of course. other couples talk about, too, except we don’t talk “We tend to talk about science all the time,” Jorge says. about it here.” Is that bad? Not really. “Our kids tend to know a lot about science.” ELLEN PRITHAM AND CÉDRIC FESCHOTTE On the other hand, Maeli says, “one wake-up call was At the other end of the when our kids said, ‘You guys always talk about work.’ ” spectrum, Drs. Feschotte When it comes to work, they speak the same language and Pritham are a team. (a spouse outside the field would have a hard time con- They publish together. They versing). And the latitude they have as researchers is a might stay up four nights bonus. “We are able to organize our schedules according in a row working together. to our needs,” Maeli says. Lately they’ve been staying Jorge laughs. “If I need to go to the lab at 3 a.m. and take up for a different reason: to care for their 10-month- a culture, Maeli knows I’m here and not at some bar.” old son. They grew up an ocean apart. Feschotte was born ZEYNEP CELIK-BUTLER AND DONALD BUTLER and educated in France, with a Ph.D. from the Uni- A firm boundary between versity of Paris, while Pritham is a New Hamp- work and home, and an equally shire native who earned her Ph.D. at the University firm commitment to not being of Massachusetts. They met in 2001, doing postdoctoral “a package” at work, has been work at the University of Georgia. Pritham was considering We had a rule key for these electrical engi- joining a lab in Georgia where Feschotte already worked, neering professors. and he was asked to show her around. we established, The Butlers met in the He’d been told she was pretty, but “I saw her and it was early 1980s as Ph.D. students working under the same better than I even dreamed,” he says. He decided to show the 635 rule. thesis adviser at the University of Rochester. Donald had her around a botanical garden, where they “got lost.” South of come to Rochester from Toronto, Zeynep from Istanbul. “We went through this one door 15 times,” Pritham They worked at Southern Methodist University for 15 recalls. She decided to join the lab, and they married Highway 635, years before moving to UT Arlington in 2002—labs, in 2004. equipment, and all. Their studies look within genomes at specific kinds we could “We had a rule we established, the 635 rule,” Dr. Celik- of jumping DNA elements called transposons. The Butler says. “South of Highway 635, we could talk about elements move around and replicate. They can cause talk about work. North of Highway 635 is home. We keep it very disease, or they can influence genetic diversity and work. North separate, and that has worked out well for us.” Besides, therefore evolution. Pritham, a biology assistant profes- Dr. Butler says, their children “are not interested at all.” sor, is looking at their effect on Trichomonas vaginalis, of Highway The older daughter studied chemistry at UT Austin, while an organism that causes a common sexually transmit- the younger is interested in computer graphics. ted disease, to see how the organism can become more 635 is home. Even if they were interested, work would be tough resistant to treatments. We keep it for the offspring to understand. The Butlers speak the Together they discovered transposons in bats, a esoteric language of nanotechnology, the realm of mi- breakthrough because they hadn’t been found before very separate, croscopic devices. Theirs is the amazing world of, for in mammalian genomes. They submitted a manuscript example, “smart skin” that could soon enable a prosthetic in two weeks, an incredibly short time. (“Scandalous!” and that has arm to feel. says Feschotte.) Current prosthetic arms generally come with what The birth of their son has curtailed some of their around- worked out amounts to a hook or a claw. Celik-Butler, who directs the-clock work. But because much of their research is com- well for us. UT Arlington’s Nanotechnology Research and Teaching puter-based, they can still be productive from home. Facility, says a few companies have produced more life- The couple say they’re lucky to have strong teams in —Zeynep Celik-Butler like devices, “but they wound up with a 10-pound arm.” their labs. Nanotechnology can solve that problem, adding the “We’ve been extremely fortunate in attracting excellent sense of touch with microscopic sensors. The Butlers’ students and postdocs,” Pritham says. And because their “smart skin” layers sensors into flexible silicon that could son was born at the end of April last year, classes were be placed inside a prosthetic arm or hand. nearly over, so the first months were less hectic. They have patents for several thin-film infrared de- The mechanics of child care aside, these positions tection devices, and some of their work has defense are more than jobs. ILLUSTRATION BY JOSH COCHRAN applications. Another device is a small card used with “Work is not work,” says Feschotte, a biology associate mannequins in cardiopulmonary resuscitation train- professor. “It’s our passion.” ing. It displays red, yellow, and green lights to tell Adds Pritham: “It’s not like you can hang up your a trainee whether the pushes administered to the pa- hat at the end of the day. It’s a tremendous privilege to tient’s chest are deep enough and at the right speed. be a scientist.” The Butlers consciously adopt independent stances at And to be parents. work, even though they collaborate. “We have an unspoken “You find room within yourself,” Feschotte says, “for rule,” Celik-Butler says. “It’s OK to disagree at work.” that additional love.” ✪

20 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 21 As referees in the NFL and NBA, alumni Undrey Wash and Monty McCutchen hold two of the most exclusive and highly scrutinized jobs in the world. UT Arlington served as training ground for both. BY MARK PERMENTER Higher Calling

A dozen large and angry men surrounded Undrey Wash the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. Hollywood on Super Bowl Sunday in February. They cussed, they A-listers Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, and Leonardo pushed, they shoved. Wash, on all fours, head extended, DiCaprio were among the 19,000 who packed the Staples pushed back as the melee engulfed him. But he wasn’t Center for the biggest show in town. Another 15 million there to fight; his job was to determine the winner. watched on TV. If you were among the 106.5 million TV viewers of Unlike pro football officials, who remain largely Super Bowl XLIV, you remember the play. The ultimately anonymous, NBA referees are widely recognized—and victorious New Orleans Saints began the second half critiqued. Boos cascaded every time McCutchen (’88 with an onside kick, resulting in a mad scramble for BA) called a foul on Lakers star Kobe Bryant. Through the football. The 1986 UT Arlington graduate has often dark sunglasses, Nicholson glared at the 17-year NBA stuck his nose in the middle of such free-for-alls during official. Even when McCutchen is right, which is most his 10 years as a National Football League official. But of the time, half the people won’t admit it. Fans, play- the stakes were never this high. ers, and coaches just want their team to win, and their Five months later, fellow alumnus Monty McCutchen passion sometimes turns venomous. played a similar role on pro basketball’s biggest stage. McCutchen and Wash say that’s part of the pack - He headed the three-man crew that officiated Game 2 age when you ascend to the highest level of this elite of the National Basketball Association Finals between occupation. CLOSE CALLS CONFLICT RESOLUTION Undrey Wash compares National Basketball being an umpire in the Association referee Monty National Football League McCutchen says dealing to "crossing a freeway with disgruntled players during rush hour." is just part of the job.

A STAR IN STRIPES rated umpires. They’re graded on every play of every FROM INTRAMURALS TO THE NBA tually landed a job in the Continental Basketball As- Wash’s road to the top began on the UT Arlington in- game, and only those who rank the highest advance to The NBA officiating fraternity is even more exclusive. sociation, which serves as a training ground for NBA tramural fields. While pursuing his systems analysis the postseason. But was he good enough for the world’s Only 58 others share McCutchen’s profession. It’s a full- hopefuls. It was during a CBA game in Pensacola, Fla., degree, he earned $5 a game officiating various sports. grandest sporting event? time job, unlike in the NFL, and the travel is tougher that a fan spouted: “McCutchen, you’re like 7-Up. Never His first taste of on-field animosity came in 1982 dur- “You never know,” he says, “until you get that phone than being a New Jersey Nets fan. During the November- had it, never will.” It still makes him laugh. ing a fraternity softball game. He called a runner out at call.” April regular season, McCutchen is on the road 24-26 He was promoted to the NBA in 1993 at age 27 and, second base, and the player began to argue. Mike Perreira, then director of NFL officiating opera- days a month. like Wash, was the second youngest referee in the league. You can't get “I could handle that. I had pretty thick skin. Then, all tions, delivered the good news at the desk of Wash’s Las “Being away from my wife and children is the hard- He worked his first playoff game in 2000 and his first To reach the of a sudden, his girlfriend started to chime in on me,” Colinas Allstate office, where he’s a claims controller on est part of the job,” he says from his home in Ashville, NBA Finals in 2009. any higher Wash says with a laugh. “That’s when I lost it.” weekdays. As Wash thought about his injury, the birth of N.C. “When you’re in 14 cities in a month, that’s very Now 44, McCutchen knows every NBA player (even NBA Finals, validation of He decided to focus on football and moved quickly his daughter, and all the people who helped him along stressful on family life.” those who never leave the bench), calls them by their Monty is through the ranks: peewee, junior high, sub-varsity, the way, tears welled. McCutchen first put a whistle in his mouth working first name, and expects the same respect in return. If your work varsity, small college. He worked in the Southwest Con- “It was an emotional moment,” he says. “As soon as junior college intramurals. By the time he hit the UT he doesn’t get it, he says, he strives to remain approach- considered ference for a year before it dissolved, then moved to you hang up the phone, you’re going, ‘Yeah!’ ” Arlington intramural courts, he had officiated junior able, firm, and above all, consistent. But with the world’s than to get to the Big 12. After a year in the instant replay booth, he As for the Super Bowl itself, Wash describes it as high, freshman, and junior varsity games. greatest athletes moving at breakneck speed, missed one of the the NFL and officiated his first NFL game in 2000. At age 38 he was business as usual except for the thousands of camera “The first time I blew my whistle, I didn’t raise my calls—and conflict—are inevitable. best. He puts the second youngest official in the league. flashes at the opening kickoff. And the onside kick. hand or do anything,” he recalls with a laugh. “Thank- “You must understand that you are going to fail,” says work the NFL crews have seven members. Wash’s position is Before the game, the Saints’ special teams coach told fully, the kid I was trying to call a foul on raised his hand, McCutchen, who also worked Game 6 of the 2010 NBA the game umpire, which until this season placed him in the middle him the surprise move was in their game plan, but Wash or I might still be standing there today.” Finals. “Hard work minimizes failure, but you can’t be Super Bowl. of the defense. The umpire’s primary task is controlling didn’t know when. As a 21-year-old junior, McCutchen quickly became defensive about every call or you won’t grow and gain first, the crew the action between the offensive and defensive linemen. “I tried to put my hand in the pile and feel the ball,” the referee every intramural team requested. But he the confidence of those you work with.” Undrey is To survive, he learned to dodge 300-pound bodies intent he said. “It was a feeding frenzy and definitely survival wanted more, so he wrote the NBA. The league replied He’s obviously respected by the league’s officiating second, and among the on flattening everyone in their path. of the fittest.” that most of its officials had 15-20 years experience and supervisors, as well as the coaches and general manag- himself third. “It was like crossing a freeway during rush hour,” Wash estimates that football officials have less than a suggested he try the pro-am leagues. ers. They’re the evaluation team that determines which very, very few Wash says. “And it was only getting worse.” That’s why 1 percent chance of landing a spot on one of the NFL’s With help from his dad, who borrowed money against referees advance through the playoffs. With two NBA That's the sign the NFL moved umpires behind the offensive backfield 17 crews. Most who do never sniff the Super Bowl. Carl a horse, McCutchen scraped together enough cash to Finals under his belt, McCutchen is in rare company. to accomplish this season, out of the line of fire. Cheffers, Wash’s friend and crew chief last season, knows travel to Los Angeles for a camp run by NBA referee “To reach the NBA Finals, Monty is considered one of a great that feat. Even that vantage point wouldn’t have kept him from how rare an accomplishment it is. Hugh Hollins. It was his first taste of life as a basketball of the best,” says Duke Callahan, who worked Game 2 official. missing most of the 2007 season after rupturing the “Think about the thousands of officials who want to official, and he was hooked. A week after graduating from alongside his friend. “He puts the game first, the crew sec- —Carl Cheffers patellar tendon in his left knee when a player celebrat- make it to the NFL. To be selected and have success is UT Arlington with a degree in speech communication ond, and himself third. That’s the sign of a great referee.” —Duke Callahan ing a touchdown was pushed into him. That’s the only a great achievement in itself,” Cheffers says. “You can’t and English literature, he moved to L.A. McCutchen and Wash have never met, but they are thing that has slowed Wash’s rise. get any higher validation of your work than to get to the “I knew officiating was something I was going to kindred spirits. They know what it’s like to work at one After working the playoffs and a couple of champi- NFL and work the Super Bowl. Undrey is among the pursue and pursue wholeheartedly,” he says. of the hardest and least-appreciated jobs in sports. And onship games, he knew he was among the league’s top- very, very few to accomplish that feat.” He was invited to a national pro-am league and even- they know how it feels to reach the top. ✪

24 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 25 The Lone Star Sh pe

Texans know a thing or two about reinvention. And, it turns out, so does their state. The area now known as Texas experienced numerous permutations over the centu- ries before taking today’s familiar shape. The UT Arlington Library’s Special Collections traces that evolution through maps that show the state’s many shapes, names, and geo- graphic oddities in the years before and after its settling.

