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Photo Recap: Innovate(her) Conference Sparks Innovative Thinking in Middle School Girls

by | Feb 25, 2019
Capital One teamed up with the UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to empower students during National Engineering Week.
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TWU Begins Work on New $54M Science & Technology Center
by | Feb 25, 2019
The four-story, 80,000-square-foot facility will be home to graduate and undergraduate research laboratory space for biology, chemistry and biochemistry, nutrition and food science and psychology programs.
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Discovery: $1.5M in Navy Grants Back UTA’s Hypersonic Wind Tunnel; UNTHSC Studies TBI and Parkinson’s
by | Feb 22, 2019
You'll also find out about how research at UT Southwestern Medical Center could help children who have epileptic seizures related to a fatal disease in this roundup of research activity in North Texas.
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SMU to Break Ground Friday on Its New Hub for Research and Innovation
by | Feb 20, 2019
The Gerald J. Ford Hall for Research and Innovation is being built to encourage advanced computing and interdisciplinary research at SMU. Housed inside will be the AT&T Center for Virtualization, the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, the Visualization Lab, and the newly relocated Hart eCenter and SMU Guildhall.
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Discovery: Why UNTHSC Prescribes Escape Rooms to Students; UTSW’s Autism-Related Disorder Breakthrough

by | Feb 15, 2019
You'll also find out about how a team led by a UTA professor is competing for a piece of the $4 million prize in a competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy in this roundup of research and development happening in North Texas.
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The DEC to ‘Innov8te’ With New Smart Cities Incubator That Supports Emerging Tech
by | Feb 14, 2019
Operating out of the DEC's West End location, the Innov8te Smart Cities Incubator is backed by AT&T, Microsoft, Cisco, UTD, and the Dallas Innovation Alliance.
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Meet the Innovators:
Corey Clark, BALANCED Media Technology
Collectively, Clark and his team have started a number of tech and gaming companies in the region, have strong ties to SMU, and see Dallas-Fort Worth as primed to be the next big technology center in the country. They want to be leaders in that mission.
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DI People: OrderMyGear, Modo, Compass Datacenters Make Leadership Moves
by | Feb 12, 2019
You’ll also find news from 7-Eleven, Riata Capital Group, Adeptus Health, the Amynta Group, and Momentus Institute in this roundup of personnel and leadership news by companies and organizations with ties to North Texas.
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Discovery: UTA Flies into Smart Agriculture/IoT Collaboration; How a Bubble Inspired UTD’s CO2, Humidity Sensor

by | Feb 8, 2019
You'll also find out about how UT Southwestern researchers are studying magnetic fields as an alternative treatment for patients with severe depression in this roundup of research and development activities in North Texas.
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DI People: Neiman Marcus, Pier 1, Crayon, Neos Therapeutics Make Exec Moves
by | Feb 5, 2019
You’ll also find news from Nuvectra, Zimperium, ON2IT, Nifty Method, Dynata, the University of North Texas Health Science Center, and Calise Partners in this roundup of executive and leadership moves by companies and organizations with ties to North Texas.
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Thought Leaders: Dallas Innovates 2019 — The Magazine
Musings on innovation from the region's paradigm-shifting companies and organizations.
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UNT Gets $30M Gift to Create G. Brint Ryan College of Business
by | Feb 4, 2019
The gift from Ryan LLC founder and CEO G. Brint Ryan and his wife, Amanda, is the largest in the Denton university's history.
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Discovery: Intense Exercise by Men No Risk, UTSW Says; UTD Initiatives Seek Funding Boost

by | Feb 1, 2019
Also, you'll read about how UT Arlington researchers are using a $1.6 million grant to find a way to repair a painful condition affecting many women in this roundup of activity about research and development in North Texas.
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North Texas Genome Center: Leading the Way in Biometrics
by | Jan 31, 2019
At the North Texas Genome Center in Arlington, scientists are unlocking human DNA through genome sequencing to create databases that would inform doctors of the right care approach.
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Intuit’s James Helms Announced as Designer-In-Residence at SMU
by | Jan 29, 2019
The SMU Master of Arts in Design and Innovation program is welcoming Helms, Intuit's VP of design, as its new mentor for the spring semester.
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George Brody on North Texas as Home to Corporate Giants, an Esports Mecca, and the Telecom Transformation
by | Jan 28, 2019
The IoT expert says North Texas' concentration of industry producers has "long enabled the innovation potential of the convergence of communication, community, and computation." Here are Brody's tech predictions for the future.
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