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Presenting the First-Ever AI 75: Meet the Most Innovative Leaders in Artificial Intelligence in Dallas-Fort Worth
by Glenn Hunter | May 2, 2024
Dallas Innovates, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and Dallas AI have teamed up to launch the inaugural AI 75 list. The 2024 program honors the most significant people in AI in DFW in seven categories—the visionaries, creators, and influencers you need to know.
by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Apr 2, 2024
Both projects were competed recently by Adolfson & Peterson Construction—improving the acoustics for the seven-time Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band and eight other jazz lab bands while giving drones and ground autonomous vehicles room to fly and roam.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 6, 2024
Neal Smatresk's decade at UNT sparked big changes and growth, boosting its standing in academics and research. From "record-breaking enrollment" to "making UNT the highest-ranked Tier One institution in the North Texas region," his tenure marks transformation across multiple fronts.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 12, 2023
A veteran aviation educator and pilot, J. Clinton Grant is currently Tarrant County College’s dean of aviation, business, and logistics. TWU said the top goal of its aviation program—which snagged a $15 million grant in May—is to produce more women commercial pilots.
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Opal Lee receives an honorary doctorate from the University of North Texas [Photo: UNT Twitter]
‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee Receives Honorary Doctorate at UNT Commencement
by David Seeley | May 15, 2023
It wasn't the first time Lee walked the stage at the university. Way back in 1963, she earned a master's degree in education at what was then known as North Texas State University.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 9, 2023
Longtime University of North Texas faculty leader Audhesh Paswan has been named as dean of New College at the UNT at Frisco campus.
“Audhesh has considerable industry experience and a diverse wealth of knowledge that will be crucial to our continued success with the new UNT at Frisco branch campus,” UNT President Neal Smatresk said in a statement....
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 9, 2023
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences is UNT’s largest college with more than 8,000 students. New Executive Dean Albert Bimper will oversee more than 22 academic departments and programs, including anthropology, geography and the environment, media arts and political science.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 21, 2023
UNT and Dallas-based communications tech company COMSovereign are partnering to develop and launch a new 5G edge-centric infrastructure test platform, funded in part by a grant from the North Central Texas Council of Governments. With the new program, UNT's Dr. Kamesh Namuduri says his team will "be able to expand our focus on wireless connectivity and research into Advanced Air Mobility technologies including UAVs, where UNT is already actively engaged with an expanding network of industry and government partners."
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Sid O’Bryant, professor and executive director of the HSC Institute for Translational Research. [Photo: HSC]
‘We Are Going to Change the World’: $150M Grant Fuels UNT Health Science Center’s Diversity-Focused Alzheimer’s Research
by Kevin Cummings | Oct 3, 2022
The funding from the National Institutes of Health will help UNT HSC at Fort Worth advance its ongoing research on how Alzheimer's disease affects different racial and ethnic groups. Sid O'Bryant, executive director of UNT HSC's Institute for Translational Research, said there's never been a large-scale study like this before.
“This award and project are nothing short of a bio behavioral ‘moonshot’ program," adds Brian Gladue, HSC executive VP for research and innovation.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 14, 2022
The 180-foot Ryan Tower stands at the heart of the UNT Dallas campus and can be seen for miles in every direction. Funded by a $2 million gift from UNT benefactors Amanda and G. Brint Ryan, the tower is meant to serve as "an icon of the university, a symbol for higher learning, and a prominent symbol of the community it serves."
"For me, it symbolizes the heights our students and our future students will attain," UNT Dallas President said at the tower's ribbon-cutting.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 7, 2022
Every year, Tech Titans highlights the top movers and shakers in the North Texas technology ecosystem. Here are the finalists in 11 categories. Winners will be announced at the group's signature gala in October.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 17, 2022
The University of North Texas BioDiscovery Institute's $1.4 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation is seeding research in sustainable medicine—literally.
“What we're thinking long-term is that if plants can store medicines in seeds, you eat the seeds, and the medicine is already contained. You don't have all these factories, you don't need any chemicals—it's just there and available,” said UNT lead researcher Elizabeth Skellam.
“What we're thinking long-term is that if plants can store medicines in seeds, you eat the seeds, and the medicine is already contained. You don't have all these factories, you don't need any chemicals—it's just there and available,” said UNT lead researcher Elizabeth Skellam.
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The Panther Island project, also known as Central City, is located in an industrial area north of downtown Fort Worth. The project will create a new urban district on an island combining mixed-use neighborhoods with a network of canals and a lake to control flooding. [Rendering: Courtesy of Trinity River Vision Authority ]
Fort Worth’s Panther Island Dream Gets More Real with $403M Federal Funding
by David Seeley | Jan 21, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans Wednesday to spend $403 million on the final design and build of a 1.5-mile flood-control bypass channel, which will reroute part of the Trinity River near downtown Fort Worth—and create Panther Island.
Fort Worth hopes the 800-acre island will become a massive housing and mixed-use entertainment and recreational district, connecting downtown Fort Worth to the city’s cultural district and the Stockyards.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Jul 19, 2021
Verbeck and his team at UNT have developed sensors that detect chemical weapons, COVID on people's breath, and chemicals in smoke that help firefighters know how to respond. The chemical sensors he creates could prove to be game changers in diagnosing diseases.
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by Alex Edwards |
Apr 8, 2021
The University of North Texas' homeland security and emergency management program and health librarianship program placed in the top ten on U.S. News & World Report's rankings.
UNT is a pioneer in emergency management education, launching the country's first bachelor’s degree program in 1983. Today, there's never been a greater need for educated disaster professionals, the university says.
UNT is a pioneer in emergency management education, launching the country's first bachelor’s degree program in 1983. Today, there's never been a greater need for educated disaster professionals, the university says.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 6, 2020
University of North Texas researchers received more than $400,000 of the $1.5 million grant to develop a 3D printed material equipped with embedded sensors for use in car structures.
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