Tabula Novarum Insularum Sebastian Münster Woodcut engraving (hand-colored), 27.5 x 34.5 cm Basel, Switzerland, 1552 Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, UT Arlington

A detail of Münster’s early map of the Americas shows a section of the North American continent that bears an uncanny yet perhaps unintended resemblance to eastern Texas, particularly the Sabine River and the Rio Grande. However, the cartographer designated what appears to be the Rio Grande as the Pánuco—a river actually located farther south in northern Mexico.

26 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 27 America Settentrionale Vincenzo Coronelli Engravings on two sheets (hand-colored), 62 x 87 cm (total) Venice, Italy, 1688 Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, UT Arlington

Coronelli’s map designates what became eastern Texas as part of “La Florida” and the Mississippi River as flowing south through present Texas to empty into the Gulf of Mexico near the Rio Grande. This error resulted at least in part from the difficulty at the time of measuring longitude.

A New Map of Texas, with the Contiguous American & Mexican States James H. Young and Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. Steel engraved transfer lithograph (hand-colored), 33 x 39.5 cm Map of Louisiana Philadelphia, 1835-1836 and of the River Mississippi Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, UT Arlington John Senex Gift of Kitene Kading Engraving (hand-colored), 46 x 56 cm London, 1721 Designed for emigrants to Mexican Texas, Young and Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, UT Arlington Mitchell’s map illustrates a number of empresario land grants, giving Texas a heart shape, with the Nueces River Senex’s English copy of a French map draws the border as the southern boundary. between French Louisiana and Spanish territory along the Rio Grande and the Pecos River, implying that most of Texas belonged to France. The New Mexico pueblos and villages along the upper Rio Grande appear too close to the east.

28 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 29 The State of Texas, 1836-1845 David H. Burr Engraved transfer lithograph (with hand-colored outlines), 45.5 x 54 cm New York, 1846 Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, UT Arlington

One of the first printed maps to show the former Texas republic and Mexican province as a state, it features distinct hand coloring to illustrate disputed areas (in yellow) claimed by both the Texas (and by then United States) and Mexican governments from the time of Texas independence in 1836 to the eve of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1846.

New Map of Texas Anthony (Anton) R. Roessler Lithograph, 38 x 41 cm Map of Texas and the Countries Adjacent New York, 1875 William H. Emory et al. Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, UT Arlington Engraved transfer lithograph (with hand-colored outlines), 53 x 81 cm The state’s present external borders appear on this Washington, D.C., 1844 emigrant map, with the exception of a disputed county Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, UT Arlington that is now in Oklahoma. By the time of the Missouri Compromise of 1850, Texas assumed its present shape, U.S. Army Maj. William H. Emory’s 1844 map portrayed having given up territory north of the 36˚ 30’ parallel the borders of the independent nation of Texas accord- of north latitude in order to retain slavery. It had also ing to its most flamboyant and grandiose claims. The relinquished claims to portions of New Mexico as a additional area included sizable portions of the present reward to the United States government for assuming states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, the former republic’s massive debts. However, in 1860 and Wyoming. the Legislature created Greer County with a northern border along the North Fork of the Red River instead of the South Fork, citing an old treaty. In 1896 the U.S. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS These maps are among the thousands Supreme Court decided against Texas’ claim, and in 1906 housed in the Library’s Special Collections. The 50,000 books, the formerly disputed area became part of Oklahoma. 4 million photographs, 7,000 sheet maps, and other documents in the archive cover the Mexican-American War; the cartographic history of Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Southwest; Mexican political history from 1810-1920; and the history of the University itself. The Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library within Special Collections contains one of the premier map collections in the country. It features thousands of rare maps and atlases that trace five centuries of exploration and mapping of the New World, with particular emphasis on the Gulf Coast and the Greater Southwest. For more, visit http://library.uta.edu/spco.

30 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 31 Bioengineering researcher Jian Yang’s development of a fluorescent material that’s also nontoxic and biodegradable could boost cancer treatment, tissue engineering, and even the cosmetics industry. BY DANNY WOODWARD

Jian Yang’s latest discovery is getting glowing reviews. Noteworthy, indeed. That’s because his latest discovery, well, glows. It’s an aliphatic biodegradable photoluminescent poly- The bioengineering assistant professor has developed mer, or BPLP. It comes from the laboratory, not nature, a material that’s fluorescent, biodegradable, and safe but to ensure its usefulness in biomedicine, Yang used to implant in the body. Bill Carroll, UT Arlington en- naturally occurring building blocks, among them citric gineering dean, calls Dr. Yang’s work “revolutionary… acid, octanediol and nearly two dozen amino acids. in cancer therapy or for imaging,” not to mention what “With our polymer, you can do many things,” he says. it could do for biosensing, immunology, drug delivery, “You can use it as an implant. You can make our polymer and tissue engineering. into a bone-repairing template. You can use it for detec- It’s not just Yang’s colleagues at UT Arlington who tion, tracking, and sensing applications. And since it’s have taken note. His research is funded in part by degradable, it’s not a permanent implant. It will help the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of the body heal; then when you don’t need it anymore, Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. It was recently it’s just gone.” QUANTUM LEAP reported in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Say you want to eradicate the No. 1 killer in the United A fluorescent material PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT CROSBY Academy of Sciences. Two months later, the influential States: heart disease. While bypass surgery can be life- that uses naturally occurring American Chemical Society called the work “Notewor- saving, it’s highly invasive and often inefficient. So in- building blocks could help thy Chemistry,” a title not bestowed lightly, nor often stead of punching through a clot with a permanent metal detect cancer in early bestowed on engineers. stent and then repeating the procedure years later as stages and deliver drugs Yang’s material is the first of its kind that’s nontoxic clots accumulate on the stent, doctors may be able to to combat the disease . (can be used in biomedicine), biodegradable (no long- use Yang’s BPLP to make entirely new blood vessels for term toxicity concerns) and has natural fluorescence their patients. (can be used as an imaging instrument). Or perhaps a patient needs an organ transplant. Rather

32 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 33 than waiting years for a donor and then facing potential dyes and quantum dots are merely imaging agents and rejection, maybe doctors will use BPLP to grow organ can’t be used as implant materials such as drug delivery tissue using the patient’s own stem cells. No waiting. carriers or tissue-repairing templates. No rejection. Yang’s polymer forgoes the dye and the quantum dots. And this is just a blip of what BPLP can do. “The material itself is fluorescent, and this is unique,” he says. “None of the previous biodegradable polymeric YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? implant materials can emit fluorescence without using The leading edge of treating cancer is nanoparticles that an organic dye or a quantum dot. I think this is a revo- transport drugs directly to cancerous cells, like tiny Trojan lution in biomaterials science.” There are horses. It’s an effective treatment with few side effects. Khosrow Behbehani, chair of UT Arlington’s For Yang, it’s a starting point. Biomedical Engineering Department, says Yang’s work so many Because his BPLP glows brightly with an intrinsic is “of fundamental significance to biomedicine.” fluorescence, using the polymer as a coating for drug- “The polymer that Dr. Yang has developed can applications delivery nanoparticles would let doctors trace the path potentially be used in important and innovative of the medicine within the body, making sure that it biomedical applications. It will provide opportunities in so many reaches the target. Further, doctors could monitor how for discoveries and improving health care that have not fields—not scaffolding inside the body degrades and how tissue been available before.” regenerates. Yang believes that his polymer gives phy- just biomedical. sicians “a universal way of knowing” what’s going on ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, I CAN DO BETTER inside their patients’ bodies. In the world of science and engineering, fluorescent I’m trying This also could help in the early detection of cancer, materials are ubiquitous. They’re in electronic devices, to develop which is sometimes extremely difficult given the size and including televisions, and in sensing equipment that location of certain cancers. For example, early gastric can detect biological weapons or contaminated water. biodegradable cancers are not detectable using the current white-light They’re the light emitted by light-emitting diodes. endoscopic diagnosis. In many cases, “fluorescent materials” really means polymeric “One challenge in the surgical removal of cancer is that “quantum dots.” The market-research company BBC doctors can find the big tumors, but they cannot find the Research predicts these tiny dots will have a $700 mil- quantum dots. small cancerous area as easily,” Yang says. “If you don’t re- lion market share by 2013. Yang’s not impressed. This would be a move those small cancer cell clusters, then you leave some “We can beat quantum dots,” he says. “If we can dem- cancer cells behind in the body. They can proliferate and onstrate that we can use our materials to do whatever paradigm shift. grow into even bigger tumors in the future.” quantum dots can do, we can dominate the market.” In the body, a light shines on the BPLP and a bright He does have this going for him: Quantum dots are —Jian Yang glow results, ranging from blue to near infrared. Medi- incredibly expensive, as much as $10,000 per gram. cal imaging machines then use this glow to produce a By comparison, the components he uses to synthesize picture of the inside of the body and reveal things like BPLP are readily available and cost only several dollars previously unseen cancer cells. per gram, and mass fabrication of the polymer is “really Thanks to Yang’s polymer, the same nanoparticles that convenient, if you know how to make it.” deliver drugs to the cancer can also diagnose new cancers. In lab tests, BPLP performs similarly to quantum dots. He isn’t the first person to think of this, but he is the first BPLP also biodegrades and is nontoxic, something no to figure out how to make such intrinsically fluorescent other fluorescent material can claim. implant polymers do both jobs. Previous researchers tried “There is a significant body of research that aims to DISAPPEARING ACT make quantum dots biocompatible,” Dr. Behbehani says. After the photoluminescent “But Dr. Yang’s invention already provides the functions polymers (opposite page) that biocompatible quantum dots may provide in the developed by bioengineer future.” Jian Yang (right) help the Yang says he needs to fully understand the science body heal, they go away. before he ventures into the business. But it’s easy to imag- ine that his BPLP might someday corner the market on biomedical applications. That’s why he hopes to secure a grant that will help him turn his laboratory discovery into a (potentially lucrative) small business, one that turns BPLP into commercial products that will help doctors treat patients in new and better ways. Already he has established collaborations with one large cosmetic company (he won’t say publicly which one, but you’ve heard of it) to see what applications his using organic fluorescent dyes, which are widely available polymer might have in the beauty business. but can be toxic. They’re also chemically unstable, so their Besides that, Behbehani says, several inquiries for signal gets gradually weaker. licensing have been received. Researchers turned to quantum dots, which are “There are so many applications in so many fields— nanoparticles used in the fabrication of transistors, not just biomedical,” Yang says. “I’m trying to develop solar cells, LEDs, and lasers. Their fluorescence is stable biodegradable polymeric quantum dots. This would be and super bight. But quantum dots are made of metal, a paradigm shift.”

