Media Highlights

“Our research has shown that significant memory gains emerge when individuals engage in regular aerobic exercise for 50 minutes three times a week.” — Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, Dee Wyly Distinguished University Chair in BrainHealth

“It’s a natural phenomenon, no doubt.” — Dr. John W. Geissman, professor of geosciences

“You need to break continents and continental shelves apart, and separate one ocean from another, for speciation to occur.” — Dr. Robert Stern, professor of geosciences

“The real estate industry has been a laggard when it comes to innovation and technology.” — Bryan Chambers, director of Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas

“Companies that previously would have used human labor are now embracing, or at least looking into, robots.” – Dr. Nicholas Gans, clinical associate professor

“I think that with many social issues — especially those that are at the intersection of race and ethnicity — our job as researchers is to not just describe what people feel but also try to understand the factors that relate to what they feel.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology

“Most implant recipients are only seeing a small percentage of the auditory stimuli that you and I get with full hearing capability.” — Dr. John H.L. Hansen, Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications

“Waist-to-hip ratio, for example, was the most important feature in women. For men, an important feature is shoulder width relative to waist size.” — Ying Hu, research assistant

“The conventional wisdom is that high voter turnout — period — helps Democrats, but I don’t know quite how that translates into early voting.” — Dr. Robert C. Lowry, professor of political science 

“… to have a great collection, unlike that in any other university in the United States or indeed anywhere outside of Switzerland, is a huge deal.” — Dr. Richard Brettell, Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies

“In simplistic terms, the cost of healthcare is not sustainable. What are the answers going to be? We don’t know yet.” — Dr. Forney Fleming, clinical professor of management

“Tell a 25-year-old that the most important thing for them to do is plan for retirement and they’re not going to hear it.” — Dr. David Cordell, clinical professor of finance

“Political campaigns and election season create a tension between our shared identities as human beings, citizens and workers.” — Dr. McClain Watson, clinical associate professor

“Usually things like ‘um’ … [are used] because you’re fighting to figure out what to say next.” — Scott Herndon, director of debate

“It was critical that the NFL responded to the high-profile, high-visibility cases in the manner they did.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology

“Six months out, they still were doing really well, maybe even going a little bit better in terms of their improvement, while the folks that didn’t were leveling off or sort of rebounding back up and having a few more symptoms again.” — Dr. John Hart, Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience

“This new kind of algorithm is much better at being able to generalize identity across variable images.” — Dr. Alice O’Toole, Aage and Margareta Møller Professor

“The earlier they can get hands-on experience, the better. This helps to demystify careers they don’t have family models for.” — Dr. Roger F. Malina, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair

“They’ve demonstrated superior financial acumen.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

“Some of the information can be misused and also some of the devices that are remotely controlled can cause some issues.” — Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science