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Cedars Union Executive Director Emma Vernon [Photo: Cedars Union]
The Cedars Union Gets $500K Grant, Names Former Dallas Zoo and DMA Exec as Executive Director
by Lance Murray | Feb 13, 2025
The Cedars Union, a hub for emerging and mid-career artists in North Texas, is setting its sights on the next level of growth with the appointment of Emma Vernon as executive director. The North Texas nonprofit artist incubator’s upcoming cohort, launching this month, will be its largest ever, chosen from the most competitive applicant pool since its founding in 2015.
by Lance Murray |
Feb 13, 2025
EarthX Founder Trammell S. Crow said this year's five-day conference will be the organization's largest ever, "bringing together leaders, advocates, and innovators from around the world to work together on tangible solutions for our planet."
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by David Seeley |
Feb 13, 2025
In 2019, Tim Heis left the high-end luxe world of Neiman Marcus for a scattered collection of North Texas Goodwill thrift stores. He tells Dallas Innovates about his "humbling and fulfilling" journey, shares his plan to double local stores by 2030, and reveals how Goodwill Dallas led North America with record-shattering sales growth in 2024.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 12, 2025
Founded in 2011 by Ashlee Kleinert as one of Dallas' first food trucks, Ruthie's Fueled by Good became famous for its grilled cheese sandwiches and pro-social mission. Now, under Kleinert's Good Foundation umbrella, Ruthie's has its own brick-and-mortar address and a continuing mission to help the community it serves.
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TxBDC Vagus Nerve Device [Photo: UT Dallas]
This UT Dallas Tech Breakthrough Could Help Veterans Overcome PTSD
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.
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sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by David Seeley |
Feb 11, 2025
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science—an ideal day for a Dallas nonprofit to align with a Hollywood movie star to celebrate women in STEM in film and television. According to the Dallas Morning News, Dallas-based Lyda Hill Philanthropies is partnering with Reese Witherspoon’s media company Hello Sunshine to produce and distribute movies and TV shows that champion women's achievements in STEM (science, technology, engineering & mathematics).
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 10, 2025
Mandy Price, who will be based in the foundation’s Dallas office, will play a lead role in sourcing new investments for the foundation’s portfolio organizations and will work as an operating partner and board member for those organizations. DRK is one of the largest global venture philanthropy firms dedicated to supporting early-stage, high impact social enterprises.
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Fort Worth’s Rainwater Charitable Foundation Awards $600K to 2 Neurodegenerative Disease Researchers
by David Seeley |
Feb 6, 2025
The foundation's annual Rainwater Prizes honor researchers worldwide who are advancing discoveries for diseases caused by tau protein accumulations in the brain. This year's winners include a professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and an Early-Career Scientist honoree at Brown University.
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Jennifer Haltom Doan and Justice Ruby Sondock (Ret.) [Photo: American Board of Trial Advocates]
Dallas-Based American Board of Trial Advocates Installs New National President
by Lance Murray | Feb 1, 2025
ABOTA, an invitation-only national association of about 7,000 trial lawyers and judges, aims to enhance public understanding of the constitutional right to a jury trial and promote new technologies within the legal profession. Jennifer Haltom Doan, called a "force of nature," is a longtime ABOTA member and officer who's served on the group's national board of directors and the ABOTA Foundation's board of trustees since her induction into the organization in 2007.
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by UT Dallas |
Jan 29, 2025
Combining cutting-edge research and real-world applications, the UT Dallas professor transforms public health with innovations in detection technology, including “a check engine light” for the human body. In collaboration with EnLiSense, the company she cofounded, Dr. Prasad combines chemistry with software and hardware to bring the technology to life as market-ready devices.
sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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by David Seeley |
Jan 29, 2025
Bowers—whose restaurant group operates popular local restaurants including Kenny's Wood Fired Grill, Kenny’s Burger Joint, Kenny’s Italian Kitchen, and Kenny's Authentic East Coast Pizza—took off his chef's hat during the pandemic and began creating art. On Saturday, February 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., he'll be hosting a benefit art show with 100% of the proceeds going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Jan 23, 2025
At its annual meeting at Arlington's Globe Life Field, the Dallas Regional Chamber took a victory lap with Dallas-Fort Worth's multiple No. 1 economic rankings, outlined DRC priorities for the new legislative session, and heard from five leading pro sports executives why North Texas is such a sports business powerhouse.
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2025 TAMEST Hill Prizes winners, from top left: Kenneth M. Hargreaves, D.D.S., Ph.D., The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio; Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. (NAM), Baylor College of Medicine; Joan Frances Brennecke, Ph.D. (NAE), UTA; David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D. (NAM, NAS), UTSW Medical Center; James Chelikowsky, Ph.D., UTA; and Robert De Lorenzo, M.D., EmergenceMed, LLC [Photos: Lyda Hill Philanthropies]
TAMEST, Lyda Hill Philanthropies Announce 2025 Hill Prizes
by Lance Murray | Jan 15, 2025
TAMEST said this is the first year that the prizes recognize six awardees, including a new prize in Public Health, thanks to a $10 million commitment from Lyda Hill Philanthropies to expand and extend the Hill Prizes. Each of the awardees will receive $500,000 in funding from Lyda Hill Philanthropies to accelerate their work.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 14, 2025
The funding will support groundbreaking research into artificial womb technologies with the goal of protecting endangered species and advancing wildlife conservation efforts, the foundation said.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 10, 2025
Governor Greg Abbott has named six individuals to the Trinity River Authority Board of Directors, including two North Texans, Megan Deen of Fort Worth and Cathy Altman of Midlothian, according to a news release from the governor’s office....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 10, 2025
The North Central Texas Council of Governments and the Dallas Independent School District have received grants totaling more than $62 million to help buy 244 zero-emission vehicles via the Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program....
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