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General interest media coverage of UT Dallas students, faculty, staff and leadership and their achievements.
Economic Forum Addresses Mortgage Market Meltdown
(October 6, 2008) "I think it comes back to the overconsumption problem. It's not that the wrong people are consuming. It's the right people who are consuming, but they're consuming too much." - Dr. Rachel Croson, Professor of Economics; and Professor of Organizations, Strategy and International Management read more
Area Universities Emphasize Benefits of Tier One Research Status
(October 6, 2008) "It's important because our economic vitality absolutely depends on centers of creativity and entrepreneurship." - Dr. David E. Daniel, UT Dallas president read more
Some Lawmakers Want to Bring Back Death Penalty in Mexico
(September 29, 2008) "If you can learn anything from the American experience, in Texas it takes about eight to 10 years to execute somebody once he's convicted. ... The deterrent effect is elusive at best." - James Marquart, criminology professor read more
It's a Small World - But One with Tremendous Opportunity
(September 25, 2008) "Texas has in the past been and is now the energy state. To be the energy state in the future will mean more than it used to be in the sense of having oil in the ground and the technology to get oil from the ground. Our nanotechnology programs in energetics are designed to help Texas always be the energy state." - Dr. Ray Baughman, director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at UT Dallas read more
Guest Editorial: Liberal Policies Fueled Wall Street Woes
(September 25, 2008) "Now that the popped bubble has left us swimming in foreclosures, the supporters of loosened credit standards seem shy about taking credit for their "mortgage innovations." Instead, they blame subprime lenders for becoming 'predatory' - when they were simply taking the Boston Fed rules to their logical conclusion while broadening the mortgage market." - Stan Liebowitz, Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics read more
Editorial: Texas Needs More Flagship Universities
(September 22, 2008) "Lawmakers are reluctant to spend more on higher education. But with population growth, and with the competitiveness and economic edge that come with improved higher education, this is not putting money into a black hole like, say, prisons. This is how we build a better Texas." - editorial, calling for more Tier One universities read more
New Dallas Treatment Helping Stroke Patients Speak
(September 19, 2008) "It's not just the repetition per se. It's the repetition under visual feedback condition that in this particular experiment seems to be giving them the boost." - Dr. William Katz, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences read more
Wall Street's Woes Being Felt by Consumers
(September 19, 2008) "There's money out there, it's just that no one wants to loan it because they're scared they're not going to get it back." - Frank Anderson, School of Management finance professor read more
Chess Champion, Distinguished Scientist and a Role Model
(September 15, 2008) "I'm in this position where I can influence a large amount of people who are looking for encouragement. When I help students, I am fulfilling my goal to be a foremother for my daughter. It's a little healing in this wound in the side of my heart." - Dr. Magaly Spector, vice president of diversity and community engagement read more
Consensus Growing on Need for More Top-Tier Universities
(September 8, 2008) "The whole premise is to try to avoid anointing some institution - and the situation where those that aren't anointed are outraged. That seems to have been a showstopper in the past." - Dr. David E. Daniel, UT Dallas president read more
16-Year-Old is Eager to Get Started on Doctoral Studies
(September 4, 2008) "In physics, you can get a look at nature and you find that nature is so beautiful. You find a solution and it's simple, it's elegant." - Austin Howard, 16-year-old doctoral student read more
Dallas Architecture Forum Weighs in on Planned Kimbell expansion
(September 2, 2008) "One of the problems with doing anything to the building is that it is sort of the Holy Grail of museum architecture." - Richard Brettell, professor of art and aesthetics read more
Economic Relationships May Hold the Key to Peace
(August 27, 2008) "It's very important to get past this bad-guy mentality and realize that there is a way to get to everyone, and usually it has to do with producing a mutually beneficial situation - situations were both parties feel that they're gaining. Economics and economic relationships have a lot to do with this." - Dr. Lloyd J. Dumas, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences read more
Group Plans to Cool Down Dallas by Planting Trees
(August 25, 2008) "Using remote sensing we can save a lot field work." - Dr. Fang Qui, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences professor and consultant in tree assessment project read more
Podcast: "China and India - Emerging Technological Powers"
(August 22, 2008) "China and India are not that similar to one another, and they're both very different from the United States. The tendency is just to overreact to little pieces of information and not have much perspective about the two countries." - Kevin Finneran, editor, Issues in Science and Technology read more
Inattention of Drivers Studied for Smarter Cars
(August 18, 2008) "On a daily basis, we could look at very small instances of how you drive and see how today is different than the way you've driven the last month." - John Hansen, Electrical Engineering Department head read more
Students Struggle With TAKS' Short-Response Written Test
(August 18, 2008) "I don't put any blame on the high school teachers, but I am becomingly increasingly concerned that students are lacking a basic familiarity with some basic issues." - John Gooch, director of rhetoric and writing read more
Housing the Poor Alongside the Rich
(August 12, 2008) "We have pockets of poverty in the northern sector, but they're not nearly amassed to the extent that they are in the southern sector. An individual neighborhood that's in bad shape can benefit from its neighbors that are not. But southern-sector residents very often don't have that. Their neighbors are as poor as they are." - Timothy M. Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research read more
Is It Really Smart to Teach Old Brains New Tricks?
