80% of the program's graduates find full-time jobs or continue their education—with an average salary boost of 384%. In March, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $15 million to NPower, its largest donation ever.
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NPower Texas Expands Free Tech Fundamentals Program to Dallas-Fort Worth
by Lance Murray | Aug 5, 2022
The extended deadline to apply for Fall 2022 is August 15. NPower Texas is the state arm of a national nonprofit offering free tech training to 18- to 26-year-olds and military veterans and spouses.
80% of the program's graduates find full-time jobs or continue their education—with an average salary boost of 384%. In March, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $15 million to NPower, its largest donation ever.
80% of the program's graduates find full-time jobs or continue their education—with an average salary boost of 384%. In March, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $15 million to NPower, its largest donation ever.
by Lance Murray |
Aug 4, 2022
Dallas' Lyda Hill has been named one of five recipients of the 2022 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. She shares the philanthropic spotlight with four other "forces for positive change," including country music legend Dolly Parton.
An early donor of the research that led to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, Hill believes that "science is the answer"—and has chosen to donate the entirety of her estate to philanthropy and scientific research.
An early donor of the research that led to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, Hill believes that "science is the answer"—and has chosen to donate the entirety of her estate to philanthropy and scientific research.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Aug 3, 2022
Plus, you'll hear about local $450K National Endowment for the Arts awards; a $7.5M gift to Children's Medical Center Plano; Miranda Lambert's partnership with Pets Alive!; and more.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Aug 3, 2022
Top North Texas healthcare and life science employers—including UT Southwestern, McKesson, Evolve Biologics, Texas Health Resources, and more—have already signed up to hire 1,100 biotech workers from the groundbreaking program.
27,000 workers have made Dallas-Fort Worth a Top 20 U.S. metro for life sciences companies. As the boom continues, they’ll need company. Here's how the grant will help Dallas College and other local higher ed institutions step up to provide it—and why a CEO at Lyda Hill Philantrhopies calls it a "game changer."
27,000 workers have made Dallas-Fort Worth a Top 20 U.S. metro for life sciences companies. As the boom continues, they’ll need company. Here's how the grant will help Dallas College and other local higher ed institutions step up to provide it—and why a CEO at Lyda Hill Philantrhopies calls it a "game changer."
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DI People: Kimberly-Clark, Sabre, Charles Schwab, and More Make Moves
by Lance Murray | Jul 29, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from DHD Films, Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty, M2G Ventures, UT Dallas, the Dallas Museum of Art, MOOYAH, Successive Technologies, CG Infinity, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 28, 2022
“It’s not a feminist exhibition, but I think there’s a lot of taking the power back when women paint women.”
Andrea Karne
Chief Curator
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
.…on...
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by David Seeley |
Jul 27, 2022
Aiming to forge "a new path for excellence, innovation, and growth in the arts," UT Dallas is merging two schools into one larger School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology. The combined school will give the university a strong, single academic presence for the arts while taking advantage of UTD’s future arts and performance complex, the $158 million Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum.
The school's inaugural dean, Dr. Nils Roemer, says the move will "make a statement to the entire country about our commitment to arts, humanities, and technology."
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by Dave Moore |
Jul 26, 2022
Thousands have visited the Commemorative Air Force’s Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center (NAEC) at Dallas Executive Airport since its opening late last year. But it's still a relatively well-kept secret to most of the public.
The center is stocked with hundreds of vintage flying aircraft, propellers, classrooms, and pilots—some of whom even flew during World War II.
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Volkan Ötügen, senior associate dean of the Mechanical Engineering Department at SMU's Lyle School and director of the SMU MicroSensor Laboratory. [Photo: SMU]
SMU Research Team’s Tiny Sensor May Go to Mars—and Help Spaceships Land Safely
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 19, 2022
A team led by Volkan Ötügen, director of the SMU MicroSensor Laboratory, has developed a velocity-measuring "optical microresonator" that could help spaceships land safely on Mars and other planets. It's only 2 millimeters long—about the width of two sharp pencil points.
"Every gram of a device makes a huge difference in how much fuel I will have to have on a spacecraft and how many other items I can include as payload on that spacecraft," said Ötügen, whose research is funded by NASA.
"Every gram of a device makes a huge difference in how much fuel I will have to have on a spacecraft and how many other items I can include as payload on that spacecraft," said Ötügen, whose research is funded by NASA.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 18, 2022
The grant—part of more than $121 million given by the U.S. Department of Labor to help strengthen and modernize Registered Apprenticeship programs—was the only one awarded in North Texas. The college was also the only higher education institute in Texas to get one of the grants.
The grants are intended to help workers find a “reliable path to the middle class," the Labor Department says.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 15, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Exela Technologies, Newmark, OrangeGrid, RailPros, Aimbridge Hospitality, Integrity Marketing Group, Smoothie King, Bank of Texas, MD7, Salvation Army, and more.
Plus, you'll find board appointments including Texas Mutual Insurance, Zimperium, and the Ebby Halliday Foundation.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 13, 2022
“It’s letting them know that it’s okay to struggle.”
Enrique Otero
Psychology Professor
Dallas College’s North Lake campus
.…on helping students prepare for life after college, via LinkedIn....
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The Last Word: Tia Raymond, MD, on Preventing Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
by David Seeley | Jul 11, 2022
“The best CPR is no CPR.”
Tia Raymond, MD Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist Medical City Children’s Hospital .…on reducing cardiac arrests in pediatric cardiac ICUs.
A recent study featuring research at Dallas’ Medical City Children’s Hospital is helping to improve and save the lives of children in cardiac intensive care units, according to the hospital....
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 11, 2022
Want to map your innovation-to-market commercialization path or apply for federal money through the $4 billion America's Seed Fund program? Or maybe you're an entrepreneur seeking to validate your customer's needs. The Texas SBDC Technology Commercialization Center wants to help.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 8, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Integrity Marketing, Tauro Capital Advisors, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Ashton Woods, Cariloop, EisnerAmper, Mosaic, Gore Range Capital, One Day, and others.
You'll also find CDFI Friendly Fort Worth's first board appointments, Texas Women's Foundation's newest board members, and North Central Texas Council of Government's new president.
You'll also find CDFI Friendly Fort Worth's first board appointments, Texas Women's Foundation's newest board members, and North Central Texas Council of Government's new president.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 7, 2022
Through a new collaboration that combines training with hand-on experience, Dallas-based AT&T aims to create a pipeline for SMU students to become its next employees through the new Data Science Scholars Program. One of its goals is creating more opportunities for women and underrepresented students.
“Data science is a team sport,” said Mark Austin, AT&T’s VP for data science. who will help give the students challenges that are "bread-and-butter" to AT&T's own data science group.
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