Media Highlights

“This clearly shows the importance of data and communications regionally and globally.” — Paul Nichols, executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“What we are finding is that this is a critical part of the recipe: to experience math and science in the everyday.” — Dr. Iolani Connolly, director of the Science and Engineering Education Center

“We’ve already had inquiries from commercial manufacturers for refrigerators interested in our work.” — Dr. Ray Baughman, Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry

“This area of cooling is very hot right now.” — Dr. Ray Baughman, Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry

“The message is, ‘We’re more alike than different.’” — Dr. Jonathan Palant, director of choral activities

“He didn’t need to take credit for anything. He just wanted to see things happen.” — Dr. Robert Stern, professor of geosciences

“It is possible that individuals are becoming more likely to use lethal force if they perceive their lives to be in danger because they believe that the law will protect them.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology

“The name of the game is to make them bigger without increasing cost, so we need more intelligent turbines.” — Dr. Mario Rotea, department head of mechanical engineering and Erik Jonsson Chair

“The dividing line is everyone wants to do what is right, but no one knows what that is.” — Dr. Karen Huxtable-Jester, senior lecturer

“If there’s a shortage of available talent, they can just hire from existing companies.” — Frank Anderson, senior lecturer of finance

“It is critical that we understand how daptomycin resistance works at a molecular level, so that we can design strategies to reverse it.” — Dr. Kelli Palmer, Fellow, Cecil H. and Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science

“It’s fair for the mayor to demand that his team do the best job they can.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology

“You didn’t want to be anywhere close to the ice sheet in wintertime.” — Dr. Robert Stern, professor of geosciences

“They’re focused on seeing cousins, watching the game or the parade. Trying carrots is the last thing they want to do.” — Jenny McGlothlin, Callier Center speech-language pathologist

“This is truly a breakthrough, novel technology.” — Dr. Shalini Prasad, Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor in Systems Biology Science

“When you have one sense more activated, it can really change your thinking. And I tired to focus on that.” — Dr. Daniel Krawczyk, Debbie and Jim Francis Chair in Behavioral Brain Sciences

“It forces people to lose trust in the financial system.” — Dr. Umit G. Gurun, Ashbel Smith Professor of accounting

“I hope that, through this simple recognition of cross-border cultural diplomacy, we can begin to repair the rifts and misunderstandings that have come between our two nations.” — Dr. Richard Brettell, Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies

“Fear itself can be really debilitating unless you’ve had some exposure to it and developed some resilience.” — Dr. Christa McIntyre Rodriguez, associate professor of psychology

“I am grateful to Texas Instruments for helping us achieve this goal and look forward to the impact these new faculty members will make in their fields, for our students and for the economic well-being of our region.” — Dr. Richard C. Benson, president and Eugene McDermott Distinguished University Chair of Leadership