University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas, United States, founded in 1895 and the second oldest institution in the University of Texas System.德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校（University of Texas at Arlington，简称 UTA）是美国德克萨斯州阿灵顿的一所公立研究型大学，创办于 1895 年，是德克萨斯大学系统中历史第二悠久的院校。

It was part of the Texas A&M University System for several decades until it joined the University of Texas System on 1 September 1965, and it is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.该校曾长期隶属德克萨斯农工大学系统，直至 1965 年 9 月 1 日加入德克萨斯大学系统，现被归类为科研活跃度极高的 R1 级博士型大学。

Its fall 2024 enrolment of 41,613 students made it the second-largest university in the UT System after UT Austin and the fifth-largest in Texas, and it is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2024 年秋季在校生 41,613 人，使其成为德克萨斯大学系统中仅次于奥斯汀分校的第二大院校、德州第五大大学，并入列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1001-1200 区间。

History

• Arlington College opened in September 1895 as a private school for primary through secondary pupils, organised by local merchant Edward Emmett Rankin, who gathered citizens to donate materials and land for a schoolhouse where the modern campus now stands.阿灵顿学院于 1895 年 9 月开学，是一所面向小学至中学学生的私立学校，由当地商人爱德华·埃米特·兰金发起，他号召市民捐物捐地，在今日校园所在的土地上建起校舍。
• Rankin persuaded the two co-principals of the local public school, Lee Morgan Hammond and William Marshall Trimble, to invest in Arlington College and hold the same positions there.兰金说服当地公立学校的两位联席校长李·摩根·哈蒙德与威廉·马歇尔·特林布尔投资阿灵顿学院，并在该校担任同样的职务。
• In its first years the college enrolled between 75 and 150 students, and the public school rented space there until it was sold to the city in 1900 and the Arlington Independent School District was created in 1902.最初几年学院招生 75 至 150 人，公立学校曾在此租借场地，直到 1900 年被售予市政府，阿灵顿独立学区也于 1902 年成立。
• Arlington College then closed and its property was sold to James McCoy Carlisle, an established North Texas educator who opened the Carlisle Military Academy in the fall of 1902.随后阿灵顿学院停办，校产售予北德州知名教育家詹姆斯·麦考伊·卡莱尔，他于 1902 年秋季开办卡莱尔军事学院。
• Carlisle's programme balanced coursework with military training, enrolment rose to 150 students by 1905, and baseball, football, basketball and track teams began between 1904 and 1908 as new barracks, a track, a gymnasium and an indoor pool were built.卡莱尔的项目兼顾课业与军事训练，到 1905 年在校生增至 150 人；1904 至 1908 年间相继组建棒球、橄榄球、篮球与田径队，并新建营房、跑道、体育馆与室内泳池。
• Mortgage lawsuits were filed in 1911 and the Carlisle Military Academy closed in 1913, after which Henry Kirby Taylor established the Arlington Training School, which by 1914-1915 had 11 buildings and 95 students on the campus.1911 年爆发抵押贷款诉讼，卡莱尔军事学院于 1913 年停办；随后亨利·柯比·泰勒创办阿灵顿培训学校，到 1914 至 1915 学年，校园已有 11 座建筑、95 名学生。
