A federal judge awarded an engineering professor $422,327 after a jury in Fort Worth found the University of Texas at Arlington retaliated against her and failed to act promptly to address sex-based harassment.
Haiying Huang, who still works at UTA as a professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department, received nearly $200,000 for attorneys fees and costs. The remaining $222,686 consists of the $75,000 jurors awarded Huang in August, plus additional back pay, future lost pay and prejudgment interest. More interest will accrue on eligible amounts until they’re paid.
In August, the jury found that UTA removed Huang from the associate chair position, which she held between 2022 and 2024, because she had raised concerns about the workload for women faculty members…