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The University of Texas at Arlington is playing a key role in training the future of the biotech industry in North Texas.

Through an $8.8 million grant awarded to Dallas College by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, UTA will work with Collin College, Dallas College and Tarrant County College to create a new regional career training pathway in biotechnology, biomanufacturing and bioinformatics.

UTA will host the second annual Texas Health Informatics Alliance (THIA) Conference in the Bluebonnet Ballroom inside the E.H. Hereford University Center. This marks the first time the conference—a collaboration with UT Health Science Center at Houston and UT Southwestern Medical Center—will be held in person.

Marion J. Ball has been named an Honorary Member by the International Medical Informatics Association: Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA-NI). Dr. Ball, the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, is also a Presidential Distinguished Professor, a tenured professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, and Executive Director for the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics.

The University of Texas at Arlington hosted a day-long collaborative effort in the name of racial justice and equality.

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) chapter at The University of Texas at Arlington inducted more than 35 members at its inaugural annual luncheon.

The health care industry is evolving, becoming increasingly reliant on telehealth and health informatics. The University of Texas at Arlington is evolving right alongside it.

OIT Research Support Services recently completed an engagement with first-year Computer Science and Engineering faculty member Dr. Jacob Luber, supporting his onboarding of a major information technology resource for his research group.

The University of Texas at Arlington is a gold-level sponsor for the newly opened Biolabs at Pegasus Park, a state-of-the-art co-working facility for biotech startups.

A new edition of Nursing Informatics: A Health Informatics, Interprofessional and Global Perspective is now on pre-order and boasts two University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI) faculty as editors. Marion Ball, the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering as well as presidential distinguished professor in CONHI and Gabriela Wilson, professor of kinesiology, are both co-editors of the 5th edition of this classic textbook.

A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas at Arlington received a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH) to help Tarrant County residents better understand COVID-19 health information.