so they can poison the body as they decompose. Organic And a quantum leap from quantum dots. ✪ JIAN YANG BY PHOTOGRAPH

34 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 35

School

Attorney Meredith Lyon’s job at the city of Dallas requires There are no shortcuts to advanced degrees, but a few STIMULATING DISCOVERY more than a law school education. She’s a manager, fast tracks keep students focused. A Bridge-to-Doctorate Doctoral student Sanchali supervisor, teacher, and peacemaker. To boost her per- fellowship takes STEM students straight from a bach- Deb has developed a min- formance in all phases, she enrolled in graduate school elor’s degree to their doctorate. The Louis Stokes Alliance iature gastrostimulator that at UT Arlington, where she’s learning how to make her for Minority Participation, a National Science Foundation helps cancer and diabetes office run more efficiently and to understand the ever- program, funds the program, awarding full tuition and patients digest food. changing world of public administration. fees, a textbook and research supply allowance, and a Ask others why they’re pursuing advanced degrees at $30,000 annual stipend for two years. UT Arlington, and you get a variety of answers. Generous financial assistance, innovative programs, Doctoral candidate Sanchali Deb wants to help people and the opportunity to work alongside nationally rec- and sought out electrical engineering Professor J.C. Chiao ognized faculty drew Lyon, Deb, Lopez, and Voinov to for his work on medical devices that save lives. An entic- UT Arlington. Many others are following for the same ing financial package helped convince Antonio Lopez to reasons. pursue a mathematics Ph.D. after earning his bachelor’s degree at UT Arlington. Vitaly Voinov loves the practical SANCHALI DEB DRIVEN TO HELP approach of the linguistics doctoral program. Sanchali Deb could have gone to any university she By 2018, 2.5 million new jobs will require a graduate wanted for her doctoral work. Her academic perfor- degree, according to a report on graduate education mance at Jadavpur University and Siliguri Institute of released in April 2010. “The Path Forward: The Future Technology was stellar. Her work in control systems of Graduate Education in the United States” calls for was exceptional. Students are flocking to UT state and national policy to increase graduate school She was considering the Ph.D. program at Texas A&M enrollment to meet that need. University, but something was missing. She had an unmet Arlington’s 105 graduate Whether it’s a laid-off worker seeking new job skills passion for helping people. Deb made a phone call to UT or a professional who wants more knowledge in a field Arlington electrical engineering Professor J.C. Chiao, who When I saw our programs in record num- related to her job, thousands are turning to UT Arlington works on medical devices with a range of health benefits. to earn graduate degrees. In spring 2010 a record 6,756 “I told Dr. Chiao that I had no experience but was devices help bers. Their reasons are as students were enrolled in the University’s 74 master’s thinking about doing my Ph.D. work at UT Arlington and 31 doctoral degree programs. and wanted to go into what he was doing,” Deb says. the stomach varied as the degrees they’re Phil Cohen, vice provost for academic affairs and dean “His team is multidisciplinary, and he welcomed me.” move properly, of the Office of Graduate Services, is impressed by the Chiao says the strength of his team is its diversity. pursuing. BY TERESA NEWTON growth in number and diversity of graduate students in I was so excited the past decade. “From fall 1999 to fall 2009, we increased our over- and had a all graduate enrollments by 72.9 percent and our new graduate enrollments by 50.9 percent,” Dr. Cohen said. warm feeling “From 2001 to 2009, moreover, doctoral enrollment in my heart. grew from 589 to 969.” Spring 2010 saw 927 doctoral candidates—81 more The doctors than the previous spring. The 2009-2010 academic year brought 126 new students to the program. in the surgery Master’s programs grew even faster. Spring 2010 en- room were also rollment totaled 5,828 students—803 more than the previous spring. For 2009-2010, the University added thrilled. 2,685 new master’s students. Nursing and education increased class rolls by double-digit percentages. —Sanchali Deb Graduate students learn valuable job skills regardless of their discipline, says Donald Bobbitt, provost and vice president for academic affairs. “In graduate school you learn to acquire, organize, and utilize information,” he says. “You learn how to communicate effectively. Critical thinking skills let you Back quickly get to the most important issues and arguments without getting lost in the noise.” Earning a graduate degree takes time and money, and UT Arlington has an answer for both. Flexible class schedules, including evenings and weekends, plus award- winning distance learning programs cater to people with busy lives. Graduate financial aid and scholarship programs help with tuition, research, and living expenses. The Depart- ment of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of Na- tional Need (GAANN) fellowship, which Lopez received, helps students in science, technology, engineering, and to mathematics, also known as the STEM fields.

36 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 37 “We get the best ideas because everyone is coming at “I noticed in one of my classes that the teacher was handles a range of Class C misdemeanor offenses, from IT'S ALL ABOUT OPTIONS an issue from a different point of view,” he says. “That’s saying, ‘I don’t know how you do it. You don’t understand traffic issues and animal cruelty to housing code viola- Linguistics doctoral student part of what makes a great graduate program. To achieve me, but you got it right,’ ” Lopez says of his math home- tions. She supervises 16 attorneys, staffs 13 courts, and Vitlay Voinov, left, and public greatness, we need to create synergy.” work. His top grades in math resulted in other Hispanic provides training to attorneys, police officers, environ- administration master's stu- Once I got Chiao’s research group consists of students from electri- students asking him for help, and he obliged. mental health inspectors, and code compliance workers. dent Meredith Lyon found cal engineering, bioengineering, mechanical engineering, Numbers, and his skill with them, helped boost Lopez’s Every now and then, she prosecutes a case herself. their niches at UT Arlington. to know my material science, physics, biology, and psychology, plus self-esteem and generate positive attention from teach- “We run a very busy shop down here with 12,000 cases collaborators from urology, neurology, neurosurgery, ers. And numbers gave him a future—a much brighter a month,” the Farmington, N.M., native says. professors, I gastroenterology, surgery, and oncology. He also works one than he originally anticipated. “I saw the way things were operating and wanted to knew I could do with 12 clinicians from seven hospitals. “My goal was to get my bachelor’s and start working,” make a positive contribution to the city as to how we Deb’s decision has led her to develop a miniature gas- the former architecture major says. “I thought there was do business, make it more efficient. I’d been thinking more. I stayed trostimulator for which she is seeking a patent. It helps going to be a lot of mathematics (in architecture) but about graduate school for a long time. I heard some Explore cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy and decided it wasn’t for me. I decided to get a math degree.” wonderful things about SUPA (UT Arlington’s School Interested in graduate school? at UT Arlington severely distressed diabetic patients with gastroparesis Lopez received his bachelor’s degree—the first in his of Urban and Public Affairs). It finally got to a point of Attending a UT Arlington restore stomach motility so they can digest food. family to do so—with honors in August 2009. He’s now either do it or don’t. I knew I would regret it if I didn’t.” Graduate Forum is a great way because of the “I was interested in something that had a direct impact on the road to being the first to earn a graduate degree. Evening and online classes have enabled Lyon to to explore the possibilities. It’s faculty and on people,” Deb says. “When I got a bachelor’s degree, my father thought I maintain her busy schedule. free, and you can speak with The gastrostimulator works much like Chiao’s sensor would get a job. When I started graduate school, he said, “The degree programs are so flexible these days. I advisers about a number of staff. I knew that helps people battle gastroesophageal reflux disease. ‘Aren’t you done with school?’ They don’t know what a don’t think there’s a reason you can’t earn a degree. topics, including graduate pro- In a 30-minute outpatient procedure, a doctor inserts Ph.D. is, but I explained that you have more opportunity. Any time I have a conflict with work, the advisers and grams and admissions require- I would get the device through the throat and esophagus using an “Once I got to know my professors, I knew I could do faculty have been very understanding. My supervisors ments. For the latest schedule, the support I endoscope and attaches it to the inside of the stomach. more. I stayed at UT Arlington because of the faculty and at school, where he studied French and ancient Greek. have been very supportive. They know this will help me go to grad.uta.edu and click A small controller outside the body wirelessly activates staff. I knew I would get the support I needed.” He studied theology at a seminary, followed by a in the long run and help the city.” on “Graduate Forums.” needed. the implant to produce weak electrical impulses that The support was there all along, particularly from Pro- related nine-year project in Siberia. While there, he Her classes at SUPA already are helping in her day- stimulate the stomach tissues to digest food. fessor Tuncay Aktosun and Associate Professor Minerva immersed himself in Tuvan, the language of Tuva, a to-day duties as a prosecutor. She has learned more FALL GRADUATE FORUMS —Antonio Lopez “When I saw our devices help the stomach move prop- Cordero. Support on the graduate level includes more member of the Russian Federation on the northern leadership skills, management techniques, theories on COLLEGE OF BUSINESS erly, I was so excited and had a warm feeling in my heart,” mentoring by professors, as well as financial assistance. border of Mongolia. organizational behavior, and especially conflict resolu- 817-272-3005 Deb says. “The doctors in the surgery room were also His GAANN fellowship from the U.S. Department of “Russian is the dominant language there,” he says of tion methods. Saturday, Oct. 9, 10 a.m.-noon thrilled. They started making phone calls, asking their Education includes a stipend for living expenses. And he Tuva. “Tuvan is not studied much in the Western Hemi- “We’re in an adversarial role,” she says of her job as Saturday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m.-noon colleagues to come in and see.” is paid for his graduate assistant job in the calculus lab. sphere. There is only one English-language dissertation a prosecutor, “so people are not very happy when they These clinical trials are the beginning of what Deb Lopez says he hopes to do more research with on Tuvan. Hopefully, mine will be the next.” come in and handle their citations.” COLLEGE OF EDUCATION hopes will lead to a widely used product. Dr. Aktosun. He returned to the United States in 2007 with plans AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS “It would be very rewarding to design something that “I am more interested in applied mathematics, some- to earn a doctorate in linguistics while documenting the 817-272-0149 or 817-272-0116 would benefit people who wouldn’t survive without it.” thing that really applies to the real world,” he notes. “I like Tuvan language. UT Arlington’s linguistic program met Wednesday, Dec. 1, 5-7 p.m. to do research in differential equations. When I worked his needs, and the financial aid offerings were “very at- with Dr. Aktosun on solitary waste, the main focus was tractive,” Voinov says. He received the Graduate Stimulus SCHOOL OF URBAN AND to find solutions using a lot of mathematics.” Scholarship, which provided $2,500 and allowed non- PUBLIC AFFAIRS At the graduate level, mathematical analogies are resident students to pay in-state tuition. 817-272-3071 challenging Lopez to think beyond numbers. Linguistics Associate Professor Colleen Fitzgerald Wednesday, Dec. 1, 6-7 p.m. “You are explaining why this equation is the way to the says Voinov’s work with Tuvan has been an asset to solution. With analogies, you have to express yourself in UT Arlington’s language revitalization work with tribal COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING language but with numbers, about numbers. You have communities in Oklahoma. Why preserve a language 817-272-2571 to understand what they are saying.” when a community takes on a more dominant one, Saturday, Dec. 4, 9:45 a.m.- such as Russian or English? Family, Dr. Fitzgerald says. noon VITALY VOINOV WORD POWER “Imagine if your grandmother spoke one language and Vitaly Voinov is a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves kind you couldn’t understand her.” COLLEGE OF NURSING of guy. That’s one reason he chose UT Arlington for his The larger family of humanity is another reason. Lin- 817-272-2776 doctoral degree. guistics can show how people moved throughout time, DPN program “UT Arlington has a good blend of theory with prac- letting one language merge with another. Monday, Nov. 29, 7-8 p.m. tice,” he says of the Linguistics Department in the College After earning his degree, he plans to continue research- of Liberal Arts. “I’m into linguistics because you can use ing Tuvan. He also hopes to help save a distantly related MSN PROGRAM that knowledge in many different, practical ways.” language in Moldova called Gaguz that may become Monday, Nov. 29, 4-6 p.m. Voinov originally wanted to be an archeologist, the extinct in a few generations. Her master’s degree in public administration is a solid Indiana Jones kind. Then before starting undergraduate Voinov’s hands-on attitude does have room for play. investment, says Lyon, who is paying for her education PH.D. PROGRAM studies at the University of Virginia, he signed up for a He recently won a research poster award. His topic: without loans or scholarships. “The tuition was afford- Monday, Nov. 29, 6-7 p.m. summer archeological dig in Israel. “It’s not as exciting Words should be fun, using Scrabble as a tool for lan- able enough that I could pay for it myself.” as the movies,” he confesses. guage preservation. She hopes to one day work in city management but SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK His interests shifted when a professor compared shards not stray far from practicing law. For now, she’s enjoy- 817-272-3613 or 817-272-1044 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS ANTONIO LOPEZ BEATING THE ODDS of pottery to morphemes, the smallest linguistic unit with MEREDITH LYON GATEWAY TO GROWTH ing learning with fellow students from a variety of jobs Saturday, Nov. 6, 10 a.m.-noon Math whiz Antonio Lopez Numbers speak to Antonio Lopez. When his family a semantic meaning. For example, “dogs” contains two After earning a law degree from Texas Tech and landing and backgrounds. received a highly competitive moved to the United States from Mexico, he couldn’t morphemes: “dog” (canine) and “s” (plural). a job in the Dallas City Attorney’s Office, Meredith Lyon “It’s refreshing to get into a classroom and know that UT ARLINGTON FORT graduate fellowship from the understand what his middle school teachers were say- Language diversity was already a big part of Voinov’s knew another graduate degree would require one thing the professors truly enjoy the subject matter and enjoy WORTH CENTER Department of Education. ing, but numbers made sense. In English or Spanish, life. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and brought up in she had precious little of—time. helping you learn the subject and broadening your hori- 817-272-5956 two plus two always equals four. New York City, he spoke Russian at home and English Lyon is the deputy chief prosecutor for Dallas and zons. They challenge you outside your comfort zone.” ✪ Wednesday, Oct. 20, 6-7 p.m.

