Posts in Month: October 2015

October 27th, 2015

Professors Receive Young Investigator Awards

Dr. Yonas Tadesse and Avinash Honnavally Ramaprakash

Dr. Yonas Tadesse (pictured) and Dr. Majid Minary have recently been named recipients in the 2015 Young Investigator Program to further their vision in research. Read the full article on the UT Dallas News Center. Photo by Randy Anderson

October 20th, 2015

Solicit and Acquire: NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program

A laser in Dr. Anton Malko's lab - School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Taken directly from the National Science Foundation (NSF) solicitation: “The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in the nation’s institutions of higher education, not-for-profit museums, science centers and scientific/engineering research organizations. The Program provides organizations with opportunities to acquire major instrumentation …read more

October 13th, 2015

#Being13 with Social Media

Smartphone with Twitter open

Dr. Marion Underwood, dean of graduate studies and professor of psychological sciences, helped contribute to a study about cyber aggression and the effects on teens for CNN’s special #Being13 that aired last Monday. Read the full article on the UT Dallas News Center. Photo by R. Gabe Cavazos

October 6th, 2015

Dr. Robert Gregg Brings Science Fiction to Life

Dr. Robert Gregg

As Director of the Locomotor Control Systems Laboratory, as well as the recipient of the Burrough Wellcome Fund and NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Dr. Gregg’s team utilizes robot control theory to promote the study of human gait patterns not as functions of time, but as functions of a phase variable.