Alumnus Produces Lauded 鈥楤rotherhood鈥�
A meager $19.10 is the amount Adam must steal from a convenience store because the fraternity he鈥檚 pledging was founded in 1910. It鈥檚 the final step of his initiation into Sigma Zeta Chi. He plunges into the store, and minutes later a fellow pledge is shot and gravely injured. Frank, the fraternity brother in charge of the ritual gone awry, gets the injured pledge out 摆鈥
Leading the聽Way
The UT Arlington Alumni Association Board of Directors comprises 36 graduates who represent the diversity of more than 150,000 Maverick alumni worldwide. Dedicated to helping the Alumni Association connect alumni to their alma mater, the group meets four times a year to interface with students, University stakeholders, community leaders, legislators, and alumni. The board serves in an advisory capacity to the Executive Committee, nine alumni 摆鈥
Treasure Hunt
The 2003 war in Iraq left more than human casualties. Also lost were thousands of pieces of modern Iraqi聽art. 鈥淲ith the loss of the works themselves and chaos in the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art and Baghdad in general, there was a direct and real fear of losing the history of the art since it was neither written nor documented,鈥� says Nada Shabout, who earned 摆鈥
Enduring Legacy
Mike Greene had heard about a new engineering program at UT Arlington as a student at Saginaw鈥檚 Boswell High School in the early 1960s. He鈥檇 always dreamed of becoming an engineer, and Arlington was close to home. 鈥淚t turned out to be a great experience,鈥� he says. Greene, who earned his mechanical engineering degree from UT Arlington in 1969, eventually became vice chairman of Energy 摆鈥
Solid Foundation
A pioneer in construction concrete is helping support the next generation of innovators at UT Arlington. When David E. Bloxom was developing a lightweight concrete in the 1950s, he asked researchers at UT Arlington (then Arlington State College) to help him test the material and get his idea patented. With assistance from faculty members in the College of Engineering, Bloxom provided studies proving that this 摆鈥