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The Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at SMU

SMU Gets $30M Gift from O’Donnell Foundation for Data Science Institute, Digital Innovation Initiative

by | Aug 24, 2023
Elevating SMU’s standing as a premier global research institution, the gift will create 10 endowed academic positions in engineering and data science and support research in those fields as well. SMU President R. Gerald Turner said the gift will be evenly split between SMU's newly named O’Donnell Data Science and Research Computing Institute and an initiative for digital innovation in engineering and computer science in the Lyle School of Engineering.
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TWU Aeronautics Takes Flight with ‘Historic’ Doswell Gift, Aims to Soar in Training Pilots
by | Aug 23, 2023
With the aviation industry needing hundreds of thousands of new pilots in the coming decades, Texas Woman's University in Denton aims to soar to new heights in aeronautics education. A $15 million donation—the largest foundation gift in TWU history—will establish the Doswell School of Aeronautical Sciences—and help put more women in pilot's seats from coast to coast.
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UTA Professor Gets $800K To Develop Drone Computing Platform for First Responders
by | Aug 21, 2023
Electrical Engineering Professor Yan Wan has received $800,000 in National Science Foundation funding to develop an open-networked airborne computing platform for drones used by first responders. Networking a system of "robots in the air" can help find disaster victims, guide rescuers, and more. Her work could also be used for drone delivery and other commercial applications, UTA says.
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Mesquite ISD Installing Massive ‘Shade Pavilions’ To Protect Teams, Coaches from Heat
by | Aug 18, 2023
On 110-degree days like today, what's a high school football team to do? Mesquite ISD has a solution: It's installing Hellas "shade pavilions" at all five of its high schools to let quarterbacks, cheerleaders, marching bands, soccer teams, and more practice in breezy, shaded bliss.
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CPRIT Awards $9.5M in Cancer Research Grants to SMU and Dallas’ Baylor Research Institute

by | Aug 17, 2023
The 29 new grants approved by CPRIT's Oversight Committee include the first CPRIT Scholar award to Southern Methodist University in Dallas and state funding for Dallas' Baylor Research Institute to join a major National Cancer Institute study.
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The Last Word: UTA’s Meghna Tare On How to Solve Big Problems, Like Turning DFW Airport Into a Zero-Waste Zone
by | Aug 16, 2023
So how do you start in approaching big problems? Tare says it's all about the basics: "You start from the very basics and think about data collection. What you measure now, you need to measure again in the future to see if there’s a trend line."
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A ‘Deep Space’ Multisensory Installation Is Coming to Richardson
by | Aug 15, 2023
"Sensing Deep Space: Pandora's Cluster" will take people on an artistic journey to a galactic collision 4 billion light years away—with a little help from the SciArt Exchange, UT Dallas, an Australian composer and audiovisual artist, and others.
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Teach For America DFW Names New Executive Director and New Board Chair
by | Aug 11, 2023

Bibi Yasmin Katsev has been named the executive director of Teach For America’s Dallas-Fort Worth region.

The local chapter of the nonprofit Teach For America organization has a mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize promising future leaders in education....

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SBA Chief in Dallas: ‘We Are Becoming the Startup Nation’

by | Aug 9, 2023
Since January 2021, a record 12.2 million new business applications have been filed nationwide—with Texas alone contributing 1.1 million. Speaking at a Dallas event, Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman emphasized ongoing efforts to support Americans in realizing their entrepreneurial dreams.
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From left: Ezi Negus, Okigwe Creations; Greer Christian, PureNRG Cycle; Awah Chai, Offworld Coffee; Kimberly Matthews, Holy Rollie Pastry Shop; and moderator Tarsha Hearns, The DEC Network. [Photo: The DEC Network]
Meet Four North Texas Entrepreneurs Who Navigated to Success With SBA’s Community Pilot Program
by | Aug 9, 2023
At the recent Entrepreneur Showcase in Dallas, four emerging startups were spotlighted alongside Biden Cabinet Member Isabella Casillas Guzman, who leads the Small Business Administration, and Mark Madrid, the driving force behind SBA's Office of Entrepreneurial Development. “I feel like I’ve just been to a TED talk with these entrepreneurs' words of wisdom,” Madrid said at the event powered by Dallas College and The DEC Network.
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Past Issues: Dallas Innovates—The Magazine
by | Aug 9, 2023
Peruse Dallas Innovates' special once-a-year magazines. Each edition is a keeper.
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HSC Fort Worth Launches ‘First-Ever’ Lifestyle Medicine Course for Teens
by | Aug 3, 2023
The HSC said the 20-hour, self-paced course, students learn about the core concepts of lifestyle medicine: a whole-food, plant-based diet; regular physical activity; restorative sleep; stress management; avoidance of risky substances; and positive social connection to achieve optimal health and prevent chronic disease.
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AT&T and FirstNet Introduce New Tool to Keep Students, Teachers Safer at School

by | Aug 1, 2023
Safety Shield provides a "wearable panic button" for schoolteachers and administrators that instantly alerts 9-1-1 while simultaneously sounding a campuswide silent alarm to school personnel.
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UTA Researcher Wins DoD Grant for Cutting-Edge Metal Manufacturing Machines, Paving the Way for Tools on Ships at Sea—and on Mars
by | Jul 31, 2023
Emma Yang, an industrial engineering expert, will use the funds to purchase 3-D hybrid manufacturing equipment that can print metals and alloys. UT Arlington calls the equipment critical to the education of the next generation of scientists and engineers. 
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Brewing Up Solutions: UT Dallas Students Perk Up Travel and Automated French Press for Coffee Co.
Engineering students from UTDesign developed two innovative solutions for Anikona Coffee: an automated French Press that revolutionizes coffee brewing and a transformative suitcase with a unique mechanical design featuring extendable wheels for easier stair navigation.
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$3M Gift Will Launch a New Career Center at UNT at Frisco
by | Jul 28, 2023
The $3 million gift from Satish and Yasmin Gupta will support student scholarships and create a new career center at UNT at Frisco. UNT President Neal Smatresk said the transformative gift "will serve as a catalyst in our ongoing mission to extend UNT at Frisco’s reach and impact."
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