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Month: October 2019
[Rendering: Courtesy Omniplan Architects]
Monarch City Ready to Take Mixed-Use Development Into the Next Century
by Payton Potter | Oct 22, 2019
Howard Hughes' massive 261-acre project in Allen is rising from what used to be grasslands. And, much like its namesake butterfly, soaring growth could drive the area's economy for decades to come.
by Quincy Preston |
Oct 21, 2019
Hurry, nominations are open until Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019 for The Innovation Awards.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 21, 2019
The University of North Texas' College of Visual Arts and Design—one of the best arts schools in the country—recently opened its new 238,000-square-foot, $70 million facility.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 21, 2019
Orchid Giving Circle's grants were given to 14 North Texas nonprofits benefiting the North Texas Asian community.
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David B. Miller graduated from SMU in ’72. [Photo: Courtesy SMU]
SMU’s Cox School of Business Gets its Largest Alumni Gift Yet
by David Kirkpatrick | Oct 18, 2019
The Edwin L. Cox School of Business, which will reach 100 years old next year, has received $50 million from Carolyn L. and David B. Miller for an expansive strategic plan.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 18, 2019
The beauty supply retailer is adding around 40 new jobs to its Denton headquarters, which builds on the 270 previously announced. It's also giving facelifts to its locations throughout the region.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 18, 2019
The yearly awards honor the top entrepreneurship centers and programs in the world—this year, excellence in entrepreneurial and innovative teaching went to the Cowtown Angels Fellows program at TCU’s Neely Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 18, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also find out how UTA is using water fleas to study infertility.
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The Great [Tech] Migration
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 17, 2019
Tech and life science companies are expanding to North Texas, research shows.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Oct 17, 2019
Fort Worth-based Galaxy Unmanned Systems LLC might be the first ones to use autonomous airships for military surveillance after it was awarded the U.S. Army's Small Business Innovation Research Contract.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 17, 2019
The new program is meant to help solve transportation gaps related to employment and job training.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 17, 2019
The investment—the largest ever awarded to the The Real Estate Council community fund—will go toward catalytic development and projects, as well as access to resources in the Forest District, The Bottom, and a West Dallas Census Tract.
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IF/THEN Summit to Highlight Female Innovators and Promote STEM Careers
by Lance Murray | Oct 16, 2019
Coming to Dallas next week, the IF/THEN Summit will bring in "STEM Rock Stars" who have been selected as American Association for the Advancement of Science IF/THEN Ambassadors. Meet the ten from North Texas.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 16, 2019
A group of engineering and education professors at Dallas' Southern Methodist University have received a huge grant from the National Science Foundation to research how Minecraft can inspire game-based learning.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Oct 16, 2019
Graphium Health, a Plano provider of software that better manages anesthesia practices, has launched FieldMed. The new company builds on the popular trend of community-based healthcare, which uses certified paramedics to help give non-emergent response resources and treatments to patients.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 16, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Audatex North America's predictive estimate for a damaged vehicle , Your Command's apparatus for electronically searching for an item, University of Texas' kit for external fixators for bone realignment, LapKing Holdings' method of tracking a vehicle's course, Capital One's social home buying system, Excentus Corporation's system of influencing customer behavior, Flashscan3D's biometric image sensor with spoofing detection, BlackBerry Limited's provisioning of emergency numbers, Tango's identification of a vehicle driver based on driving behavior, 1A Smart Start's automated calibration station for ignition interlock devices, and Bank of America Corporation's "Message spinning engine" to create or manage a queue.
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