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UTD Symposium Marks ‘Meteoric Growth’ in Bioengineering

by | Apr 5, 2021
UT Dallas' program brings "together innovative ideas with entrepreneurial spirit" among the student body and the faculty. In its first decade, the Department of Bioengineering has delivered novel innovations in med tech and digital health," says Dr. Shalini Prasad.
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Future Forward: A UTD Director Aims To Transform How People Learn through Virtual Human Hologram Technology
by | Apr 1, 2021
By bringing together sensor capture, Internet of Things technology, and 5G, Majorie Zielke and her team at the Center for Simulation and Synthetic Humans are working to create true virtual human holograms to interact naturally with people.
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UT Arlington Team Wins $40K Research Grant to Redesign Historic Black Settlements in Dallas-Fort Worth
by | Mar 30, 2021
The Dallas Regional Chamber dedicated another $20,000 research grant to further elevate southern Dallas County, specifically focused on the historic Joppee neighborhood.
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Leaders, Follow the Research: Students Can Catch Up After the Covid Learning Slump, SMU Experts Say
by | Mar 30, 2021
But don't speed past the basics, SMU education experts caution. Here's what their research tells us.
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Alexa, Let’s Chat: UT Dallas Is Part of a $500K Global Competition To Teach Amazon’s AI How To Make Small Talk

by | Mar 22, 2021
By creating conversational AI, Alexa could potentially help people who are suffering from anxiety and depression due to loneliness and provide greater accessibility for those who use assistive tech and language translation. Anyone can try out one of the nine teams' socialbots now by telling Amazon's AI, “Alexa, let’s chat.”
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UWorld expands with the aim of making leaning easier
High-Stakes Exam Prep Company Expands With the Goal of ‘Making Really Hard Stuff Easy to Understand’
by | Mar 17, 2021
UWorld set “the gold standard” in the healthcare education industry. The company has grown its empire beyond healthcare to accounting, law, finance, pharmacy, and college prep.

Now Dr. Chandra Pemmasani and his team are applying their knack for teaching tough subjects to distance learning in public schools.
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This HSC Professor is Working To Fundamentally Change the Way Alzheimer’s Disease is Diagnosed and Treated
by | Mar 16, 2021
Contracting Alzheimer's is the No. 1 fear of people over 65, says Sid O'Bryant, who wants to give primary physicians the ability to test for Alzheimer's with a blood test. That can offer peace of mind to many and earlier help for those who need it.

His groundbreaking research, which has revealed significant differences in biomarkers for the disease, could make the treatment of Alzheimer's more like that for cancer—a multi-dimensional "precision" approach.
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UNT Researchers Launch Tech to Manage COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, Solve Equity Problems
by | Mar 4, 2021
UNT hopes its cloud-based computer program called RE-PLAN will be able to solve equitable distribution issues that often accompany a speedy rollout. The technology, which uses sourced data to allow public health agencies to craft response plans, will be dispensed with an urgency to target special demographics communities, like people who have disabilities, don't speak English, and don't have cars.
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Dr. Carlos Trigo, a UT Southwestern Medical Center physician holds the UTDesign team’s ultrasound probe solution that's now used daily in the ER. [Photo credit: Dr. Fernando Benite]

Here’s How a UT Dallas’ Program Is Connecting Engineering Students With Corporations to Solve Real-World Problems

by | Feb 24, 2021
It's a win-win. Companies can collaborate with senior engineering and computer science students at UTD to find high-level creative solutions to challenges. Corporate sponsors play one of the largest roles in the program—and receive results, work, and intellectual property when it's completed.
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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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Meet Milo: A New RoboKind Robot That Improves Remote Learning for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder

by | Feb 2, 2021
Dallas-based education and robotics company RoboKind has transformed its social-emotional education program to assist students with autism in learning more efficiently in remote settings. 
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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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