Media Highlights
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KAGS-TV: Preparing a Budget for Yourself and Your Future
“A budget is a plan, more than anything.” — Dr. Evgenia Gorina, associate professor of public and nonprofit management
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The Dallas Morning News: Omni Dallas Hotel To Light Up with Art by UT Dallas Students
“It’s a really weird and cool feeling to be able to have the opportunity to have our work go past the school borders and really like be a part of the Dallas community.” — Michael Bentley, arts, technology, and emerging communication senior
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NBC 5 (KXAS-TV): UT Dallas Students to Display Art on Omni Dallas Hotel
“I always look for opportunities to take projects that we are doing in class and get them out into the community.” — Andrew Scott, associate professor of arts and technology
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Spectrum News: UT Dallas Researchers Working To Make Injections Less Painful
“It can penetrate through [the skin] too but it’s not painful because it’s just a puff of air.” — Yalini Wijesundara, graduate student
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Texas Wants To Know: How Did Universal Pick Frisco for Its New Theme Park?
“This is going to have a huge economic impact for the area.” — Dr. James Harrington, associate professor of public and nonprofit management
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Yahoo! News: Vaccines ‘Could Be Delivered in a Puff of Air Instead of a Needle’
“We can also store vaccine formulations within it as powders at room temperature, which eliminates the need for the extremely cold temperatures many liquid vaccines require.” — Yalini Wijesundara, graduate student
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The Dallas Morning News: UTD Scientists Clear Misconceptions, Raise Concerns about Viral AI Chatbot
“This is still at a very high hype state, and until people come up with actually good reasons to use it, it may not bear the investment.” — Dale MacDonald, associate dean of research and creative technologies in the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
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The Dallas Morning News: A Women’s Tech Group Partners with UTD To Teach Architecture to Girls
“I think that the ability that they develop through these programs goes beyond several generations, several groups of people.” — Gaurav Shekhar, director of graduate business analytics program
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The Dallas Morning News: Following the SVB Collapse, Are Banks in Texas at Risk?
“The rising rates made the banks vulnerable, but the collapse was triggered by their portfolios.” — Dr. Gil Sadka, professor of accounting
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The Dallas Morning News: Here’s 5 Things To Know About the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
“We’ve been through these banking situations before and the government is going to support the banking industry.” — Frank Anderson, lecturer of finance and managerial economics
“This is problematic only if we all kind of believe it will be problematic, and we make unreasonable demands of our banks.” — Dr. Victor Valcarcel, associate professor of economics
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CBC: Is Time Running Out on Changing Clocks Twice a Year?
“It’s somewhat of a regional issue.” — Dr. Thomas Gray, assistant professor of political science
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Lifewire: Chatbots Could Be the Next Big Hacking Tool—Here’s How to Defend Yourself
“You could use AI chatbots to make your message sound more believable.” — Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, Ashbel Smith Professor of computer science
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KDFW Fox 4: ChatGPT—The Strengths and Limitations of the AI Technology
“This technology is not necessarily brand new, but it’s never been packaged up in such a nice, easily accessible way before.” — Dr. Jessica Ouyang, assistant professor of computer science
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Forbes: What Is High-Frequency Hearing Loss?
“One of the first symptoms of high-frequency hearing loss is the struggle to understand conversations due to the inability to distinguish or hear the consonant sounds.” — Dr. Andrea Gohmert, director of audiology clinical operations at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders
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The Dallas Morning News: Understanding ChatGPT, the AI Chatbot That’s Gone Viral
“It’s [predicting the next word] on a tremendously large scale, with a tremendously larger vocabulary of known texts than a human could possibly remember.” — Dr. Jessica Ouyang, assistant professor of computer science
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KRLD-AM: Ask The Expert: What Is It About Super Bowl Ads That Draws Viewers?
“It started off in the 1980s with a couple of big spots.” — Dr. Abhi Biswas, clinical professor of marketing
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The Dallas Morning News: 3 Ways To Deepen Your Relationship, from a Dallas Scientist
“Activate some of those early butterfly feelings and neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine with something different, even if it’s small.” — Erin Venza, head of clinical services in the Center for BrainHealth
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CBS News: Companies Save Billions of Dollars by Giving Employees Fake “Manager” Titles, Study Shows
“If you’re relying on cheap labor — you’re a labor-intensive company and you can get away with it — this becomes a tool that you can use to lower your costs.” — Dr. Umit Gurun, Stan Liebowitz Professor of accounting and of finance and managerial economics
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Texas Monthly: We Asked ChatGPT to Define a Taco. Here’s What It Said.
“It’s incredible technology that is able to actually pattern match and find a decent response, but it has no understanding of what it is saying.” — Dr. Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science
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WFAA: Faced with a Sad Puppy, Texas Woman Creates a New Way to Play
“She stuck her nose over the hurdle and figured out how to get the treat without actually jumping over it.” — Bradley McLaughlin, graduate student