News & Announcements

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are working alongside The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and local and state public health agencies to improve public health information technology and COVID-19 data gathering and to increase representation among underrepresented groups in the public health IT workforce.

To build wellness eco-systems that respond to housing shortages, an aging population, and the promise of digital technology, UTA’s College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs(CAPPA)is building an innovative coalition with CADRE (The Center for Advanced Design, Research, and Evaluation)

Presidential Distinguished Professor Marion J. Ball has been named the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering. The Nooyi Chair was established through a gift from alumnus Raj K. Nooyi (’78 M.S., Industrial Engineering) and his wife, Indra Nooyi.

The University of Texas at Arlington has joined two fellow University of Texas System institutions in forming the Texas Health Informatics Alliance (THIA), which aims to build informatics ties across the state through research, data, policy, education standards and workforce development.

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has elected four faculty members from The University of Texas at Arlington as Senior Member of the organization’s latest class – the most of any university in the nation.

The University of Texas at Arlington has taken a major step toward fulfilling its goal of becoming a leader in health informatics by hiring Marion Ball, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and Gabriela Wilson, who served as chair of the University of Southern Indiana’s Health Informatics and Information Management Program.