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"The campus is ready, the laboratories are ready,
and all we need is YOU!"
Dr. Joseph Pancrazio
Vice President for Research
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UT Dallas BrainHealth Imaging Center Reopening (Brain Matters Monthly)
The UT Dallas BrainHealth Imaging Center is back in action and running at full capacity as a hub for brain health research. The work done at the imaging center will play an important role in updating the way people think about the brain’s amazing lifelong ability to adapt and get stronger.
"What I’m most proud of is the fact that we’re leveraging these amazing facilities to train the next generation of scientists. These are the folks who will be developing new analytics, new technology, and new approaches to create completely new visualization capabilities." - Dr. Bart Rypma, Director of UT Dallas BrainHealth Imaging Center.
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Richardson’s Innovation Quarter — aka The IQ — Is Making Big Moves as a Living Lab and Nerve Center (Dallas Innovates)
With five new UT Dallas research centers, an extension of the university's Venture Development Center, and new attractions like TheLab makerspace, The IQ may just realize Richardson's vision to be "the premier tech hub in Texas." Read more.
Dallas County considers cash prizes to persuade people to get vaccinated
(The Dallas Morning News)
Kendra Seaman, an assistant professor of psychology at UT Dallas, had a caveat about using lotteries as a vaccine incentive. They may motivate people who are ambivalent, but they’re not likely to change the beliefs of people who are strongly against vaccination. Read more.
One region, two economies: As Dallas-Fort Worth aims for a record recovery, the pandemic deepens the divide between haves and have-nots
(The Dallas Morning News)
As the economy bounces back, it’s important to realize that some are being left behind — and to identify them, said Susan McElroy, an associate economics professor at UT Dallas whose research topics include race, gender and inequality. Read more.
Another COVID surprise: Texas’ large nonprofit health companies got financially stronger during the pandemic (The Dallas Morning News)
Britt Berrett, a longtime hospital executive who teaches at UT Dallas, said when COVID hit, large providers collaborated with rivals on patient care and took aggressive steps to protect their franchises. He said some also teamed with medical schools to support research and tackle the most complex cases. Read more.
UT Dallas embarks on study to help boost brain power (NBC 5 KXAS-TV)
The Center for Brain Health at UT Dallas is leading a landmark study designed to define brain health and track progress toward personalized brain fitness goals. View here.
Small Dallas Cupcake Business Downsizes to Survive COVID-19 Pandemic (NBC 5 KXAS-TV)
“There’s still going to be some trouble as we navigate through this new forest, but everything is moving in the right direction. It’s just going to take some time," Paul Nichols, executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. View here.
Welch Foundation Gives $10 Million in Grants for Research Funding at North Texas Universities (NBC 5 KXAS-TV)
The Welch Foundation, a Houston non-profit focused on the advancement of chemistry through grants and support for chemistry programs in Texas, has announced its 2021 recipients, which include UT Southwestern Medical Center, UT Dallas, UT Austin, UT San Antonio and UT El Paso. Read more.
Plano ISD to expand student learning in health care fields
(Community Impact Newspaper)
The PISD Health Sciences Academy will add medical assisting and medical scribe programs that begin in 11th grade. The pursuit of a health care profession is often sparked by an early love of science, said McDermott Scholar Yilong Peng, who graduated from UT Dallas in May. “I think that this is a catalyst for new entry into the health care space,” said Britt Berrett, director of the bachelor’s program in health care management at UT Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management. Read more.
Some DFW universities are seeing strong demand for computer science education as tech expands (Dallas Business Journal)
At UT Dallas, the number of undergraduate computer science degrees more than doubled between the academic years of 2016-2017 and 2019-2020. The jump in the latest academic session saw an increase of more than one-fourth from the previous year. Read more.
Expert: Tinnitus, hearing loss not uncommon in COVID-19 patients (UPI)
People with COVID-19 may experience hearing loss, either as a result of infection or due to treatments they are taking, according to hearing loss specialist Colleen LePrell, chair of the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing at UT Dallas. Read more.
How do the Scots achieve independence given the volatility in voters’ attitudes? (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paul Whiteley and Harold Clarke explain recent changes in the patterns of support for Scottish independence. Read more.
Radiation Detection Technology May Be New Weapon Against WMD
(UTD News Center)
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a cheaper and more accurate portable technology to detect neutron radiation, which can indicate the presence of materials used for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The technology can also be used in radiation therapy. Read more.
Professor To Expand Landscape of Research with NSF CAREER Award
(UTD News Center)
Dr. Anthony Cummings, an associate professor of geospatial information sciences, earned a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program award that will help him continue his study of indigenous peoples' influenced landscapes in his home country of Guyana. Read more.
