Media Highlights

“Autonomous trucks can work today, but for cars, it’s a different story.” — Dr. Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science and Erik Jonsson Chair

“Just by his unquestioned eminence in the intellectual, cultural world, as a faculty member at UTD, he raised our image locally and worldwide.” — Dr. Hobson Wildenthal, UT Dallas Distinguished Scholar in Residence

“So instead of trying to fix the person. We’re trying to fix the environment to make it more inclusive.” — Dr. Richard Scotch, professor of sociology

“I look at this as a GoFundMe page. This is an investment in the city, its places and its people.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology

“Healthcare professionals will need to be vigilant in monitoring the time it takes from diagnosis in the emergency room to treatment and admission into the ICU bed.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

“These kinds of things often lead people to have fairly debilitating and lasting symptoms after they so-called ‘recover,’” he said. “But the truth is, in many ways, they don’t ever really recover.” — Dr. Ted Price BS’97, Eugene McDermott Professor of neuroscience

“They truly make us a better place because we’re able to attract the best and brightest from all over.” — Dr. Juan González, dean of graduate education

“Social media channels can learn your behavior so if you tend to seek out the same kind of information, your social media channels will start feeding you more of that negativity and fake news.” — Dr. Janet Johnson, lecturer

“It truly takes our whole community, and we are so appreciative of the continuous efforts of our entire campus to make sure all LGBTQ+ students feel affirmed.” — Matt Winser-Johns, assistant director for LGBT+ programs

“We wanted to not only voice support for LGBTQ+ community but to make [the community] very visible.” — Matt Winser-Johns, assistant director for LGBT+ programs

“Whether or not it’s the second or third wave, the bigger question is will we continue to see infection? And the answer is absolutely, unequivocally yes, but we’re gathering data.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

“Some things make sense. Some things are probably going to be nonstarters. And some things have already been started and implemented.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology

“In the future, we will have phones that have special hardware that signs the image as we take it, and it will create a provenance chain.” — Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science

“Maybe re-imagining what they look like and the features by which they patrol and police, that’s obviously on the table and something we should be having a conversation about.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology

“The struggles we are seeing today are bound up with the longer history of the black freedom struggle since the Civil War.” — Dr. Anne Gray Fischer, assistant professor of history

“Asian American success was held up and used as a racial weapon against African American claims of systemic racism — essentially saying, if Asian Americans can do it without complaining, why can’t you?” — Dr. Wendy Sung, assistant professor

“The 21st policing model is about trust and legitimacy, and trust and legitimacy go both ways.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology

“The biggest thing that has been suppressing telemedicine all along has been the fact that, up until recently with this COVID thing, physicians were not getting paid the same as an in-person visit.” — Dr. Alex Edsel, senior lecturer

“Most studies attempting to understand social disability in autism focus exclusively on individual characteristics.” — Dr. Noah Sasson, associate professor

“Robots and autonomous system can help in many ways. We are replicating ourselves in these machines.” — Dr. Yonas Tadesse, associate professor of mechanical engineering