Top Colleges For Getting Rich
The methodology Forbes uses in this list is open to question (read the comments). Rice is the only Texas school to make the top list, at #14. On the public universities ranking, A&M is #9 and...
View ArticleFacebook Finds Dallas-Fort Worth Users Predictable
Sunday’s Boston Globe has an article discussing “Project Gaydar,” in which two MIT students used data from Facebook pages to predict sexual orientation. As the author says “The idea of making...
View ArticleUT-Dallas Prof Sings of Economic Woe (I Think)
Was casting about the InterWeb for something unrelated today when I came across Nathan Berg. He’s an economics professor at UT-Dallas, a former Fulbright scholar, and a musician who fronts a band...
View ArticleExperts See A “Cost Explosion” With Health Reform
Now that the landmark health reform bill has been signed into law, the quality of U.S. care will improve and costs will be brought under control–right? Wrong. According to experts at a Dallas panel...
View ArticleMustangs to the Right of Newsweek/Daily Beast’s College Rankings
According to Newsweek and The Daily Beast, our own SMU ranks #15 on the “Most Conservative” college rankings. What happened to the days when the Mustangs were among the top colleges for partying? Does...
View ArticleUT-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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