38 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 39 ALUMNI NEWS Snapshot ROCKET WOMAN Students have a new source of in- spiration as they walk through Nedderman Hall this fall. The Kalpana Chawla Memorial was dedicated in May in recogni- New Direction tion of Chawla, who earned a master’s degree in aerospace AlumniTHE WORLD AND UTNews ARLINGTON engineering in 1984 before becoming an astronaut. She was Alumni Association welcomes dynamic leader aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia when it broke apart over Texas during re-entry in February 2003. The display includes Lora Malone says much of a university’s excellence stems one of her flight suits, photographs, biographical informa- from its alumni and their affinity for the institution. tion, and a flag flown over Johnson Space Center during the Strengthening the connection between UT Arlington memorial for the astronauts. Chawla’s husband, Jean-Pierre alumni and their alma mater is among her goals as the 1895 SOCIETY Harrison, below, donated the items and says his late wife Alumni Association’s new executive director. Richard Greene, left, and Derek would be pleased to know that she’s an example to others. “The UT Arlington campus has a breadth of en - Main examine a fossil at the ergy and a strong commitment to faculty and staff,” 1895 Society reception at the says Malone, who most recently was vice president Fort Worth Museum of Science and chief programs officer for the Oklahoma State and History. University Alumni Association. “I’m excited to capi - talize on that.” She comes to UT Arlington after nearly a decade with the Oklahoma State alumni organization and 19 years overall in alumni relations, development, public affairs, and marketing. As executive director of the Eight former UT Arlington Alumni Association, Malone manages strategic planning and operations for the organization students who and directs efforts to increase participation among the University’s 148,000 alumni. STUDENT LEADER ALUMNI have excelled Malone earned a bachelor’s degree from Central Attending the Student Leader State University in Edmond, Okla., and a master's de- Alumni Reception during in a range of gree from the University of Central Oklahoma, also in Homecoming were, from left, ILLUSTRATION BY KAREN BY DAVISON ILLUSTRATION ALUM WILLIAM MCKENZIE Edmond. She brings significant leadership experience Delila Pleasant (’06), Bryant professions at a Big 12 university and a high enthusiasm that will Robertson (’07), Jennifer Cath- SHARES PULITZER PRIZE benefit UT Arlington in many ways, says Emily Hoad, cart (’99), and Tim Brown (’09). will be hon- president of the UT Arlington Alumni Association’s Distinguished Company His mind was running a mile a minute Board of Directors. ored at the and his to-do list was a mile long on that “We have a strong foundation with our Alumni As- Recipients announced for UT Arlington’s highest alumni honor manic Monday last spring when William sociation,” Hoad says. “As the University grows by leaps Distinguished McKenzie (’79) finished lunch and raced and bounds, we want to be a partner in that process.” Eight former students will be recognized for their profes- Dr. McSweeney, who holds a master’s degree from back to work. Just in time for his boss to tell Malone, who began in June, says she looks forward sional achievements and service to the community and the College of Nursing, is a professor and associate dean Alumni Gala. him to be downstairs in three minutes. Not to putting her experience to work on the UT Arlington University at the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Gala on Oct. for research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sci- all interruptions are created equal, and this campus and beyond. 16 in the E.H. Hereford University Center. ences in Little Rock. She teaches in the doctoral program one was welcome: McKenzie, a columnist Greg Barron (’91), Clifford Hahne (’82), Robert Irish and has contributed significantly to the field of women’s at The Dallas Morning News, had just won 1895 SOCIETY Jr. (’66), Jean McSweeney (’83), Ignacio Nuñez (’75), and cardiovascular disease. a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He shares the award with Attending the 1895 Society Thomas Rourke (’74, ’78) will receive the Distinguished Dr. Nuñez earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from colleagues Tod Robberson and Colleen McCain Nelson. “I was Lora Malone reception were, from left, Alumni Award. James Ditto will receive the Distinguished the College of Science. In the past 25 years he has delivered completely surprised,” McKenzie says. “You’re kind of looking at is the Alumni John O’Shea, Kathleen O’Shea, Alumni Service Award, and Nasser Ahmed Lozi (’79) will thousands of babies to area mothers. In 2008 his peers yourself and thinking, ‘We just won the Pulitzer!’ ” He did so for Association's Mojy Haddad (’77, ’81), and receive the Distinguished International Alumni Award. elected him to serve as Texas Health Arlington Memorial a series of editorials spotlighting the differences between affluent new executive Julia Haddad. Barron, who earned a B.B.A. in finance from the College Hospital’s president of the medical staff. north Dallas and impoverished south Dallas. Or as UT Arlington director. of Business, is founder and CEO of The Barron Companies Rourke holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from President James D. Spaniolo said when introducing McKenzie as Inc., which holds interests in construction, architecture, the College of Liberal Arts and a master’s degree from the the Maverick Celebration keynote speaker last May: “Bill McKenzie engineering, and real estate development. His company also School of Social Work. He recently teamed with partners focused our attention on parts of the community that too often are starts and sustains village schools and an orphanage in India. to establish Ascend Health Corp., which owns and operates The 2010 Distinguished ignored, because it’s easier to ignore an unpleasant reality than Hahne holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engi- behavioral programs, including hospitals, day treatment, Alumni are, from left, Ignacio to do something about it. We are proud that he has committed neering from the College of Engineering. He is a regional and outpatient centers. Nuñez ('75), Greg Barron ('91), his life and career to such important work.” That commitment president for Lehigh Hanson, Inc., and has been recognized Ditto attended UT Arlington when it was North Texas James Ditto, Robert Irish Jr. was forged by debates and writing projects in political science for his contributions by the U.S. Department of Labor, the Agricultural College and Arlington State College. He has ('66), Jean McSweeney ('83), classes at UT Arlington—Luther Haggard’s class chief among Associated General Contractors, and other organizations served on the Development Board, Alumni Association Nasser Ahmed Lozi ('79), them. Awards weren’t on McKenzie’s mind when he began this in the concrete pipe and products industry. Board, Athletic Council, and as chair of the Athletic Facility Clifford Hahne ('82), and project; in fact, he didn’t even know his editors had submitted it MAVERICK RING CEREMONY Irish earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Group for the Maverick Athletic 2020 Advisory Board. Thomas Rourke ('74, '78). for Pulitzer consideration. “It does elevate the project, and that’s Senior Stephanie Moran, left, the College of Science. He was in the UT Arlington Cadet His Excellency Lozi, who earned a bachelor’s degree in Visit www.uta.edu/alumni/ a good thing,” he says. “And personally, it does give you a quiet and O.C. Abajue (’10) received Corps and later served with the 51st Signal Battalion in civil engineering from the College of Engineering, serves distinguished for more confidence that you’re doing some good work.” The late Professor their class rings at the Official Korea. He founded Texcom Southwest and later sold it to as chief of the Royal Hashemite Court for Jordan’s King information on the honorees. Haggard no doubt would have been proud. “On the last day of class, Maverick Ring Ceremony. Visit Intermec Corp. He currently serves as president of Controls Abdullah II. Lozi has been called the second most powerful I don’t think either of us would have said that he had changed my www.uta.edu/alumni/maver- International Inc. person in Jordan. life,” McKenzie says. “But I knew that he had.” ickring for more information.