• Taylor left Arlington and the property owners hired John B. Dodson to open a third military academy, the Arlington Military Academy, for 1916-1917, but it closed after a single year.泰勒离开阿灵顿后，产权人聘请约翰·B·多德森于 1916 至 1917 学年开办第三所军事学院——阿灵顿军事学院，但该校仅办学一年便停办。
• In 1917 the Arlington campus became a branch of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, called Grubbs Vocational College after lawyer and education advocate Vincent Woodbury Grubb, with all men required to be cadets.1917 年，阿灵顿校区成为德克萨斯农业与机械学院的分校，以律师兼教育倡导者文森特·伍德伯里·格拉布之名命名为格拉布职业学院，所有男生须编入学员队。
• The institution was renamed the North Texas Agricultural College in 1923, and Edward Everett Davis replaced Williams as dean in 1925, holding the post for 21 years.该校于 1923 年更名为北德州农业学院，爱德华·埃弗里特·戴维斯于 1925 年接替威廉姆斯出任院长，并任职达 21 年。
• The Great Depression brought major funding cuts and falling enrolment, so more general college courses gradually replaced vocational classes at NTAC, and during the Second World War the college ran a "war program" and joined the V-12 Navy College Training Program offered at 131 institutions in 1943.大萧条导致经费大幅削减、学生人数下降，北德州农业学院于是逐步以普通大学课程取代职业课程；二战期间该校推行「战时教学计划」，并加入 1943 年在 131 所院校开办的 V-12 海军学院训练计划。
• Following Davis's retirement in 1946, Ernest H. Hereford was appointed dean, and when the Texas A&M System was created in 1948 he was named the first president of NTAC.戴维斯 1946 年退休后，欧内斯特·H·赫里福德被任命为院长；1948 年德克萨斯农工大学系统成立时，他成为北德州农业学院的首任校长。
• The name was changed to Arlington State College in 1949 to reflect that agriculture was no longer central to the curriculum, and the student population grew from 1,322 in 1952 to 6,528 in 1959.1949 年，学校更名为阿灵顿州立学院，以反映农业已不再是课程核心；学生人数从 1952 年的 1,322 人增至 1959 年的 6,528 人。
• Jack Woolf was named president in 1959 as serious efforts began to make Arlington State College a four-year college, and the Texas legislature approved four-year status on 27 April 1959.1959 年杰克·伍尔夫出任校长，学校开始着力推动阿灵顿州立学院升格为四年制院校，德州议会于 1959 年 4 月 27 日批准了四年制地位。
• Racial segregation at Arlington State College ended in the summer of 1962, when NAACP member and Dallas lawyer Fred Finch Jr threatened litigation on behalf of Ernest Hooper, Jerry Hanes and Leaston Chase III, and desegregation was announced on 11 July 1962.该校的种族隔离于 1962 年夏终结：全国有色人种协进会成员、达拉斯律师小弗雷德·芬奇代表欧内斯特·胡珀、杰里·海恩斯与利斯顿·蔡斯三世扬言诉讼，校方于 1962 年 7 月 11 日宣布取消种族隔离。
• Enrolment reached 9,116 students in the fall of 1963, a larger total than the Texas A&M College Station campus, though the A&M System board withheld construction funding and blocked degree development.1963 年秋季在校生达 9,116 人，超过德克萨斯农工学院站校区；尽管如此，农工系统的董事会仍扣留建设经费并阻挠学位项目发展。
• Arlington State College officially joined The University of Texas System on 1 September 1965, and the university adopted its current name in 1967 to reflect its new membership.阿灵顿州立学院于 1965 年 9 月 1 日正式加入德克萨斯大学系统，并在 1967 年采用现名，以体现其新的系统归属。
