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January 5th, 2016

Media Artist Explores Digital Labor, Teaches Humanity

xtine Burrough

For media artist, author, and UT Dallas Associate Professor xtine Burrough, art-making is altruistic and multidimensional. Her eye for deconstructing and reconstructing media to generate new perceptions of form and function are blended with classroom experience and corporate knowledge as a former Web Designer. xtine’s conceptional, instructional, and technical skills from these experiences combine to a bring a greater meaning to her art, as well as fuel her desire to teach.

November 10th, 2015

Biological Networks

A team of bioengineers

A team of bioengineers from the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science have made new insights on the properties of biological networks. Read the full article on the UT Dallas News Center.

November 3rd, 2015

Student Researcher Advances Technology for National Security

Lindsey Smith

Safeguarding U.S. entry points has become one of the nation’s primary concerns post-9/11. While border patrol and lawmakers work to improve national security through legislature, researchers collaborate with government agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to advance technology that protects our borders from potential terrorist activity. Lindsey Smith, a fourth-year UT Dallas …read more

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.

September 29th, 2015

Clark Summer Research Program

Researcher showing viewer a poster

Biology major Sivesh Balaji presents his research for the Clark Summer Research Program to mentor Dr. Theodore Price (left). Read the full article on the UT Dallas News Center. Photo by Roxanne Minnish