Team Applies Power of AI To Forecast Energy Supply, Demand
(UTD News Center)
Center for Applied AI and Machine Learning researchers are helping Vistra, one of the largest competitive power generators in the U.S., make more precise pricing projections. Read more.
Where Is the Endgame in Chess Experts’ Visual Memory Abilities?
(UTD News Center)
Center for Vital Longevity scientists tested the Comets’ nationally renowned team in a study that helped pinpoint the strengths and limitations of chess experts’ recall framework and how it can be applied to human cognition in general. Read more.
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The UT Dallas Research Data Center (RDC) Grant is an internal funding mechanism designed to encourage the development of proposals to conduct research in the DFWRDC that have a strong likelihood
of leading to external funding.
UT Dallas is a consortium member of the DFW Federal Statistical Research Data Center (DFWRDC). Federal Statistical RDC’s provide access for approved researchers and projects to use selected non-public government and other data under secure conditions. The DFWRDC opened in October 2018 and is located at 2200 N Pearl Street Dallas, TX in the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Read more.
Award Information
The maximum allowable budget is $10,000.
The duration of the RDC Grant award is 12-18 months.
Pending availability of funds, RDC Grants will be offered annually.
Selected proposals will be awarded pending the approval of the appropriate federal agency owning the RDC data.
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Dr. Jie Zheng Receives Nearly $1.5 Million from NIH
The National Institutes of Health awarded Dr. Jie Zheng $1,451,573 for his research on Noninvasive Monitoring of Hepatic Glutathione Depletion through Blood Test. The project focuses on the use of gold nanoparticles to detect acute liver damage early through simple blood tests. Read more.
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Dr. Nikki Delk Secures Nearly $800,000 from The American Cancer Society
Dr. Nikki Delk received $789,000 from the the American Cancer Society for her research on IL-1-p62 Axis Regulation and Function in Castration Resistant PCa. Read more.
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Dr. Xianming (Simon) Dai Receives NSF
CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Dr. Xianming (Simon) Dai $517,072 for his research on Vapor-Liquid Separation for Sustainable Condensation Heat Transfer.
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Dr. Hejun Zhu Receives Over $500,000 From NSF
Dr. Hejun Zhu received $536,729 from the the National Science Foundation for his research on Developing a Multi-Parameter Seismic Model of North America.
Read more.
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Please join the Office of Research as we also recognize the following faculty members for their recent awards:
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Jie Zhang – (ONR - N00014-21-1-2530) - $300,000
Learning on Graphs for Resilience Decision-Support in Real-World Networks
Guoping Xiong – (Univ of Nevada, Reno/NSF - 1937949) - $219,000
Collaborative Research: Understanding the Synergistic Effect of Graphene Plasmonics and Nanoscale Spatial Confinement on Solar-Driven Water Phase Change
Guoping Xiong – (Univ of Nevada, Reno/NSF - 1949962) - $209,000
Collaborative Research: Chemically Modified, Plasma-Nanoengineered Graphene Nanopetals for Spontaneous, Self-Powered and Efficient Oil Contamination Remediation
Bing Lv – (AFRL - FA9550-21-1-0297) - $148,523
Electrostatic Gating Tools for New and Better Superconductors
Kevin Hamlen – (ONR - N00014-21-1-2654) - $75,000
Software Attack Surface Reduction on the Fly
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New Guidance for Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans:
On April 28, the Office of Extramural Research (OER) released a new webpage that provides additional guidance to investigators conducting Basic Experimental Studies with Humans (BESH). The NIH definition of a clinical trial includes basic research manipulating an independent variable, resulting in some basic research studies being subject to NIH clinical trials policies.
Based on prior feedback from the research community, NIH provided temporary leniency to basic research applications subject to the clinical trials policies to allow flexibility on the platform used for registration and results reporting and on applications submitted to an incorrect FOA based on the study-type designation (NOT-OD-18-212). Soon after this notice, the NIH issued parent FOAs on Basic Experimental Studies With Humans (e.g., PA-19-091), and only submissions to these BESH FOAs have the continued registration and reporting leniency that now extends through September 24, 2023 (NOT-OD-21-088).
NIA Announces New Policy and Procedures for the Reporting of Human Subjects: Enrollment Data for NIA Clinical Research Trials/Studies. This Notice details the new requirements, expectations of NIA-funded investigators, and impetus for the policy change. Read more.
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NSF Virtual Grants Conference: If you missed NSF's Virtual Grants Conference this past month you can watch the session recordings on YouTube. Read more.