• Joining the UT System brought immediate change, and in 1966 the Graduate School was established with an initial slate of six master's degrees alongside new construction projects.加入德克萨斯大学系统带来了立竿见影的变化：1966 年研究生院成立，首批开设六个硕士专业，同时启动一批新建工程。
• Controversy erupted in the late 1960s over Confederate symbols and mock-slave auctions attached to a rebel theme begun in 1951, and after a student vote in 1971 the Maverick theme was adopted in place of the rebels.1960 年代后期，围绕 1951 年起始的「叛军」主题及其中的邦联标志与模拟奴隶拍卖引发争议；1971 年学生投票后，「独行侠」主题取代了「叛军」主题。
• Wendell Nedderman served as acting president from 1972 and president from 1974 to 1992, when graduate enrolment rose from 936 to 4,200, total enrolment reached 25,135 and doctoral programmes were added in science, engineering, business and social work.温德尔·内德曼自 1972 年任代理校长、1974 至 1992 年任校长，任内研究生人数从 936 人增至 4,200 人，全校在校生达 25,135 人，并在理学、工程、商学与社会工作领域增设博士项目。
• In 1987 the Texas Select Committee on Higher Education recognised UT Arlington as an emerging research institution, and in May 2023 alumnus Kelcy Warren gave 12 million dollars, the largest single philanthropic gift in UTA's history.1987 年，德州高等教育特别委员会认定该校为新兴研究型大学；2023 年 5 月，校友凯尔西·沃伦捐出 1,200 万美元，创下 UTA 历史上最大单笔慈善捐赠。
• On 5 August 2024 the UT System Board of Regents authorised the purchase of a property for UTA West in western Fort Worth, with ground broken in April 2025, construction on the first academic building beginning in May 2026 and an opening scheduled for fall 2028.2024 年 8 月 5 日，德克萨斯大学系统董事会批准在沃思堡西部购置土地设立 UTA West 校区，2025 年 4 月动工，2026 年 5 月启动首座教学楼施工，计划于 2028 年秋季启用。
• UTA marked its 130th anniversary in 2025, when it launched RISE 100, a 60 million dollar initiative to hire 100 tenure-system faculty, and set a goal of raising annual research spending from 155 million dollars to 300 million by 20302025 年该校迎来建校 130 周年，同年启动「RISE 100」计划，投入 6,000 万美元拟招聘 100 名终身教职教师，并设下把年度科研支出从 1.55 亿美元提高到 2030 年 3 亿美元的目标。
• In the 2026 autumn term its first-year class grew 4 per cent and overall enrolment rose 2 per cent to nearly 43,000, while a 180 million dollar Life Sciences Building due in 2027 became the largest construction project in the university's history.2026 年秋季学期，新生人数增长 4%，全校在校生增长 2% 至接近 43,000 人；耗资 1.8 亿美元、计划 2027 年竣工的生命科学大楼成为该校史上最大的建设工程。
• On 15 September 2026 Archie Holmes, the University of Texas System's executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, became acting president, the first Black person to lead the institution, succeeding Jennifer Evans-Cowley, who had served since April 2022 as its first woman president.2026 年 9 月 15 日，德克萨斯大学系统主管学术事务的执行副校长阿奇·霍姆斯（Archie Holmes）出任该校代理校长，成为首位主持该校的非裔美国人；此前自 2022 年 4 月起担任该校首位女性校长的詹妮弗·埃文斯-考利卸任。

