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“It’s a real plus for the community, but they have strong cultures and personalities, and blending them won’t be easy.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management
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“People don’t usually think of fishing line as elastic, but if you exert so much twist that it coils... it can do some heating and cooling. We were amazed.” — Dr. Ray Baughman, Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry
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“It’s like shining a light that helps us see what’s going on so we can then make the obvious response.” — Dr. David J. Lary, associate professor of physics
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“I definitely look at the history we’ve done and go, ‘Okay, well where do we go from there?” — Paul Nichols, executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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“I think the jury will have to think very carefully about this issue: perception versus reality, and whether they can get in Ms. Guyger's head/state of mind during that evening.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“You don’t want to appear to be in a state like Texas and in a Congressional district like that to be on the left wing of the Democratic party.” — Dr. Harold Clarke, Ashbel Smith Professor of Political Science
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“It’s a pretty common problem, especially for cities down here in the South that are growing a lot over time.” — Dr. Andrew Wheeler, assistant professor of criminology
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“As much as we can, we hope that attitudes and perceptions to people and their behaviors are based on objective science and not myths and stereotypes that create division.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“We need to help parents to shift from thinking of snacks purely as a stop-gap to capitalizing upon them as a meal.” — Jenny McGlothlin, Callier Center speech-language pathologist
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“We have to make sure an individual’s liberty and an individual’s security and their legal rights are not harmed in this situation.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“Collecting data in and of itself is a good mechanism to hold police agencies accountable.” — Dr. Andrew Wheeler, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice
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“We thought this would preserve history and help identify people behind the scenes who quite frankly would have never been given credit.” — Dr. John H.L. Hansen, Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications
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“As the population continues to swell around big cities, we need to optimize urban layouts and roadway infrastructures to sustain human traffic.” — Dr. Rym Zalila-Wenkstern, associate professor of computer science
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“We want to create additional opportunities for our students to engage in arts or at least to witness.” — Dr. Richard C. Benson, president and Eugene McDermott Distinguished University Chair of Leadership
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“Police themselves can do very little about preventing homicides from occurring in the first place because homicides are very situational.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“We live in interesting times and conventional strategy and timid tactics have gone by the wayside.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management
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“Maybe we can manipulate our own biological system a little bit or activate something we already have in place in order to more effectively combat cancer.” — Dr. Jung-whan “Jay” Kim, assistant professor of molecular and cell biology
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“For a child that’s 9 to 13 years old, they need nine to 10 cups of water a day. For a younger child, they need six to eight.” — Jenny McGlothlin, Callier Center speech-language pathologist
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“They use not just single encryption but double, triple, quadruple so they encrypt it many times.” — Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Louis A. Beecherl Jr. Distinguished Professor
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“The sales tax holiday can be a great way to save, if the shopper is smart about it.” — Dr. Daniel Rajaratnam, clinical professor of management
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“People were really concerned at the beginning of that because, ‘Oh, crime’s going to skyrocket’ … we didn’t see that. In fact, just the opposite.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“This was really the first time where m any of our students were listening to people who literally made history... and a lot of people behind the scenes.” — Dr. John H.L. Hansen, Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications
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“One of the big questions that we wanted to answer... was the notion of putting humans and maybe habitats on the moon.” — Dr. Rod Heelis, Distinguished Chair in Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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“If we could replace the entire opioid pharmacopoeia, I think everybody would be really happy.” — Dr. Ted Price, Eugene McDermott Professor of Neuroscience
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“But I see no reason why the DA should not continue to be involved in this process as well as having this independent investigation and let the facts come out when the facts come out.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“They’re business owners and consumers and they’re contributing every day to the local economy.” Monique Wedderburn, director of the UT Dallas Asia Center
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“Immunizations are supposed to protect you, but really it’s about protecting the entire community.” Dr. Zachary Simoni, senior lecturer of sociology