40 UTArlington Magazine ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Alumni Mansfield, Texas Events The Wild Side Alumnus protects endangered Texas animals

Pockets filled with bug bits—cicadas, actually—are what Omar Bocanegra’s mom found every week in her son’s laundry. Young Omar was fascinated by nature, and boys always bring treasures home in their pockets. OOZEBALL TOURNAMENT Being a city kid, Bocanegra’s wildlife specimens were The Student Alumni Association limited. No deer roamed his Fort Worth neighborhood. and Campus Recreation host “If you’re interested in wildlife in the city,” he explains, the 21st annual mud volleyball WILL LATHAM, JOEL WARD “your biggest variety is going to be insects.” tournament with proceeds As they strolled through So it was. And so it remained, at least through benefiting scholarships. Noon downtown Mansfield short- college. When it came time to select a university and Friday, Sept. 17, Summit Street ly before noon March 13, FAMILY TIES major, Bocanegra sought out someone who shared his between Greek Row and 4th retired Maj. Gen. Will Latham UT Arlington continues to be a family affair for the Hudlows, fascination. He found UT Arlington biology Professor Street. More information: (’49 ), left, and retired Col. from left, Rachel, Paul, Daniel, John, Vi, and David. The group James Robinson, an expert in the evolutionary ecology Jasmine Stewart, 817-272-2594 Joel Ward (’62 ) flashed gathered outside Texas Hall in May to celebrate Daniel’s gradu- of aquatic insects. or [email protected] back to a similar trek they ation with a bachelor’s degree in software engineering. Rachel Under Dr. Robinson’s guidance, Bocanegra re- made 50 years earlier. In graduated in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in nursing, and John searched the desert firetail damselfly and went on to COLLEGE PARK 1960 Latham, then a captain graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engi- earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from UT Arlington and City of Ar- and assistant professor of neering. Twins Paul and David are juniors pursuing mechani- UT Arlington. Over the years he built an extensive col- lington officials break ground military science and tactics cal engineering and software engineering degrees, respectively. lection of damselfly specimens, including one that was on the $80 million project that at Arlington State College Family matriarch Vi holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in his- the first to be identified in the United States. includes residence halls, a park- (now UT Arlington), led tory from UT Arlington. Today he is a fish and wildlife biologist and coordi- ing garage, and retail space. Ward and a handful of other nator of the Endangered Species Program in the U.S. 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11. More cadets on a 126-mile march Fish and Wildlife Service’s Arlington field office. He information: www.uta.edu from campus to Killeen’s CADETS ADD HALL OF oversees efforts to preserve and restore 11 endangered Fort Hood. Dubbed the Long or threatened species—including the black-capped vireo March, the journey served HONOR TO AWARDS LISTS and whooping crane—in 112 North Texas counties. as a motivational tool and Retired Lt. Col. Lee B. Wilson, top, and Col. Lester Much of his work involves consulting with other source of inspiration for Simpson are the 2010 inductees into the Military Sci- agencies and landowners. “We educate landowners the two-year college cadets ence Hall of Honor. Wilson earned a B.B.A. degree in about changes they can make to protect a species, who were transitioning 1962 as a distinguished military graduate. He served and at very little cost to themselves,” he says. “Small to a four-year institution. as rifleman, squad leader, first sergeant, and team techniques in the way land is managed may easily help Instead of heading to the executive officer of the Sam Houston Rifles, and in preserve a species.” beach or ski slopes, more the Cadet Corps he advanced to platoon leader and than 40 UT Arlington ROTC deputy corps commander. His assignments included cadets embarked on the three combat tours with the 5th Special Forces Group RICK BAYLESS same journey during spring in Vietnam, where he served as the commanding The celebrity chef best known break 2010 to commemorate officer of a Mobile Strike Force Battalion. He later Wildlife biologist for his PBS series Mexico: the accomplishment of their served as an executive officer to a major general and brigadier Omar Bocanegra One Plate at a Time shares his predecessors. Latham and general in Korea. Following Korea, he was assigned to Fort Ben- found his calling culinary expertise as part of the Ward marched part of the ning, Ga., where he was a weapons instructor team chief with the at UT Arlington. 2010-2011 Maverick Speakers way to show their support. Infantry School and division chief of the System Development Series. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, “Soldiers are encouraged to Division, Combat Development Directorate of the Infantry School. Oct. 14, Lone Star Auditorium, think, ‘You can always die, Wilson retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1984. Simpson received Maverick Activities Center. but you can never quit,’ ” an early commission in the Texas Army National Guard in 1980 More information: www.uta. Latham says. “These cadets and graduated as a distinguished military student in 1983 with a edu/maverickspeakers are becoming those sol- bachelor’s degree in general studies. As a cadet, he commanded diers.” The group reached the Sam Houston Rifles in 1979 and 1980, winning the State of ALUMNI GALA its destination March 17. Texas Championship. He was commissioned an infantry officer The Alumni Association hosts and served in key leadership and command assignments in the the annual gala recognizing Texas Army National Guard. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army outstanding alumni for their War College and received a Master of Strategic Studies degree in professional achievements, 2005. He was selected for promotion to brigadier general by the service to the community, and adjutant general of Texas for his leadership, personal, and profes- loyalty to UT Arlington. 6:30 sional credentials; multiple deployments and broad experiences; p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, E.H. and commitment to mission accomplishment and taking care of Hereford University Center. soldiers. Both Simpson and Wilson received numerous awards More information: www.uta. and decorations for their service. edu/alumni/distinguished

