Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor found in children. If you’re not familiar with this form of cancer, the term neuro refers to nerves, and blastoma is cancer that starts in immature or developing cells. High-risk neuroblastoma is particularly deadly, with cure rates of only 50%. Hearing that their child has neuroblastoma could be a frightening and …read more
Below are the participants in the Workshop on Sustainability in Research, held on April 26, 2022. David Hyndman Dean, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics hyndman@utdallas.edu
In this Comet Corner session, the Office of Research and Innovation hosted a Women’s History Month event, highlighting the work of UTD Geosciences alum Dr. Allie Kennedy Thurmond, B.S. ’97, M.S. ’02, Ph.D ’07, Head of Exploration Assets in the US Gulf of Mexico. Focusing on her work and diversity in STEM education, this virtual …read more
Clean air is fundamental to our health. Air pollution has a similar burden of disease to unhealthy diets and smoking, according to the World Health Organization. It is associated with non-communicable diseases such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma, even with a variety of cognitive impacts, as well as the …read more
UT Dallas Research, Campus, and Environmental Safety (RCES) in partnership led by Chief Gene Senter, Assistant Chief of Operations Richardson Fire Department (RFD), recently facilitated a three-day (January 10th, 12th, and 14th) training exercise for East Region Hazardous Materials (HazMat) responders, which included teams from Richardson, Grand Prairie, Frisco, Plano, Irving, and Wiley. This multi-jurisdictional, …read more
In the United States, one in nine people aged 65 years and older is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), and the total number of individuals living with AD is rapidly increasing throughout the world. While there are no known determinants of the most common form of AD, some individuals are at greater risk of AD …read more
Recently, UTD partnered with the Texas Stream Team (TST) to promote environmental stewardship. TST is a statewide initiative and a volunteer-based water quality monitoring program that is administered through partnership between The Meadows Center at Texas State University, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Trained volunteers collect …read more
Dr. Candice Mills, Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, conducts research examining how children learn from others. Dr. Mills aims to characterize these developmental changes in children to advance ideas on how to best encourage thinking and learning abilities. A new line of work in her lab examines how …read more
On November 4, 2021, the Office of Research and Innovation hosted the 3rd annual New Faculty Research Symposium. This events provides an opportunity for new faculty members to showcase their research in a “three-minute thesis” style forum, while established faculty consider possible intersections of research interests for collaboration.
Below are the participants in the 2021 New Faculty Research Symposium: Waseem Abbas ECS, Systems Engineering I work in the areas of networked control systems, cyber-physical systems, resilience and robustness in networked systems, distributed optimization, graph machine learning, and graph-theoretic methods for multiagent systems. Shuang Chi ECS, Mechanical Engineering My research focuses on both the …read more
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