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DirectH2 Co-Founder and Interim CEO Michael Irwin (left) and Aditya Mohite, DirectH2 co-founder and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rice University. [Photos: LinkedIn]
Dallas Startup DirectH2 Lands Seed Round to Commercialize Rice University’s Breakthrough Hydrogen Tech
by Lance Murray | Mar 12, 2025
DirectH2 said the funding will accelerate the development and commercialization of its cutting-edge hydrogen solutions in collaboration with Houston-based Rice University—addressing critical challenges in the clean energy sector.
by Lance Murray |
Mar 12, 2025
With a $750,000 innovation grant from NASA, UT Dallas assistant professor Wei Li is rethinking how to weld metal in space for off-world construction—and keep astronauts safe in the process.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 12, 2025
Measuring only 1.38mm, Texas Instruments' new MCU is about the size of a black pepper flake. But it could have a big impact in helping to create "shrinking products"—from medical wearables to electric toothbrushes to stylus pens and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 10, 2025
A professor of psychological sciences at Tarleton State University in Stephenville has received a $419,534 research grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to gain a better understanding of how people are affected by extended exposure to virtual meetings....
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Comets LANding gaming and esports center at UT Dallas [Photo: UTD]
Game On: UTD Opens One of Nation’s Largest Gaming, Esports Centers
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 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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by Lance Murray |
Feb 22, 2025
When thousands of soccer fans arrive in North Texas for the 2026 FIFA World Cup they may be looking to the sky as a way to get around Arlington and the rest of DFW via flying taxis....
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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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UTD doctoral student Matthew Bergschneider and researchers found why lithium nickel oxide batteries fail and developed a potential fix for the promising battery material. [Photo: UT Dallas]
UT Dallas Researchers Solve Battery Puzzle That Could Extend Phone Life and EV Range
by Lance Murray | Feb 18, 2025
Lithium nickel oxide, a promising material for next-gen, longer-lasting batteries, keeps failing during charging. Now a UTD team says it's found a fix to make it viable for commercial use. The researchers plan to manufacture test batteries in their robotics lab before seeking industry partners to take them to market.
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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 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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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....
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Texas Woman’s University’s Nursing, Bachelor’s Online Programs Recognized
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.
The publication’s 2025 “Best Online Programs” edition offers rankings in a variety of categories.
U.S. News’ rankings take into account several factors, and all of its methodologies incorporate metrics that measure how well programs are designed for distance learners and their effectiveness at awarding affordable degrees in a reasonable time frame, TWU said....
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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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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
The University of Texas at Arlington’s reputation as a national leader in online education has received a tangible boost by earning major gains in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings. UTA’s College of Education’s online programs, for example, placed in the top 5% nationally.
UTA said its online master’s in education ranked 15th out of 313 institutions, and those programs tailored for military veterans and military-connected students jumped to No....
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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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