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“Real AI is already all around us,” the Mark Cuban Foundation says: “AI is how TikTok knows what video you’ll love next, how self-driving cars avoid pedestrians, how Alexa understands your sentences.” [Image: Wachiwit/istockphoto]
Next-Gen AI, Mark Cuban’s Way
by Glenn Hunter | Feb 16, 2023
The Mark Cuban Foundation brings AI education to underserved high school students through free bootcamps hosted by companies in cities across the U.S.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Feb 16, 2023
North Texas universities are gearing up for the AI revolution, readying students for the jobs of tomorrow. Here's a look at what's happening at SMU, TCU, the University of North Texas, UT Arlington, and UT Dallas, as published in our annual 2023 Dallas Innovates magazine.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 15, 2023
Education plays a pivotal role in shaping tomorrow’s leaders. Meet four North Texans who are spearheading a wave of innovative educational programs, entrepreneurial ventures, and creative initiatives to inspire the next generation of leaders and innovators....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 15, 2023
Ann Cavallo, assistant vice provost and distinguished professor of science education at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science....
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Constructing the Katherine Beattie TCU mural in Los Angeles. [Photo: TCU]
TCU Mural in L.A. Celebrates ‘NCIS’ Writer Alum’s Inspiring Life Story
by David Seeley | Feb 10, 2023
Katherine Beattie, a 2008 graduate of Fort Worth's Texas Christian University, has lived a life story worth telling. Now TCU has helped celebrate it with a huge mural in Los Angeles—one of a series of murals nationwide highlight alumni who are "leading on" in extraordinary ways.
Beattie has spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy, a condition that makes walking extremely difficult and led to her need for a wheelchair. But that hasn't slowed down her career as co-executive producer of CBS' "NCIS" and her achievement of being the first woman on earth to land a backflip in a wheelchair.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 10, 2023
Amanda W. Dotseth has been named the Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the first woman to hold that post....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 8, 2023
Half the funding came from the Department of Labor, with the other $500K coming from the Department of Education. The innovative teacher residency apprenticeship program is designed to help solve teacher shortages by building a steady pipeline of well-trained teachers. Open to students enrolled in Dallas College’s bachelor’s degree in education program, it allows educators of tomorrow to begin earning while still training.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 8, 2023
What do the three-light traffic light, laser cataract surgery, and the first automatic transmission have in common? All were invented by African Americans.
In celebration of Black History Month, the UNT Dallas Rising Blazers program will host a special viewing of the African American Pioneers in STEAM Museum Showcase Feb. 11-12 and 16-17 at the UNT Dallas Innovation Center, 4315 S. Lancaster Road, Suite 180 in Dallas.
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Thomas DiPiero, dean of the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at SMU. [Photo: SMU]
The Last Word: SMU’s Thomas DiPiero on Partnership with edX for Data Science Online Learning
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 7, 2023
Data scientist has been called the sexiest job of the 21st century, according to the Harvard Business Review, which noted last summer that the job is "more in demand than ever with employers and recruiters."
SMU's partnership with edX aims to give students more ways to pursue data science education in a way that makes the most sense for them.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 3, 2023
Big Thought, a Dallas-based impact education nonprofit and accessories retail giant Fossil Group are hosting the community arts event Works of Heart on Feb. 9 at Fossil’s headquarters in Richardson....
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by David Seeley |
Feb 2, 2023
Dallas ISD, Toyota, and SMU are partnering with the nonprofit Brother Bill’s Helping Hand on a food pantry and "learning garden" at the West Dallas STEM School. The effort is achieving more than offering healthy food to students and the local community, though, Rogers says.
"We want the staff to be able to use the space for hands-on experiences that they may not be able to accomplish in their classrooms," Rogers told the DMN. "We found a site that will give students the greatest opportunity to learn, as well as have the attributes needed to make it successful for years to come."
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by Dallas Next Media |
Jan 27, 2023
Welcome to the pulse of North Texas, where creativity and innovation converge to shape the future of business and beyond.
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TCPAH Co-Director Dr. Sajid Surve with a sax-playing patient. [Photo: Jill Johnson/HSC]
UNT HSC at Fort Worth Offers Free Health Care to Performing Artists Through Late April
by David Seeley | Jan 24, 2023
Singer with sore throat? Dancer with damaged knee? Actor with active infection? You're all in luck—the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth is offering free health care for performing artists through late April.
Funded by an anonymous donor, the free clinic is being provided by UNT HSC's Performing Arts Medicine Clinic, whose on-site physicians treat dancers, actors, vocalists, and instrumentalists of all ages and skill levels.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 23, 2023
Working in UT Dallas' UTDesign Capstone program, the student team is developing an automated agility course that motivates pets to stop their lazy sofa-surfing and jump around to earn treats. The team had to tweak their design when Wiggle—their "chief beta tester"—figured out how to snag free Cheez-Its with her nose.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 20, 2023
The board of directors of Education Opens Doors, a Dallas-based nonprofit that partners with middle schools to train teachers to equip their students with college and career knowledge, has appointed Dr....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 20, 2023
The Texas A&M University System announced the name Thursday at an event in Fort Worth. The downtown research campus is "moving ahead rapidly toward construction," TAMU says, as the anchor project for a technology and innovation district planned around the redevelopment of the city’s convention center.
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