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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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Blackstone Charitable Foundation Gives $5M to University of Texas Institutions to Expand Its Entrepreneurship Program
by | Jan 26, 2021
The Blackstone LaunchPad entrepreneurship program, which has been at UT Dallas since 2016, is opening to a more diverse range of students by expanding to six new campuses. Locally, that includes UT Southwestern.
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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 Future 50: Dallas-Fort Worth Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know in 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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Closing Gaps in Achievement and in the Digital Divide are Keys to Building a Stronger Texas Workforce, Nonprofit Leader Says
by | Jan 10, 2021
COVID-19 highlighted disparities in education, with Educate Texas working to improve access to high speed Internet, assist teachers in providing effective instruction online and in class, and promoting pathways to degrees and certifications for good paying jobs.
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Dallas Innovates 2021: The Resilience Issue
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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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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HSC Invests $7M to Research Why African Americans Are at Greater Risk of Alzheimer’s
by | Dec 9, 2020
The University of North Texas Health Science Center is recruiting 1,000 African Americans from North Texas to participate in its HABLE study for Alzheimer’s research, which tends to focus solely on non-Latino whites.
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New North Texas Center for Mobility Technologies Will Fuel Innovation With Industry-University Collaborations
by | Dec 8, 2020
North Texas’ research universities will offer their expertise in artificial intelligence, composite materials, wireless vehicle tech, IOT, big data, and more.

Under the umbrella of the Texas Research Association, the new center aims to solve mobility challenges faced by industry, nonprofits, municipalities, and transportation agencies—here and beyond.
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Texas Woman’s University’s All-Female Team Competes in NASA-Sponsored TSGC Design Challenge

by | Dec 3, 2020
The five seniors majoring in kinesiology teamed up to create a solution for astronauts battling “space headaches.”
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Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in November
by | Dec 2, 2020
Rising to the top of the list is 7-Eleven's fifth Evolution Store in Lake Highlands. The location will serve as an experiential testing ground for patrons to try new shopping technology and products.
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DeSoto-Based Geekletes Rebrands as Full-Service Education Hub For the Competitive Gaming Community
by | Nov 23, 2020
Now known as Esposure, the company provides a learn-and-earn model for gamers at any level. The STEM courses also focus on the business behind esports: production, marketing, management, and more.
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Atmos Energy Gives $1M to United Way of Metropolitan Dallas to Prepare the Next Generation of Readers
by | Nov 23, 2020
For local early education teachers and students, Dallas-based Atmos is funding around 78,000 one-year subscriptions to Vooks, a first-of-its-kind animated storybook streaming platform.
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