Media Highlights

“It’s great to be in the front of the line; we have to make sure they can get in the line.” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“So when you have this awful, unmanageable phantom sensation, this incessant ringing, nobody else sees it. So oftentimes people don’t understand how severe it is or may not be sympathetic or understanding to how debilitating it is.” — Dr. Edward Lobarinas, associate professor of audiology

“It’s not that old dogs can’t learn tricks. It’s that maybe old dogs don’t realize why they should.” — Dr. Kristen Kennedy, associate professor of psychology

“It’s like taking just a little bit of money out of your bank account each month. It won’t seem like much at first, but eventually you’ll notice you don’t have as much money.” — Dr. Denise Park, director of research for the Center for Vital Longevity and Distinguished University Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

“A lot of people who may not have identified with hearing difficulties previously, possibly because they had a very minimal problem are recognizing increased communication difficulties now.” — Dr. Angela Shoup BS’89, MS’92, PhD’94, executive director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders

“There really is an age effect in terms of who’s feeling productive and who’s feeling like they’re really stressed with all this.” — Dr. Doug Kiel, professor of public and nonprofit management

“What we’re seeing is kind of the synergies building. I would not be surprised to see Dallas become a major financial center.” — Dr. Robert Kieschnick, associate professor of finance and managerial economics

“A lot of the works that are being presented in this series are not only focused on celebrating and highlighting the work of these incredible artists but also speaking to the times in some way.” — Jacqueline Chao, senior curator of Asian art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art

“There’s been a lot of research on sepsis, but the major thing missing was an active point-of-care testing device that can give feedback when the patient is at your bedside.” — Ambalika Tanak MS’16, biomedical engineering doctoral candidate

“A poem is sort of this tiny distillation of hope or joy or love — it’s kind of this gift that we can launch into the world toward someone without even having to sit next to them.” — Dr. Nomi Stone, assistant professor of creative writing and literature

“We have some of the stalwarts, some of the pillars of Super Bowl advertising, sitting on the sidelines this time.” — Dr. Abhijit Biswas, clinical professor of marketing

“You have a cult following in some sense. If they issue securities, they may undermine that cult following.” — Dr. Umit Gurun, Ashbel Smith Professor

“… especially among the health care workers, many folks in that industry are women, and so it’s natural that we’d see more women than men early on.” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“It’s probably going to serve as one of the most significant catalyzing moments in the communities at large, not just the universities.” — Steve Guengerich, associate vice president for innovation and commercialization

“This is an opportunity for us to continue to dialogue and collaborate with our peers around the world.” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“DACA still hangs in the balance.” — Dr. Deborah Kang, Fellow of the Anne Stark and Chester Watson Professorship of History

“It went from very few students watching in the venue to almost 9,000 views.” — Julio Catalino Sadorra, UT Dallas chess coach

“I think the big thing people need to understand is even if this process were running as efficiently as possible, we’re talking about months before we have enough vaccination out there that we can feel like we can let our guard down.” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“There has been more of an intentional effort into diversifying our staff.” — Dr. Prachi Sharma, assistant director of the Student Counseling Center

“We’re working on the development of both virtual teachers to extend the capability of human teachers and virtual students to explore social learning with peers.” — Dr. Marjorie Zielke PhD’07, director of the Center for Modeling and Simulation/Virtual Humans and Synthetic Societies Lab