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Emergency medicine faculty member Dr. Gilberto Salazar and UT Design Director Todd Polk show a VR training tool. [Photo courtesy UTSW]
UTSW, UT Dallas Collaborate on VR Training on Handling Violent Encounters in the E.R.
by Lance Murray | Jan 11, 2023
The collaboration has led to an innovative VR training tool that places physicians inside a virtual hospital examination room—where they experience a series of realistic patient encounters. The tool enables physicians to practice proven de-escalation tactics to help these incidents end peacefully.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 9, 2023
Last June, we told you about Go-To-Green, a Dallas startup that aims to help people get to safety in an active shooter situation, while also ensuring law enforcement can isolate the threat. Starting last week, the Pilot Point ISD north of Dallas-Fort Worth became the first district in the U.S. to put the technology to use.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 9, 2023
The grant will benefit HPISD's Moody Innovation Institute and its STEAM and MAPS initiatives, and expand the institute's programs to include the Moody Education Solutions Accelerator. Programs benefiting from the grant include those for mathematics education in grades K-8 and for dyslexia across the HPISD curriculum.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 9, 2023
An October 2019 EF-3 tornado nearly destroyed "T.J." and the adjacent Cary Middle School. Today, students finally returned to find modern, state-of-the-art learning centers packed with the latest technology.
Not far away, a damaged elementary school is being transformed into a career institute for students from multiple DISD high schools.
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Scott Walters, PhD, is the steering committee chair of the HEALing Communities Study, which stands for Helping to End Addiction Long-term. This program was launched in 2019 as a partnership between the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and aims to reduce opioid overdose deaths by 40% through testing ways to make it easier for communities to use evidence-based practices to prevent opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose in healthcare, justice, and behavioral health settings. [Photo: UNTHSC]
UNTHSC Prof: With Opioid Research Done, It’s Time to ‘Talk About the Results’
by Lance Murray | Dec 27, 2022
"We don’t have years to wait—it’s important that the data and recommendations are delivered as quickly as possible, in ways people can understand and apply," says Dr. Scott Walters, who served as steering committee chair of the 67-community HEALing Communities Study.
A center at the University of North Texas Health Science Center will share findings to communities most affected by the worsening opioid crisis. “We already know quite a bit about best practices,” Walters notes.
A center at the University of North Texas Health Science Center will share findings to communities most affected by the worsening opioid crisis. “We already know quite a bit about best practices,” Walters notes.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 22, 2022
As New Year's Eve approaches, thoughts are turning to holidays, fireworks, and—yes—business plans for a whole new year. That may be why December is National Business Plan Month, and TWU's Tracy Irby has the perfect way to celebrate it—by avoiding 5 key business plan mistakes.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 22, 2022
The highly competitive grant shows NSF’s willingness to expand the study of quantum information technology to universities that are aspiring to become major players in the field, said UTA professor Michael Vasilyeve, who will lead the project.
One purpose of the NSF's expansion program is to ensure a steady supply of skilled workers for the quantum information technology industry, which is constantly in need of more talent than is available.
One purpose of the NSF's expansion program is to ensure a steady supply of skilled workers for the quantum information technology industry, which is constantly in need of more talent than is available.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 21, 2022
UT Southwestern researchers have used gene editing technology to develop what could be a breakthrough for dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that affects one in 250 people worldwide.
“The pace of this field is really breathtaking,” said Eric Olson, Ph.D., who co-led the study. “I expect that if this moves forward into patients, we’re not talking within decades—we’re talking within years.”
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Google Career Certificates Now Available for UT, Texas State University Systems
by Lance Murray | Dec 15, 2022
Google has announced the Google Career Certificates are available to students across The University of Texas and Texas State University systems, bringing with them the potential to reach tens of thousands of students across the state.
The tech giant said that Google Career Certificates equip individuals with job-ready skills in the fields of data analytics, e-commerce and digital marketing, IT Support, automation in python, project management, and user experience (UX) design....
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 15, 2022
Researchers at UT Austin published a study in July called "I share, therefore I know? Sharing online content—even without reading it—inflates subjective knowledge." The study, published by the Society for Consumer Psychology, explored how sharing online content affects what people think they know.
Turns out, they think they know a lot—which isn't necessarily the case at all.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 14, 2022
The UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth has received a $2 million grant from Tarrant County to help emerging tech startups successfully apply for federal Small Business Innovation Research funding.
"It’s about creating entrepreneurial excellence in Tarrant County,” says Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks. “This puts us at the forefront of innovation in bringing tech industries to Tarrant County as an economic development tool.”
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 9, 2022
Dr. Amy Pinkham of UTD’s School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences received an award for outstanding research on social cognition. The award puts her group at the forefront of research in the field, the professor said.
The work could be applicable for many disorders, including autism and mood and anxiety disorders.
The work could be applicable for many disorders, including autism and mood and anxiety disorders.
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Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell speaks at the 2022 CCBA annual luncheon. [Photo: Grant Miller Photography]
Innovative Educator and CCBA Leadership Award Winner Michael Sorrell Has a Simple Request: ‘Please Say Yes’
by Lance Murray | Dec 9, 2022
Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell has a vision for a global network of Urban Work Colleges that take aim at intergenerational poverty and "smash it." The first one opened in Plano in 2018.
Accepting a leadership award from the Collin County Business Alliance, Sorrell asked his staff and students to stand up. Why? Because "they're going to come see you and talk to you about hiring students to work at your companies," Sorrell told the audience filled with local business leaders. "And I want everyone to practice this with me: 'Yes.'
Accepting a leadership award from the Collin County Business Alliance, Sorrell asked his staff and students to stand up. Why? Because "they're going to come see you and talk to you about hiring students to work at your companies," Sorrell told the audience filled with local business leaders. "And I want everyone to practice this with me: 'Yes.'
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 8, 2022
Rhithm, a Dallas social-emotional learning and mental health startup, raised $4 million in a seed round last year for its emoji-based bio-social assessments app, which is now used by over 2,400 schools in 29 states, according to the company. One district that adopted the app is Fort Worth ISD—and it recently announced a change in how the app will be used.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 6, 2022
The grant award supports a new online platform to find out why cyber jobs are going unfilled—and make it easy for employers to find talent through an online database. UNT's Ram Dantu and Mark Thompson are principal investigators on the project. Dantu says foreign governments are "spying on us all the time,” and threats like ransomware attacks and cyber attacks abound.
"We need a large workforce to combat this, and we don’t have the workforce,” Dantu says.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 5, 2022
Emerging research shows, “Yes, college is worth it,” in terms of earnings potential, according to economic analyst Navi Dhaliwal.
Dhaliwal leads the Research Institute at Dallas College’s return on investment studies....
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