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Women Who STEAM Awards Luncheon to Honor Eight Diverse Local Female STEAM Leaders

by | Aug 19, 2020
The event benefits The Dallas Chapter of The Links, Incorporated's STEAM Academy for middle and high school girls of color as well as its scholarship program.
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Dallas Engineering Firm Presents $50,000 Gift for UT Dallas Diversity Scholars Program
by | Aug 5, 2020
Dallas-based engineering design, consulting, and professional services firm Mbroh Engineering's gift will create the first endowed scholarship for the Diversity Scholars Program at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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From left, Invene CEO James Griffin, full stack developer Jonathan Sayre, backend developer Brian Kamra, and UX designer Sam Bajwa. [Photos: Invene]
UTD Venture Development Center-Based Healthcare Startup Relocates HQ to McKinney
by | Jul 16, 2020
A grant from the McKinney Economic Development Corporation's Innovation Fund will fuel the expansion of Invene, a growing product-as-a-service company. The move could create up to 12 “highly specialized” software engineering jobs in the next three years.
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With a $3M Grant, UTD Research Team Begins Work on a Deep-Sea Wind Turbine
by | May 7, 2020
The Department of Energy grant went to a UTD mechanical engineering professor and his team. If successful, the project could make a new technology that produces electricity cost effectively and reliably offshore.
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LaunchPad Lift Accepts UTD Computer Science Senior to Elite Program

by | Feb 17, 2020
Pablo Peillard, who founded a decentralized ledger technology startup backed by Dallas' Hedera Hashgraph, was the second UT Dallas student to be chosen for the virtual cohort-based program.
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Discovery: UNT Prof Puts Virtual Chem Lab Inside Supercomputer and UTA Studies Groundwater Contamination
by | Feb 7, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out how a team at UT Dallas is repurposing an old MRI contrast agent to eliminate the need for using heavy metals.
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Discovery: UTSW Scientists Use AI to Improve Radiation Therapy, UTD Prof Gets $2.7M in Grants for Protein Research
by | Jan 31, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out about DART receiving a federal grant to help in the fight against human trafficking.
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Discovery: UTD Scientists Focus on How Eyes Heal, UNT Prof Researches ‘Energy Molecules’
by | Jan 10, 2020
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you'll also find out about a major honor given to an electrical engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Discovery: UTD Team Studies How Brains Learn Faces, UTSW Examines Regulations’ Effect on Clinical Trials

by | Dec 13, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also find out about how scientists at the University of North Texas Health Science Center are studying the benefits of older women with hypertension taking warm leg baths.
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Autonomous Food Delivery Robots Hitting the Streets at UT Dallas
by | Dec 6, 2019
The app’s user experience includes an interactive map that tracks the robot, and once it arrives, the user gets an alert and can unlock the robot via the app.
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#GivingTuesdayDFW: United Way and UTD Expand Business for Good Program to Enhance Social Media
by | Nov 26, 2019
For its second year, the Business for Good program is adding digital campaign development for local nonprofits in advance of #GivingTuesdayDFW on Dec. 3.
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Discovery: Three UTA Chemists Among World’s Top 100 Scientists, UNT Prof Helps with Fossil Identification Breakthrough
by | Nov 22, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also learn how seed grants are helping scientists and scholars conduct research at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Texas Instruments Gives UT Dallas a $5M Gift for Early Career Faculty Endowment

by | Oct 29, 2019
The Texas Instruments Early Career Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering is aimed at helping to attract and retain promising scholars with the potential to become leaders in new and emerging research fields. 
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Discovery: UTSW Bird Research Finding How Human Communication Works; UT Dallas Uses $4M NSF Grant for Cybersecurity Training
by | Oct 18, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also find out how UTA is using water fleas to study infertility.
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Building Trust in Tech: UT Dallas-Backed Research Center Gets National Science Foundation Designation
by | Oct 9, 2019
UT Dallas is a founding partner in The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, a.k.a. CHEST, which ensures electronic devices are designed to protect people and communities.
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UTD Researchers Use Hand AI Coordination to Improve Control of Prostheses
by | Oct 4, 2019
The work by a team of researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas could lead to improved prosthetic hands.
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