Campus

Pickens Makes Pitch for Energy Plan

Boone Pickens and UT Dallas President David E. DanielTexas business legend T. Boone Pickens told a capacity crowd at UT Dallas on Thursday that one of the country's top priorities should be to replace its thousands of diesel-fueled long-haul trucks with 18-wheelers powered by cleaner-burning, domestically produced natural gas. read more

Students

Chess Team Makes History in Havana Match

UT Dallas chess teamIn their own way, UT Dallas' chess masters rewrote international history last month. College-level chess players from the U.S. and Cuba hadn't squared off in half a century, so it was a triumph in itself when top UT Dallas players traveled to Havana to play against their counterparts at the Instituto Superior de Cultura Fisica. read more

Campus

Part-Time MBA Directors Discuss Challenges

Monica PowellExperts in graduate business education met at UT Dallas to wrestle over a few business questions of their own recently: namely, how best to market and manage their schools in a tough economy, and how to build leadership excellence. The 16th Annual gave heads of part-time 75 MBA programs a chance to exchange ideas, evaluate progress and collaborate on these ideas and others. read more

H1N1 Flu Advisory Update

With the start of the new academic year, health officials are warning college students that they are a high-risk group for contracting the H1N1 Flu virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued new precautions for preventing the spread of this new strain of flu on campus: read more

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In Print & On Air

“Our brain is undergoing more change during the middle school years than any other time in our whole life. We've missed this window of cognitive development during middle school.”

Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman,
chief director of the Center for BrainHealth
— Dallas Observer

 

“At Camp CARE, we first do a screening to see what kinds of errors each child is making. We look at their articulation and resonance and write two or three goals to focus on.”

Christina Molloy, MS, CCC-SLP,
Callier Center for Communication Disorders
— Therapy Times

Sunday
November 8, 2009