Academics

• UT Arlington is classified among R1 doctoral universities and was the fourth institution to achieve designation as a Texas Tier One university, giving it access to the state's National Research University Fund.该校被归类为 R1 级博士型大学，是第四所获认定为德州一流研究型大学的院校，由此可动用州级国家研究型大学基金。
• The university consists of 10 colleges and schools, offering more than 180 baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degree programmes and producing the third-largest number of college graduates in Texas.学校由 10 个学院与学部组成，开设 180 个以上本科、硕士与博士学位项目，其毕业生数量在德州位列第三。
• The College of Engineering, founded in 1959, offers eleven baccalaureate, fourteen master's and nine doctoral programmes, enrols over 7,000 students and employs more than 50 fellows of professional societies.工程学院创办于 1959 年，开设 11 个本科、14 个硕士与 9 个博士项目，在校生超过 7,000 人，拥有 50 余名专业学会会士。
• The College of Nursing and Health Innovation produces the most registered nurses in Texas and is among the top five largest producers of registered nurses in the nation.护理与健康创新学院培养的注册护士数量居德州之首，也是全美培养注册护士最多的五所院校之一。
• The College of Science consists of six departments, namely biology, chemistry and biochemistry, earth and environmental sciences, mathematics, physics and psychology, and offers over 50 degree programmes.理学院下设生物、化学与生物化学、地球与环境科学、数学、物理以及心理学六个系，开设 50 个以上学位项目。
• The College of Science's High Energy Physics group works on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and made major contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 through detectors and computational data analysis.理学院高能物理组参与欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机的实验，通过探测器与计算数据分析为 2012 年希格斯玻色子的发现作出重要贡献。
• The School of Social Work, founded in 1967, offers the Bachelor of Social Work, the Master of Science in Social Work and a PhD, with the BSW and MSSW programmes accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.社会工作学院创办于 1967 年，开设社会工作学士、社会工作硕士与博士项目，其学士与硕士项目获社会工作教育委员会认证。
• The College of Business ranked 128th out of 472 ranked programmes in the 2018 U.S. News Best Colleges list, and its part-time MBA ranked 82nd of 470 programmes in 2017.商学院在 2018 年 US News 最佳大学榜单中于 472 个上榜项目中列第 128 位，其非全日制 MBA 在 2017 年 470 个项目中列第 82 位。
• CEO Magazine ranked the university's Executive MBA programme No. 1 in Texas, No. 16 in the nation and No. 21 in the world, and the college runs one of the largest executive MBA programmes in China.《CEO 杂志》将该校高级工商管理硕士项目列为德州第 1、全美第 16、全球第 21，该学院还在中国运营着规模最大的高级工商管理硕士项目之一。
• UT Arlington has the only accredited architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture programmes in the North Texas region, and its engineering and architecture departments jointly offer the region's first architectural engineering bachelor's degree.该校拥有北德州地区唯一获认证的建筑学、城市规划与景观建筑项目，其工程与建筑两系还联合开设了该地区首个建筑工程本科学位。
• The Honors College, founded in 1998, was the first in North Texas and the third in Texas, and the interdisciplinary studies programme allows students to build custom degree plans leading to a B.A.I.S. or B.S.I.S.荣誉学院创办于 1998 年，是北德州首个、德州第三个荣誉学院；其跨学科研究项目允许学生自定培养方案，取得跨学科文学学士或理学学士学位。
• UT Arlington had 15 professors as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest number of any institution in Texas and the sixth highest in the nation.该校有 15 位教授是国家发明家科学院会士，这一数量在德州各院校中最多、全美排名第六。
• The College of Education's graduates had a 95% pass rate on the Texas state licensure examination during the 2014-2015 academic year, consistently above the state average.2014 至 2015 学年，教育学院毕业生在德州教师资格考试中的通过率为 95%，长期高于全州平均水平。
• UT Arlington Libraries have three locations, namely Central Library, the Architecture and Fine Arts Library and the Science and Engineering Library, with Central Library open 24 hours a day during fall and spring semesters.该校图书馆系统设三处馆舍——中央图书馆、建筑与美术图书馆以及科学与工程图书馆，其中中央图书馆在秋季与春季学期全天 24 小时开放。
• The Libraries' Special Collections hold more than 30,000 volumes, 7,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archival collections, 5,000 historical maps and 3.6 million prints and negatives.图书馆特藏部藏有 30,000 余册图书、7,000 直线英尺的手稿与档案、5,000 幅历史地图以及 360 万件照片与底片。
• Research expenditure reached 105.7 million dollars in fiscal year 2018 and 117 million dollars in fiscal year 2019, an increase of 52% over five years, with facilities including the Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies and the NanoFab Research and Teaching Facility.该校科研支出在 2018 财年为 1.057 亿美元、2019 财年为 1.17 亿美元，五年间增长 52%；科研设施包括岛津研究技术研究所与 NanoFab 研究与教学设施。