42 UTArlington Magazine ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Class Notes Notable 1941 Larry Kilgore (’71 BBA, Busi- 41 years. Ralph Wurbs (’74 MS, with Farris Literary Agency and of Justice Award from the ing Center in Paris, Texas. and general manager at Trane Austin-based firm dealing in research. Dr. Gray is associate James “Brad” Bradley (’41 ness Administration) is regional Civil Engineering) is an associ- an attorney with the Dallas Tarrant County Trial Lawyers Professor Larry Tunnell (’81 Commercial Systems. training solutions for the food dean for the Ph.D. program AS) has been Cotton Bowl president for the Downtown ate director for the Texas Water firm of Tipton Jones, whose Association for demonstrat- BBA, Accounting; ’83 MPACC) manufacturing and process- in UT Arlington’s College of photographer for 63 years, dat- Fort Worth and Southlake Resources Institute at Texas practice includes commercial ing a courageous pursuit of completed a three-year stint 1984 ing industry. Prior to joining Nursing. Ed Loutherback ing to 1948. He was named to Banking Centers for Southwest A&M University, where he is a litigation and entertainment justice. Campbell is an editorial as head of the Accounting Duane Ayers (’84 BBA, Alchemy, she served as a senior (’89 BS, Information Systems) the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame Securities, FSB. He has more professor in the Zachry Civil law. Chuck Gumbert (’77 BBA, writer/columnist for the Star- and Information Systems Finance) is a consultant in account manager for Silliker, is franchise owner of Pirtek, a in 2007. than 40 years experience in Engineering Department. He Business Administration) is Telegram. Jack Nowicki (’79 Department in the College of the leasing and financial an internationally accredited hose and assembly company the banking industry in the joined the department in 1980. CEO for the Tomcat Group, an MSSW) is program develop- Business at New Mexico State services industry. He previ- provider of food safety and in Plano. Previously, he was an 1968 Fort Worth-Dallas area, serving aviation management consul- ment specialist for the Texas University. ously was regional manager consulting services. information technology con- Martha Burk (’68 MA, most recently as president and 1975 tancy based in Wichita, Kan. Network of Youth Services in for Hitachi Capital America sultant. Carlos A. Rodriguez Psychology; ’74 PhD, Gen- director of Southwest Bank. Paul Swasko (’75 MSSW) is He has more than 35 years in Austin. Walter Ragsdale (’79 1982 Corp. in Denver. Prior to that, 1987 (’89 BA, Journalism) is opinion TOM HARVEY eral Experimental Psychology) an honorary co-chairman of aviation management. Jill Hill BS, Civil Engineering) served as Jim Fant (’82 BBA, Accounting) he spent 22 years with General Jim Krause (’87 BBA, Ac- editor for The Brownsville Harvey (’73 BS, Architecture) released the book Your Money 1972 the St. Joseph's Community (’77 BA, Fine Arts) is executive interim public works director is chief investment officer of Motors Acceptance Corp. LLC counting) was honored as Herald. Dee Trussell (’89 was elected to the College and Your Life: The High Stakes Stephen B. Kinslow (’72 Foundation Heart of Paris Gala director for the River Legacy in Farmersville in the spring. In Behringer Harvard Opportunity in management and sales. Fort Worth’s top chief financial BBA, Marketing) is director of of Fellows of the American for Women Voters in ’08 and BA, English) announced his 2010, scheduled for October Foundation in Arlington. 2005 he retired as assistant di- Advisors, which creates and Katherine Ayers (’84 BBA, officer for a mid-sized business business development at New Institute of Architects for Beyond. She is the former intention to retire as president in Paris, Texas. He and his wife, rector of development services manages global institutional- Accounting) is chief financial by the Fort Worth Business York-based Spectrum Group contributions of national sig- chair of the National Council and CEO of the Austin Com- Betty, have volunteered their 1978 for the city of Richardson and quality investment programs officer for the Cattlemen’s Press. He has helped Higgin- Management, an investment nificance to the profession. He of Women’s Organizations in munity College District when time on medical mission trips Rick Baker (’78 BM) is an has since done interim work for for individual and institutional Beef Board in Centennial, Colo. botham & Associates redesign firm focused on distressed, is managing principal of HKS Washington, D.C. his contract expires in June to Mexico. Sally Welborn (’75 adjunct professor of music at several cities. investors through its real estate Previously, she contracted as its capital structure and was special situation, and asset- Clinical Solutions & Research in 2011. He will have 34 years of BA, Mathematics) was named Dallas Baptist University, where investment trusts, joint ven- a consultant with the board instrumental in increasing the based credit markets. Dallas and a 2009 UT Arlington 1970 service with ACC, including six to the board of directors of the he teaches orchestration and 1980 tures, and proprietary program to perform state beef council firm’s operating margins over Distinguished Alumnus. Gary Trietsch (’70 BS, ’74 MS, as president. National Business Group on instrumental methods. He has Matt Angle (’80 BA, Political structures. He works out of the financial reviews and contrac- the last few years. 1990 Civil Engineering) was named Health. She is senior vice presi- been appointed conductor Science) is a Democratic politi- Addison office and has more tor compliance audits. Bob David Beuerlein (’90 MS, ALYCE ASHCRAFT Transportation Giant of the 1973 dent of benefits for Walmart of the Arlington Community cal consultant who serves as than 25 years experience in Bullis (’84 BS, Architecture; ’87 1988 Aerospace Engineering) is Ashcraft (’84 MSN) received Year by the Texas Chapter David Branton (’73 BS, in Bentonville, Ark., and has Band. He retired as director the director of the Texas Dem- commercial real estate. Ricky MArch) is director of t. howard Scott A. Anderson (’88 BGS, senior client partner for Korn/ the Texas Tech University of the International Chinese Electrical Engineering) is chief more than 25 years experience of bands at Arlington’s Bowie ocratic Trust. He also founded D. Gibbs (’82 BA, Physical Edu- + associates, an architecture, General Studies) is vice presi- Ferry International, a global Health Sciences Center Presi- in corporate human resources. High School. Gerry Barker the Lone Star Project, a federal cation) has been promoted to interior design, and planning dent of commercial lending at provider of talent manage- dent’s Excellence in Teaching Kent Worley (’75 BBA, Busi- (’78 BA, English) produces a political action committee. He brigadier general in the Army. firm based in Dallas. He helps the north Arlington office for ment solutions based in Los Award and the Chancellor’s CASEY COLEMAN ness Administration) retired blog called “Gerry Pronounced is based in Washington, D.C. He is in the 1st Infantry Division, lead THA’s strategic initiatives, Southwest Securities, FSB. He Angeles with offices in Dallas. Council Distinguished Teach- Coleman (’92 MBA) received the 2010 Innovation after 32 years with the Fort Gary” from West Palm Beach, Donna Bertram (’80 BSN), stationed at Fort Riley, Kan. business planning, and firm op- previously was vice president, Brian T. Rex (’90 BS, Architec- ing Award. She is a professor in Leadership Award presented at the MIT Sloan CIO Worth Fire Department. He be- Fla. He has run websites for was honored as a Healthcare Mel Maxfield (’82 BA, History erations. Singanallur “Nari” senior business banker, at ture) is department head for a the Anita Thigpen Perry School Symposium in May recognizing top people in technology. came the department’s public the Star-Telegram, The Dallas Hero by the Fort Worth Busi- and Physical Education) is head Narayanan (’84 MS, Computer Capital One Bank. Holli Hall newly established architecture of Nursing at the Texas Tech She is chief information officer at the General Services information officer in 1989 and Morning News, Belo Interac- ness Press after she received football coach at Amarillo High Science) is a managing partner (’88 BBA, Marketing; ’09 MEd, undergraduate and graduate Health Sciences Center. Administration in Washington, D.C. served as a commissioner of tive, The Columbus Dispatch, the Organizational Innovation School. He spent the last eight and the senior investment Curriculum and Instruction) is program at South Dakota State the Texas Commission on Fire the Florida Publishing Group, Award for Nurse Executives in years as head football coach at banker of Kuberon Capital LLC, math instructional facilitator at University. He will develop JEFF FERGUSON Protection since 2002. and, most recently, The Palm 2009. She is vice president and Burleson High School. a hedge fund in New York. Veda Knox Elementary School curriculum and teach the first Ferguson (’95 MS, Interdis- Beach Post. ClayOla Gitane chief nursing officer of Texas Previously, he was managing in Arlington. Ken Millar (’88 classes in fall 2010. Sharraine ciplinary Studies) is head Transportation Professionals executive officer for Turbine 1976 (’78 BA, Sociology; ’80 MSSW) Health Arlington Memorial 1983 director for Bear Stearns Asset PhD, Social Work Administra- Williams (’90 BA, Exercise and athletic trainer for the San Association. Trietsch is a vice Generator Maintenance, David Kunkle (’76 BS, Criminal is the second woman priest to Hospital. Anne S. French (’80 J. Russell Killen (’83 BS, Civil Management and a managing tion) has been named dean of Sport Studies/Exercise Science) Francisco 49ers. Previously, president at Dannenbaum an independent provider of Justice; ’94 MPA) retired as be ordained in the Episcopal BA, English) is a professional Engineering) is manager of director with Heckman Global the College of Health and Hu- is the occupational therapist he was head athletic trainer Engineering in Austin and a inspection, maintenance, and Dallas police chief. He had Diocese of Fort Worth. She mediator and has written a the Fort Worth office of Halff Advisors. Jim Greer (’84 BS, man Services at California State for the Terrell Independent at Kansas State University. member of the UT Arlington repair services for owners of previously been police chief leads two congregations: Christ book, The Gift of Words. Rod Associates, a Texas-based Electrical Engineering) is asset University, Long Beach. School District, where she also College of Engineering’s Board steam and gas turbines and in Grand Prairie and Arlington. the King Episcopal Church in Rooker (’80 BM) is band direc- firm that offers full-service manager for Oncor’s Smart serves as director of the Terrell of Advisors. He was named a generators in Cape Coral, Fla. Wayne Watts (’76 BBA, Busi- Fort Worth and the Episcopal tor at Barnett Junior High in engineering, architecture, Grid technology initiative. He 1989 High School Tigerettes drill Distinguished Alumnus in 2005. He has been in the power ness Administration) is senior Church in Parker County. She Arlington. Stefan Ateek (’81 planning, interior design, and has worked for Oncor and its Daniel L. Akin (’89 PhD, team. Gail Berlin (’91 MSSW) generation service business for executive vice president and previously served as a social MSSW) received the Christ-Like landscape architecture. He is predecessor companies since Humanities) is president of is a marketing/business de- 1971 37 years. Bob McGrath (’73 BA, general counsel at AT&T in Dal- worker with several Tarrant Leadership Award from Health responsible for leading opera- 1984. Southeastern Baptist Theologi- velopment consultant helping Jim Guay (’71 BBA, Business Sociology), judge of the 342nd las. Patricia Pearson (’76 BSW) County organizations. Wes Outreach to the Middle East tions and expansion of the Fort cal Seminary in Wake Forest, hospitals attract direct patient Administration) is executive District Court in Tarrant Coun- recently published a book, McDaniel (’78 BS, Electrical in recognition of his contribu- Worth office through its civil 1985 N.C. He has written several referrals. She is based in Dallas. director of the Junior Achieve- ty, was hired by Dallas County Stop Self-Sabotage: Get Out of Engineering) operates Ideal tions in enhancing the work of engineering, water resources, Charles Lester (’85 BA, Jour- books and provided guidance ment chapter in Tyler. He has commissioners as legal adviser. Your Own Way to Earn More Impact, a niche business that medical missions. He recently transportation, land develop- nalism) is principal at Little Elm to churches in North Carolina, 1991 30 years experience with Junior McGrath had been a Tarrant Money, Improve Your Relation- helps congregations and faith- retired from the Tarrant County ment, planning, environmen- High School in the Little Elm Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Sime Bertolet (’91 BA, Radio Achievement in Dallas, South County judge since 1993. ships, and Find the Success You based schools, nonprofits, and Juvenile Justice Department tal, and surveying services. Independent School District. Virginia. Jonathan Beard TV; ’04 MA, History) is execu- MIA HALL Carolina, and Louisiana. Kristy Deserve. She is a motivational companies reduce their energy after 29 years. He has been with Halff for He previously taught in the (’89 MSSW) is a lecturer in the tive director of the Berks Coun- Hall (’05 MEd, Educational Libotte Keener (’71 BFA, Art) 1974 speaker and business coach consumption and create a new 26 years. Jim Pape (’83 BS, Arlington Independent School School of Social Work at the ty Historical Society in Reading, Administration) is principal at won an International Associa- Lillie Biggins (’74 BSN) is se- based in Cedar Park, Texas. revenue source. It’s the fourth 1981 Mechanical Engineering) is District and served as an as- University of Washington. He Pa. Madeleine Gray (’91 BA, the Young Women’s Lead- tion of Business Communica- nior vice president of hospital energy efficiency company he Pam Russell (’81 MSSW) is one president of the residential and sistant principal at Arlington’s teaches classes in advanced Spanish) is vice president of ership Academy, the Fort tors 2010 Bronze Quill Award operations at Texas Health 1977 has started since 1979. of five professionals appointed commercial business group at Sam Houston High School. generalist practice and mental business technology delivery Worth school district’s first for graphic design for a Broad- Fort Worth. Mark Plume (’74 Mike Farris (’77 BA, Political by Gov. Rick Perry to the Task SunPower Corp., a manufac- health policy. Jennifer R. for US Airways in Phoenix, all-girls school. She leads a way concert postcard/poster. BBA, Business Administration) Science) has written a book, 1979 Force to Reduce Child Abuse turer of high-efficiency solar 1986 Gray (’89 MSN) was honored Ariz. She previously was senior group of about 15 sixth- and She is graphic design coordina- is general manager of the J.C. Kanaka Blues, published by Sa- Linda P. Campbell (’79 BA, and Neglect, commissioned cells, solar panels, and solar Laura Dunn Nelson (’86 BS, as a Healthcare Hero by the director, air merchandising and seventh-graders. The school tor at the North Central Texas Penney store in Pearland. He vant Books and Publications of English) received the Lau- by the 81st Legislature. Russell systems in San Jose, Calif. Pre- Microbiology) is industry rela- Fort Worth Business Press core services, for Sabre Hold- emphasizes math, science, and Council of Governments. has worked for J.C. Penney for Honolulu. He is a literary agent rence “Lanny” Priddy Pursuit is co-owner of Paris Counsel- viously, he was vice president tions manager for Alchemy, an for her work in HIV and AIDS ings Corp., based in Southlake. leadership skills.

