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General interest media coverage of UT Dallas students, faculty, staff and leadership and their achievements.
Dallas Police Department's Website Hacked
(Feb. 09, 2012) “As a defender, you’re only successful if you have blocked all possible avenues of attack, whereas an attacker only has to find one vulnerability, and then he has won the battle.” — Dr. Kevin Hamlen,assistant professor of computer science read more
Aide at L.A. School Sent Boy Love Letters
(Feb. 08, 2012) “You’re taking away … all the good relationships that are there for kids. It seems so extreme.” — Dr. Ellen Greenwald, UT Dallas psychologist read more
Dublin Bottler Faces Challenge of Selling New Sodas
(Feb. 08, 2012) “When a company like Dublin is selling into other distributors' territories, they're basically taking case sales away from those other distributors. And those are family companies, too.” — Judd Bradbury, management lecturer read more
Eastwood Spot Big Winner for UT Dallas Marketing Prof
(Feb. 07, 2012) “They don’t want to leave any stone unturned, this is their big stage, the big extravaganza. This is their one shot to reach 111 million eyeballs they're going to make sure they reach every segment of the population they can.” — Abhi Biswas, UT Dallas marketing professor read more
Alzheimer's-Linked Brain Plaques May Affect Memory in Healthy People
(Feb. 02, 2012) “Just because we don’t have a treatment for Alzheimer’s doesn’t mean we’ll never have one. What if we can develop this field enough that we can say things about your brain in your 40s and tell people, ‘Here’s a pill that you can take to slow [cognitive deterioration] down so it will never go to Alzheimer’s?’ ” — Dr. Denise Park, co-director of the Center for Vital Longevity read more
David Daniel: Mr. President, Here’s the New Normal on College Campuses
(Feb. 02, 2012) “President Barack Obama recently admonished universities: ‘If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down.’ Mr. President, reduced taxpayer funding has already happened. It is the primary cause of tuition increases for the past 20 years.” — Dr. David E. Daniel, President of UT Dallas read more
Dallas Boy Overcomes Odds to Walk and Talk
(Jan. 25, 2012) “He had a lot to say and no way to say it.” — Jenny McGlothlin, speech pathologist at UT Dallas Callier Center read more
Internet to Artists: Drop Dead
(Jan. 24, 2012) “The laws now before Congress may not be perfect, and they can still be amended. But to do nothing and stay with the status quo is to keep our creative industries at risk by failing to enforce their property rights.” — Dr. Stan Liebowitz, Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics read more
Wikipedia Shuts Down in Protest Over Anti-Piracy Legislation
(Jan. 18, 2012) “I think Wikipedia is already doing a good bit to try to prevent copyright violations. This shifting of the burden of proof off of copyright holders and on to Wikipedia is going to make it impossible for them to sort of keep up with the need to police the site in this way.” — Dr. Andrew Famiglietti, visiting assistant professor of emerging media and communication read more
Memory Problems Linked to Old Age May Actually Begin Earlier
(Jan. 13, 2012) “Synthesize meanings from work assignments, articles and books read, and movies watched. Discussing deeper meanings pushes the power of your brain’s frontal lobe more than reciting a litany of facts.” — Dr. Sandi Chapman, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth read more
Dallas Murder Totals Are at Lowest Level in Decades
(Jan. 13, 2012) “The crack market was a very outdoor market, and it was a very lucrative market and it was very territorial.”— Dr. Alex Piquero, professor of criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas read more
UTD Teen Text Study Has Surprising Communication Results
(Jan. 12, 2012) “I’m impressed by the richness of the communication. I thought it would be a lot of silly stuff. I didn't know how much it would be so deep and real and sophisticated.” — Dr. Marion Underwood, Ashbel Smith Professor of Psychology in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences read more
New Material Bests Silicon at Gadget Cooling
(Jan. 12, 2012) “The performance of an electronic device degrades as it heats up, and if it continues, the device fails. The faster heat is removed, the more efficient the device runs and the longer it lasts.” — Dr. Kyeongjae Cho, associate professor of materials science, engineering and physics read more
Crime Falls in Dallas for Record 8th Consecutive Year
(Jan. 10, 2012) “Police really are doing different kinds of strategies than they had been historically doing. Another thing that people pay attention to … is we as a United States have incarcerated a lot of people, and a good segment of that population who are committing a lot of crime is locked up. You’re going to have some effect when you lock up lots of people.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith professor of criminology read more
