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The Last Word: Dallas AI Experts Author New Executive Prompting Guide

by | Jun 10, 2025
Most people are getting AI all wrong—asking random questions and getting mediocre results, say Babar Bhatti and Masood Khan. Their new guide shows how to prompt like a pro and turn AI into your strategic team.
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TCU Course Puts Real Decision-Making Power Behind Student Philanthropy with $200,000 in Donations
by | Jun 9, 2025
The 15-year signature program divided students into two sections, each responsible for distributing $100,000 among selected organizations.
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From Trash Bots to Skin Sensors: UNT Engineering Students Build for Real-World Impact
by | Jun 6, 2025
At the University of North Texas' annual Research and Design Expo, students tackled challenges in projects from public parks to public health—with innovations in biomedical tech, infrastructure, and sustainability.
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Tarleton State’s New Rural Research Hub Earns TEXO Design Honor
by | Jun 5, 2025
Tarleton’s Stephenville facility—shared with Texas A&M AgriLife—aims to boost rural research, innovation, and small business. Not yet a year old, it’s earning statewide recognition.
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UT Dallas Officially Names Rutgers Leader as Its Next President

by | Jun 3, 2025
Prabhas V. Moghe will take up his new post at the University of Texas at Dallas effective Aug. 2. He was announced as the sole finalist on May 7.
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UTA’s New Wheelchair-Mounted Smart Tech Gathers Real-World Data to Guide Inclusive Building Design
by | Jun 3, 2025
Backed by a National Science Foundation grant, the project’s key innovation is WHEELCOM—a device that captures wheelchair movement data to help engineers design smarter, more inclusive buildings.
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The Last Word: SMU’s Bhavna Kumar on Why SMU’s New Spears Launch Accelerator Starts With Planting a Flag
by | Jun 3, 2025
The accelerator's first cohort is charting unknown entrepreneurial territory—with up to $100K investment potential.
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North Texas 7th-Grader Wins 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee
by | May 30, 2025
This was Faizan Zaki's fourth time participating in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. He finished second in 2024 in a spell-off to Bruhat Soma. Zaki is the fifth speller in Bee history to win after coming in second place the year before.
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UT Arlington’s Ben Jones Is Chasing the Universe’s Most Elusive Particles

by | May 27, 2025
Physicist Ben Jones' innovations could help uncover the origins of matter—and deepen our understanding of the universe itself. The scientist was awarded the 2025 International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) Early Career Researcher Instrumentation Award for his particle detector breakthroughs.
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NASA Taps UT Arlington Researcher for Wildfire Smoke Warning System
by | May 21, 2025
In 2025, wildfires across Texas have burned over 1 million acres as of May 16. With support from a NASA grant, a UTA professor is working to develop an early-warning system that can alert the public to wildfire smoke dangers—even hundreds of miles away from a fire.
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3 Years Ahead of Schedule, SMU Raises More than $1.64B in Its ‘SMU Ignited’ Fundraising Campaign
by | May 13, 2025
SMU said that with more than 67,500 donors, volunteers, and supporters, the campaign surpassed its $1.5 billion goal three years ahead of schedule. The university joins several elite universities that have concluded fundraising campaigns totaling $1.5 billion or more—including fellow ACC members Stanford, Duke, and Miami.
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Rutgers Leader Named as Sole Finalist for UT Dallas Presidency
by | May 8, 2025
If appointed by regents after the state-required 21-day waiting period for sole finalists, Rutgers University's Prabhas Moghe would succeed Richard Benson, who announced in August his plan to transition back to a faculty role at UTD.
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2,400 International Teams Converge on Dallas for VEX Robotics World Championship

by | May 6, 2025
The competition brings together a worldwide community united by the shared language of robotics, fostering new friendships, ideas, and inspiration.
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The Last Word: Twin Chemistry Students Win First Prize at UTD’s Big Idea Competition
by | May 6, 2025
Ikeda and Orikeda Trashi took home $12,000 in the April 16 UT Dallas Big Idea student competition for Biodelivera, a platform that delivers cancer therapy directly to tumors using using "virus-like particles." In the alumni track, the top prize went to Brice Sokolowski for his sweat-evaporating Vaucluse Backpack Ventilation Gear.
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Twin Chemistry Students Win First Prize at UTD’s Big Idea Competition
by | May 6, 2025
Ikeda and Orikeda Trashi took home $12,000 in the Big Idea student competition for Biodelivera, a platform that delivers cancer therapy directly to tumors. In the alumni track, the top prize went to Brice Sokolowski for his sweat-evaporating Vaucluse Backpack Ventilation Gear.
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UT Arlington Reports $59M National Economic Impact From Research Activity
by | May 5, 2025
University of Texas at Arlington reported its projects contributed $59 million to the national economy last year, an increase of 39% from 2023, according to a new report from the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS).
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