44 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 45 ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Class Notes Update 1992 Active Power. Jay Thomas includes $10,000 cash. A pro- Fryer Jr. (’98 BA, Economics) Minerva Hernandez Davis 2004 e-merge 2010, an international 2008 (’08 PhD, Computer Science LEGACY SCHOLARSHIP Yee Gan (’92 BS, Computer (’93 BBA, Management- fessor of mathematics, she has ran a randomized experiment (’02 BM) performs with the Robin Alex (’04 MS, Market- kiln-formed glass competition Tabitha Boykin (’08 BA, Engineering) is a postdoctoral The Alumni Association has Science Engineering) is vice Production/Operation) is park been a faculty member at Mar- in hundreds of classrooms in Lone Star Wind Orchestra and ing Research) is a research for emerging artists. Her work Advertising) is a social media fellow in the Goldstein Lab at established the Alumni Legacy president of engineering president of Six Flags Magic shall University since 2001 and multiple cities that paid 18,000 teaches private music lessons manager for the Hershey Co. was among more than 1,200 specialist for The Crouch the Duke University School Scholarship for academically for Numetrics Management Mountain and Hurricane sits on the university’s Faculty children a total of $6.3 million in the Fort Worth-Dallas area. in Hershey, Pa. Eric M. Baker pieces submitted for admission Group, a full-service marketing of Medicine’s Institute for talented students who are Systems, which provides a suite Harbor in Valencia, Calif. He Senate. She also has received for good grades. He and a She also organized the LSWO (’04 BM) is band director at in the sixth biennial competi- and advertising agency in Den- Genome Science and Policy. relatives of UT Arlington gradu- of enterprise software tools tai- started as a ride operator in several awards at Marshall for team of researchers then ana- Brass Quintet with members Odessa College and performs tion. Amanda Doak (’07 BA, ton. She helps clients create Tojjinay Thompson (’08 BS, ates. Supported by the Official lored to system and semicon- 1988 at Six Flags Over Texas excellence in teaching, includ- lyzed the effects and shared of the wind orchestra. Shawn with the Midland-Odessa Philosophy) is a probation and maintain a comprehensive Exercise and Sport Studies) is Maverick Ring program, the ductor product-development and has worked at Six Flags ing the Charles E. Hedrick the results exclusively with Dillon (’02 BA, Philosophy) Symphony Orchestra. officer for Portage County in social media strategy as part assistant women’s basketball scholarship celebrates the organizations. He will oversee parks in San Antonio, Atlanta, Outstanding Faculty Award. Time magazine. He is an eco- is director of strategic sales Ravenna, Ohio. Jamie “Jazze” of marketing and advertis- coach at Texas A&M Interna- family traditions of attending Numetrics’ development New Jersey, and Kentucky. nomics professor at Harvard for First American Payment 2005 Goodspeed (’07 BA, Commu- ing programs. Vijay Dixit tional University in Laredo. UT Arlington. For requirements teams in Cupertino, Calif., 1995 University. Frances A. Smith Systems in Fort Worth. Previ- Yoon Kyoung Grace Choe (’05 nication) is the music review (’08 MS, Computer Science Chris Aufdembrink (’09 MA, and more information about and around the world. Susan 1994 Angela Blackburn (’95 MSSW) (’98 BA, History) has been hired ously, he was manager of bank MA, TESOL) is an English teach- segment host for D210 TV, Engineering) is an engineer at TESOL) is an instructor in the the scholarship, visit www.uta. Nelson Jordan (’92 BA, Politi- Cindy Campbell (’94 MSN) uses her social work skills as “Of Counsel” by the Dallas partnerships and corporate er at In-Hwa Girls High School which debuted on the Time Garmin Ltd. in Olathe, Kan. The English Language Institute at edu/alumni/scholarships. cal Science) has been elected is health science technology through her involvement in Girl law firm of Shackelford, Melton sales for First American. in Korea. Alberto Herrera (’05 Warner Cable Texas Channel company produces personal UT Arlington. to membership in the Fellows education teacher for the Scouts and Boy Scouts in Santa & McKinley. She is president of Abhijit Kaisare (’02 MS, ’07 MEd, Educational Leadership in June. She also is an on-air GPS-based navigation devices. HISPANIC ALUMNI of the Texas Bar Foundation for Joshua Independent School Maria, Calif., where she lives the DFW Association of Bank- PhD, Mechanical Engineering) and Policy Studies) is principal at personality for 97.9 The Beat Boback Firoozbakht (’08 2009 The Hispanic Alumni Chapter her outstanding professional District. Previously, she worked with her husband, Dennis, and ruptcy Lawyers. is a senior design engineer Anson Jones Elementary School radio. Wendy Meyer (’07 BS, Architecture) interviewed Enrique Baez (’09 BS, Civil is encouraging Hispanic alumni achievements and commit- as a registered nurse in Dal- their four children. with Anveshak Technology in Dallas. Marsha Huie (’05 BSN, MLA) had her 2007 master’s former President Bill Clinton Engineering) is a resident en- to start their own alumni ment to improving the justice las, Fort Worth, and Japan. 1999 and Knowledge Solutions in ’08 MSN, Nursing Administra- thesis, “Persistence of Memory: about the environment in a gineer for the U.S. Army Corps groups in large metropolitan system throughout Texas. Her Jeffrey Fulks (’94 PhD, Social 1996 Leilani Bonds (’99 BBA, Pune, India. Carolyn Scott tion) is a health care consultant Scent Gardens for Therapeutic special Earth Day broadcast of Engineers in Afghanistan. areas like Houston, San Anto- law practice, Jordan Law PLLC, Work) is a professor at Evangel Carey P. Hendrickson (’96 Management) did her (’02 MS, Health Care Admin- at Dell Perot Systems in the Fort Life Review in Communities on “Digg Dialogg” on Dig- Kim Danek (’09 BBA, Ac- nio, and Austin. In addition to is in Austin. Sheila J. Martin University in Springfield, Mo. MBA) is senior vice president internship last spring as a istration) is vice president for Worth-Dallas area. She has 20 for the Elderly,” published this gTV. Don Fougere (’08 MA, counting) is a tax associate its Facebook page, the chapter (’92 MPA, Public and Urban Tobin Griffeth (’94 BA, Inter- and chief financial officer for special education teacher at performance, improvement, years of bedside and nursing year in Landscape Architecture Modern Languages) teaches at Sanford, Baumeister & is exploring other social Administration) was appointed disciplinary Studies) helped Belo Corp. in Dallas. He had Central High School in San and quality in the Informatics management skills in multiple News Digest. Frank Mosley French at Keller High School. Frazier, an accounting firm in networking opportunities by city secretary for Seagoville. start Operation Red River Care, been the company’s senior vice Angelo. She worked in the Division at Premier Healthcare areas and now works in informa- (’07 BA, English) premiered his He also does volunteer Fort Worth. She assists with introducing a monthly global president and chief account- health care industry for more Alliance. Pete Unseth (’02 tion technology solutions. Jack feature film Hold at the Dallas work for Bread of the World federal and state compliance Skype conference to digitally ing officer since 2007. Vasu than 10 years. PhD, Linguistics) is an associ- Lee (’05 BM, ’08 MM) is a music International Film Festival in Ministries, where he is chief and preparation of individual, reconnect classmates over live DANA GIBSON Rangadass (’96 PhD, Com- ate professor at the Graduate instructor at Hill College and April. That same month the strategist. Sonia Fuentes partnership, and corporate voice phone. Contact Michael Gibson (’93 PhD, Business Administration) has been named puter Science Engineering) is 2000 Institute of Linguistics in Dallas. band director for the Hillsboro film was screened at the Kent (’08 BSW) received a bilingual tax filings.Cecil Touchon (’09 Vega at [email protected] or visit president of Sam Houston State University. Previously, a principal with Net.Orange, a Dana Davis (’00 MPA, Lori Yates (’02 MSSW) started Independent School District. International Film Festival in scholarship from the Hogg BFA, Art) displayed his art “The www.utahispanicalumni.org. she was vice president for finance and operations at the Dallas company that enables Professional Accounting) and a drama therapy program for Robby Storey (’05 BA, Psychol- Kent, Conn. Zeng Qinping Foundation and is a graduate New Beautiful” at the William Hunstville, Texas, campus. Prior to that, Dr. Gibson was health care providers to more her husband, Adrian, partici- the criminally insane or those ogy) played the lead role in the (’07 EMBA) is president of BGP student at Baylor University. Campbell Contemporary Art president of National University in San Diego, Calif. easily analyze, monitor, and pated in The Amazing Race on incompetent to stand trial movie Hold, which premiered at International, a geophysical Salvador Gonzales (’08 BBA, show March 27-April 24 in Fort act on information for better CBS-TV in February. Laurie at Western State Hospital in the Dallas International Film Fes- service company specializing Operations Management) is Worth. Colleen Doyle (‘09 patient care and treatment. Chance Smith (’00 MSSW) is a Washington state. tival in April. Jeffery Woodruff in seismic surveys. Previously, a technician and inspector MS, Marketing Research) is a freelance writer/photographer. (’05 BS, Mechanical Engineering) he was senior vice president at Kinki Sharyo International, project director at RTI Market She previously was associated which sent boxes of donated 1997 She creates word puzzles and 2003 is a manufacturing engineer at of BGP International and the a design and manufacturing Research and Brand Strategy with the cities of Killeen, Dallas, goods from Texas to Afghani- Michael Kuhrt (’97 MEdT) is writes short fiction, nonfiction, Jennifer Burt (’03 BBA, Downhole Solutions in regional manager of BGP firm for public transit systems in Stamford, Conn. Previously, and Plano. stan while he was stationed superintendent for the Dayton and poetry for magazines both Marketing) is assistant vice Conroe, Texas. Middle East. Adriana Roberts in Dallas. He is working on a she was a strategic planner there in the Air Force. Danielle (Texas) Independent School nationally and internationally. president of the business (’07 BA, Communication) is project for DART to expand at Javelin Direct in Dallas. 1993 Heard (’94 BA, Journalism) is District. He was previously su- banking group in Fort Worth 2006 director of the Henderson the rail line fleet.Safwan Robert Martin (’09 Principal- Mark Jackson (’93 BA, founder and executive director perintendent at Giddings ISD. 2001 for Bank of Texas. Kristin Travis Eickenloff (’06 BBA, Civic Center in Henderson, Mahmud Khan (’08 MS, Com- ship Certification, Educational ARCHITECTURE ALUMNI Journalism/Advertising) is of Artemis in the City, a na- Sergio Tacconi (’97 BS, Com- Solomon Boyle (’01 BSW) Ferguson (’03 PhD, Social Management) has gradu- Texas. The 19,000-square-foot puter Science Engineering) is Leadership and Policy Studies) Topping Out 2010 was held last president and chief executive tional holistic nutrition services puter Science Engineering) is an attorney for the Social Work) is associate professor ated from Army basic infantry structure opened in Febru- pursuing a doctoral degree at is assistant principal at Everman spring at Cowboys Stadium officer of Vizion Interactive, company. She is a certified is a senior software engineer Security Administration, in the School of Social Work training at Fort Benning in ary. Nyadia Steward Thorpe UT Dallas. Chris McMurrough Junior High School. Kristin in Arlington. Dallas Cow- a search engine optimization holistic health counselor and for Paradigm Entertainment in drafting decisions for judges. at the University of Southern Columbus, Ga. Chris Helms (’07 BM) teaches choir at H.W. (’08 BS, Computer Science Meyer (’09 MS, Marketing Re- boys owner Jerry Jones, left, company headquartered in a certified natural whole foods Carrollton. He previously practiced with California. She is funded to (’06 MBA) is a business/man- Lang Middle School in Dallas. Engineering) helped lead a search) is an associate project received a special Vision Award Dallas. Marcia Mankoff(’93 chef as well as a health writer the Texas Attorney General’s adapt a supported employ- agement consultant for Helms She also is rehearsal assistant college student engineers manager for DSS Research, a from Ralph Hawkins (’71). MSSW) is on the National and educator. Artemis in the 1998 Office. Adam Sheehan (’01 ment intervention for home- Consulting in Denton. James with the Children’s Chorus robotic design challenge in Fort Worth-based firm special- Sponsored by the Architecture Board for Foundations for City provides holistic health Harout Akilian (’98 BS, Indus- BBA, Marketing) is senior less youth with mental illness Daping Kuai (’06 MS, Market- of Greater Dallas and music April at the Gaylord Texan izing in the marketing needs of Alumni Chapter, the annual Jewish Camps and the board and nutrition services that help trial Engineering) owns Artin’s events manager for Funima- at two Los Angeles drop-in ing Research) is vice presi- minister at Faithful Believers hotel in Grapevine. Sponsored health insurance organizations. event benefits The Arc of Dal- of Planned Parenthood in Los people prevent and reverse Grill at The Shops at Legacy tion Entertainment based in centers. Jyotirmay Gadewa- dent of marketing for Swiss Baptist Church. Megan Terrell by the Institute of Electrical Marshall Pattie (’09 PhD, las and the UT Arlington School Angeles. She lives in Beverly disease through whole foods in north Plano. Stephanie Flower Mound. He sets up dikar (’03 MS, ’07 PhD, Electri- Company CBC Consulting in its (’07 BBA,’09 MS, Accounting) is and Electronics Engineers, Business Administration) was of Architecture. Hills with her husband, Doug, nutrition and lifestyle changes. McDuffie Bonebrake (’98 video screenings, autograph cal Engineering) is an assistant Beijing office.Ryan Steffens a senior audit associate at San- the competition featured elected chair of the Augusta and their three children. Karl Kevin Hugman (’94 MPA, Pub- BM) is circuit administrator for signings, and other activities professor in the Department (’06 BBA, Marketing) is market- ford, Baumeister & Frazier, an robots that recognize light County Democratic Commit- START A CHAPTER? Schuetze (’93 MS, Mechanical lic and Urban Administration) is the North Texas Colorguard for anime conventions. of Advanced Technologies ing manager for B&D Binder accounting firm in Fort Worth. signals. Kern Railsback (’08 tee in Harrisonburg, Va., where For information on starting Engineering) is vice president Wichita Falls assistant city man- Association and band direc- at Alcorn State University. He and Index in Arlington. Kristen Rogers Wisinger MM) is choral director for the he is an associate professor an alumni chapter, contact of engineering at Active Power, ager. Bonita Lawrence (’94 tor at Cross Timbers Middle 2002 recently received a three-year, (’07 MS, Marketing Research) Athens Independent School of management at James Jasmine Stewart at 817-272- based in Austin. He previ- PhD, Mathematical Science) School in Mansfield. Jeffrey Michael Acuff (’02 MA, $377,000 Early Career Faculty 2007 is senior manager, quantitative District. He also sings in the Madison University. Vineeth 2594, 800-687-8855, or ously was lead development won the Faculty Merit Founda- Freeman (’98 BM) is profes- Interdisciplinary Studies) is a Scientific Leadership Award Shannon Brunskill (’07 BFA, services, for Market Diagnos- Century Men choir and is the Kolkeri Sheety (’09 MS, Elec- [email protected]. For a engineer and manager of the tion of West Virginia’s Professor sor of low brass at Prairie View teaching fellow at the Amon from the Department of Art) won third place for her tics International in Dallas. accompanist for Singing Men trical Engineering) is an iPhone list of chapters, visit www.uta. mechanical systems group at of the Year award. The honor A&M University. Roland G. Carter Museum in Fort Worth. Homeland Security. work “Things We Collect” in of East Texas. Abanish Singh wireless engineer at Apple. edu/alumni/chapters.