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“This is something that is happening under our feet, and it took 50 years to recognize it. How long will it take us to figure out what’s not happening anymore?” — Dr. Robert Stern, professor of geosciences
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“When you compare us to Chicago or Baltimore, we are on the low side. People lose sight of that comparison.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“Although remarkable advances have been made in acute stroke treatment, stroke is still a leading cause of disability.” — Dr. Seth Hays, assistant professor of bioengineering
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“What I ask of people is to keep stewardship top of mind whenever they make choices.” — Gary Cocke, associate director for energy conservation and sustainability
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“The economics are driving this, not health care public policy.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management
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“The absolute safest way to store firearms in the home to reduce risk is to keep the firearms locked and unloaded.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“In my lifetime, I’ve seen the solar system turn from something that belonged to astronomers to something that belonged to geologists.” — Dr. Robert Stern, professor of geosciences
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“Your ears have been deprived of sound, so when you suddenly get it back, your brain’s response is to say, ‘Stop!’” — Dr. Jackie Clark, clinical professor
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“The big question on my mind is whether the same mitigations that Dallas employed were also employed at these other cities that were hacked.” — Dr. Kevin Hamlen, Eugene McDermott Professor
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“What we're trying to do is dig a little deeper, and one aspect that we've really focused on is what we call quality of parenting.” — Dr. Margaret Tresch Owen, Robinson Family Professor
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“It hacks the convention that you need these high-end manufacturing facilities to produce therapies.” — Dr. Jeremiah Gassensmith, assistant professor of chemistry
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“This study clearly shows that strained parent-child relationships early in life lead to a myriad of negative behaviors that ultimately lead to an increased risk for gun carrying.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“Most things like homicide and crime rates don’t change by a lot, and when they do, it’s often consistent with random chance.” — Dr. Andrew Wheeler, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice
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“El Paso’s crime rate continued to go down all the way through the good part of the 2000s and the 2010s.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“It’s imperative that we create these large integrated systems because we have to get more efficient, lower costs, improve quality and increase access.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management
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“This partnership builds our startup/entrepreneurship brand awareness outside of UT Dallas.” — Steve Guengerich, executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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“It’s easy for the spammers to set up shop in a different location or change their tactics.” — Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science
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“It’s pretty clear cut what the court would say, that at-large districts are discriminating toward minorities.” — Dr. Thomas Brunell, professor of political science
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“Any time there’s instability there, it’s very much of concern to us here in the United States generally, and in Texas, of course, as well.” — Dr. Harold Clarke, Ashbel Smith Professor of Political Science
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“Texas can employ non-union actors to do voiceover work and so pay them less, thus keeping the costs down.” Dr. Marc Hairston, research scientist
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“Our research has shown that significant memory gains emerge when individuals engage in regular aerobic exercise for 50 minutes three times a week.” — Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, Dee Wyly Distinguished University Chair in BrainHealth
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“You need to break continents and continental shelves apart, and separate one ocean from another, for speciation to occur.” — Dr. Robert Stern, professor of geosciences
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“The real estate industry has been a laggard when it comes to innovation and technology.” — Bryan Chambers, director of Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas
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“Companies that previously would have used human labor are now embracing, or at least looking into, robots.” - Dr. Nicholas Gans, clinical associate professor
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“I think that with many social issues — especially those that are at the intersection of race and ethnicity — our job as researchers is to not just describe what people feel but also try to understand the factors that relate to what they feel.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“Most implant recipients are only seeing a small percentage of the auditory stimuli that you and I get with full hearing capability.” — Dr. John H.L. Hansen, Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications
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“The conventional wisdom is that high voter turnout — period — helps Democrats, but I don’t know quite how that translates into early voting.” — Dr. Robert C. Lowry, professor of political science
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“If young voters turnout again, they might develop a habit of voting that sticks with them for the rest of their lives.” — Dr. Robert C. Lowry, professor of political science
