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Fort Worth’s Digital Seat Media Launches Platform for Student Mental Health Support

by | Jun 28, 2023
Digital Seat said the platform aims to provide much-needed support and resources to students grappling with mental health challenges, while also offering a central hub for school administrators to directly communicate with their student body. The platform can be easily accessed with a scan of a student's ID, lanyard, or wristband.
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Texas School Districts, Open Enrollment Charter Schools Get Waiver to Continue Virtual Instruction
by | Jun 26, 2023

Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner Mike Morath has been directed by Gov. Greg Abbott to waive specific requirements for school districts or open-enrollment charter schools to continue offering virtual instruction options for students in grades 3 through 12 via the Texas Virtual School Network (TXVSN) for the next two school years....

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Phillips Foundation Gives SMU $1.7M Grant for SMU Impact Lab
by | Jun 23, 2023
A collaboration between the university’s Meadows School of the Arts and Cox School of Business, the SMU Impact Lab aims to equip the next generation of SMU students to understand impact investing through education and practice. By aligning "profits and purpose," SMU said it's committed to advancing the idea of "investing for the greater good."
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Public-Private Consortium Will Fund 3 Gene Therapy Clinical Trials at UT Southwestern
by | Jun 22, 2023
"There are over 10,000 rare diseases that affect millions of people worldwide, and most of them are genetic," notes UT Southwestern's Steven Gray (above, with Susan Iannaccone, M.D.). Testing on a total of eight genetic diseases has been approved for funding by the Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium and other organizations.
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Groundbreaking: Fortune 500 Company Joins Texas A&M Fort Worth’s Landmark Campus Project

Dignitaries dug in today at the groundbreaking for Texas A&M Fort Worth. Construction will begin with the $150 million Law & Education Building, part of a three-building urban research campus. Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp says the campus will be "a magnet for economic growth for the North Texas region.”
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Denton Power Duo: Stoke and TWU Center for Women Entrepreneurs Announce Return of AccelerateHER
by | Jun 20, 2023

Are you a woman entrepreneur looking to kickstart your innovative business idea? Here’s an incubator program based in Denton that could transform your dreams into reality....

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Your Weight in Chickens: American Airlines CR Smith Museum’s Summer STEM Exhibition
by | Jun 13, 2023
When kids in North Texas dream of being an airplane pilot, it's usually all in their head. But this summer, they can go beyond their imaginations and learn some of the STEM concepts that go into flight—thanks to the new exhibition "Measurement Rules" at the American Airlines CR Smith Museum, located at the southern end of DFW Airport.
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Stream Realty Partners, Project Destined Offer CRE Training for Dallas-Area College Students
by | Jun 12, 2023
Stream and Project Destined will provide a nine-week, work-based training program to 12 students attending UT Dallas, SMU, Texas A&M University, University of North Texas at Dallas, and Texas Christian University. Students in the program will compete against each other in groups to present live real estate deals to industry leaders.
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Eight DISD Seniors Receive Deloitte / NTPGA ‘Fairway to Success’ Scholarships

by | Jun 9, 2023
"Golf is the closest game to the game we call life," legendary player Bobby Jones once said. "You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots—but you have to play the ball where it lies." Eight Dallas ISD seniors already had a head start on learning this lesson, which applies to both business and life. But thanks to the "Fairway to Success" program, they just gained a lot more.
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Dallas College and Gainwell Technologies have been awarded grants totaling $1,045,269 from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Department of Labor to provide advanced training through Dallas College for more than 500 employees at Irving-based Gainwell. Logos pictured.
Dallas College, Gainwell Technologies Receive More Than $1M in Grants for Specialized Training
by | Jun 8, 2023
Dallas College and Irving-based Gainwell Technologies have been awarded grants by the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Department of Labor to provide specialized training in the healthcare industry. This training encompasses cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and advanced data analytics.
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Shirin Nilizadeh, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working on the vulnerabilities of AI to online misrepresentation. Misrepresentation is part of the word cloud that depicts artificial intelligence challenges. [Sources: DI, Illustration Rob Wilson/Shutterstock]
UTA Researcher Gets $568K NSF Grant To Explore AI Systems’ Vulnerability to Misinformation
by | Jun 8, 2023
The whole world's abuzz about the wonders of ChatGPT, Bard, and other generative AI systems. But there's also buzz about AI's many dangers. See how adversaries might try to "poison" these systems with false information—and what UT Arlington's Shirin Nilizadeh is doing to protect the systems from attack.
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Dallas Nonprofit Bold Idea Names 2 North Texas Students for Its Inaugural Bold & Bright Awards
by | Jun 7, 2023
The award recognizes outstanding Bold Idea students who received hands-on learning and mentoring from volunteer industry professionals from top Dallas-area tech companies. The award winners showed advanced computer science skills, built creative coding projects, and have big goals. See who won—and why one could make the FBI happy.
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University of North Texas at Dallas Taps New Dean for School of Business

by | Jun 2, 2023
Jason Garrett, the newly appointed Dean of the School of Business at UNT Dallas has ambitious plans for the institution. Significantly, its business school is a unique institution, being the only one of its kind at a four-year public university in Dallas, he says.
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The Last Word: OptiMIND Founder on Winning a $40,000 Award for Research Innovation at UTD’s Big Idea Competition
Associate Professor Chandramallika Basak entered UTD's recent Big Idea Competition in the alumni research commercialization category with OptiMIND, a series of brain training games designed to enhance brain and cognition across the lifespan. The games are designed to ensure that people stay sharp and focused at any age. After winning $40,000 in the competition, she recently tweeted that she's ready to start her startup.
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UNT Dallas Gets $651K TI Foundation Grant to Fund STEM School Principals Master’s Program
by | May 23, 2023
Beginning this fall, the grant will cover tuition and fees for candidates entering the rigorous, two-year Master of Educational Leadership program with a STEM concentration. Candidates will be drawn from Cedar Hill, Dallas, DeSoto, Duncanville and Lancaster independent school districts.
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Lewisville’s RedCritter Launches AI- and ChatGPT-Powered CritterCoin for Student Tutoring, Engagement, and Rewards
by | May 18, 2023
To support positive schoolroom behavior while making learning fun and (literally) rewarding, RedCritter's new AI- and ChaptGPT-powered product suite enables students to do lots of things. Like interviewing a historical character. Receiving personal tutoring on any topic. Learning a language, learning to code, and more.
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