12 Reasons to Adopt a Better Attitude, Become an Optimist in the New Year
(Jan. 04, 2012) “A lot of newer research supports why a good attitude is important.” — Heather Atkison, crisis management coordinator and clinical counselor at UT Dallas
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UT Dallas Looks to Defend Chess Championship Victory
(Jan. 03, 2012) “We had a perfect score, our A-team did. It was six wins, no losses and no draws.” — Jim Stallings, chess program director at UT Dallas read more
Holiday Toys Can Offer Learning Opportunities
(Jan. 03, 2012) “Excessive use of media has a lot of consequences for children, like attention problems and obesity. Lots of parents now limit their child use of media, but I would like us to reflect on our own use of media, and how often we are using the phone or checking text messages when we are trying to supposedly play with our child.” — Lyn Neisius, developmental specialist at the UT Dallas Center for Children and Families read more
Timothy Bray: No ‘Cheap’ Computer Fixes for Poverty
(Dec. 26, 2011) “The answer to our problems requires that we confront the issues of poverty in honest and innovative ways; otherwise, these issues that permeate our communities will continue to confound our children’s futures.” — Dr. Timothy Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas read more
Can Mitt Find the Wit to Boot Newt?
(Dec. 07, 2011) “Don’t let the debate’s artificial structure limit how you would normally interact with people. And if that’s not your strong suit, you can maybe explain that in a way that makes light of yourself.” — Chris Burk, debate director
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Nano Paint Could Make Airplanes Invisible to Radar
(Dec. 05, 2011) "This type of cloaking is very interesting, especially since they have demonstrated operation in air." — Dr. Ray Baughman, director of the MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at UT Dallas read more
Ray Baughman Creates Artificial Muscles
(Nov. 29, 2011) “By looking at the way in which nature has solved problems like muscles, we can advance our own technologies.” — Dr. Ray Baughman, director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at UT Dallas read more
UT Dallas Launches Business Incubator to Help Faculty and Student Ideas Come to Fruition
(Nov. 28, 2011) “My office manages about $100 million in research and gets about one new invention a week. Since 2008, UT Dallas has spun off 13 companies and created more than 50 jobs. We realized quickly that we needed some space next to campus to house these companies at reasonable rates.” — Robert Robb, vice president for technology commercialization read more
Report Looks at Poverty and Health of Dallas County Children
(Nov. 23, 2011) “Many of us live in the neighborhoods that aren’t as affected by poverty, and when we find out that there are neighborhoods where every child is born to a teenage mother, where every child is living in poverty, where many children are hungry, those are the neighborhoods that most need our help.” — Dr. Timothy Bray, UT Dallas Institute for Urban Policy Research read more
Dallas Children's Health Report: Child Abuse Prominent
(Nov. 23, 2011) “If one in every three children lives in poverty, it’s not one in three children in every neighborhood. It's three out of three children in some neighborhoods, and it's no children in others. And so many of us who would take action don't because we don't know. We don't see it.” — Dr. Timothy Bray, Institute for Urban Policy Research read more
KERA Health Checkup: Tinnitus
(Nov. 23, 2011) “Usually anything that has the ability to cause hearing impairment can also cause tinnitus. Some of the common instances that occur are noise exposure or noisy workplace environments or noisy social habits.” — Dr. Kenneth Pugh, Callier Center for Communicative Disorders read more
Study to Look at Best Way to Release Prisoners Until Trial
(Nov. 23, 2011) “I think I’ll probably get heat from both sides. I’m not in this for the politics. Who knows what’s going to happen?” — Dr. Robert Morris, criminology professor, on his upcoming study of Dallas County pretrial releases read more
Aging Brains Create ‘Scaffolds’ to Shore Up Eroding Abilities
(Nov. 22, 2011) “To measure the speed at which they process information, for instance, we'll show them a series of strings of different digits. And we'll ask them whether the pattern in successive strings is the same or different.” — Dr. Denise Park, co-director of the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity read more
The Key to Brain Health? Exercise, Experts Say
(Oct. 20, 2011) “Physical exercise improves memory. It is one thing you can do to keep your brain healthier and help you think better.” — Dr. Sandi Chapman, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth read more
Cloaking Experiment Draws Comparisons to ‘Harry Potter’
