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  • Exciting Start to Business Idea Competition 2015

    Exciting Start to Business Idea Competition 2015

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    Our friends at the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship recently invited us to the kickoff for their annual Business Idea Competition. The IIE’s Executive Director Jeremy Vickers. Audience members tuning in. Founder & CEO of Snappy Salads, Chris Dahlander. Trey Bowles…

  • Electrically Conducting Fibers

    Electrically Conducting Fibers

    Carbon nanotubes are wrapped around these rubber cores located in the lab of Dr. Ray Baughman, director of the MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute to create stretchy electrically-conducting fibers. Read the full article on the UT Dallas News Center. Photo by Roxanne…

  • Biomedical Engineering Student Focuses on Education, Empowerment

    Biomedical Engineering Student Focuses on Education, Empowerment

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    Anupam Kumar, winner of the Science Research Scholar Award from the American Museum of Natural History, is busy cultivating an impressive future, blending education and humanitarian efforts.  With a background that includes notable academic achievements, his philanthropic endeavors are the…

  • Balancing Details in Your Grant Proposal

    Balancing Details in Your Grant Proposal

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    “The devil,” the expression goes, “is in the details.” When writing a grant, that is especially true because details in a grant proposal show that you have thought about your project, which is what the reviewers want. However, when you…

  • Get Excited About Your Research and Show It

    Get Excited About Your Research and Show It

    While it is probably just a coincidence, over the past two weeks, I have heard talks and interviews with several people from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute including Jill Tarter’s TED Talk. SETI has been looking for signs…

  • Helping at-risk students find mentors with Mentor MAPS

    Helping at-risk students find mentors with Mentor MAPS

    Dr. Nadine Connell and her team are dedicated to creating a safe space for adolescents and helping them succeed. As a result, Mentor MAPS was created to use an online platform that pairs at-risk high schoolers with UTD student mentors…