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Dallas College Launches Bitcoin Mining Program Featuring Take-Home Mining Machines

by | Dec 5, 2024
Along with hands-on instruction, Bitcoin Mining program participants will receive powerful industry equipment and materials—including their own mining machine to take home.
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Collegiate Cricket League Launches Out of Dallas, National Tournament Planned
by | Dec 4, 2024
The CCL's inaugural season will feature student cricket clubs from top universities across the U.S. and Canada—including UT Dallas and UT Arlington—culminating in the first-ever CCL National Tournament with a $50,000 prize and the CCL Trophy.
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UTD Researchers Develop At‑Home Sensors To Detect Food & Water Contaminants
by | Dec 3, 2024
The recent nationwide alert about E. coli-laced organic carrots is just the latest example that our food safety isn't guaranteed. Now a research team at UT Dallas is exploring a way that people can do a final check for contaminants—right in their own homes.
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‘Promise Plus’: UT System to Offer Free Tuition to Qualifying Texas Students
by | Nov 21, 2024
Aimed at families with adjusted gross income of $100K or less, the plan includes an immediate infusion of $35 million directly to the nine UT System campuses—including UT Dallas, UT Arlington, and UNT. This makes the UT System the first in Texas—and one of the few in the U.S.—to offer such a sweeping financial aid benefit.
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DFW Clean Ports Project: Clearing the Air Near Southern Logistics Hubs

by | Nov 14, 2024
SMU researchers and the Southern Dallas Inland Port Transportation Management Association are working with officials from Wilmer and Arlington to address air quality challenges caused by heavy truck traffic around key logistics hubs in the region. Professors from SMU's Lyle School of Engineering are bringing their expertise in remote sensing and transportation to bear on the EPA-funded project.
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How Partnering With UTD Capstone Programs Is a Strategic Advantage for Forward-Thinking Companies
by | Nov 14, 2024
Companies are leveraging UTD student talent to tackle real world business projects—from engineering to data science to management. And many are finding their next great hires in the process. Apply now to secure your own project for Spring 2025.
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HackUTD Event to Draw 1K+ Student App and Hardware Makers This Weekend
by | Nov 14, 2024
Starting Saturday at UT Dallas, more than 1,000 university students from across the country will red-eye their way through a 24-hour hackathon—creating new apps and hardware from scratch to meet challenges from corporate sponsors. More than 200 projects will be on tap—with over $80,000 in prizes for the winners.
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‘Electric Growth’: UTD is Building a $98M Addition to Jindal School of Management
by | Nov 13, 2024
The Jindal School’s third building will house undergraduate and executive education programs, the business communications program, a new artificial intelligence lab, and the dean’s offices.
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3 UT Southwestern Researchers Awarded ‘DocStars’ Seed Grants

by | Nov 12, 2024
Each $50,000 Early-Stage Research Grant helps fuel critically important medical and scientific research in North Texas. To date, the 21 researchers supported by The Cary Council have gone on to secure more than $21 million in additional funding.
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UT Dallas Researchers Get $3.7M NIH Grant To Explore the Aging Brain
by | Nov 5, 2024
UTD psychology professors Karen Rodrigue and Kristen Kennedy will use one of the most powerful imaging machines in existence—the 24-ton 7-Tesla magnetic resonance scanner—to identify the major brain differences between younger and older adults.
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With Awards Luncheon Looming, Dallas Historical Society Announces $7M Gift from Harry W. Bass Jr. Foundation
by | Nov 4, 2024
The foundation said the gift will fund cutting-edge, tech-based exhibits throughout the Hall of State at Fair Park, ensuring that the stories of Dallas and Texas are presented in dynamic, interactive formats that engage visitors of all ages. Also: See the winners of the 2024 Dallas History Makers Awards.
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The Last Word: UTD Professor on Being Inspired by Seal Whiskers to Keep Offshore Wind Turbines Safe
by | Nov 4, 2024
Offshore wind turbines are a growing ingredient in the race to develop clean and renewable energy sources. But the turbines—which are attached to the ocean floor with cables and "float" on platforms high above—face risks from high winds and harsh storms that lash the open sea. UT Dallas' Dr. Yaqing Jin has found a potential solution inspired by an unlikely source: seal whiskers. 
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UNTHSC awarded $500K To Study Social Media’s Impact on Young People

by | Oct 31, 2024
“Social media has become an inseparable part of adolescence, and while it can offer positive connections, there’s also increasing evidence that it negatively affects mental health and encourages substance use,” said UNTHSC's Dr. Karrie Curry, who's leading the study.
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150-Plus High School Entrepreneurs Are Pitching 32 Business Ideas at SMU Wednesday
by | Oct 29, 2024
Wednesday's event will feature more than 150 students from 8 North Texas high schools pitching 32 business ideas at SMU's Student Business Incubator Showcase.
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The Last Word: Dr. Sid O’Bryant on His HSC Spinout CxPM Joining StartUp Health’s Alzheimer’s Moonshot Community
by | Oct 24, 2024
Cx Precision Medicine—a diagnostics company founded on research by Dr. Sid O’Bryant at UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth—spun out from HSC to advance O’Bryant’s pioneering work on blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. The company recently gained higher visibility—and an even greater opportunity for impact—by being selected to join the prestigious StartUp Health’s Alzheimer’s Moonshot community.
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HSC Spinout CxPM Joins StartUp Health’s Alzheimer’s Moonshot Community
by | Oct 24, 2024
"I embarked on this journey of creating a blood test for Alzheimer’s detection in primary care because of my own clinical and personal experiences," said UNT HSC's Dr. Sid O’Bryant, founder of Cx Precision Medicine. Now, by joining the Moonshot community, CxPM has gained "invaluable access to a network of investors, collaborators, and strategic partners" that could help drive its mission forward.
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