Media Highlights

“We have so many gadgets that measure all our body parameters, like heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar. But what do we have in the context of our food?” — Dr. Shalini Prasad, Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor in Systems Biology Science

“In our findings, we saw that for Black students, student mobility was a big factor in maybe not taking advantage of the policy. Now this policy’s going statewide, I think it’s very important for there to be better communication across districts about the placement of the student and their STAAR scores.” — Daniel Vargas Castaño, economics PhD candidate in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

“We are talking about billions in economic activity and nearly 50,000 American jobs that depend on this trade.” — Dr. Umit Gurun, Stan Liebowitz Professor of accounting and of finance and managerial economics

“The idea is that the more [hospitals] advance the technologies, the quicker [patients] are able to come in and get out.” — Luba Ketsler BS’99, associate professor of instruction

“[It] has the same strength or maybe even better strength than the human femur.” — Dr. Wei Li, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

“This is the largest single database of its kind that has been discovered so far. It’s so huge that there’s an average of two credentials in there per human on the planet.” — Dr. Kevin Hamlen, executive director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute at UT Dallas

“One major issue is the state’s vulnerability to severe weather and natural disasters, as Texas experiences more billion-dollar disasters than any other state.” — Dr. Steven Haynes, assistant professor of practice in finance and managerial economics

“It’s going to make North Texas the center of the universe in this sort of research.” — Dr. Jane Wigginton, medical doctor and chief medical officer at Texas Biomedical Device Center

“Cancer is infinitely more complex than people originally thought decades ago. People are realizing that one drug alone is not enough, that combinations are also not enough. And so now you have combinations of fields … kind of converging together.” — Dr. Girgis Obaid, assistant professor of bioengineering

“Visitors engage in this alternative mode of being in which Empathics, as a lived-in community, invite us to center on the emotions of compassion, empathy and love.” — Dr. Natalia Di Pietrantonio, curator at the Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas

“They must either absorb these higher costs by reducing their profits — or pass them along to customers.” — Dr. Umit Gurun, Stan Liebowitz Professor of accounting and of finance and managerial economics

“We hope these datasets can be used to really guide preclinical studies and so some of these questions [about pain] can start being answered.” — Stephanie Shiers PhD’19, research scientist

“This was the very, very first multi-agent based solution ever deployed in the United States.” — Dr. Rym Wenkstern, professor of computer science

“Wait and watch. It’s kind of a pull-back versus push-forward strategy that consumers can use right now.” — Dr. Kirti Sinha, assistant professor of accounting

“That’s kind of like the perfect marriage of what we’re looking for in a partnership. People who are able to really highlight the creative endeavors of the Asian American community because as an art museum, we are really wanting to showcase storytelling through the medium of art.” — Sara Greenberg, director of museum experience at the Crow Museum at UT Dallas

The first responder organization at the University of Texas at Dallas has been named the Collegiate EMS Organization of the Year. The 100 volunteers respond to calls around the clock on campus.

“It’s been around for a while, but it’s really taking on a new life in these social issues. It used to be something that was a little bit more reserved for the fringes of the community, and it’s happening more often.” — Dr. Timothy Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research

“We cannot rely 100% on AI.” — Dr. Zygmunt Haas, Distinguished Chair in Computer Science

“Particularly after the move to downtown Dallas, I would anticipate an increase in spending on nearby restaurants and bars. I would expect more revenue going to rideshare companies, taxis, more use of DART.” — Dr. Kurt Beron, professor of economics

Saya Woolfalk’s “Floating World of the Cloud Quilt” is on display through Sept. 8 at the Crow Museum at UT Dallas.