Media Highlights

“The House of Flowers has enjoyed such popularity because it builds on the most appealing aspects of previous versions of the telenovela genre, but makes them palatable for an international audience that may not have been familiar with them before.” — Dr. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, assistant professor

“[The pandemic] has actually elevated the awareness of the importance of caregivers.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

In 1971, at the age of 50, Yates decided to go back to college to complete her degree once most of her four children left home.

“People who imagine dialogue are associated with having better relationships and greater empathy.” — Dr. James Honeycutt, lecturer

“In other words, [patients] who experienced general increases in stress reported their tinnitus to be more bothersome than before the pandemic.” — Dr. Colleen Le Prell, Emilie and Phil Schepps Distinguished Professor in Hearing Science

“It’s been more than 30 years since NASA sent a mission to Venus.” — Dr. Mary Urquhart, associate professor and head, Department of Science/Math Education

“There’s still going to be some trouble as we navigate through this new forest, but everything is moving in the right direction. It’s just going to take some time.” — Paul Nichols, executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“It’s really important that people understand the pandemic didn’t cause certain problems.” — Dr. Susan McElroy, associate professor of economics

“There’s been a migration to integrated delivery systems, and that’s led to a much more sophisticated business model.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

“In the data, what I’m looking for is will we see an increase in lethality? Will we see what once were assaults are now homicides? Or what were once simple assaults are now serious assaults?” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“Not only can computer science graduates find jobs, but the salaries offered are much higher than other fields.” — D.T. Huynh, professor of computer science and interim head of the Department of Computer Science

“If you’ve gone through six months working with someone and you’ve never seen the bottom part of the face—when you see it, it messes up your ability to recognize them.” — Dr. Alice O’Toole, Aage and Margareta Møller Professor

“I’m very grateful to the McDermott family and to the leadership at UT Dallas for creating an intellectual environment that breeds success.” — Dr. Walter Voit BS’05, MS’06, associate professor of materials science and engineering and of mechanical engineering

“Mainly they are after getting financial rewards.” — Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science

“We are really trying to catch up from a year of missing out.” — Tom Kim, assistant dean and director of the Career Management Center in the Naveen Jindal School of Management

“I think that kind of shifted everything because, after that, my entire focus really shifted from being a student studying abroad to really kind of looking at the EMT aspects of my life.” — Elizabeth “Tess” Helfrich, biology and history senior

“Employers are going to have to be really smart. It is going to be a little bit chaotic at first.” — Dr. Doug Kiel, professor of public and nonprofit management

“The higher the education level or higher the educational attainment, the higher the average earnings.” — Dr. Susan McElroy, associate professor of economics

“I think it’s probably a default interpretation that what is being reported happened that day or the day before.” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“It’s not going to tell you if you have COVID or not, but it does tell you the intensity and what is happening within your body’s immune system.” — Dr. Shalini Prasad, Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor in Systems Biology Science