Campus

• The 420-acre main campus lies at the southern edge of downtown Arlington, beside the Texas and Pacific Railway line around which the city was established, with Cooper Street running through campus to Interstate 20 and Interstate 30.占地 420 英亩的主校区位于阿灵顿市中心南缘，紧邻城市赖以建成的德克萨斯与太平洋铁路，库珀街穿过校园并连通 20 号与 30 号州际公路。
• The Barnett Shale formation beneath the campus has earned the university millions of dollars from natural gas production since 2008, funds used for scholarships, faculty recruitment and infrastructure upgrades.校园之下的巴尼特页岩层自 2008 年起为学校带来数百万美元的天然气收益，这些资金用于奖学金、教师引进与基础设施升级。
• The oldest buildings on campus, Ransom Hall, Preston Hall and College Hall, stand on the Second Street Mall and date to 1919, while later buildings from the 1960s to the 1980s are modern and functional.校园最古老的建筑兰塞姆楼、普雷斯顿楼与学院楼位于第二街林荫道，建于 1919 年；1960 至 1980 年代增建的教学楼则属现代功能主义风格。
• The Central Library, designed by George Dahl, forms one side of a Library Quad regarded as the heart of campus, and the Chemistry and Physics Building contains one of the largest planetariums in Texas.由乔治·达尔设计的中央图书馆构成被视为校园核心的图书馆方庭一侧，化学与物理楼内则设有德州最大的天文馆之一。
• The College Park District, completed in 2012, expanded the campus eastward with an arena seating 7,000 spectators, a dormitory, student apartments, retail space, an 1,800-car parking garage and a five-acre park called The Green at College Park.2012 年建成的学院公园区使校园向东拓展，区内设有一座可容纳 7,000 名观众的体育馆、宿舍、学生公寓、零售空间、可停 1,800 辆车的车库，以及一座名为「学院公园绿地」的五英亩公园。
• More than 5,000 students live on campus in residences including Arlington Hall, Kalpana Chawla Hall, Vandergriff Hall and West Hall, creating a lively 24-hour environment.超过 5,000 名学生住在校内，宿舍包括阿灵顿堂、卡尔帕娜·乔拉堂、范德格里夫堂与西堂，营造出活跃的全天候校园氛围。
• In 2007 UTA opened the historic renovated Santa Fe Freight building in downtown Fort Worth, offering more than 25,000 square feet of classrooms and services, initially for MBA classes.2007 年，学校在沃思堡市中心启用经翻修的圣塔菲货运站历史建筑，提供 25,000 平方英尺以上的教室与服务空间，最初用于 MBA 课程。
• The campus is enlivened by fibreglass horse statues painted in blue and orange patterns known as "Spirit Horses", and by green spaces created since the 2000s including the Greene Research Quad and Brazos Park.校园内点缀着以蓝橙图案彩绘的玻璃钢马雕塑「精神之马」，以及 2000 年代以来营造的绿地，包括格林研究方庭与布拉索斯公园。

Reputation

• The University of Texas at Arlington is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval within the global table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校位列 1001-1200 区间，是该全球榜单中的一个并列区间。
• It stood in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 801-1000 区间。
• It was ranked 875th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 list.该校在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中位列第 875 位。
• It was placed in the 601-700 band of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列 601-700 区间。
• UT Arlington is a Texas Tier One university and the fourth institution to achieve that designation, giving it access to the state's National Research University Fund.该校是德州一流研究型大学，也是第四所获此认定的院校，由此可动用州级国家研究型大学基金。
• The engineering school's graduate programmes were ranked 69th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in 2023, and the College of Business ranked 128th of 472 programmes in 2018.工程学院研究生项目在 2023 年 US News 排名中列全国第 69 位，商学院在 2018 年于 472 个项目中列第 128 位。
• The university is consistently ranked among the top 10 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for achieving the most ethnically diverse undergraduate student body.该校因本科生群体的族裔多样性而长期被 US News 列入全美前十。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 51,480 works and 4,183,526 citations for the university, spanning engineering, the sciences, nursing and the social sciences.OpenAlex 收录该校 51,480 篇研究成果与 4,183,526 次引用，覆盖工程、自然科学、护理与社会科学领域。
• Fifteen of its professors are fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest number in Texas and sixth in the nation, and it was the region's first university to offer accredited architecture and urban planning programmes.该校 15 位教授为国家发明家科学院会士，数量居德州之首、全美第六；它也是该地区首个开设获认证建筑与城市规划项目的大学。

