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TIME’s Kid of the Year Is a 17‑Year-Old Tech Whiz From North Texas

by | Sep 11, 2025
Tejasvi Manoj, a senior at Frisco's Lebanon Trail High School, made the cover of TIME for building a website that protects senior citizens from online scams. But wait, there's more: The Mark Cuban AI Bootcamp alumni is also an Eagle Scout, a violinist, and an active volunteer for nonprofits around the world.
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Garland Students Team With SMU Engineers on Affordable, Sustainable Building Blocks
by | Sep 10, 2025
Compressed earth blocks made from Dallas soil could offer a low-cost, eco-friendly alternative to traditional masonry. A team of Garland High School summer student researchers got hands-on experience with the solution at SMU's Lyle School of Engineering.
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nominate by sept 12, 2025, for The Innovation Awards 2026, presented by D CEO and Dallas Innovates
North Texas Innovation Is Boundary‑Breaking. Nominations for the Awards That Prove It Close Sept. 12
by | Sep 7, 2025
D CEO and Dallas Innovates have expanded The Innovation Awards 2026 with more individual and company categories this year. Now is your chance to be part of the region’s defining recognition for innovators.
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NIH Taps UT Southwestern Medical Center for $23M North Texas Alzheimer’s Disease Research Hub
by | Sep 3, 2025
The new federal Alzheimer's hub joins an elite network of 37 centers nationwide. Scientists from UT Southwestern, UT Arlington, and UT Dallas will decode dementia by exploring hypertension's role, analyzing voice patterns with AI, and creating virtual patient models.
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Newly Retired UTD President To Be Inducted Into Tech Titans Hall of Fame

by | Aug 28, 2025
Dr. Richard Benson, who served as president of UT Dallas from 2016 through Aug. 1, 2025, will be recognized at the 2025 Tech Titans Awards event on Sept 12.
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Dallas College Leads $5.7M Regional Effort to Expand Health Care Workforce Training
by | Aug 27, 2025
Four North Texas community colleges and the DFW Hospital Council will use a federal grant to expand training, boost equity, and meet the region’s growing demand for health care workers.
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UNT Launches National Security and Economic Strategy Initiative Led by Former Navy Secretary
by | Aug 27, 2025
The new initiative—aimed at tackling challenges around national defense, supply chain resilience, and economic competitiveness—will serve as a research and policy hub. Its Presidential Advisory Council includes leaders from the military, government, and industry.
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Uplift Education Names Next CEO in Transition Plan; Endowment Campaign in the Works
by | Aug 26, 2025
After 15 years at the helm of the charter school network, Yasmin Bhatia will retire at year’s end. Remy Washington, currently president of Uplift, will take the reins in January.
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SMU-Led Team Develops Nanomaterial to Withstand 1,000°C Heat—But 3D Print at Room Temperature

by | Aug 24, 2025
The breakthrough could impact industries from aerospace to energy. “This new method can revolutionize the material science field,” says lead researcher Amin Salehi-Khojin.
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UNT Ph.D. Grad Gives $2M to Launch Data Science Innovation Lab
by | Aug 23, 2025
Broadcom executive Vikas Sinha and his wife, Anuradha, have invested more than $5 million in UNT’s data science program, aiming to fuel opportunity in a field “at the heart of the job market.”
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Dallas ISD’s $80M Nolan Estes Campus Will Bring Three Downtown Schools Under One Roof by 2027
by | Aug 23, 2025
The new multi-age campus will unite three downtown schools—Montessori, CityLab, and IDEA—under one roof in the city center. It’s also the first DISD project of its kind led by an all–African American joint venture team.
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Organoids without blood vessels can't grow larger than sesame seeds—about 3 millimeters—before dying from lack of oxygen and nutrients. UNT and Stanford researchers say they've solved this problem. Seeds pictured above are not to scale. [Image: Pinchai Puntong/istockphoto]
First Mini Hearts and Livers With Working Blood Vessels Grown in Lab, UNT-Stanford Team Reports
by | Aug 21, 2025
Scientists at at the University of North Texas and Stanford Medicine have created tiny artificial organs called organoids with fully formed blood vessel networks. The stem cell-based breakthrough could transform drug testing and disease research while reducing the need for animal models—and expand possibilities for regenerative medicine.
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UT Dallas, UT Southwestern Among Six 2025 iC3 Tech Transfer Showcase Finalists

by | Aug 19, 2025
Part of the 2025 iC³ Life Science & Healthcare Innovation Summit to be held September 16-17 in Dallas, the showcase pitch event is designed to connect university researchers with potential investors, industry executives, and strategic partners. This is the first year the showcase has expanded beyond Texas.
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Presidential Appointments Finalized at UNT Health Fort Worth and UNT Dallas
by | Aug 14, 2025
Dr. Kirk Calhoun was named president of UNT Health Fort Worth and Dr. Warren von Eschenbach was named president of UNT Dallas. Both were chosen as sole finalists for their respective positions on June 27.
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TCU Exec Ed Expert: Corporate AI Isn’t Plug-and-Play (And Why That’s Actually Better)
by | Aug 12, 2025
In TCU's recent Insights publication, Neeley Executive Education faculty leader Eric Arseneau says generative AI is delivering real business value as it climbs Gartner's "Slope of Enlightenment." But AI specialization is creating unexpected friction for organizations. Here's his take.
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$3.1 Million NIH Grant Backs UTA Team’s AI Push in Antibody Drug Discovery
by | Aug 8, 2025
The funding supports UT Arlington researcher Junzhou Huang, whose team recently ranked first in protein contact prediction and placed sixth overall in an international AI challenge competing against Google DeepMind, the University of Washington, and others.
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