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SMU biology professor Edward Glasscock talks with post-doctoral researcher Kelsey Paulhus in his lab at SMU. [Photo: SMU]
Dallas Researchers Work to Unravel the Mystery of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
by Lance Murray | Feb 17, 2025
Southern Methodist University biology researchers are uncovering how brain, heart, and lung connections may hold the key to preventing sudden death in epilepsy—while making a breakthrough discovery linking a missing brain protein to fatal seizures.
by Quincy Preston |
Feb 16, 2025
More than 300,000 defense suppliers—from major contractors to small businesses—must meet new CMMC security standards or risk losing contracts; SMU's conference tackles compliance requirements and implementation strategies Feb. 19-20.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 16, 2025
Tarleton State University’s eighth academic college will debut on Sept. 1 when the Leadership and Military College becomes the College of Leadership and Military Studies.
The Stephenville-based university said the new academic college will build on its military legacy of over 100 years.
“The creation of the college is not only a recognition of the university’s rich military history, but it also projects what the future holds with achieving Senior Military College designation, an elite status that only six universities in the United States currently enjoy,” said Col....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 15, 2025
Often cities can have a gap between healthcare opportunities and its unhoused population.
In Fort Worth a group of medical students from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is helping to bridge that gap via the Street Medicine Student Coalition....
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Rendering of the National Juneteenth Museum. [Image: Bjarke Ingels Group]
New Looks Unveiled as Fort Worth Approves Land for National Juneteenth Museum
by Lance Murray | Feb 12, 2025
New architectural renderings by the Copenhagen-based Bjarke Ingels Group "reflects the resilience and richness of African American culture and aims to foster education, growth, and connection within the community," the museum said.
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by UT Dallas |
Feb 12, 2025
Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Device Center—or TxBDC—discovered a way to retrain the brain’s fear response using a tiny device—offering real hope to those suffering from trauma and military service-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 12, 2025
Graduate online programs in education and nursing and bachelor’s online programs in business at Texas Woman’s University in Denton have been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as being among the nation’s best....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
What started as a ‘friendly conversation’ on the UNTHSC campus could lead to a breakthrough in treating glaucoma—the leading cause of irreversible blindness, affecting over 80 million people worldwide. With AI, the lab team can speed up the process of screening billions of virtual compounds to attack the problem.
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Drs. Seth Hays, Robert Rennaker and Michael Kilgard are recipients of the 2024 Cerami Award. [Photo: The University of Texas at Dallas]
3 UT Dallas Professors Win 2024 Cerami Award for Bioelectronic Medicine Research
by Lance Murray | Feb 6, 2025
The honors to UTD's Michael Kilgard, PhD, Robert Rennaker, PhD, and Seth Hays, PhD, are the first time the award will go to scientists who have made significant strides in translational bioelectronic medicine research.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2025
Dr. Kirk Calhoun was named interim president following the resignation in January of UNTHSC President Sylvia Trent-Adams.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 4, 2025
The strategy—which is used by companies to poach customers from competitors by offering targeted ads to consumers' mobile devices based on their physical location—may benefit advertisers more than their business clients, UT Dallas researchers contend.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 1, 2025
The study of data from past storms includes researchers from multiple universities as well as international partners from hurricane-prone regions including the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Costa Rica.
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“This is about ensuring we have the right people in the right positions to protect our national security," said Ram Dantu, center. The UNT cybersecurity expert, along with Cihan Tunc will help the U.S. Department of Defense to overhaul its hiring processes with the help of $3 million in funding. [Photo: UNT]
UNT Cybersecurity Team Snags $3M to Use Advanced AI to Overhaul Defense Department Hiring Processes
by Lance Murray | Jan 27, 2025
Aiming to safeguard national security using advanced AI, cybersecurity experts at the University of North Texas have received $3 million from the Department of Defense to help the department overhaul its hiring processes.
The UNT researchers, led by computer science and engineering faculty Ram Dantu and Cihan Tunc, received $2.1 million in funding from the Cyber Service Academy under the DOD’s chief information officer....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 26, 2025
The grant was awarded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and will provide essential skills and improve patient care in and around Tarrant County, especially to those living in underserved areas.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 22, 2025
The grant will purchase 10 powerful workstations that UTD students will use for complex analytics on large datasets in artificial intelligence applications.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 20, 2025
A recent PhD recipient at the University of Texas at Dallas has been selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for a Hanna H. Gray Fellowship....
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