Student life

• UTA's student body is notably diverse, females account for about 55% of the total population, and the top four countries of origin for international students are India, China, Taiwan and Nigeria.该校学生群体族裔多元，女性约占总人数的 55%，国际学生来源国前四位为印度、中国、台湾与尼日利亚。
• The campus has four residence halls with a capacity of at least 5,600 students, plus 18 on-campus apartment complexes and a limited number of houses for students with dependent children.校园设有四座宿舍楼，可容纳至少 5,600 名学生，另有 18 栋校内公寓，以及少量供有子女的学生家庭居住的房屋。
• Bed races have been held since 1980, with teams of four pushers and a rider racing over roughly the length of a football field, entered by student organisations, Greek groups and residence halls.自 1980 年起举办的「床赛」由四名推手与一名乘坐者组成的队伍参赛，赛程约为一个橄榄球场，参赛者来自学生组织、希腊字母社团与宿舍楼。
• Homecoming in the fall includes alumni events, The Bash, the Boom at Noon firing of the Carlisle Cannons, a parade, fireworks and pep rally, while the annual Mav Swap encourages students to trade apparel for free UTA gear.秋季的校友返校庆典包括校友活动、The Bash、正午鸣放卡莱尔大炮、游行、烟花与赛前动员会；每年一度的 Mav Swap 则鼓励学生以旧服装换取免费的 UTA 纪念衫。
• Oozeball, created in 1989 in the Greek community, is an annual volleyball tournament played in artificial mud pits that raises money for a student scholarship and charity.1989 年由希腊字母社团发起的 Oozeball 是在人工泥坑中进行的年度排球赛，为社会奖学金与慈善筹款。
• Tradition holds that rubbing the sculpted bust of former president Ernest H. Hereford, displayed in the University Center since February 1959, brings good luck in examinations.校内有传统认为，抚摸自 1959 年 2 月起陈列于大学中心的前校长欧内斯特·H·赫里福德半身像，能在考试中带来好运。
• The UT Arlington Marching Band is one of the few college marching bands without a football team and performs annually for crowds claimed to reach 100,000.UTA 行进乐队是全美少数没有橄榄球队的大学行进乐队之一，每年演出时观众人数据称可达 10 万人。
• The Mavericks nickname was chosen by student vote in 1971, the university fields 15 NCAA Division I sports, and its cheerleading team won Collegiate National Championships in 2010 and from 2014 to 2018.「独行侠」队名由 1971 年学生投票选定，学校参加 15 个 NCAA 一级项目，其啦啦队于 2010 年及 2014 至 2018 年多次夺得全国大学锦标赛冠军。

