Media Highlights

“What we’ve found is that just in the same way that we’re able to positively affect our physical activity, our physical life, improve our joint health — we can also improve our brain health through daily activities and also key lifestyle factors.” — Stacy Vernon, head of adult assessment in the Center for BrainHealth

“Even if it is helping you compete, is it at the cost of an employee? Is it at the cost of the consumers?” — Dr. Kirti Sinha, assistant professor of accounting

Dr. Jie Zhang, associate professor of mechanical engineering, says the goal is to find the best path to send power to the majority of users as quickly as possible.

“We want to bring folks together around the issues that we discovered. We want to sit down with city managers, residents and nonprofits to talk about, ‘What does this actually mean.’” — Dr. Timothy Bray, professor of practice of public policy and political economy and director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research

“The Miss Texas crown is much bigger than me. This crown is for every young child, teenager and adult on the spectrum who felt alienated, abandoned, stereotyped and unseen because of their different abilities.” — Annette Addo-Yobo BS’20

“We’re watching stellar evolution. … Being able to watch this in real time, in our lifetime, is amazing.” — Dr. Phillip Anderson, director of the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences

“Donating unwanted items is also a win-win situation — decluttering while potentially benefiting from tax deductions. Most people only wear 20% of their clothes, so consider donating anything unused for over a year.” — Julie Lynch, director of the Weitzman Institute of Real Estate

Dr. Robert Stern, professor of sustainable Earth systems sciences, suggests that plate tectonics and the existence of oceans and continents are crucial for advanced life to develop.

“Our research is primarily related to identifying the neural marker of speech disorder in individuals with post-stroke aphasia.” — Dr. Roozbeh Behroozmand, associate professor of speech, language, and hearing

“The superheroes like Superman – we all grew up with that. To be able to see through things, the X-ray vision, was something always exciting and inspiring.” — Dr. Kenneth K. O, Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair

“The environment in Texas allows us to do truly innovative work, and the output of innovative work is intellectual property.” — Dr. Shalini Prasad, Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor in Systems Biology Science

“Retailers are trying to make you make a quick decision, not comparison shop.” — Gary Reichmuth, associate professor of instruction in the Naveen Jindal School of Management

“I started noticing the impact that my videos were having on local restaurants and I wanted to have an even bigger impact.” — Anisha Holla BS’24

“As students are looking at MBA programs and thinking, ‘I want to get into some of these industries that aren’t hiring so it’s a bad time,’ I would argue it’s actually the best time.” — Lisa Shatz, assistant dean and director of MBA programs

“We did see what we expected to see. The next step will be to look at [the] spaced receivers.” — Dr. Fabiano Rodrigues, Fellow, Eugene McDermott Distinguished Professor

“But it will be pretty spectacular. It’s going to go coast to coast.” — Dr. Mary Urquhart, head of the Department of Science/Mathematics Education

“We have this special case where the moon just happens to pass right in front of the sun, so that the shadow of the moon is falling directly on our Dallas-Fort Worth area.” — Dr. Mary Urquhart, head of the Department of Science/Mathematics Education

“Any one location, it’s very rare. Last time we had one in Texas that came through the Dallas Fort-Worth area was 1878, and the next one that will come through Dallas won’t be for 300 years from now.” — Dr. Marc Hairston, research scientist

“This has been a mystery for 25 years. This discovery opens the door for us to go after it and learn more about its nature.” — Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, professor of physics

“If you get an email from someone, some text message, Google the name of the company or the organization. You call them yourself and check.” — Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, Ashbel Smith Professor of computer science

“Many people think it’s a game. It’s also a sport. It can also be an art.” — Julio Catalino Sadorra, coach of the UT Dallas chess team