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Dallas' West End Square has won a Best in Class award from the 2023 BIA Brick in Architecture Awards. [Photo: William Sundquist]
3 North Texas Projects Win Top 2023 BIA Brick in Architecture Awards
by David Seeley | 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.
by David Seeley |
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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by Lance Murray |
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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by David Seeley and Lance Murray |
Mar 5, 2024
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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A total solar eclipse. [Photo NASA/GSFC/CI Lab]
NASA Is Inviting You to Watch the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas
by David Seeley | 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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by Lance Murray |
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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by Lance Murray |
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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by Lance Murray |
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 David Seeley | 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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by Glenn Hunter |
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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by Lance Murray |
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.
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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by Lance Murray |
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.
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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The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum announced a new special exhibition, Walk this Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, opening to the public on February 9 through July 14.
‘Walk this Way’ Exhibit Tells Stories Through Nearly 200 Years of Women’s Shoes
by Lance Murray | Feb 8, 2024
Opening this Friday, the exhibition at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum offers a pathway to stories centered around "women's labor activism, the fight for suffrage and equal rights, the sexual revolution, and more."
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 6, 2024
Neal Smatresk's decade at UNT sparked big changes and growth, boosting its standing in academics and research. From "record-breaking enrollment" to "making UNT the highest-ranked Tier One institution in the North Texas region," his tenure marks transformation across multiple fronts.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2024
A UT Dallas team has developed a handheld sensor that can help first reponders detect whether fentanyl has been used. The sensor includes the use of "gold nanoparticles" and can detect fentanyl with "98% accuracy," the researchers say.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 2, 2024
As part of a nationwide effort, the NFEC chose Texas as one of its initial launch states because of the demonstrated need for greater economic empowerment among Texans.
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