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UTD and Rainbow Kids Partner in Summer Camp to Inspire Local Homeless Youth

At the 24th annual Kids' University summer camp, the mission is simple: inspire participants to stay in school, pursue college, and consider a multitude of future career ...
Discovery: UTA Team Creating Water Modeling Tool for Trinity River; UTSW Finds How 'Bad Cholesterol' Enters Artery Walls

You'll also find out about how the FDA has granted Breakthrough Device status to a new Caris Life Sciences cancer test in this roundup of research and development activit...
Discovery: UNTHSC Expands Pain Research Registry, UT Arlington Student Gets NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Also, you'll find out why a researcher at the University of North Texas believes tourism and destination development could help reunite the Korean Peninsula in this round...
Medical Innovation District: Fort Worth Targets Near Southside for New Hub

City leaders hope to have the Near Southside neighborhood in the heart of Fort Worth designated a medical innovation district by the fall. The designation would have the ...
UNT Dallas Unveils New, $63M Student Center

The University of North Texas at Dallas is the fastest-growing state university in Texas. But it isn’t just adding students. Its southern Dallas campus is evolving phys...

Pauline Beery Mack performed groundbreaking research for NASA throughout the 1960s at Texas Woman's University in Denton. [Photo: Courtesy TWU]

Discovery: Film Explores Female TWU Researcher’s Trailblazing Space Studies; UNTHSC Prof Helps Lead Opioid Crisis Effort

by Lance Murray | Jul 19, 2019

You'll also find out how scientists at UTD and UT Southwestern hope to improve multiple sclerosis therapies with the help of 3D brain images in this roundup of research and development activities in North Texas.

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Over the Moon: UT Dallas and Apollo 11 Celebrate 50 Years

by Natalie Le | Jul 18, 2019

UT Dallas and the first lunar landing have more in common than you think. As they celebrate their 50th anniversaries this summer, a trip down memory lane reveals just how interconnected their histories are.

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UTA Fires Up Heat Shield Research with New Hypersonic Wind Tunnel

by Lance Murray | Jul 17, 2019

The wind tunnel will be used for research funded by $1.5 million in grants from the Office of Naval Research. Speed creates heat-producing friction, and the funding will go toward studying shields to protect hypersonic vehicles.

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Deloitte Drives Innovation Every Day at Deloitte University

by Deloitte | Jul 17, 2019

How Deloitte's Leadership Center drives innovation.

Discovery: UTA Prof’s Device Can Collect, Analyze Liquid in Space; UTSW Study Tackles Players’ Concussions

by Lance Murray | Jul 12, 2019

You’ll also find out about professors at UT Dallas and UT Tyler that have collaborated on a method to rewire genetic response pathways in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.

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From left: Roger Taylor, manager of probation services for the Dallas County Juvenile Services Department; Byron Sanders, Big Thought President and CEO; U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, (D)-Dallas; and Ty Bledsoe, assistant vice president for external affairs at AT&T; Erin Offord, senior director of programs at Big Thought. [Photo: Rachel Walters]

AT&T’s $100K Grant Bolsters Big Thought’s Creative Solutions Program

by Lance Murray | Jul 3, 2019

Creative Solutions works with young people who come to the nonprofit through the Dallas County juvenile system with the aim of bettering their lives and the community. The nonprofit has posted a new position—Opportunity Advisor—someone who will be a part of the young people’s future so they can “live their best, truest, most authentic life.”

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