Category: Featured

  • Q&A: Thoughts on New Elements Added to Periodic Table

    Q&A: Thoughts on New Elements Added to Periodic Table

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    Last week, it was announced that four new elements would be added to the periodic table, a collaboration from researchers in Russia, Japan and the U.S. Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118, which will complete the seventh row, are superheavy…

  • Media Artist Explores Digital Labor, Teaches Humanity

    Media Artist Explores Digital Labor, Teaches Humanity

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    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…

  • Biological Networks

    Biological Networks

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    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.

  • Professors Receive Young Investigator Awards

    Professors Receive Young Investigator Awards

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    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

  • Solicit and Acquire: NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program

    Solicit and Acquire: NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program

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    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…

  • #Being13 with Social Media

    #Being13 with Social Media

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    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…

  • Dr. Robert Gregg Brings Science Fiction to Life

    Dr. Robert Gregg Brings Science Fiction to Life

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    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…