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Marissa Heyl's sanctuary pods offer a modern solution for personal downtime in busy offices. The self-contained units provide private spaces for meditation, power naps, or focused work, with customizable lighting, sound, and temperature controls. [Image: Inclusive Wellness Design]
From Forest Baths to Recharge Rooms: How One North Texas Entrepreneur Is Transforming Workplaces Into Destinations
by Quincy Preston | Oct 15, 2024
Marissa Heyl is rewiring the workplace—with design. Her Inclusive Wellness Design firm uses neuroscience to create joy-inducing, productivity-boosting spaces that give employees another reason to step away from the home office. Think "happy brain chemicals" meets cutting-edge design, with a dash of "Meow Wolf-meets-Miraval" thrown in for good measure.
by Lance Murray |
Sep 7, 2023
After 21-year-old UNC tennis player and Texas native Fiona Crawley forfeited $81,000 in U.S. Open winnings due to NCAA regulations, a North Texas startup took notice. Its digital platform aims to help fans directly pay student-athletes without violating rules.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 19, 2022
“More intense innovative activity leads to higher rates of economic progress," researchers for an international conference noted last year. That's certainly true of Dallas-Fort Worth, which had the No. 5 fastest-growing economy of any U.S. metro this year, according to the American Growth Project. DFW and the other top four metros on the list share a key distinction: They're all hubs for tech and innovation.
The report says DFW's attractiveness helps bolster its existing “diversity and strength across industries,” while noting that health care is a “major driver of economic growth” in the region.
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by Lance Murray |
May 31, 2019
You’ll also find out about how a UT Dallas professor is trying to speed up transistors for chipmakers, and about how Caris Life Sciences’ new collaboration is developing a cancer diagnostic test in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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