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Student founders display their custom startup flags at the SMU Spears Launch Accelerator kickoff in late May. "The Spears Institute is your mission control and the community, and this community is your crew," Program Director Bhavna Kumar told the flag-bearing founders. [Photo: SMU Spears Institute]
The Last Word: SMU’s Bhavna Kumar on Why SMU’s New Spears Launch Accelerator Starts With Planting a Flag
by Quincy Preston | Jun 3, 2025
The accelerator's first cohort is charting unknown entrepreneurial territory—with up to $100K investment potential.
by Lance Murray |
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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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
May 29, 2025
We plug in our phones like clockwork. But how often do we recharge ourselves? According to Lori Cook, PhD, CCC-SLP, and director of clinical research at the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas, even a few minutes of intentional pause can make all the difference in how we function at work and in life....
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by Lance Murray |
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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SMU's Dallas Hall [Photo courtesy of SMU]
3 Years Ahead of Schedule, SMU Raises More than $1.64B in Its ‘SMU Ignited’ Fundraising Campaign
by Lance Murray | 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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by Lance Murray |
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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by David Seeley |
May 7, 2025
The Dallas College team's solution is AVIADAR, a LiDAR-based system that provides pilots with real-time alerts about their surroundings. The four team members will head to Washington, D.C., next month for a boot camp, a Capitol Hill poster session, and a pitch presentation against 11 other teams from around the U.S.
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by Lance Murray |
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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UTD Big Idea winners Orikeda Trashi (left) and Ikeda Trashi. [Photo: UTD]
Twin Chemistry Students Win First Prize at UTD’s Big Idea Competition
by David Seeley | 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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by Lance Murray |
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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by Lance Murray |
May 2, 2025
A UT Southwestern study of blind fruit flies and mice reveals a brain-wide stress response, shedding light on the biological link between sensory loss and dementia.
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by Lance Murray |
May 2, 2025
Building on a national pilot — Combatting Substance Use and Opioid Crises — that concluded in late 2024, the Fort Worth institution is expanding interprofessional training to strengthen workforce competency and improve care for complex patient needs.
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UTD Team and CorroHealth Use AI ‘Reasoning’ for Medical Coding Automation
by David Seeley | Apr 16, 2025
A team of UT Dallas computer scientists has partnered with Plano-based CorroHealth to introduce "reasoning" to the company's LLM- and NLP-based coding automation technology. "The goal is to extract knowledge like a human would do it," said UTD's Dr. Gopal Gupta.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 10, 2025
A new addition to this year's student filmmaker festival, to be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at Angelika Dallas, is the OK2BX College Fair and Film Workshop at Southern Methodist University, offering educational opportunities for aspiring filmmakers.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 10, 2025
The University of Texas at Dallas has been redesignated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity for cyber research for its “innovative and impactful” research contributions and its educational programs that train new generations of cybersecurity professionals.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 9, 2025
UTD said it's one of about a dozen institutions in the nation and four in Texas to receive all three Center of Academic Excellence cyber designations, which are managed by the NSA’s National Cryptologic School.
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