Professor served in military health care for 34 years
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Retired Air Force Major General Kim Siniscalchi, now a professor of practice at UTA, served as a member of the White House Medical Unit for two presidents: George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Today, she serves a different group: the students and faculty of UTA’s College of Nursing of Health Innovation. As a member of the college’s senior leadership team, she works to advance new strategies, policies, and projects that enhance the college's academic mission.
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Student wins award at statewide conference
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Marharyta Baravok, an undergraduate student in physics at UTA, won the best STEM poster presentation award at the Lamar Undergraduate Research EXPO 2024 for her research in antimatter containment.
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How climate change impacts food production
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Enhance your qualifications for the job market with free access to 40-plus professional certificates from leading companies such as Google, Salesforce, IBM, Meta, and Intuit through the Coursera Career Academy.
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| Don't miss out on scholarship opportunities
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Although applying for scholarships can seem daunting, for Brisa Povse, a sophomore marketing major at UTA, the effort she put in was worth the work. Povse, a recipient of the College of Business' Dean's Leadership Circle Scholarship and the Maverick Academic Scholarship, recommends setting aside one day to search for scholarship applications and another day to fill them out. Review your Mav ScholarShop profile regularly to check for new scholarship opportunities.
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| Discount at Indian Corner
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Until Friday, May 31, UTA students and employees can get 20% off menu items and samosa and chai for $2.99. Order now.
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Global Seal of Biliteracy
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UTA students who speak a language in addition to English can take a test to potentially earn the Global Seal of Biliteracy certificate, a micro-credential that conveys language proficiency. The test is offered in more than 40 languages through the Department of Modern Languages. Email proficiency@uta.edu for more information.
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Third Thursday Think Tank
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Join UTA’s Veterans Business Outreach Center for Third Thursday Think Tank Thursday, June 20, 6-7:30 p.m. and learn how to leverage local registrations to expand your small business. The event will be held in person in Room 609 of the College of Business and virtually via Microsoft Teams. The meeting link will be emailed to registered attendees. Registration is required.
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Developing more plastic recycling methods
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Despite consumer efforts to separate recyclables, most plastic bottles end up in landfills. Recycling methods to sort, shred, and remake plastics are limited to just two types of plastic. Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry Kevin Schug and his UTA colleagues, graduate students Alexander Kaplitz and Niray Bhakta and undergraduate researchers Shane Marshall and Sadid Morshed, are working to develop new ways to recycle mixed plastics.
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The Resilience, Integrity, Selflessness, and Excellence (RISE) Academy is a program out of UTA’s College of Business that helps students jumpstart their careers with internships, networking events, travel abroad opportunities, and development workshops. During RISE Academy’s inaugural Evening of Impact event, four students, Juan Gonzalez, Bryan Velasquez-Sanchez, Leslie Vega, and Anesah Collier, were recognized as representations of the acronym that makes up RISE.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which makes now the perfect time to familiarize yourself with resources available to UTA students through Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). CAPS offers in-person and telehealth counseling to students experiencing personal, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. The medical services fee included in tuition for many courses provides eligibility for CAPS services. Review your MyMav account or contact Health Services at 817-272-2771 with eligibility questions.
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Looking for resources related to assistive technology at UTA? The Office of Information Technology has reviewed and established a process for future reviews of assistive technology that is functional within our computing environment. You can view the current list and learn more about the vetting process on the assistive technology website.
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| Health education sessions
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| Submit a paper to Global Insight
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UTA’s undergraduate academic journal Global Insight: A Journal of Critical Human Science and Culture is taking submissions for undergraduate papers. Global Insight is looking for papers between 3,000 and 4,000 words exploring social, political, ethical, cultural, and other timely topics in modern society. Global Insight is an open-access, peer-reviewed, undergraduate research journal co-published by UTA Libraries and the McDowell Center for Global Studies. Submit a paper by Sept. 1 for the fall 2024 issue.
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Temporary housing on campus
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