UT Dallas News Center is an official news voice of The University of Texas at Dallas. http://www.utdallas.edu/news/ http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/20-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A University that had a unique start, then soon started realizing its rich potential, was the subject of a personal and often humorous panel discussion this week among President David E. Daniel and his two immediate predecessors at UT Dallas, Dr. Franklyn Jenifer and Dr. Robert Rutford. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/20-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A panel of top corporate transformation experts explored opportunities and strategies for turning around troubled and underperforming companies at the inaugural public event of the new Center for Finance Strategy Innovation at the UT Dallas School of Management. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/20-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS UT Dallas students returned from the National Mediation Tournament recently with top honors. A UT Dallas team took first place to win the Dan Stamatelos National Trophy for Advocacy. Another won fourth place in the Mediation category. In addition, Dina Shahrokhi won the Stephanie Jennings Memorial Award for Outstanding Mediator. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/19-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS 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. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/19-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Responding to a national shortage, the National Science Foundation has awarded UT Dallas, Collin College and Richland College nearly $2.5 million to graduate more students with science, technology, engineering and math degrees. The grant attempts to reverse the trend of decreases in science and math degrees awarded in the U.S. in recent decades. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/18-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Three individuals who have played integral roles in the growth of The University of Texas at Dallas will discuss the University's past and future at the Panel of Presidents. The event begins at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18, at the University's Conference Center. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/18-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The annual UT Dallas Grandmaster Invitational tournament gets under way on Saturday, Nov. 21, with two 10-player sections to give the team's masters an opportunity to prepare for the upcoming Pan-American Intercollegiate chess tournament. Those in the top grandmasters section can also seek to achieve grandmaster norms; three are required for the prestigious and difficult title. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/18-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Education officials and career counselors from top Chinese universities visited the UT Dallas Career Center recently to learn how large American colleges help students prepare for the world of work. The group focused on the center's career counseling and employment services as part of a two-week national tour to learn about workforce development at government agencies. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/17-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS During the 2008-2009 academic year, a record-setting 101 UT Dallas students were successfully admitted to medical and dental schools, the Health Professions Advising Center reports. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/17-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS 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. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/16-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The School of Arts and Humanities presents renowned jazz trombonist, composer and arranger John Fedchock performing with the UT Dallas Jazz Ensemble on Nov. 20. Fedchock will perform the first half of the concert with the UT Dallas Jazz Ensemble, a big band made up of UT Dallas students. The second half will feature Fedchock with guest artists including faculty member Kelly Durbin. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/16-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A recent ceremony at UT Dallas recognized employees for years of loyal service, including two who began their tenure well before 1969, when the university officially became a member of the UT System. In all, the 263 faculty and staff members who walked the stage to receive their awards have worked a total of 2,985 years for the university. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/16-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The American Literary Translators Association has presented the 2009 National Translation Award to Norman Shapiro for French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen. The organization, which is housed at the UT Dallas Center for Translation Studies, presented the award and the accompanying $2,500 prize at its annual conference in Pasadena, Calif. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/13-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS 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. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/13-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS UT Dallas will begin offering graduate degrees in biomedical engineering this spring, joining the existing biomedical engineering collaboration between The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and The University of Texas at Arlington. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/12-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS 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. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/12-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Funny anecdotes and heartfelt thanks were on tap at last week's investiture of two UT Dallas professors: Dr. Yves Chabal, as the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics, and Dr. Kenneth K. O, as the Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair. This round of investitures was made possible through a 40-year partnership with Texas Instruments. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/12-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A UT Dallas chess team grandmaster has been formally recognized by the president of Zambia, his home country. Amon Simutowe, an international political economy graduate student, was honored by President Rupiah Banda with the President's Medal of Meritorious Achievement. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/11-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS UT Dallas mourns the loss of longtime Facilities Maintenance staffer Randall Traynham. He died Nov. 9 at age 60. He was the maintenance supervisor for the Callier South Campus and the Center for BrainHealth and had more than 13 years of service with UT Dallas. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/11-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert recently presented the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth's Legacy Award to T. Boone Pickens, recognizing the legendary energy investor's generosity and foresight in his support of the center's brain health research. The center's third Legacy Award dinner was Oct. 29 at the Rosewood Crescent Hotel in Dallas. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/11-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Thanks in large part to the New GI Bill, military veterans are enrolling at The University of Texas at Dallas in unprecedented numbers. Record numbers of service men and women are taking advantage of the generous new benefits, which include four academic years of full tuition, living stipends, expanded elegibility periods and the elimination of enrollment fees. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/10-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The Comets will take their perfect record south to Georgetown this week to play in the national volleyball playoffs after celebrating their second consecutive conference championship. The team will meet Maryville College on Thursday at Southwestern University, this year's host of the South Regional Games of the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/10-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Dr. Margaret T. Owen, professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, has been appointed director of the Center for Children and Families. "I am very excited about this new opportunity and look forward to growing the center into one of national prominence," said Owen. "Helping to enhance collaborative relationships among the faculty who study children and families, and to stimulate and support their outstanding research efforts will be a few of my priorities." Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/10-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS If a Model U.N. competition is any indication, a nation could do much worse than to dispatch UT Dallas students to confront the world's most intractable problems. Envoys who competed in mock deliberations at the National Model United Nations, a student version of the world body, returned to campus last week having won one of three outstanding delegation awards as well as two best committee delegation awards. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/09-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS For the first time, BusinessWeek magazine has ranked two UT Dallas MBA programs among the top 25 worldwide in their categories and No. 1 among public universities in Texas. Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/09-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS After a nail-biter finish that kept both teams glued to their computer monitors, the UT Dallas chess team claimed victory for the third straight year in the Trans-Atlantic Cup match against the University of Belgrade. Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/06-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Texas 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. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/06-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS In 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. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/06-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Experts 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. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/05-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS UT Dallas President David E. Daniel said the University is on track to meet many parameters of its strategic plan during his annual State of Our University Address on Nov. 4. Among the highlights of his report were 5.5 percent growth in the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty and a preliminary fall 2009 enrollment total of 15,784. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST