Media Highlights

“I study fandom, and it goes deeper than just rooting for a sports team.” — Dr. Lance Lusk, assistant professor of instruction

“It looks to us like a ring because light is focused at that place in the shape of a ring.” — Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, professor of physics

“What we really need to do is, instead of aggregating [risk] at a local level, we need to act at a federal level, and that way, people who live in North Dakota are sharing losses in California.” — Dr. Steven Haynes, assistant professor of practice of finance and managerial economics

“If we could have a drug that would help us to avoid this, it would be an absolutely massive benefit to humankind.” — Dr. Ted Price BS’97, Ashbel Smith Professor of neuroscience

“This premier gaming center will showcase our highly competitive and nationally ranked varsity esports teams.” — Dr. Richard C. Benson, president of UT Dallas

“There’s a real problem with getting an accurate diagnosis, especially because it both overlaps with and resembles some other more common voice disorders, like muscle tension dysphonia.” — Dr. Saul Frankford, assistant professor of speech, language, and hearing

“There’s a huge game changer with respect to how much infrastructure we need.” — Dr. Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science

“Depending on trees and what’s obstructing your local horizon and exactly what time you get out, you may have difficulty seeing both Venus (setting in the west) and Mars (rising in the east) at the same time.” — Dr. Marc Hairston, research scientist in the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences

“What I love about teaching is really sharing that joy and that journey with others.” — Dr. Mary Urquhart, head of the Department of Science/Mathematics Education

(Editor’s note: You can read Part 2 here.)

“They look forward to new traditions. They get to celebrate with their siblings.” — Dr. Candice Mills, professor of psychology

The UT Dallas Student Counseling Center hosted an event with dozens of therapy dogs to support students’ mental health as they tackle final exams.

“One of the principal benefits is the opportunities that students who come to our university have the chance to pursue.” — Dr. Joseph Pancrazio, vice president for research and innovation

“I think once you have brought these companies, and once people have seen it is working well — and again, with the backers, if you see there is an increased liquidity and these companies are getting benefited — some bigger firms may also come and start getting listed here.” — Dr. Kirti Sinha, assistant professor of accounting

“The next couple of years we will see. There’s some expectation that, based on the past, we’re going to see similar sort of effects on all aspects of economic life.” — Dr. Umit Gurun, the Stan Liebowitz Distinguished Professor of accounting and of finance and managerial economics

“You see them out there. You see them at events. You see them working with the electorate.” — Dr. Janet Johnson, associate professor of instruction

“All those little things, they add up to enough to give an incumbent an extra few percentage points of the vote.”— Dr. Thomas Gray, associate professor of political science

“I did not think that such a result would happen in my lifetime.” — Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, professor of physics

“They’re literally transferring dollars from their home country into our country.” — Josephine Vitta, senior director of the International Center

“If it can all be managed centrally, that can be better. Oftentimes, the goal is to make it more streamlined, so they don’t have five or six separately operating units.” — Daniel Karnuta, director of the professional program in healthcare management

“There could be billions of planets with some kind of primitive life, but the ability to build a radio transmitter or launch a rocket ship requires a certain set of circumstances which are only likely to happen on a planet that has plate tectonics and both oceans and continents.” — Dr. Robert Stern, professor of sustainable Earth systems sciences