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Meet the Finalists: The Innovation Awards 2022, Presented by Dallas Innovates and D CEO
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 26, 2021
Now in its third year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 78 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2021
The team is led by UTSW assistant professor Gary Hon, Ph.D., who developed Mosaic-seq, a gene engineering technique that helped lead to the grant award. UTSW will now become a research partner in a new $185M National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to build on findings of the Human Genome Project.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2021
The TCU Neeley Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation received top honors at last week's Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Awards for best entrepreneurship programs—becoming the first university to receive a major GCEC award three years in a row.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 20, 2021
There are 46,000 special education students in DISD schools alone, says Ability Connection's president and CEO. The "camps"—offered every other Friday evening and every other Saturday afternoon—allow caregivers to take a much-needed break while their children enjoy enriching and engaging activities.
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Students train in high-fidelity training environments, including an emergency department room, an intensive care room, and a labor and delivery room. [Photo: UT Southwestern]
The Future of Medical Education
by Southwestern Medical Foundation | Oct 8, 2021
Learn the ways medical school classrooms are looking more and more futuristic by incorporating simulation learning into their curriculums.
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sponsored by Southwestern Medical Foundation
by Dave Moore |
Oct 7, 2021
Students and experienced engineers alike hacked solutions to real-world challenges with algorithms, coding scripts, and data in three days of problem-solving. Some of the world’s biggest names in business—Amazon, McKesson, and USAA (to name a few)—were taking note.
Hackathons have became the new career fair for tech talent.
Hackathons have became the new career fair for tech talent.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 7, 2021
The award from the National Institutes of Health will help HSC lead the AI/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, or AIM-AHEAD, program. The effort will bring together experts in community engagement, AI/ML, health equity research, data science training, and data infrastructure.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 5, 2021
The inaugural October 8th Texas Blockchain Summit could be a watershed event for making Texas "the jurisdiction of choice" for Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council, will host a wide array of speakers including Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis.
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The 2021 Cary Council grant recipients: Dr. Emily Adhikari, Dr. Owoicho Adogwa, and Dr. Samuel John [Photos: Cary Council]
Dallas ‘DocStars’ on COVID and Pregnancy, Cancer and Spine Studies, and Working Till Midnight on Early-Stage Research
by David Seeley | Oct 4, 2021
In partnership with the Southwestern Medical Foundation, the Cary Council awarded $50K grants to each of its three 2021 young "DocStars." On a recent "What's Up Doc?" virtual event, the young investigators spoke about how their research projects are going, what they hope to achieve—and why the seed grants are a catalyst for medical innovation.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 1, 2021
You’ve found Dallas Innovates’ archive of news briefs from July to September 2021.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 30, 2021
You’ve found Dallas Innovates’ archive of news briefs from July to September 2021.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 29, 2021
If you think that headline is a lot to chew on, you've got the right idea. Esposure wants to help Salad nibble on computing time from gamers everywhere, by training users how to turn their idle PCs into cryptomining computers through distributed computing. Redeemable rewards are the dessert.
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Clockwise from upper left: Chastity Lord, John Ficken, Valerie Jarrett, Vu Le, Alan Cohen, Marty McDonald, and Ali Wajahat. [Photos via Capital One]
Changemakers Will Explore Transformational Leadership and Innovative Strategies at Virtual Summit
by David Seeley | Sep 23, 2021
The free, half-day event focuses on the power of positive change and navigating these uncharted times. Capital One's Reimagine Communities Summit features a keynote from Valerie Jarrett, former senior advisor to President Obama, along with insights from a diverse cross-section of innovators, industry disruptors, and content experts.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 23, 2021
The 20-year Energy Savings Performance Contract will focus on a modernization project for cooling demand at the university’s health research labs.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 21, 2021
The award is designated for Teach For America programs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and San Antonio for the upcoming school year. It's part of a larger $21.6 million in federal funding that Texas received from AmeriCorps. OneStar Foundation, the Governor-designated National Service Commission in Texas, administers the AmeriCorps State grant program.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 17, 2021
Kicking off during National Small Business Week, the program will partner locally with Dallas College. Its goal: Create paid internships for underrepresented community college students and address the skills gap faced by small businesses during the pandemic.
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