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/2012/2/3-15521_New-Media-Rewriting-the-Ad-Playbook-for-Super-Bowl_article-wide.html This year's Super Bowl ads are using a variety of tools that go far beyond the traditional TV commercial, said Abhi Biswas, a UT Dallas marketing professor in the Naveen Jindal School of Management. Companies have been using social media and targeted marketing to whet the public's appetite for game-day ads. ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/2/3-15531_Weekend-Events-to-Strike-a-Chord-With-Classical-Mu_article-wide.html The School of Arts and Humanities has scheduled back-to-back classical music concerts this weekend with performances by a guitar virtuoso and a piano duo on separate nights. Guitarist Javier Calderón plays Friday, Feb. 3. The music continues Saturday, Feb. 4, with a piano concert for four hands by the Euphonia Duo, made up of Fenia Chang and Evelyn Chen. ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/2/3-15541_Program-Helps-Students-Bond-While-They-Are-Abroad_article.html The chance to learn about new cultures, different languages or exotic foods might make the iFriend program seem like a good idea to just about anyone, but a few UT Dallas students walk away with the best perk of all: a lifelong pal. Begun in fall 2010 as a way to help new international teaching assistants acclimate to life on campus, the program has morphed into a partnership between the International Student Services Office and the Office of Student Volunteerism that provides an immersive cultural experience to both domestic and international students. ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/2/3-15561_Citigroup-Whistleblower-Now-a-Jindal-School-of-Man_article.html Richard Bowen, a former vice president at Citigroup, tried to warn the bank's senior management and board of directors about the increasing levels of defective mortgages he was seeing. The news program, 60 Minutes, recently featured his experiences in a story focusing on why large Wall Street banks have not been prosecuted under the Sarbanes-Oxley law. Bowen, who also testified before a congressional commission and is now a professor of accounting at UT Dallas, on Feb. 6 will offer a glimpse behind the scenes of the troubled mortgage industry at the heart of the nation's financial meltdown. ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/2/2-15461_Surgeon-Started-Career-Journey-in-UT-Dallas-Class-_article-wide.html In her office, just a block from San Francisco's famed Union Square, plastic surgeon Dr. Usha Rajagopal BS'82 is at the pinnacle of a career that began with a cell biology class at UT Dallas. "This was an incredibly demanding class," she explained. "It was taught by Dr. Jost Kemper, who was equally demanding but in a highly encouraging way. I learned so much in that class, about cell biology and also about myself." ]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/2/2-15491_Study-Links-Alzheimers-Marker-to-Deficits-in-Healt_article-wide.html Researchers from the Center for Vital Longevity at UT Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center have completed a large-scale neuroimaging study of healthy adults that measured beta-amyloid protein-a substance whose toxic buildup in the brain is a diagnostic marker for Alzheimer's disease. The findings, published in the February 1, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, mark a crucial step toward being able to predict who may be at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease long before symptoms appear. ]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/2/2-15501_Students-Faculty-and-Staff-Encouraged-to-Provide-M_article.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/2/1-15381_Gifts-Enable-Research-on-Addiction-Cognitive-Abili_article.html The Center for BrainHealth has granted new fellowships to two doctoral students to advance their research, made possible by gifts from supporters of the center. Sam DeWitt, a PhD candidate in cognition and neuroscience, is the recipient of the first-ever Dianne Cash Graduate Fellowship. Cash donated $5 million in 2003 to build the Center for BrainHealth in honor of her mother and grandmother, Frances Goad Cecil and Mildred Crews Goad. ]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/2/1-15451_Electronic-Course-System-to-Get-a-Technological-Ma_article-wide.html An upgraded electronic learning system that UT Dallas classes will start using later this year features a mobile application that will send notifications to students when updated grades, discussions and announcements are posted in the class Internet network. The next-generation system will be tested in selected summer and fall classes in preparation for a campuswide rollout next spring."The new system is not going to be as much of a walled garden as now," said Dr. Darren Crone, UT Dallas eLearning director. "It will reach out to students where they are via Facebook, email and text messaging." ]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/1/31-15411_Students-Book-Translates-Acclaimed-Mexican-Author_article.html George Henson, a PhD Candidate in Humanities, has recently translated a collection of short stories by prominent Mexican author Elena Poniatowska under the title The Heart of the Artichoke. Henson said the collection of stories illustrates Mexico's rich cultural tapestry."These are stories about servants and matriarchs, street sweepers and sorceresses, shop keepers, nannies, mothers, travelers and addicts. They are stories of broken lives and broken hearts, of betrayal and rebirth," said Henson. ]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/1/31-15421_Envoy-Hopes-to-Put-Africa-on-the-Map-for-Business-_article-wide.html Extolling the virtues of her home continent and her home country, the Zambian ambassador to the U.S. recently exhorted a largely student audience at UT Dallas to "think of Africa as your next employer." "This is the continent people are calling the next frontier," Ambassador Sheila Siwela told listeners who had come to the Naveen Jindal School of Management to hear her speak on the business outlook in Africa. "There's more to it than the Lion King and Tarzan." ]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/1/30-15361_Profs-Study-How-to-Build-a-Better-Online-Forum_article.html Two UT Dallas professors received a best-paper award at the annual Information Systems Society Conference for research aimed at helping companies determine when to offer expert assistance to online forums. The two information systems professors - Dr. Vijay Mookerjee and his wife, Dr. Radha Mookerjee - worked on the paper with Dr. Wael Jabr, a PhD alumnus of the Naveen Jindal School of Management. ]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/1/30-15401_Video-Game-to-Help-US-Troops-Wins-New-Award_article.html For the third time in two years, the First Person Cultural Trainer, a research project from the UT Dallas Arts and Technology program, has won a major national award for serious gaming. FPCT received the Best Game award in the Government Category of the 2011 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge. FPCT is sponsored by U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command G-2 Intelligence Support. ]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/1/27-15341_Computing-Professor-Named-Distinguished-Scientist_article.html The Association for Computing Machinery recently named UT Dallas computer science professor Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran a Distinguished Scientist. ACM is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society aimed at advancing computing as a science and a profession. "My nomination was from ACM Fellow, Dr Hong-Jiang Zhang, who manages operations of Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing," Prabhakaran said. "He also secured references from other ACM fellows and senior researchers, as well as from Dean Mark Spong." ]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/1/27-15371_Exhibit-to-Examine-Sound-as-Art-and-Image_article.html The School of Arts and Humanities opens its spring season by examining the relationship between sound and art with the mixed-media exhibit Sonic Architectonic. Curated by visual arts faculty member Lorraine Tady, the exhibit features both local and national artists who work directly with noise or frequency, examining what is heard or felt through sound waves, and some who work with images that suggest sound. Other artists in the exhibit anticipate our relationship to sound by addressing our expectations and cognitive reflexes. ]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600