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“Waist-to-hip ratio, for example, was the most important feature in women. For men, an important feature is shoulder width relative to waist size.” — Ying Hu, research assistant
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“... to have a great collection, unlike that in any other university in the United States or indeed anywhere outside of Switzerland, is a huge deal.” — Dr. Richard Brettell, Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies
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“In simplistic terms, the cost of healthcare is not sustainable. What are the answers going to be? We don’t know yet.” — Dr. Forney Fleming, clinical professor of management
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“Tell a 25-year-old that the most important thing for them to do is plan for retirement and they’re not going to hear it.” — Dr. David Cordell, clinical professor of finance
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“Political campaigns and election season create a tension between our shared identities as human beings, citizens and workers.” — Dr. McClain Watson, clinical associate professor
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“It was critical that the NFL responded to the high-profile, high-visibility cases in the manner they did.” — Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“Six months out, they still were doing really well, maybe even going a little bit better in terms of their improvement, while the folks that didn't were leveling off or sort of rebounding back up and having a few more symptoms again.” — Dr. John Hart, Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience
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“This new kind of algorithm is much better at being able to generalize identity across variable images.” — Dr. Alice O’Toole, Aage and Margareta Møller Professor
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“They’ve demonstrated superior financial acumen.” — Dr. Britt Berrett PhD’09, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management
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“The earlier they can get hands-on experience, the better. This helps to demystify careers they don’t have family models for.” — Dr. Roger F. Malina, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair
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“Some of the information can be misused and also some of the devices that are remotely controlled can cause some issues.” — Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science
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“There’s a cancer that is slowly eating at the fabric of our society. … It’s indifference. Indifference is difficult to root out.” — Dr. Timothy Bray, the director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at UT Dallas
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“Now we are able to use these algorithms to learn lots of different images of a face and map all of those wildly different images onto a single identity.” — Dr. Alice O’Toole, Aage and Margareta Møller Endowed Professor
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“Immigrants do not commit crime at higher rates than native-born Americans, and more immigration, in the aggregate, does not lead to more crime.”
— Dr. Alex Piquero,
Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
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“Individuals with hearing loss had more difficulty with balance and gait and showed significant improvement when they had a hearing aid.” — Dr. Linda Thibodeau, professor of communication disorders
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“Our No. 9 ranking reflects our strong relationship with our industry advisors. They help us ensure we answer company needs by producing graduates who have the skills they require.” – Dr. Shawn Alborz, director of the MS supply chain management and MS management science programs
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“The amount of time taken for officer-involved shootings can be long, and they are very in-depth and detailed.” — Dr. Jon Maskály, assistant professor of criminology
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“Patients have to be advocates for their own health and know that they must contact their providers for answers.” — Luba Ketsler BS’99, senior lecturer of economics
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“The question is a good one, and yes, it will end eventually. I don't believe any estimated time of death for plate tectonics.” — Dr. Robert Stern, professor of geosciences
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“Through our programs, we are closing the gap not only on our campus, but in the K-12 space and the career space.” — Dr. Janell Straach, computer science senior lecturer
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"The movement of people is a much more complex phenomenon. And it makes perfect sense that people looking to invest would want to do so in places they know are safe." — Dr. Rodolfo Hernandez Guerrero, director of international partnership development
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“What we're after is creating a series of plastics that change in response to some sort of environmental cue.” — Taylor Ware MS’11, PhD’13, assistant professor of bioengineering
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"We offer full service move-in. The parents drive up, their cars are completely unloaded they don't have to move in a thing themselves.” — Matt Grief, associate vice president for Student Affairs
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“There’s strong evidence that more family offices are interested and investing directly in technology startups as well as working more closely with venture funds.” — Bryan Chambers, director of Blackstone LaunchPad
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“We’re bombarded with all of this information, and a lot of it can be characterized as uncivil.” — Dr. Shelley Lane, associate professor of communication
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