Notable people

• Edward Emmett Rankin, the merchant who organised the donation of land and materials for Arlington College in 1895, is regarded as the founder of the institution that became UT Arlington.1895 年组织捐赠土地与建材兴办阿灵顿学院的商人爱德华·埃米特·兰金，被视为该校雏形的创办人。
• Lee Morgan Hammond and William Marshall Trimble were the two co-principals who left the public school to lead Arlington College at its opening in 1895.李·摩根·哈蒙德与威廉·马歇尔·特林布尔是两位联席校长，他们在 1895 年阿灵顿学院开办时离开公立学校前来主持校务。
• James McCoy Carlisle founded the Carlisle Military Academy in 1902 and expanded the campus before financial difficulties closed it in 1913.詹姆斯·麦考伊·卡莱尔于 1902 年创办卡莱尔军事学院并拓展校园，后因财务困难于 1913 年停办。
• Ernest H. Hereford served as dean of NTAC from 1946 and the first president of the institution from 1948 to 1958, after which Jack Woolf led the college from 1959 to 1968.欧内斯特·H·赫里福德自 1946 年任北德州农业学院院长、1948 至 1958 年任首任校长，其后由杰克·伍尔夫于 1959 至 1968 年掌校。
• Wendell Nedderman presided over the university from 1972 to 1992, when enrolment reached 25,135 and doctoral programmes were added across science, engineering and business.温德尔·内德曼于 1972 至 1992 年主政该校，任内在校生达 25,135 人，并在理学、工程与商学等领域增设博士项目。
• Kalpana Chawla, an alumna, became the first Indian-American astronaut and the first Indian woman in space.校友卡尔帕娜·乔拉成为首位印度裔美国宇航员，也是首位进入太空的印度女性。
• Professor Chaoqun Liu, who took both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Tsinghua University, directs the university's Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling, has led 54 federal research grants as principal investigator totalling 5.99 million dollars, and created the Liutex measure of vortex strength.刘超群（Chaoqun Liu）教授的学士与硕士学位均取自清华大学，现任该校数值模拟与建模中心主任，以首席研究者身份主持的 54 项联邦研究经费合计约 599 万美元，并创立了度量涡旋强度的 Liutex 方法。
• Professor Weidong Zhou, a distinguished university professor of electrical engineering who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Tsinghua University, is a fellow of both the International Society for Optics and Photonics and the Optical Society and has led federally funded photonics projects worth over 24 million dollars.周卫东（Weidong Zhou）教授是该校电气工程杰出大学教授，学士与硕士学位同样出自清华大学，是国际光学与光子学会与光学学会双会士，其主持的联邦资助光子学项目经费总额超过 2,400 万美元。
• Sherry Wang, who studied at the University of Science and Technology of China and became the Jenkins-Garrett Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the university in 2023, was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2024 and founded its Center for Data Science Research and Education.王欣蕾（Sherry Wang）本科就读于中国科学技术大学，2023 年出任该校 Jenkins-Garrett 统计学与数据科学讲席教授，2024 年当选美国统计学会会士，并创办了数据科学研究与教育中心。
• Lou Diamond Phillips, an actor and director, Hunter Pence, a professional baseball player, and Caitlin Glass, a voice actress, are all alumni of UT Arlington.演员兼导演卢·戴蒙德·菲利普斯、职业棒球运动员亨特·彭斯以及配音演员凯特琳·格拉斯均为该校校友。
• Kelcy Warren, founder of Energy Transfer Partners, gave 12 million dollars to UTA in May 2023 to grow its resource and energy engineering programmes.能源转移合伙公司创始人凯尔西·沃伦于 2023 年 5 月向该校捐赠 1,200 万美元，用于发展资源与能源工程项目。
• Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, an alumnus, became a businessman and an adviser to the Government of Bangladesh on information and communication technology.校友萨吉布·艾哈迈德·瓦泽德成为商界人士，并担任孟加拉国政府信息与通信技术顾问。
• Roland G. Fryer Jr., an economics professor at Harvard University, and Robert L. Stewart, an astronaut and the first active-duty U.S. Army soldier to make a spaceflight, are both UTA alumni.哈佛大学经济学教授小罗兰·G·弗莱尔，以及宇航员、首位完成太空飞行的美国陆军现役军人罗伯特·L·斯图尔特，均为该校校友。
• Michael Langley, the first African American Marine Corps general and commander of U.S. Africa Command, and Doug Russell, an Olympic champion swimmer, are among the university's alumni.首位非裔美国海军陆战队上将、美国非洲司令部司令迈克尔·兰利，以及奥运冠军游泳运动员道格·拉塞尔，都是该校校友。
• Archie Holmes became acting president of UT Arlington on 15 September 2026, following Jennifer Cowley, who served as president from 2022 to 2026.阿奇·霍姆斯于 2026 年 9 月 15 日出任该校代理校长，其前任詹妮弗·考利在 2022 至 2026 年担任校长。