(Oct. 20, 2011) “The paper was originally titled ‘The Mirage Effect’ before we saw anything. It’s one thing to see a light being deflected, that’s nice. But to actually see something disappear, now that grabs your attention.” — Dr. Ray Baughman, director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute read more
Engineering Hope: Smartphone App Opens New World Of Hearing
(Oct. 13, 2011) “Our goal is to have different settings on this processor so that in your daily life you could maneuver through these settings and find the best, optimal settings for different environments. So if you want gain, if you want noise suppression in it, if you want to have enhancement in higher frequencies it allows you to do that.” — Hussnain Ali, Cochlear Implant Lab research assistant read more
Trade Agreements Moving Ahead
(Oct. 13, 2011) “Once the FTA [free trade agreement] has made it, then definitely it helps us to bring some more collaboration work between the two parties.” — Dr. Jiyoung Kim, associate professor of material sciences and engineering read more
Move up the Corporate Ladder Stalls for Women
(Oct. 11, 2011) “It’s true women are increasingly becoming fixtures in corporate America, in higher-ranking positions. It’s fantastic, but to say it’s enough is missing the boat.” — Dr. Sheryl Skaggs, associate program head for sociology in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences read more
It's No Mirage as Three University of Texas at Dallas Profs Create a Cloaking Device
(Oct. 10, 2011) “It’s very exciting, but it’s only the beginning. We’re working toward finding a way to change the shape of objects this way, making an object not only invisible but also unrecognizable.” — Dr. Ali Aliev, research scientist, Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute of UT Dallas read more
Earth Sciences: Unlocking the Secrets of a Dynamic Planet
(Oct. 03, 2011) “There’s much more to it than pretty pictures. You can actually measure real physical parameters – such as the gravity field or magnetic field – and, more importantly, you can detect surface deformation. The Earth is a very active planet and it is crucial for us to understand when and where it is moving.” - Dr. Alexander Braun, Department of Geosciences
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Swagger Has its Own Style When it Comes to Chess
(Oct. 02, 2011) “Chess ratings are the equivalent of ego points or IQ points. So there’s this thing where chess players meet and they can’t go very long without asking, ‘What’s your rating?’ If your rating is 2,400, but mine’s 2,450, from then on we know that anything I say has more value than anything you say. Because obviously, your rating never got to my level.” — Jim Stallings, director UT Dallas chess program read more
Shoes That See: UT-Dallas Invention May Aid the Blind
(Sep. 28, 2011) “This is an aid that gives them signals — in advance — where the obstacle is.” — Dr. Dinesh Bhatia, professor of electrical engineering, on a shoe that helps the blind see where they are walking read more
Donors Give UT Dallas More Than $55 Million in Fiscal Year
(Sep. 28, 2011) “We’re very grateful to our donors, who have enabled the university to move forward on so many fronts. We’re also appreciative of the support of our legislative partners, who provided matching funds through the Texas Research Incentive Program and the University of Texas System regents, who also provided access to matching funds. These funds provided a very helpful leveraging tool that encourages and rewards private support.” — Dr. David E. Daniel, UT Dallas president
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Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival
(Sep. 28, 2011) “They fulfill the need for information in an immediate and accessible way and, on a deeper, psychological level, provide some knowledge or certainty in the face of uncertainty.” — Anonieta Salazar Loftin, doctoral student, on her relatives' use of social media in Mexico
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Babies Benefit From Bilingual Homes
(Sep. 22, 2011) “Bilingual kids seem to have a long window where they’re still paying attention to sounds from both languages. ... If you have a parent or a family member and you have people that can speak multiple languages in the home, by all means, go ahead and it would be great to do it.” — Dr. Raul Rojas, Callier Center for Communication Disorders read more
UT Dallas Scientist Talks About Tracking Falling Satellite
(Sep. 22, 2011) “The odds of a satellite actually hitting the North Texas area are 1 in 10,000. It’ll come down somewhere on Earth. We just don’t know where.” — Dr. Marc Hairston, research scientist, William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences at UT Dallas read more
Area Residents Shouldn’t Worry About Satellite Crashing to Earth
(Sep. 22, 2011) “Santa Claus and the penguins are safe.” — Dr. Marc Hairston, research scientist, on the unlikelihood that satellite pieces will fall on the North or South poles.
