UT-Dallas Chess Team Headed to Final Four
This weekend the University of Texas at Dallas chess team will compete in its 13th consecutive Final Four championship in Washington, D.C. They’re going up against Webster University, the University of...
View ArticleDr. Constantine ‘Connie’ Konstans, R.I.P.
The business and academic worlds lost a pioneer with the passing this week of Dr. Constantine Konstans, a professor of accounting and information management at the University of Texas at Dallas....
View ArticleUTA Grad Speaks Out on Her Ebola Quarantine
On Saturday, Kaci Hickox, the UT Arlington-educated nurse who was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital, after returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone as part of Doctors Without Borders,...
View ArticleEvent Aims to Inspire DISD Students to Attend College
When sophomores and juniors from eight Dallas high schools turned up for a College and Career Fair at The University of Texas at Dallas Wednesday morning, there was plenty of rah-rah as the students...
View ArticleJames Carville and Mary Matalin Finally Agree About Something: Donna Brazile...
Political commentators Mary Matalin and James Carville didn’t agree on much when they discussed the 2016 presidential race with journalist Lee Cullum at the University of Texas at Dallas last Thursday...
View ArticleCentralTrak Is Dead, Long Live CentralTrak
On a Saturday night in Tulsa, a crowd of artists is gathered in the back of a storefront called the Lewis Project Space. They’re sharing finger sandwiches and popping beers. But they’re here to...
View ArticleNew Material May Make DNA Sequencing More Affordable
Engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas have made the material graphene small enough to read DNA, which opens the possibility of using it as a low-cost tool to sequence DNA. “Sequencing DNA at a...
View ArticleAccolades (10.09.12)
PEOPLE Becky Tucker, administrator for Texas Health Harris Methodist Outpatient Center Burleson, has been named to Modern Healthcare’s 2012 “Up and Comers” list. Methodist Health System’s Michael M....
View ArticleUTD Nanotech Team Creates Yarn That Mimics Super-strong Muscle
Artificial muscles developed at UTD and made from nanotech yarns filled with paraffin wax could one day be used in robots and intelligent textiles, among numerous other uses. According to a UTD report,...
View ArticleMorning Rounds (11.26.12)
The FDA has approved a new flu vaccine—the first in the country that's made using cultured animal cells instead of fertilized chicken eggs. Artificial muscles developed by a nanotech team at UTD can...
View ArticleUT Dallas Researchers Show Binge Eating is an Addiction
Binge eating is an addiction pattern rooted in the brain’s reward center, according to UT Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth. The study, conducted by UTD assistant professor Francesca Filbey and doctoral...
View ArticleUTD’s Specialized Master’s Program Grooms UTSW, THR Physicians and Managers...
This weekend, two dozen UT Southwestern managers and physicians will become the inaugural graduates of a custom-made healthcare management master’s degree program. The Healthcare Organization...
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