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SMU Chemist, Colleagues Develop Machine Learning Model To Help Study Stardust and Atomic Interactions

by | Mar 14, 2024
The researchers developed a novel model called ANI-1xnr that's suitable for a broad range of reactive chemistry without costly refitting—a major drawback of the MLIPs currently in use, SMU said.
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Texoma Semiconductor Tech Hub Makes Its Pitch to Taiwanese Tech Investors & Partners
by | Mar 14, 2024
Local Tech Hub consortium members made their pitches remotely Thursday to representatives of more than 100 companies and academia attending the meeting in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. SMU's Suku Nair said the pitch is just one example of how the Tech Hub's impact has "regional, national, and global significance."
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UTD and Notre Dame Students’ Route-Planning App Gets 5 New Features After Saving Users ‘2 Million Miles’ of Driving
by | Mar 14, 2024
Launched last fall on the Apple iOS and Google Play app stores, the Routora app has added 37,000 drivers in over 90 countries, saving them 2.1 million driving miles, 50,000 hours, $315,000 in fuel costs, and 940 tons in CO2 emissions, the startup says.
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Veteran Leader Named Managing Director of SMU’s Spears Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership
by | Mar 13, 2024
Joshua Taylor will be responsible for leading the institute’s goals, programs, and operations, in alignment with the overall mission and vision of SMU Cox, co-founding directors Megha Tolia and Nirav Tolia, and benefactor Dr. William S. Spears.
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3 North Texas Projects Win Top 2023 BIA Brick in Architecture Awards

by | Mar 11, 2024
Brick by brick, projects in Dallas, Arlington, and Fort Worth were designed to offer an urban park oasis, a state-of-the-art elementary school, and a music center with an "acoustically perfect" concert hall. Now all three have won 2023 Best in Class awards from the Brick Industry Association.
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The Last Word: Monica Christopher on Her New Role as President of TWU’s Dallas Campus
by | Mar 7, 2024
Christopher has held key fundraising and relationship building posts over the past 25 years at Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Morning News, and WFAA, and is the the former chair of the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Leadership Dallas Alumni. On February 1, she became the inaugural president of TWU's Dallas campus, the T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center, located in an eight-story, 190,000-square-foot building in the heart of the Southwestern Medical District.
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Texas A&M-Fort Worth Gets $2.5M Grant from Sid W. Richardson Foundation
by | Mar 5, 2024
The A&M system said the donation builds on the support of a growing list of public and private partners—and places Texas A&M-Fort Worth in position to be a major hub for education, research, and innovation for years to come.
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North Texas’ Newly Opened Keith Bell Opportunity Central Adds Code Ninjas to Its Mix
Known as The OC, Forney ISD's 350,000-square-foot facility opened Feb. 2 as an "imaginative, creative, and one-of-a-kind idea that will transform the way schools and communities educate future generations." It also offers restaurants, retail, a big arena, an escape room, and soon...ninjas.
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NASA Is Inviting You to Watch the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas

by | Feb 29, 2024
The free "Sun, Moon, and You" event at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas' Fair Park will offer a sky-side seat of an amazing total solar eclipse (fingers crossed for clear skies). Scientists and astronomers will be taking the stage along with space explorer characters from the PBS show "Ready, Jet, Go."
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UTA Research Team Looks at Genetics of How Rattlesnakes Regulate Venom
by | Feb 28, 2024
In an effort to expand the research beyond snakes, UTA Biology Professor Todd Castoe and his colleagues received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that will support new statistical approaches to generate, test, and refine hypotheses for how gene regulatory networks function.
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Plano, Prosper ISDs Among 8 Texas Districts in Raise Your Hand Texas Cohort
by | Feb 26, 2024

The Plano Independent School District and Prosper ISD in North Texas are among eight Texas public school districts announced by Raise Your Hand Texas as participants in the newest cohort of the Trustee Advocates Program....

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Visitors at 31 Texas State Parks Will Get Solar Eclipse Viewing Gear, Thanks to Lyda Hill Philanthropies
by | Feb 20, 2024
Dallas-based Lyda Hill Philanthropies is donating 20,000 eclipse safety glasses, tabletop sun-spotter telescopes, telescope tripods and solar filters, binocular filters, smartphone sun photography adapters, and eclipse-themed books to Texas State Parks within the path of totality of the April 8 total solar eclipse.
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Partners Kick Off AI 75 2024: Dallas‑Fort Worth’s ‘Most Innovative’ People in Artificial Intelligence

by | Feb 20, 2024
Dallas Innovates, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and Dallas AI are teaming up to launch the new AI 75 program at Capital Factory's Future of AI Salon today. The first-ever list will recognize Dallas-Fort Worth innovators in artificial intelligence. Nominations are open through March 20.
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A ‘Moonshot’ for Strengthening the Brain: Founder Sandi Chapman on UTD’s Center for BrainHealth at 25
by | Feb 15, 2024
Now a quarter-century old, the Dallas-based cognitive neuroscience facility has grown from a "ragtag team" to a globally significant research institute dedicated uniquely to building better brain function. Here’s how it happened under chief director Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD.
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UT Southwestern Collaborates With Pfizer to Develop Better RNA Delivery Tech
by | Feb 13, 2024
UT Southwestern Medical Center and pharmaceutical company Pfizer have teamed up to develop new ways to deliver genetic treatments to patients.

Together they aim to accelerate the development of therapies that work through RNA biology and engineered delivery methods to fix root genetic causes of disease, which Pfizer could apply to its portfolio of investigational programs.
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Fort Worth Campus Set to Debut Prototype Stage for Texas A&M’s Groundbreaking Virtual Production Institute
by | Feb 13, 2024
The "extended reality" market is projected to be a $10.3 billion industry in 2024. To prepare students for it, a new Virtual Production Institute will be part of the Texas A&M School of Performance, Visualization, and Fine Arts.

David Parrish, a visual effects veteran and director of the program in Fort Worth, said the institute positions the university as a leader in research and next-gen workforce development.
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