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Illusion room at Museum of Illusions Dallas [Photo: MOI]
Mind-Blowing Expansion: Museum of Illusions Reopens in Downtown Dallas
by Lance Murray | Mar 6, 2025
The expansion introduces several interactive exhibits including a gravity-defying illusion inspired by the works of artist Leandro Erlich, where a cleverly angled building mock-up allows guests to live out their superhero dreams and appear as if they’re scaling walls.
by Lance Murray |
Mar 5, 2025
Called Comets LANding, the newly constructed, two-story facility is roughly 16,000 square feet and houses more than 100 PCs. “We may not have football, but we have one of the best esports programs in the country,” a UTD esports manager said.
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by UT Dallas |
Mar 3, 2025
UT Dallas researcher Dr. Walter Voit transformed Minecraft’s 170-million-player universe into an advanced virtual training ground—for students and for AI agents tested by DARPA. His team’s Polycraft World uses gameplay to turn classroom theory into real-world expertise, covering topics from synthetic organic chemistry to nuclear plants to semiconductor facilities.
Their new startup company, Pedegree Studios, has licensed the core technologies from the university to create a scalable digital pipeline for education and workforce development.
sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 27, 2025
UTA's research center features more than 200,000 specimens, including samples of many species that are now extinct. You'll also find tens of thousands of rare books, scientific journals, articles, and reports on "literally anything you can think of that has to do with a reptile or amphibian," says the ARDRC's Gregory Pandelis.
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UT Dallas' Dr. Todd Griffith with a model of his team's offshore wind turbine solution. [Photo: UTD]
‘Egg Beater’ Solution for Deep-Ocean Wind Turbines: UTD Team Advances New Design With Nearly $8M From DOE
by David Seeley | Feb 27, 2025
Ultimately, the offshore turbine designed by UTD Professor Dr. Todd Griffith could reached the stunning height of 900 feet—as tall as a 72-story skyscraper—generating electricity from winds over the deep ocean "miles from the coast and out of view from land."
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 20, 2025
According to research by UTA's Philip Baiden, Americans aged 65 and older who experienced their parents divorcing as children were more likely to suffer a stroke compared to their peers—one in nine as compared to one in 15 for those whose parents did not divorce.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 20, 2025
The new center at Bridge Labs will train the workforce powering North Texas’ biotech boom—helping startups speed therapies, vaccines, and breakthrough biologics from lab bench to patients. Funded in part by Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing Satellite Campus is set to open this summer.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 19, 2025
Last May, TCU named Tom Wavering as its first chief university strategy and innovation officer. The former executive director of the Tom Love Innovation Hub and entrepreneurship faculty member at the University of Oklahoma took up his post in July. But in order to advance TCU's mission and vision—focusing on fostering innovation and academic excellence—he wanted to put down roots of his own. He has since done that, with a home that already had its Fort Worth sense of place literally set in stone.
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The striking architecture at The Holdsworth Center is by the architecture firm Lake|Flato. [Photo: Kristian Alveo]
The Last Word: Nominations Open for DFW Teachers to Experience ‘Teacher Retreat’ on Lake Austin
by David Seeley | Feb 18, 2025
Do you know a deserving teacher in Dallas-Fort Worth who could use a break? Here's your chance to help. The Holdsworth Center, a nonprofit that builds stronger leaders for Texas public schools, is inviting North Texans to nominate a teacher for a weekend retreat at the center’s campus on Lake Austin—"a one-of-a-kind place dedicated to the idea that public education matters."
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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.
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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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Researchers at UT Southwestern are testing a new treatment for depression that uses magnetic pulses to trigger seizures—showing promising results without some of the cognitive side effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The 3D models here illustrate study findings, showing how the two differenct methods interact with the brain: MST (top left) uses a magnetic coil, while ECT (top right) uses electrodes. The bottom images show brain stimulation levels—red areas indicate stronger fields, blue areas weaker fields. [Image: UTSW]
UTSW Researchers Study Experimental Depression Treatment Using Magnets
by Lance Murray | Feb 14, 2025
A clinical trial led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas could help bring an experimental treatment for depression closer to approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The trial has shown that the treatment, which triggers seizures with magnets, significantly improved mental health in patients without some cognitive effects associated with electroconvulsive therapy....
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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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