Media Highlights

“Renewable energy is a rapidly expanding area, and Texas is leading the country in the expansion of energy storage capacity.” — Dr. Kyeongjae Cho, professor of materials science and engineering

“Keep your heart strong, and your memory will follow along.” — Dr. Chandramallika Basak, associate professor of psychology

“The question is, ‘The nontraditional or younger audiences — are they likely to watch this?’” — Dr. Thomas Gray, assistant professor of political science

“They’re very secretive about exactly what they’re doing, but we know that there’s some kind of scoring system in these apps.” — Dr. Ignacio Rios, assistant professor of operations management

“The hacker group may want to sell this data or leverage this data for identity theft and/or other cyber crimes.” — Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, Ashbel Smith Professor of computer science

“More sun means more energy.” — Dr. Julia Hsu, TI Distinguished Chair in Nanoelectronics

“When we have a lot of surfaces, such as concrete, tarmac, in place of vegetation and trees and so on, they store during the day the sun’s energy that comes in.” — Dr. David Lary, professor of physics

“Communications could be disrupted; there could be denial of a service attack; there could be jamming.” — Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair in Engineering and Computer Science

“This could be one of the worst years, and truthfully, it’s not just in the northeast anymore.” — Dr. Sarah Maxwell, associate professor of public and nonprofit management

“This seems especially important since ‘aloneness’ is so often cast as failed femininity.” — Dr. Larissa Werhnyak, assistant professor of instruction

“In order to get the correct answer, you have to sort of guide it.” — Dr. Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science

“[We need] to provide meaningful, actionable data to a global community.” — Dr. Shalini Prasad, Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor in Systems Biology

“If you look at the available housing in North Texas right now, or actually across the country, we have a lot less inventory available now versus pre-pandemic.” — Julie Lynch, director of the Weitzman Institute of Real Estate

“[Health companies] have to do this. And, if they’re not doing this, then they’re behind, and they’re gonna get woefully behind. They’ll probably get acquired by somebody else.” — Daniel Karnuta, director of the professional program in healthcare management

“Once I get my undergrad degree, then I’ll basically be full-time cricket and hopefully see how far that takes me.” — Ali Sheikh, accounting junior

“I would think the average homeowner is not interested in living in a neighborhood where you have a hundred different sets of neighbors every year.” — Dr. Randall Guttery, director emeritus of the Herbert D. Weitzman Institute for Real Estate

“It comes down to understanding the science, so, you can do better at perfecting your technique.” — Dr. Jeremiah Gassensmith, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry

“Not only is caregiver speech associated with later language development, but it also is associated with later brain development as well.” — Dr. Meghan Swanson, assistant professor of psychology

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“More advancements have to be made and incorporated into how autonomous trucking or autonomous driving is done.” — Dr. Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science