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The Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas [Photo: PR Newswire]
UTD’s New Jindal School Center Aims to be a Guide for Retailers’ Digital Transformation
by Alex Edwards | Nov 16, 2021
The Center for Retail Innovation and Strategy Excellence (RISE) wants to pioneer how local companies respond to disruptive technologies and digital transformation.
by Alex Edwards |
Nov 15, 2021
The $120 million Texas Instruments Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Building, supported by a gift from Dallas-based Texas Instruments, will focus on advancing transformational bioengineering research that can find solutions to unmet medical needs. It's set to open in 2023.
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by Alex Edwards |
Nov 12, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from Jacobs, WiNGS, TearLab, Activate Renewables, StreetLights Residential, The Expo Group, Lear Investment Management, and more.
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by Maddie Preston |
Nov 11, 2021
UTD students, faculty, and alumni pitched their big ideas for a chance to win cash to push their ventures forward. New this year: Capital Factory presented the first-ever biotech+ challenge award.
The event featured a closing conversation on the entrepreneurial ecosystem with long-time business partners Ross Perot Jr. and Anurag Jain.
The event featured a closing conversation on the entrepreneurial ecosystem with long-time business partners Ross Perot Jr. and Anurag Jain.
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‘Aggieland North’: Texas A&M Plans New Research Campus in Downtown Fort Worth
by Alex Edwards | Nov 10, 2021
Aggieland is headed to Fort Worth with what A&M's chancellor calls a "Texas-sized commitment." The proposed plan for the new urban campus includes the Texas A&M System Research and Innovation Center, the Education Alliance Building, and new law school.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 4, 2021
Global Entrepreneurship Week Fort Worth kicks off November 7-12 with an opening party, a pitch competition, a State of Entrepreneurship luncheon, and lots more for founders and entrepreneurs to sink their teeth into.
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by Maddie Preston |
Nov 4, 2021
At DFW*ATW's annual Executive Leadership Forum last week, women shared stories of how they cracked the courage code to become top leaders in business.
From Danyel Surrency Jones, co-founder and CEO of Dallas-based POWERHANDZ, to Indra Nooyi, former CEO and chairman of PepsiCo, the leaders urged the audience to "push innovations," "eliminate inequalities," and advance talented women forward.
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by Maddie Preston |
Nov 4, 2021
The DFW Alliance of Technology and Women held its 19th annual Executive Forum last week, urging attendees to "crack the courage code" and empower women in business. Afterward, DFW*ATW's president, Shanthi Rajaram, spoke with Dallas Innovates about her takeaways from the event—and how being "comfortable with the unknown" helped her start her own entrepreneurship journey.
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The UTA team includes, from left, Alexandra Hansard, Sanjay Gokhale, and George Alexandrakis [Photo: UTA]
UTA Team Develops Device That Can ‘Read the Blood Through the Skin’
by David Seeley | Nov 2, 2021
The noninvasive technology—developed in collaboration with Austin-based Shani Biotechnologies—may enable real-time monitoring of vital blood parameters like hemoglobin, without taking blood samples or using expensive equipment. It could be especially useful for monitoring people of color, helping to close racial disparities in health care diagnostics.
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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.
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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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Parkland's SuperBetter app "takes the best of psychology and a seven-point methodology" to empower youth and other users to navigate life in a way to build resilience.
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Awards $1M in Health Innovation Technology Prize Funding
by Quincy Preston | Oct 19, 2021
Five local winners received up to $200,000 in funding to activate their solutions throughout North Texas.
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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.
sponsored by Southwestern Medical Foundation
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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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