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Human vs. Parallel Machine
September 19, 2017Posted under Featured & FYI
The University of Texas at Dallas’ Chess Team excelled at this year’s World Cup with Grandmaster Anton Kovalyov making it to Round 3, besting former world champion Viswanathan Anand in Round 2. Performing at this level requires thousands of hours of preparation, evaluation, and position analysis, which in the ultra-competitive world of… read more
Discovery Center Grand Opening
September 14, 2017Posted under Featured & Photoblog
On September 13th, 2017, UT Dallas welcomed Olympus representatives to the opening of the Olympus Discovery Center, a collaborative effort to provide an imaging core of state-of-the-art instruments and technology. Created for both researchers on campus and external users to advance microscopy systems, this facility supports research in biological… read more
Dr. Stoneback is Rocking It: Light Guitar and Space Science
August 22, 2017Posted under Featured & Spotlight
Dr. Russell Stoneback spent his childhood with lots of questions needing answers, developing an avid interest in the physical properties and phenomena of the world around him. He went on to pursue those physics interests at UT Austin, where he also started playing music and supported himself by working in construction. That harmonious combination… read more
Tips for Better Self-Editing
July 11, 2017Posted under Featured & FYI
There are not a lot of people who enjoy editing their own work. And, because so often, as writers, we are writing against a deadline, we don’t give ourselves enough time to do a complete edit. A complete edit needs time. The longer you can be away from your writing, the more people you can… read more
Speaking Outside Your Field: Having an Attitude
June 20, 2017Posted under Featured
The first impression at a poster contest, as either the presenter or the listener, is a big deal. Granted, you have a lot of chances to make first impressions, but after spending some time listening at the Undergraduate Research Poster Contest, I saw some really bad and really good first impressions. Although, for the sake… read more
Know Your Sponsor
June 6, 2017Posted under Featured & FYI
My son and a team of fellow elementary students did an experiment for school to see how much the splash pattern grew when you increased the height you dropped a water balloon. They still don’t know the answer to that question because the kids didn’t get the balloons high enough to pop the balloons, let… read more
Q&A With Dr. Umit Gurun, Professor of Accounting and Finance
May 23, 2017Posted under Featured & Q&A
In this day and age, immigration and business are two hot-button topics. Not surprisingly, immigration and business go hand in hand. Dr. Umit Gurun, a professor of accounting and finance at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, recently published a study in the Journal of Finance that examines immigrants’ influence on trade. In this Q&A,… read more
Q&A with Student Researcher, Employee of the Year Finalist Olufunto Faweya
April 18, 2017Posted under Featured & Q&A
The Applied Research Center (ARC) proudly announces that their own Olufunto Faweya is a finalist for Student Employee of the Year. This Biomedical Engineering student enjoys comic books, video games, and soccer in his free time, but we sat down with him for a chat about his research and daily activities at the ARC. What… read more
Q&A with NSF Fellowship Awardee, PhD Chemistry Student
March 28, 2017Posted under Featured & Q&A
Over 13,000 students applied to the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation (NSF), but only 2,000 succeeded in receiving an award. Candace Benjamin, UT Dallas PhD student and “super scientist” in the Gassensmith Lab, shines among those winners. Candace will receive three years of financial support… read more
Part Two: How Long Does It Take to Write a Grant? The Entire Grant Proposal Development Task List
January 10, 2017Posted under Featured & FYI
In an earlier blog, I said I would provide a list to all the pieces involved in developing a grant proposal, because there is a lot more to it than the writing, although the writing is obviously a huge part. This is a long list and it is also why I think you need time… read more