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Desoto-Based Esposure is Building an Esports Learning Center for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department
by Alexa Vickaryous | Jan 27, 2021
Newly launched Esposure4All, a charitable foundation from esports development platform Esposure, is seeking to empower underrepresented youth through esports experiential learning.
by Capital One |
Jan 27, 2021
The program has reached 80,000 participants, helping them gain valuable technology skills for the future.
sponsored by Capital One
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by Alex Edwards |
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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by Alex Edwards |
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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Mandy Price, founder of Kanarys [Photo Courtesy Mandy Price]
Meet the 13 Winners of Dallas Innovates’ and D CEO’s 2021 Innovation Awards
by Dallas Innovates and D CEO | Jan 22, 2021
Here are the companies and leaders driving innovation in North Texas.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
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]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/UTSW-investigators-360x203.jpg)
by Alex Edwards |
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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by Sandra Engelland |
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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A Baker’s Dozen: Dallas Innovates’ Most Popular Stories of 2020
by Alex Edwards | 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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by Quincy Preston |
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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by Lauren Hawkins |
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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by Alex Edwards |
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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SMU Awarded $1M in Research Grants to Advance Quantum-Related Cybersecurity
by Alex Edwards | Dec 8, 2020
Anametric, an Austin-based company developing novel devices for chip-scale quantum photonics, gave the grants to SMU’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security with the long-term goal of building quantum computing devices.
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by Chantal Canales |
Dec 3, 2020
The five seniors majoring in kinesiology teamed up to create a solution for astronauts battling “space headaches.”
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by Alex Edwards |
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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by Alex Edwards |
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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