As Earth Week begins, a University of Texas at Arlington symposium is zeroing in on research and innovations to serve us all for the rest of the 21st century, including green technologies that could change the way we think about the world around us.
Paul Corson, UTA's executive director for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Development, says students graduating these days can step right onto the cutting edge.
"It's about the mindset, it's about that entrepreneurial mindset and thinking that innovation is just the application of what somebody else has already done," Corson said. "We're looking at everything from our school of nursing, our school of architecture, our business college, our engineering college. We're thinking that anyone on campus has it within them to embrace their entrepreneurial aspirations and get engaged, whether it's an artist who's going out for their first gig or someone curing cancer."
One area of perennial concern is recycling plastics that might otherwise spend millennia in landfills. But what if we took old plastics out of the landfills and put them into our roads and parking lots?
UTA engineering professor Suh-Haddat Hussein is pioneering work to do just that with plastics that are otherwise non-recyclable.
The Monday symposium brought together a wide range of innovators from around the campus, around North Texas and from around the country.
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