Media Highlights

“What it means for local people, of course, is job creation.” — Dr. Kirti Sinha, assistant professor of accounting

“Dallas-Fort Worth is now the financial service hub of the country. There are more banking and insurance jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth than in New York and Chicago.” — Dr. Steven Haynes, assistant professor of practice in finance and managerial economics

“We’re looking at this moral hazard where if risk is priced below the actuarially fair level, it’s going to encourage an inefficient level of migration to these locations because consumers are essentially getting a bargain on this.” — Dr. Jonathan Scott, assistant professor of finance and managerial economics

“The mechanism we think is driving this competition is the fact that high school students, when they choose which colleges to go to, they are choosing lower ranked programs from the previous year or, historically, programs that have underperformed in the past few years.” — Dr. Ivan Li, assistant professor of marketing

“I see that the immediate effect would be on credit card interest rates. That would provide some relief to people who carry balances on their credit cards.” — Dr. Kirti Sinha, assistant professor of accounting

“It really is this gateway that makes people [feel], ‘OK, I’ll go work on my brain health,’ because they might not otherwise know how to embrace what brain health is.” — Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman PhD’06, Dee Wyly Distinguished University Chair for BrainHealth

Dr. Richard Benson, former UT Dallas president and former Eugene McDermott Distinguished University Chair of Leadership, will be inducted into the Tech Titans Hall of Fame on Sept. 12 during the organization’s annual award ceremony.

“It’s interesting to me to watch the way that crime statistics get used.” — Dr. Timothy Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research

“Sea spray plays an important role by transferring heat and momentum from the ocean to the air. If we can understand how that process works in high winds, we can start building better tools to forecast hurricane intensity.” — Dr. Kianoosh Yousefi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

“The ability of an employer to identify a nascent skill set, develop training for it, or [hire trainers], and bring it in-house, has a more immediate return for them.” — Dr. Timothy Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research

“I thought that it was important to compare the attitudes that politicians had toward democratic norms with what the people were saying.” — Dr. Curtis Bram, assistant professor of political science

“There’s always this tug of war between efficiency and quality of service.” — Dr. Alex Burton, assistant professor of criminology (featured in video)

“When there is all of this merging taking place, there is some concern that if there is less competition, a lack of quality can happen.” — Luba Ketsler, associate professor of instruction of economics

“Texas is the number one state for semiconductor exports and manufacturing, and it’s just growing from here.” — Dr. Ted Moise, director of the North Texas Semiconductor Institute at UT Dallas

“It could serve as a good alternative for people, particularly renters looking to buy … especially since Richardson has a very good school system, which is paramount for young families.” — Julie Lynch, director of the Weitzman Institute for Real Estate

“Safety is being prioritized by limiting deployments to safer routes, doing extensive testing, and having a ‘human in the loop’ (either in the cab or monitoring remotely).” — Dr. Ashim Bose, professor of practice in information systems

“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 Distinguished 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