UTA's Wave Scattering Research Center is part of a consortium of five universities working to develop new technology to detect and neutralize dangerous land mines currently deployed in more than 60 countries worldwide. The UTA High Energy Physics Group played a major role in the discovery of the subatomic particle called the top quark , the last undiscovered quark of the six believed to exist. UTA physicists took part in the DZero experimental collaboration at the Fermi national Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago. The two-year awards ended January 1, 2000. UTA chemists have developed a revolutionary solar-powered water disinfection method offering an alternative to chlorination.
Recent research links some of the chemical byproducts of chlorine disinfection to cancer. .