NSF Pre-award and Post-award Disclosures: In an effort to provide the community with helpful reference information regarding pre-award and post-award disclosure information in the biographical sketch and current and pending support proposal sections, NSF has developed a disclosure table entitled, NSF Pre-award and Post-award Disclosures Relating to the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support, to identify where these disclosures must be provided in proposals as well as in project reports. Proposers and awardees may begin using this resource immediately to assist with completing the relevant proposal and project report sections. As a reminder, current and pending support information is used to assess the capacity of the individual to carry out the research as proposed, as well as to help assess any potential overlap/duplication with the project being proposed.
National SBIR Week – July 19-23: The 2021 National SBIR Week is a virtual outreach effort connecting entrepreneurs working on advanced technologies and the organizations that support them to the country’s largest source of early-stage funding – the SBIR/STTR programs. Also known as America’s Seed Fund, the SBIR/STTR programs provide over $4 billion in funding to small businesses each year in a wide variety of technology areas.
National SBIR Week will provide attendees with an opportunity to hear directly from the participating federal agency program managers that administer over 7,000 new awards annually and to meet virtually one-on-one with program decision-makers. Register for the free, online event.
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In order to access the IRB electronic submission portal (Cayuse), all users must be added using their UTD NetID. If you or someone in your lab are unable to access Cayuse, a request should be submitted. Similarly, if you are unable to find study personnel to add to your application when using the portal’s "people search" function, you can submit a request to add these users to Cayuse. This request includes the option to add individual users or multiple users at one time.
Please allow 1-3 business days for users to be added to Cayuse.
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This program is designed for students and trainees early in their entrepreneurship and innovation journey without any prior training or existing venture experience. Over the course of the week, participants will experience an all-encompassing entrepreneurial boot camp, featuring workshops, mentor feedback, networking, market research, and team collaboration that culminates in a pitch competition.
All students, PhD candidates, postdocs, research & lab assistants, residents, and trainees interested in Medical and Health-related entrepreneurship are welcome and encouraged to register, including Medical Device, Digital Health solutions, Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and other Life Sciences technologies to improve Health and Medical Innovation.
Learn how to plan, design, and build a HealthTech startup from other university researchers and commercial veterans at the HealthTech Startup Week, produced by the University of California-San Francisco and based on the iconic Techstars Startup Weekend.
HealthTech Startup Week will be held July 20 to 27.
For student and participant/trainee registration, click here.
If you are interested in being a mentor, coach,
or judge for this event, please register here.
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SBIR/STTR Seminars
UT Southwestern's Office for Technology Development invites you to join us in the following two webinars. As you know, the SBIR and STTR programs play an incredibly important role in bridging the gap to commercialization across many industries.
The lessons provided through these webinars will enable your faculty to achieve more success from their application process.
NIH SBIR/STTR Seminar
This webinar begins with a quick overview of the SBIR and STTR programs, the largest source of technology and product development funding for small businesses in the US Government. It then shifts to the unique features and requirements of the SBIR/STTR programs at NIH, including an overview of the proposal requirements. The webinar ends with an opportunity for participants to ask questions of the presenter.
Register in advance for the NIH webinar on July 14 at 12:00 PM
DOD SBIR/STTR Seminar
Following a quick overview of the SBIR/STTR programs that provide over $3.5 billion to small and start-up companies developing innovative products and services, this webinar transitions into the unique features of the SBIR/STTR programs at the Dept of Defense. The DOD discussion will include the new, out-of-cycle solicitations/BAAs of components like DARPA and Army. The webinar ends with an opportunity
for participants to submit questions.
Register in advance for the DOD webinar on July 28 at 12:00 PM
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Dresden Goldberg, D irector of Programs and Operations for Blackstone LaunchPad, was awarded the UT Dallas CARE Award.
This award recognizes staff who have demonstrated superior performance, offered outstanding customer service, and performed acts that have enhanced the image of the University. The awards are presented by the Staff Council and UT Dallas president to a maximum of six staff members at a ceremony held twice yearly. Awardees are also recognized by the Staff Council during a general meeting, on the Staff Council website, and in various UT Dallas publications.
Congratulations Dresden!
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Foundation Outreach and Cultivation
In this session, attendees will learn when and how the pursuit of foundation funding may offer an alternative to or a complement to federal funding for research. Hanover Grants Consultant Leigh Fanning will describe foundation funders’ unique approach to grant funding, how investigators may identify foundations aligned with their research goals, and how investigators may create unique outreach and cultivation plans to attract foundation support. Click here for more information.
Tuesday, July 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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