(August 12, 2008) "The jury is out on the mental fitness stuff. ... If people get too engrossed in these computer games, maybe they're not exercising or engaging with other people." - neuroscientist Denise C. Park, T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair in Clinical Brain Science read more
Tough Ethics Policy Recommended for Dallas School Trustees
(August 8, 2008) "Just for you to disclose [conflicts of interest] is not enough." - Dr. Constantine Konstans, executive director of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance at UT Dallas read more
New UT Dallas Center Aims to Help Children Grow
(August 8, 2008) "The center is a logical move for UT Dallas ... because it has one of the largest concentrations of child development experts in the state." - Dr. Bert Moore, dean of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences read more
Should Big Art Shows Be Profit-Makers for Lending Museums?
(August 8, 2008) "I have zero problem with this practice. We live in a capitalistic society and museums need to make money in many ways, and this is just one of them." - Richard Brettell, professor, School of Arts and Humanities read more
Can California Integrate its Prisons Without Violence?
(August 1, 2008) "What we're trying to get to is the idea that when an imate comes in, much like going to a hotel or much like you getting on an airplane, that race is not an issue as to what seat you get. It's random assignment." - Jim Marquart, Criminology Program chairman read more
Evidence Unclear on Statins as a Memory Loss Preventative
(August 1, 2008) "Most of the evidence seems to suggest that statins are helpful in the long run for preventing memory loss with aging and dementia. ... We really need to settle this issue. There are a lot of hints that statins slow age-related memory decline. If this is the case we need to know it." - Dr. John Hart, medical director of the Center for BrainHealth. read more
Neighbors Claim Wind Turbine Makes Them Ill
(July 31, 2008) "Any kind of thing like that has the potential to affect those kinds of feelings. And they're real. I mean you're really sick, nauseated, but it may be a result of some anxiety that's related to what you're hearing rather than the actual sound." - Dr. Phillip L. (Lee) Wilson, head of audiology at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders read more
Norm Bagwell is New CEO at Bank
(July 31, 2008) "Usually, when we go through these upheavals, there are opportunities created. If the big banks have to suffer through subprime and all the pain we're reading about, they're probably pulling in their horns a little bit. There probably are some middle-market opportunities." - Frank Anderson, finance professor read more
Books Written in English Are the Most Translated
(July 30, 2008) "Translation from other languages into American English is limited in comparison to what gets translated from English into other languages." - Rainer Schulte, director of the Center for Translation Studies at UT Dallas read more
Editorial: Texas Needs to Grow More Research Schools
(July 25, 2008) "As Dr. Daniel explained, his school is fourth among Texas' public universities with faculty members who have earned membership in the National Academies of Science. It also has the third-ranked graduate engineering program among our state's public universities." - Editorial citing UT Dallas President David E. Daniel calling for more Tier One schools read more
Cell Phone Cancer Link Not Proven, UT Dallas Expert Says
(July 25, 2008) "It's radio waves that can affect the brain. It may be that we won't know for 20 years, and that's kind of why I think they're sounding the alarm." - Sandra B. Chapman, executive director, Center for BrainHealth read more
Texans Recall Banking Collapse of the 1980s
(July 21, 2008) "It was as close to a depression as anyone has seen in this country since the 1930s." - Frank Anderson, finance professor read more
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