Media Highlights

“You’re going to see more attentiveness to what the demands are of the community.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

“…Something being legal or illegal doesn’t mean the same thing it used to mean in the system we have now.” — Dr. Lloyd Dumas, professor of economics and political economy

“If the alcohol evaporates, the hand sanitizer is less efficient. It is the alcohol that kills the germs.” — Dr. Mihaela Stefan, Eugene McDermott Professor

“We think it’s important that people understand how many people are currently actively under infection.” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“Milestones are really important, and our class community was really strong. I wanted to do something on the last day of class to honor them.” — Dr. Salena Brody, senior lecturer

“Just because it was done for the right reasons doesn’t mean it did not have some ill effect.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology

“We’re excited to be able to use 3D-printing technology to manufacture equipment that could save the lives of COVID-19 patients and protect the health care workers caring for them.” — Dr. Walter Voit BS’05, MS’06, associate professor of materials science and engineering and mechanical engineering

“We had somewhere around 50 to 70 devices that we printed and manufactured.” — Dr. Walter Voit BS’05, MS’06, associate professor of materials science and engineering and mechanical engineering

“It’s a little plastic component that fits on the backside of a ventilator system.” — Dr. Walter Voit BS’05, MS’06, associate professor of materials science and engineering and mechanical engineering

“What the pandemic shows is our inability to separate individual good and the collective good.” — Dr. Matthew Brown, director of the UT Dallas Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology

“It’s a great research opportunity, and it’s a great project for the students. We’ll be designing, building, and testing in the wind tunnel and the wind and wave tank.” — Dr. Todd Griffith, associate professor of mechanical engineering

“I think right now wearables on a scale of one to 10 as far as usefulness are like a four or five for a pandemic.” — Dr. Alex Edsel, senior lecturer

“It sure seems that there is something to that because what congestion does, what density does is put susceptible people in a close space together.” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“Our real focus here was to make information readily available to the public and to government leaders who sometimes find lots of data from lots of sources.” — Dr. Tim Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas

“This means that we transition, and we do so very purposefully and intentionally.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

“We’re actively looking for opportunities to get the technology out of the lab to the real world, especially in the current coronavirus pandemic.” — Dr. Zhenpeng Qin, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

“The technology is there, but it really hasn’t been tested. It hasn’t been commercialized.” — Dr. Alex Edsel, senior lecturer

“We all want to share information that’s valuable, but not all information is treated equally. The best policy is to have factual proof when you do post.” — Dr. Janet Johnson, lecturer

“These scammers are preying on people’s fears and anxiety. Cybercriminals make this information look so real.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology

“No one wants to be the first so they’re taking baby steps.” – Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management