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January 19th, 2022

UTD Partners with Texas Stream Team

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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

January 13th, 2022

Dr. Candice Mills and The Santa Project

Dr. Candice Mills

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

November 5th, 2021

3rd Annual New Faculty Research Symposium

Letter board that reads "Welcome New Faculty"

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. 

November 3rd, 2021

New Faculty Research Symposium 2021

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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

November 1st, 2021

A New Breath Analyzer Device Can Detect Coronavirus in 30 Seconds

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With over 245 million cases of coronavirus worldwide and 4.​96 million deaths, rapid screening is urgently needed. The integration of engineering and basic science has resulted in impactful biomedical advancement to make this possible. Dr. Shalini Prasad and her team at the University of Texas at Dallas have teamed up with Dallas-based SOTECH Health to develop a …read more

October 21st, 2021

UT Dallas at Fed Supernova

Dr. Rodolfo Antonio Rodriguez-Davila presenting a poster

On September 28th and 29th, UT Dallas President Richard Benson led a delegation to Fed Supernova in Austin, Texas. Organized by Capital Factory, this event brought together hundreds of Department of Defense (DOD), corporate, and academic representatives to collaborate in improving our national defense. Over 1,000 more attended virtually. The US Department of Defense and its …read more

September 7th, 2021

New Innovation Programs

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The Office of Research and Innovation, in collaboration with the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is offering three new programs this fall for research faculty, PhD candidates, postdocs, and other UT Dallas researchers interested in commercializing their inventions. The programs are: If you have any interest in commercializing your …read more

September 1st, 2021

The Office of Research and Innovation

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I am pleased to announce the renaming of the “Office of Research” to the “Office of Research and Innovation” effective Sept 1, 2021. There are several reasons for this change…

August 31st, 2021

We are STEPPing Forward in Educating Physics Students

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Though often treated as two separate disciplines, art and science can impact each other. Creativity is required for scientific breakthroughs and art is often an expression of scientific knowledge. A multi-interdisciplinary team here at the University of Texas at Dallas has developed a novel approach to educating physics students. A flyer has been created on …read more