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Dallas-Based HKS Announces Coalition to Advance ‘Brain-Healthy’ Buildings and Cities

by | Feb 18, 2025
The Building Brains Coalition builds upon the growing recognition that brain health is integral to human potential and societal progress, HKS said. Founding partners include HKS, The Center for BrainHealth, Center for Advanced Design Research and Evaluation (CADRE), the Brain Capital Alliance, and Rice University’s Baker Institute Neuro-Policy Program.
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UT Dallas Researchers Solve Battery Puzzle That Could Extend Phone Life and EV Range
by | 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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Dallas Researchers Work to Unravel the Mystery of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
by | 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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Fort Worth Medical Students Bridge Healthcare Gaps for the Unhoused
by | 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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Texas Woman’s University’s Nursing, Bachelor’s Online Programs Recognized
by | 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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UNTHSC Researchers Receive Funding to Study Glaucoma Treatment
by | 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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On the Rise: Publication’s Rankings Place UTA Online Programs Among Nation’s Best
by | 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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UTD Researchers Find Pros and Cons in ‘Geoconquesting’ Advertising Tool

by | 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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UTA Researchers Lead Tropical Storm Study To Help Communities Reduce Future Risk
by | 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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UNT Cybersecurity Team Snags $3M to Use Advanced AI to Overhaul Defense Department Hiring Processes
by | 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....

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Madrid-Based Cancer Diagnostics Co. Snags Biggest Spec Suite at Pegasus Park’s Bridge Labs
by | Jan 23, 2025
Founded in 2012, Universal DX is focused on "cracking cancer’s code" via its multi-omics and machine learning models. Starting with colorectal cancer, it's building a "multi-cancer platform" that can ID the unique DNA regions associated with different types of cancers.
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