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Report Shows Dallas City of Learning’s Educational Programs Impacted 36K Students in Summer 2020

by | Feb 24, 2021
In spite of the unique challenges brought on by COVID-19, the City of Dallas, DISD, Big Thought, and other local organizations worked together to provide educational programs to students during summer 2020.
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SMU Cox Reveals Its 2020 Dallas 100 Rankings. Here Are the Fastest-Growing Entrepreneurial Businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth by Rank
by | Feb 18, 2021
Collectively, the 100 privately held companies contributed $6 billion to the Dallas-Fort Worth economy over three years.

Clavis Capital Partners, a private investment firm that operates and grows industrial businesses took the top spot in the annual rankings. Here's the complete list.
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A UT Southwestern Machine Learning Algorithm Finds COVID-19 Cases Significantly Higher Than Reported
by | Feb 8, 2021
Researchers in the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics have estimated that the amount of COVID-19 cases is nearly triple those confirmed in the U.S.
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Women Helping Women: Texas Women’s Foundation Honors Seven Trailblazing “Agents of Positive Change”
by | Feb 8, 2021
Meet the influential women who will be honored by the Texas Women's Foundation for their work in catalyzing change and new opportunities for other women and girls. The virtual event will be next level, says TWF CEO Roslyn Dawson Thompson.
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NSF Awards $100K Grant to TWU Researchers to Increase STEM Recruitment in Indigenous Communities

by | Jan 28, 2021
The project will look at the particular challenges Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Native Pacific Islander students face. The research team plans to develop strategies to recruit and retain more Indigenous students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
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Desoto-Based Esposure is Building an Esports Learning Center for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department
by | Jan 27, 2021
Newly launched Esposure4All, a charitable foundation from esports development platform Esposure, is seeking to empower underrepresented youth through esports experiential learning.
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Capital One’s Bot Camp Equips North Texas Teachers and Students with Cutting Edge Curriculum
by | Jan 27, 2021
The program has reached 80,000 participants, helping them gain valuable technology skills for the future.
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Fort Worth-Based TimelyMD Raises $60M to Grow Its Telehealth for Higher Education
by | Jan 26, 2021
As on-campus mental health issues continue to surge, TimelyMD is serving ten-times the number of students than it was before the pandemic. The full-service student-first telehealth provider plans to use the new funding to continue enhancing students' care experience, improving health literacy at its 80 partner schools, and improving outcomes through technology.
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Ambalika Tanak MS’16 holds the biosensor that she and fellow researchers developed to test fluid for specific molecules. [Photo: UTD]

A UT Dallas Graduate Student Creates First Rapid-Testing Sepsis Sensor

by | Jan 25, 2021
The invention is currently awaiting patent approval for the life-threatening complication. “When a patient develops sepsis, every organ thinks it needs to shut down to protect itself. But if every organ shuts down, the person will die,” UTD's Dr. Shalini Prasad says. “It’s a train wreck happening in slow motion." 
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Meet the 13 Winners of Dallas Innovates’ and D CEO’s 2021 Innovation Awards
by | Jan 22, 2021
Here are the companies and leaders driving innovation in North Texas.
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Meet the Future 50: Dallas-Fort Worth Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know in 2021
by | Jan 14, 2021
These standouts—entrepreneurs, leaders, inventors, creatives, and educators—are disrupting industries, solving challenges, and making Dallas-Fort Worth (and beyond) a better place in a year like no other.
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This year’s winners from UT Southwestern —Olutoyosi “Toy” Ogunkua, M.D., Luis Sifuentes-Dominguez, M.D, and Chika Nwachukwu, M.D., Ph.D.—bring the total number grants awarded by the Council since its founding five years ago to nine. [Images via UTSW]
Southwestern Medical Foundation/UTSW Cary Council Awards Grants to Three Early-Stage Researchers
by | Jan 11, 2021
Members raised nearly $100K in funding for the research awardees who will investigate new evidence-based pathways that can treat some of the world’s most intractable illnesses.
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dallas innovates magazine 2021

Our double issue—Dallas Innovates 2021: The Resilience Issue— features 50 standout North Texans innovating for the future, 12 female funders shaking up startup funding in the region, and much more. Read more in the digital edition.

Dallas Innovates 2021: The Resilience Issue

by | Jan 7, 2021
The collective strength of the innovation ecosystem and intellectual capital in Dallas-Fort Worth is a force to be reckoned with.
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A Baker’s Dozen: Dallas Innovates’ Most Popular Stories of 2020
by | Jan 1, 2021
Let's take a look back on the stories that have grabbed our readers' attention the most this year.
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Empathic School Design Is Creating Healthier, More Resilient Communities
by | Dec 29, 2020
By designing schools that challenge the status quo, HKS is creating a safer, truly inclusive environment for the benefit of learning for all, says Leonardo González Sangri, the firm's director of education.
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UT Dallas Computer Scientists Create Video Game Mechanism To Detect Cheating
by | Dec 22, 2020
Using popular video game Counter-Strike, researchers have created a cheat detection mechanism that can be used in a variety of games. The research is especially important as it has the potential to affect the near $1 billion esports industry.
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