Category: FYI

  • Disclosing Your Invention to OTC

    Disclosing Your Invention to OTC

    Do you perform research? Have you ever wondered what to do when you make a novel discovery? While your instinct may be to publish such findings quickly, there are oftentimes when a different perspective on invention management could yield greater…

  • Data Management Plans and Tools

    Data Management Plans and Tools

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    Sponsors are looking for a thoughtful data management plan in which data will be properly obtained, analyzed, reported, and published. Most funding agencies now require a Data Management Plan (DMP), but almost any research project would benefit from having one…

  • Applying for a Grant? This Research Might Change Your Approach

    Applying for a Grant? This Research Might Change Your Approach

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    If you’ve applied for federal funding for your research, you know the importance of understanding your sponsor’s goals, writing clearly and concisely, and paying close attention to deadlines. Yet, a well-prepared proposal doesn’t guarantee you’ll receive funding. According to researchers…

  • Descendants of the Old Forest

    Descendants of the Old Forest

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    The son of peanut farmers, Dr. Anthony Cummings, assistant professor in the geospatial information sciences program at UT Dallas, walked the forests of Guyana, South America as a boy. In the tropics of the Caribbean, he learned to use a…

  • Derive Art Exhibit

    Derive Art Exhibit

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    The Derive Art Exhibit ‘Like a Tornado Touching Down, The Dream is Connected to the Dreamer’ opened last week in the Administration Building (AD).  According to his faculty page, curator Dr. Greg Metz’s research aims to use “creative intervention to…

  • Human vs. Parallel Machine

    Human vs. Parallel Machine

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    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…

  • Tips for Better Self-Editing

    Tips for Better Self-Editing

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    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…

  • Know Your Sponsor

    Know Your Sponsor

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    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…