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Members of the Carson Leslie Foundation, Children’s Health Child Life Team, and Grant Halliburton Foundation
Carson Leslie Foundation, Grant Halliburton Team Up to Support Kids With Cancer—And Deliver Smiles
by Lance Murray | Feb 22, 2024
Carson Leslie Foundation, Grant Halliburton Team Up to Support Kids With Cancer—And Deliver Smiles
by Lance Murray |
Feb 20, 2024
Dallas-based Lyda Hill Philanthropies is donating 20,000 eclipse safety glasses, tabletop sun-spotter telescopes, telescope tripods and solar filters, binocular filters, smartphone sun photography adapters, and eclipse-themed books to Texas State Parks within the path of totality of the April 8 total solar eclipse.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 5, 2024
Presented by TAMEST and Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the inaugural 2025 Hill Prizes recognize groundbreaking research by innovators in medicine, engineering, biological and physical sciences, and technology. Meet all five winners—and see how they'll use their $500,000 prizes to make game-changing "real-world impact" in each of their fields.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 25, 2024
At the annual Innovation Awards event, Dallas Innovates and D CEO revealed the winners in 17 categories and recognized all 74 North Texas finalists.
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A pitch in progress at the MassChallenge Human Potential Startup Showcase. [Photo: Jackie Marie Photography]
MassChallenge Human Potential Startup Showcase ‘Pushes the Boundaries’ of What Humans Can Do
by David Seeley | Nov 14, 2023
The event, held November 7 at Dallas' Pegasus Park, capped off a six-week MassChallenge Human Potential Sprint program based in Dallas. Sixteen startups from across the U.S. took part, pursuing innovations from wearable devices to "digital pills" to next-gen eye-tracking tech. See who pitched what.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 6, 2023
The gift, the largest to date for BrightEdge, will fund a "first-of-its-kind program" called the ACS BrightEdge Texas Accelerator. The two-year pilot innovation program will invest in cutting-edge companies making headway in the fight to eliminate cancer.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 27, 2023
Dallas business leader Arun Agarwal's executive eye and passion for parks has driven strategic green space projects spurring growth and community. Milestones under his Dallas Park and Recreation Board leadership include Harwood Park, Parkdale Lake Park, Southern Gateway Park, the Cedar Crest Preserve land donation, and more.
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by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray |
Oct 20, 2023
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health—or ARPA-H— wants to enable 90% of eligible Americans to participate in clinical trials within 30 minutes of their homes. The agency officially launched its new Texas "customer experience" headquarters at Dallas' Pegasus Park on Thursday, which will be home base for the initiative.
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[Photo: Dallas Park Coalition]
Uniting for Green: Dallas Mayor and New Coalition Aim to Transform the City into Texas’ Premier Park Place
by Lance Murray | Aug 29, 2023
“Great cities need and deserve great parks." The organized advocacy of the new Dallas Parks Coalition will equip the city with a competitive advantage, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson says. Since early 2023, coalition membership has grown from 12 to nearly 20 park-focused organizations throughout the city of Dallas.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 25, 2023
The project started with a successful pilot earlier this year. The new grant will fund one-day experiential STEM learning opportunities for 100 community college students from Dallas College, North Central Texas College, and Tarrant County College, and paid, two-week internships for 10 students.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Aug 18, 2023
MassChallenge will assemble human performance and sports tech innovators to redefine the bounds of the human condition in a new six-week, high-intensity program. Target technologies are applications in biotech, defense, healthcare, space, and sports.
Applications for the Dallas-based cohort are open through September 7.
Applications for the Dallas-based cohort are open through September 7.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Jul 26, 2023
MassChallenge brought together more than 200 startups, investors, and corporates from the U.S. and beyond for a three-day gathering at Dallas' Pegasus Park. The Boston-based nonprofit accelerator, which expanded to North Texas last year, showcased its new hub as a center of innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Bridge Labs at Pegasus Park [Rendering: Brick Visual]
Bridge Labs at Pegasus Park Aims to Boost the Region’s Burgeoning Life Sciences Ecosystem
by Lance Murray | Jun 15, 2023
The $110 million, 135,000 square-foot expansion at Pegasus Park—a regional hub for life sciences and biotechnology in North Texas—will offer prebuilt lab suites with the tools and flexible space needed for growth-stage life sciences entrepreneurs and companies. Demolition is underway and construction on Bridge Labs is set to begin soon, developers said.
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![Copper Breaks State Park is an international dark sky park located northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth in Quanah, Texas. [Image: AmitabhClickz/Shutterstock]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Copper-Breaks-State-Park_970_Shutterstock_Dark-Sky-Park-shutterstock_550258936-360x203.jpg)
by David Seeley |
Jun 8, 2023
In a recent centennial state parks commemorative issue of Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine, Lyda Hill offers her take on the power of parks. "Where parks are well-maintained and inviting, the surrounding communities are often also flourishing," she says.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 7, 2023
The award recognizes outstanding Bold Idea students who received hands-on learning and mentoring from volunteer industry professionals from top Dallas-area tech companies. The award winners
showed advanced computer science skills, built creative coding projects, and have big goals. See who won—and why one could make the FBI happy.
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by Glenn Hunter |
May 24, 2023
Lyda Hill Philanthropies and TAMEST, the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science, and Technology, have launched the Hill Prizes. The new program will provide $2.5 million in funding to support the research of Texas scientists.
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