News for and about the people whose discoveries, inventions, designs and scholarly achievements bring UT Dallas toward its goal of becoming one of the nation’s best public research universities.
Five companies and a local municipality are harnessing the brainpower and enthusiasm of engineering students in a course that challenges them with real-world projects. Dubbed UTDesign, the program invites local industry and other organizations to propose projects in electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering and computer engineering. read more
UT Dallas researchers have received a big funding boost for their work on technology to enhance communication among emergency response personnel, bringing total support for the project to $1.14 million. The wireless technology under development will enable emergency workers to jump from one communications protocol to another, allowing first responders to communicate over commercial, military and emergency channels using a single cell phone or other communications device. read more
The Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management recognized Professor Gregory Dess, an internationally recognized business strategy expert, for a work on entrepreneurship that has been cited by hundreds of researchers since it first appeared in 1996. read more
The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a $2.18 million grant to Dr. Susan Jerger to support her studies of speech processing and childhood hearing impairment. The grant marks the 25th consecutive year that Jerger's research has received funding. read more
