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State of Entrepreneurship 2022: More Than $2 Billion Invested in North Texas Entrepreneurs Last Year
by Kevin Cummings | Mar 14, 2022
It's the second year in a row to surpass $1 billion, said Trey Bowles at the Dallas Entrepreneur Center's annual State of Entrepreneurship event.
by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 14, 2022
At the Dallas Entrepreneur Center’s State of Entrepreneurship event last week, individual innovators and local startups were recognized for their accomplishments over the past year. And, according to the numbers, there was a lot to celebrate....
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 11, 2022
The nonprofit that helped create UT Southwestern Medical Center has added to its lineup of trustees with a mix of philanthropic and business leaders.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 11, 2022
Mark Roberts is taking his expertise in the real estate space to two local organizations.
A fellow at the Real Estate Research Institute, Roberts has been jointly hired by Dallas real estate investment and development firm Crow Holdings and the SMU Cox School of Business’ Robert and Margaret Folsom Institute for Real Estate as a director of research....
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Jim Hart speaks with SMU students about the guest speakers they were about to encounter, and how each would speak about making a living in the arts. "We seek to engage students with actively working creative entrepreneurs," Hart says. "It's one thing for their professor to say something is so. When external guest speakers say the same, their learning is reinforced." [Photo: Kim Leeson]
SMU Wins National Innovation Award for Teaching Artists How Not to Starve—by Becoming Entrepreneurs
by David Seeley | Feb 15, 2022
SMU's Arts Entrepreneurship Program has won a major national innovation award for pursuing its North Star mission: "to end the starving artist stereotype." How well are they succeeding? One recent graduate's startup just had a valuation of over $50 million.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 24, 2022
A fleet of 16 autonomous robots from San Francisco-based Starship is now rolling across the SMU campus, delivering food from nine campus eateries. The app-controlled, on-demand robots have Mustang branding and can deliver up to 20 pounds of food in "minutes." Starship, co-founded by a former Skype founding engineer, has made over 2.5 million autonomous deliveries worldwide.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 21, 2022
The gift by Weber, a 1958 alum and former Mustang football player, is the largest in the history of the SMU Athletic Department. It launches a $100M facility drive to build the 192,500-SF complex—which will house a team auditorium, new locker rooms, a weight room, position-specific meeting rooms, and more.
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by Leslie Barker |
Jan 13, 2022
Hosted by The DEC Network and powered by Capital One, the five-day showcase is North Texas’ largest event focused on driving entrepreneurial success, economic impact, and innovation.
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The Dallas 100: SMU Cox Unveils Its 2021 Ranking of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Dallas-Fort Worth
by Quincy Preston | Nov 22, 2021
Collectively, the 100 privately held companies contributed $8.5 billion to the Dallas-Fort Worth economy over three years—and 10,000 jobs. Frisco-based MTX Group, whose founders were honored last week with EY's 2021 Entrepreneur Of The Year award, took the top spot in the annual rankings. Here's the complete list.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 11, 2021
SMU is investing $11.5 million into a powerful new supercomputing research system featuring an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. Connected with the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking platform in SMU's data center, it will produce a theoretical 100 petaflops of computing power—enabling the university's network to perform "a blistering 100 quadrillion operations per second."
The new capability will supercharge SMU's AI and supercomputing exploration, boosting North Texas' growth as a technology hub.
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by Alyssa Mora |
Aug 10, 2021
Students and recent alumni of Southern Methodist University will have the opportunity to be a part of an "intense and enriching" 6-month program—and a chance to compete for funding.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 13, 2021
SMU sociologist Andrea Laurent-Simpson says treating pets like family has changed our laws, the number of children we have, and even where we choose to work. Her new book could make the fur fly for pet lovers and detractors alike.
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John Wise, an SMU professor who specializes in structural biochemistry, is the lead inventor of ChemGen. [Photo: SMU]
SMU Researchers’ New Computational Tech Aims to Speed Up Drug Discovery
by Alexa Vickaryous | May 11, 2021
Southern Methodist University's patent-pending ChemGen was developed to cut the time and expenses related to the drug discovery process, which makes the drug functional and effective for specific applications.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 30, 2021
But don't speed past the basics, SMU education experts caution. Here's what their research tells us.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 18, 2021
Collectively, the 100 privately held companies contributed $6 billion to the Dallas-Fort Worth economy over three years.
Clavis Capital Partners, a private investment firm that operates and grows industrial businesses took the top spot in the annual rankings. Here's the complete list.
Clavis Capital Partners, a private investment firm that operates and grows industrial businesses took the top spot in the annual rankings. Here's the complete list.
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by Alex Edwards |
Jan 13, 2021
Two researchers and professors from SMU are leading a team that is creating "Lab on a Chip," a new antibody test that could detect coronavirus immune responses in two to three minutes via a drop of blood.
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