46 UTArlington Magazine FALL 2010 47 ALUMNI NEWS In Memoriam 1950s mance opera singer and also was involved with the Union 1985-95 and was a registered ar- Phillip Herman Stork (’51 AS), sang in the former Arlington Rescue Mission in Los Angeles, chitect, interior designer, and a 78, Jan. 9 in Dublin, Ohio. Mr. Civic Chorus and in church volunteering and filming a fellow of the American Institute Stork had several careers, but choirs. She was active in tennis, documentary to get the word of Architects. His work is in the the two he enjoyed most were serving as captain of several out about the mission’s work. permanent drawing collections stockbroker and general con- U.S. Tennis Association teams. Marcus Edward Worley (’98 of the University of Houston, tractor. Upon retirement, he Pamela Anne Morgan (’83 BS), 38, Nov. 13, 2009, in Grape- the American Institute of CREATE A RIPPLE participated in volunteer work, BBA), 55, Feb. 1 in Arlington. vine. Mr. Worley worked at Risk Architects National Archives including serving as president Ms. Morgan was a certified Technologies in Mansfield. As in Washington, D.C., and the THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER of the Tarrant Area Food Bank public accountant and owned a student, he worked in the Of- United States Library of Con- and the Arlington Historical her own business. Sandra fice of University Publications. gress. Marietta Alkire Goode, OF A GIFT TO UT ARLINGTON JENKINS GARRETT 1914-2010 Society. He was honored by Fae Scott (’83 BBA), 49, Feb. 86, Sept. 26, 2009, in Arlington. A distinguished Fort Worth the United Way as Arlington’s 18 in Burleson. Ms. Scott was a 2000s Ms. Goode was a bookkeeper attorney and philanthropist, Volunteer of the Year in 1997. special education mathematics Tim Schickedanz (’07 BSN), at the UT Arlington Bookstore Jenkins Garrett died Jan. 28 in Donald D. Martin (’55 AS), teacher at Western Hills High 42, Sept. 30, 2009, in Fort from 1977 until retiring in 1990. Fort Worth. He was 95. Mr. Gar- 75, Jan. 24 in Camarillo, Calif. School in Fort Worth. Timothy Worth. In 2004 Mr. Schicke- She was a Red Cross volunteer rett accumulated one of the Mr. Martin retired in 1996 as Wayne Head (’85 BA), 44, Dec. danz received the Cherokee for many years as a water safety state’s most comprehensive quality assurance manager for 24, 2009, in Keller. Mr. Head Inspired Comfort Award, instructor. June James III, 75, collections of Texas historical Lockheed Martin after 37 years graduated from umpire school which recognizes health care March 17 in Arlington. Dr. James artifacts. He began collecting with the company. James R. and spent several years as a mi- professionals who have helped was a faculty member and historical material in earnest Lorenz (’56 AS), 73, Jan. 8 in nor league baseball umpire and others through exceptional special assistant in the College in the late-1950s and built one Sportsman’s World, Possum football referee. He worked service, sacrifice, and innova- of Education and Health Pro- of the 20th century’s finest Kingdom Lake. Mr. Lorenz for the Texas Department tion. He was an emergency fessions. He worked with future private libraries focusing on worked 41 years in the oil and of Transportation and Smith room nurse. principals and superintendents Texas and the U.S. War with gas industry in the Fort Worth- Roberts Land Services, and he and avidly attended career Mexico, 1846-48. Mr. Garrett Dallas area, serving indepen- was a licensed real estate agent Faculty and Staff fairs to recruit students to UT AD said his primary reward as a dent oil and gas firms such as for VIP Properties. Frances Bertie Wilcox Naylor Acker, Arlington. A former administra- collector was to see his work Texas Pacific Oil Co., the Gen- Lee McAtee (’85 BA), 89, Feb. 87, March 19 in Dallas. Dr. Acker tor at Southern University, he used and appreciated by stu- eral American Oil Co. of Texas, 6 in Lake Worth. At the age of was a professor emeritus of moved to Arlington in 1989 tudents are UT Arlington’s most treasured resource, dents, scholars, and the public. and Rosewood Resources. 60, Ms. McAtee received her modern languages. In 1965 and became active in Mount and the need to support them is greater than ever. To that end, he and his wife, bachelor’s degree in history she joined the faculty of Olive Baptist Church, where S Virginia, donated their Texas 1970s and a teaching certificate. She the Department of Foreign he helped found the Metro Your generous contributions transform our students into tomorrow’s leaders and prepare and Mexican War collections to Gerald Gaston McCasland retired after several years of Languages and Linguistics at Christian Academy. He also UT Arlington in 1974. The initial (’71 BSME), 73, Nov. 20, 2009, teaching. During World War II Arlington State College (now was involved with the Arlington them to make a lasting impact on society. With your financial assistance, UT Arlington donation spanned more than in Wills Point. Mr. McCasland she worked at Consolidated UT Arlington) as a professor of chapters of the NAACP and 10,000 items, including books, was an engineer in the Com- Aircraft. She was a beauti- Spanish literature. She received Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. provides abundant opportunities for students to work alongside world-class faculty to broadsides, newspapers, mand and Controls Division at cian and a skilled seamstress. several awards for her transla- Marian Millican, 60, Jan. 13 graphics, manuscripts, sheet Rockwell Collins in Richardson Randy Snow (’86 BBA), 50, tion projects and retired from in Fort Worth. Ms. Millican was combat cancer and explore novel processes to recharge the world’s fuel supply. Your gifts music, currency, and histori- for 31 years. He worked on Nov. 19, 2009, in El Salvador. UT Arlington in 1990. Pauline an associate professor in the cal materials in other formats. pioneering communication Mr. Snow was a member of the Welborn-Brown, 61, Dec. School of Architecture since enable students to offer more than 600,000 community service hours annually and develop Through the years, Mr. Garrett systems for aerospace projects, wheelchair basketball team at 15, 2009, in Durham, N.C. Dr. 1996. She had a design studio, leadership skills beyond the classroom and laboratory. UT Arlington is committed to providing continued adding pieces to the including Air Force One, the UT Arlington in the early 1980s. Welborn-Brown was a member Millican & Co., in downtown collection that bears his name. stealth bomber, and the space He competed in three Summer of the nursing faculty from Fort Worth and previously a first-rate education that is affordable for as many students as possible. By investing inthe The Jenkins Garrett Collection shuttle. He also held one of Paralympics—in basketball, 1989-97. Most recently she was taught at Texas Christian Uni- of Texana and the Mexican War the early patents for the design track, and tennis—winning an assistant professor of nurs- versity. John E. Perkins Jr., 88, Excellence Now annual giving program, you create a ripple that gives deserving Mavericks a brighter is housed in the UT Arlington of a consumer radar detec- medals in all three. He won 16 ing at the University of North Dec. 21, 2009, in Arlington. Dr. Library’s renowned Special tor. He served eight years on U.S. Open wheelchair tennis Carolina. She also held faculty Perkins was an associate profes- future and propels UT Arlington toward its goal of becoming a major national research university. Collections. A strong propo- the Richardson Independent titles—six in singles, 10 in positions in nursing schools sor of economics at Arlington nent of higher education, Mr. School District Board of Trust- doubles. In 2004 he was the at UT El Paso, the University State College (now UT Arling- Make a gift online at www.uta.edu/giving or call the Office of Development at 817-272-2584. Garrett served on the Board ees. Susan Carol Davidson first Paralympian inducted into of New Mexico, and Santa Fe ton) from 1957-65. He retired of Trustees of Southwestern (’77 BSN), 55, Nov. 9, 2009, in the Olympic Hall of Fame. He Community College. Timothy from Texas Christian University Baptist Theological Seminary, Galveston. Ms. Davidson was also was a motivational speaker Brown, 35, Jan. 19 in Mansfield. as a professor of economics af- the governor's Committee on a registered nurse at the UT and traveled around the world. Mr. Brown was a media rela- ter 24 years. Donald F. Reaser, Education Beyond the High Medical Branch at Galveston. Thomas Charles Linton (’89 tions officer in the Office of 78, Dec. 29, 2009, in Waxahachie. School Level, the Board of Larry A. Robbins (’78 BA), 53, BS), 51, Feb. 17 in Fort Worth. University Communications. He Dr. Reaser was a professor Trustees of the Tarrant County Nov. 19, 2009, in Palo Alto, Calif. Mr. Linton was a landscape ar- previously was a reporter and emeritus of geology at UT Junior College District, and the Mr. Robbins was an employee chitect for the Harold Leidner editor for the Associated Press Arlington, spending more than UT System Board of Regents. of Perot Systems. Co. in Dallas for many years. in Jackson, Miss. Richard B. 40 years at the University before UT Arlington named him Ferrier, 66, Aug. 4 in Irving. Mr. retiring in 2003. He continued an Honorary Distinguished 1980s 1990s Ferrier was a professor of archi- to teach graduate courses until Alumnus in 1985, and UT Austin, Shirley Anne Meredith (’82 Stephen Michael Sanders tecture at UT Arlington, where 2009. His classes featured field his alma mater, named him a BA), 76, Feb. 15 in Arlington. (’96 BFA), 35, Nov. 9, 2009, in he taught from 1968-2010. trips in Ellis County, where he Distinguished Alumnus in 1995. Ms. Meredith was a perfor- Sierra Madre, Calif. Mr. Sanders He was associate dean from had done extensive work. ANNUAL GIVING AT UT ARLINGTON

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Past Boys Glee Club, circa 1920

Glee clubs have come a long way since the days of Grubbs Vocational by the 35th Legislature. Named for Judge V.W. Grubbs, the two-year College, which UT Arlington was known as from 1917 to 1923. Bearing no vocational school was part of the Agricultural and Mechanical College resemblance to the chirpy cast of Fox’s breakout musical comedy Glee, of Texas and included a 100-acre farm west of the campus. There’s these somber singers did a masterful job of disguising their stage no record of the boys glee club’s repertoire, but we’re pretty sure it presence. At Grubbs, other musically inclined students participated didn’t include Lady Gaga or Madonna tributes. Photograph courtesy of in the band, orchestra, or girls chorus. UT Arlington traces its state- The University of Texas at Arlington Photographic Collection, Special supported roots to Grubbs Vocational College, which was created Collections, UT Arlington Library.