Media Highlights

“There will be more people that will move away from the denial aspect because financial issues have kept people away from hearing aids.” — Dr. Jackie Clark, clinical professor

“Their premiums are going up, and they’re saying: ‘How much can we pass on to employees without it being too painful?’” — Daniel Karnuta, assistant professor of instruction in organizations, strategy and international management

“We are widely known as a university that is strong in STEM and the management disciplines, but we are eager to be equally impactful in the arts.” — Dr. Richard C. Benson, president of UT Dallas

“Just like your muscles are stronger and you feel more fit, or your cholesterol’s down, what if we could have similar metrics for the brain getting stronger?” — Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman PhD’06, Dee Wyly Distinguished University Chair in BrainHealth

“Those who are imaginative, innovative, willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel and make those pennies go further … are going to be successful.” — Charles Haseman, director of the Center for Retail Innovation and Strategy Excellence

“There’s a lot of people at UTD who are not majoring in music or painting. They’re engineers and scientists … yet they love to play music. They love the arts.” — Dr. Richard C. Benson, president of UT Dallas

“The first part [of our mission] is to make sure students have food so that they can learn.” — Hillary Beauchamp Campbell, director of undergraduate programs

“When COVID pushed everyone home, it gave some people time to reflect on what they really value.” — Dr. Steven Haynes, assistant professor of practice in finance and managerial economics

“Right now, it is a lot more likely that we are in a slowdown phase, but not necessarily in a full-blown recession yet.” — Dr. Irina Panovska, associate professor of economics

“Even people with minimal hearing loss may exhibit increased stress due to difficulty communicating.” — Angela Shoup BS’89, MS’92, PhD’94, the Ludwig A. Michael MD Callier Center Executive Director

“People who have PTSD, unfortunately, show an impairment in their ability to extinguish conditioned fears, and that might be why they develop PTSD in the first place.” — Dr. Christa McIntyre, associate professor of neuroscience

“It was in the mid-1990s that we last saw this type of aggressive rate increase.” — Julie Lynch, associate director of the Weitzman Institute of Real Estate

“Right now we think the northern border of the Metroplex is McKinney, and we see a massive amount of growth going up from McKinney, all the way to Sherman.” — Dr. James Harrington, associate professor of public and nonprofit management

“It mimics recess; it mimics the classroom setting, but it’s hopefully a little bit more fun and a little bit more engaging, so that they’re motivated to practice listening with that background noise.” — Amber Stehlik, speech-language pathologist and faculty associate at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders

“I think people are looking to haptics and VR because it has the power to make patients feel that it’s real.” — Dr. Jin Ryong Kim, assistant professor of computer science

“I think that our work could help people to find better matches sooner … and hopefully help them to find long-term relationships.” — Dr. Ignacio Rios, assistant professor of operations management

“I would advocate that [children and] adults absolutely consider wearing earmuffs or earplugs in loud environments.” — Dr. Colleen Le Prell, Emilie and Phil Schepps Distinguished Professor in Hearing Science

“They couldn’t do it without us, and we couldn’t do it without them. It’s truly integrated.” — Scott Rippel MS’96, PhD’99, professor of instruction in biological sciences

“You have roughly the same chance at winning the jackpot with a single play as taking an ordinary deck of cards, shuffling it and pulling the ace, king, queen and jack and 10 of hearts off the top in that order.” — Dr. Nathan Williams, assistant professor of mathematical sciences

“…the move ‘will make a statement to the entire country about our commitment to arts, humanities, and technology.’” — Dr. Nils Roemer, incoming dean of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology