Media Highlights

“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

“[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