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Retired NYPD officer reflects
(Sep. 12, 2011) “That (compartmentalizing) is often the coping mechanism people will use in order to survive and not burn out, particularly with people who work in emotionally painful jobs; otherwise, you would be overwhelmed with the feelings. In order to do their job, the culture is to remain stoic.” — Sharon Bowles, UT Dallas Student Counseling Center read more
The Legacy of 9/11 on the State of Texas
(Sep. 07, 2011) “Whether we are actually safer or not is kind of something very difficult for us to quantify and say for sure, ‘Yes,’ or for sure, ‘No,’ but at least we feel a lot safer.” — Dr. Robert Taylor, professor of public affairs read more
Analysis Shows True High School Performance
(Sep. 06, 2011) “These results suggest that there’s quite a bit that high schools could contribute to college readiness.” — Dr. Rodney Andrews, director of the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas read more
When a Chomp or a Slurp Is a Trigger for Outrage
(Sep. 06, 2011) Dr. Aage R. Moller ... believes the condition is hard-wired, like right- or left-handedness, and is probably not an auditory disorder but a “physiological abnormality” that resides in brain structures activated by processed sound. There is “no known effective treatment,” Dr. Moller said. — New York Times story on misophonia, a disorder that makes some sounds exceedingly annoying to patients
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NanoExplorers program named Tech Titans Titan of the Future
(Sep. 02, 2011) “That experience was so important for my life that I wanted to start a program that more broadly fosters and enables young people to do research in the laboratory.” — Dr. Ray Baughman, director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute read more
John Ferraris on Advances in Chemistry at UT Dallas
(Sep. 01, 2011) “UT Dallas is on a quest to become a Tier One research institution. Research in the nanoscience/technology fields will continue to be a strong contributor to further enhancing the University’s reputation.” — Dr. John Ferraris, Chemistry Department Head read more
Solar Cells Could Get Quantum Boost
(Aug. 30, 2011) “The proof has got to be in the proverbial pudding. He will have to show without ambiguity that his devices can achieve a power conversion efficiency that exceeds that which would be given by detailed balance.” — Dr. Alexander Kirk, materials scientist who studies solar cells at the University of Texas at Dallas read more
Lack of Grocery Stores Creates Unhealthy Food Desert
(Aug. 28, 2011) “Food is a fundamental source of well-being. There are many opportunities for small-scale food sellers or major chains to offer quality product to people with low income who would want to spend their income on healthy foods.” — Dr. Nathan Berg, associate professor of economics read more
Links Between Exercise And Mental Fitness In Older Adults
(Aug. 22, 2011) “There’s no evidence that people who do crossword puzzles and have done them for 20 years and are super crossword addicts have better cognition than people who don’t do these puzzles. There’ve been some exhaustive studies on this.” — Dr. Denise Park, co-director of the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity read more
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