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.
New nanoscale materials and devices are required to replace the silicon transistor that's at the heart of today's semiconductors, but to build these new devices, researchers will have to be able to measure the thickness of layers consisting of only a few atoms, according to a UT Dallas researcher. read more
We sat down for A Conversation With ... space scientist and professor of physics Dr. John Hoffman. His work has helped unpack the mysteries of our solar system. His instruments have flown on three Apollo missions to the moon, on the Pioneer Mission to Venus in 1978, and most recently on the landmark Phoenix Mission to Mars. read more
The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth received a federal grant to fund research examining brain performance enhancement in America's fighting men and women through the use of state-of-the-art virtual reality technologies. The center's study, incorporating experts from a variety of UT Dallas disciplines, will focus on maximizing brain resilience and repair in soldiers. read more
Dr. Margaret T. Owen, professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and director of the Center for Children and Families, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to study preschoolers living in Dallas. Owen, along with research colleague Dr. Margaret O. Caughy of the University of Texas School of Public Health, received a $1.2 million, two-year grant. read more
