Research and New Venture Spring Showcase

The Research and New Venture Showcase provides a forum for the presentation of cutting edge science and later stage projects developed within the UT system and new venture startups looking for support and funding. Each showcase will be organized around a particular technology theme, with half of the program devoted to presentations by researchers and half to presentations by new venture startups. The forum is open to UT system faculty and researchers, and selected early stage investors, venture funding firms, service providers and businesses.

Spring 2012

Highlighting UT Dallas Start-up Companies and Technologies

 

Start-up companies play a major role in the U.S. and global economies, accounting for the majority of new innovations and net job creation. UT Dallas is committed to transferring technologies that are commerically important from the University to the marketplace and advancing its promising start-up companies.

 

The purpose of this event is to showcase UT Dallas innovations and to provide a forum for interaction between UT Dallas start-ups and potential collaborators, partners and investors in the region.

               Friday, April 20, 2012

               8:30am - 2:30pm

               Naveen Jindal School of Management

               Davidson Auditorium, JSOM 1.118

 

Who Should Attend?

  • Early Stage Investors
  • Entrepreneurs and Potential Partners
  • University Faculty, Staff and Students
  • Anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship
The event is open to the public.

Registration includes breakfast, lunch and a networking reception.

Non-academic- $35; Faculty- $25; Students- $10

Parking passes and directions will be provided by email prior to the event.

 

Click here to register now!!!

 

This event is made possible by generous support from the following co-sponsors:


             

  

Information on presenting companies will be coming soon!

 

 

Spring 2011

Advanced Educational Gaming and 3D Animation

The Spring 2011 showcase, "New models for interfacing Art & Technology Advanced Educational Gaming and 3D Animation," took place on Friday April 15, 2011 in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.

The UT Dallas Arts and Technology Program (ATEC) is focused on a fusion of art and technology, and involves multiple programs and technologies. This program will highlight ATEC programs focused on advanced educational gaming and 3D animation.

Video games and the Internet are at the forefront of a revolution in the way education is provided. Often more cost effective and engaging than traditional forms of education, highly immersive computer-based training platforms are being embraced quickly by the military, education and health sectors. With more budget cuts certain, virtual techniques for providing high-quality training and education are a major growth research area.

Researchers at UT Dallas, along with their industry sponsors, are now applying these advanced, relatively low cost gaming technologies to meet a wide variety of training needs. The potential for these technologies is enormous.  This showcase focused on the use of game technologies for advanced educational and training applications such as:

  • Learning calculus

  • Cultural training

  • Nursing training and education for both students and practitioners

In addition, this program highlighted new developments in animation and visual special effects in partnership with:

  • Steve Nichols, Animation Supervisor for ReelFX- An award winning visual effects studio and UT Dallas partner,  and

  • Tim Mclaughlin- Director of the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M (formerly with Lucasfilm Animation and Industrial Light & Magic)  

The forum was co-sponsored by ATEC and the IIE.   Please click here to download a program agenda.

 

 

Spring 2010

Nanomedicine: Enterprise and Society


Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers (1 nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter). Nanomedicine is the application of nanotechnology to medicine and is occurring primarily on two fronts, the use of synthetic nanoparticles in the treatment and diagnosis of disease, and the use of new nanoscale instrumentation and manufacturing methods.


Few nanomedicine applications have reached the clinic, but many are in development and will have a large impact in the next decade and beyond. As nanomedicine is reduced to practice, it will affect many sectors of medicine, from diagnosis and treatment to the business of health care and its complex underlying support structures. Nanomedicine also raises ethical and environmental issues. The symposium "Nanomedicine: Enterprise and Society" is a forum to inform the North Texas business and educational communities about nanomedicine and to promote the development of the nanomedicine enterprise in North Texas.


The BioNanosciences Group at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) was formed in 2002 and includes faculty, staff, and students from the biological, chemical, physical, and engineering disciplines. Core UTD faculty include Dr. Gregg Dieckmann, Dr. Rockford Draper, Dr. Inga Musselman, Dr. Steve Nielsen, Dr. Paul Pantano, and Dr. Jie Zheng. The Group is engaged in active collaboration with doctors and scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical School and other colleagues from around the world, and has formed active partnerships with local companies interested in bionanotechnology. Research produced by the UTD faculty group and its collaborative partners has resulted in highly cited papers and attracted research support in excess of $3 million.


Click here to download an event brochure.

 

Spring 2008

Enhancing the Potential of the Human Mind: Science or Science Fiction?

 

Have you ever wondered how your brain really works? How we learn, reason and make decisions? Why some people are readily able to remember names, facts and statistics, while others struggle with such details?

Have you ever wondered why some people are adept with numbers, while others learn new languages more easily? Have you ever wished you could enhance your memory or other aspects of brain performance?

On April 25, 2008, the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UTD and The Center for Brain Health presented a full-day program to address these and similar questions. Using the latest brain imaging tools and techniques, researchers from The Center for Brain Health opened “a window into the mind” and gave a fascinating tour of the human brain, explaining its function, its potential and its limitations. A tour of the laboratory facilities and clinical demonstrations was included on the day’s agenda.

 

Center for BrainHealth

The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth is focused on understanding, protecting and healing the brain, linking cutting edge technologies with the intellectual talent of scientists and clinicians to advance the state of the art in cognitive treatments and brain repair across diseases. The scope of the Center’s research includes the healthy brain, brain injury, ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and other disease conditions.

Under the direction of Dr. Sandi Chapman, the Center for BrainHealth has pioneered a novel horizontal approach to uncover commonalities in brain repair, contrasting with traditional approaches which are narrowly focused on a single disease process or patient group. The Center employs functional brain imaging and brain biomarkers to facilitate multidimensional diagnosis and cognitive intervention in both healthy and diseased brains. By establishing protocols for healthy brain function, diagnosing and treating children and adults and providing long term followup, the horizontal approach facilitates discovery, expedites promising new treatments and transfers application across diverse diseases and injuries.

For further information, please visit the center’s website at http://www.brainhealth.utdallas.edu/  

Behavioral and Brain Sciences at UTD

The School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences is concerned with the study of human development throughout the life span, including normal perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, emotional, social, and physiological processes. The school's programs include The Center for BrainHealth and The Callier Center for Communication Disorder. The Callier Center provides sophisticated clinical and neuroscience facilities for research in the communication sciences and disorders and operates outpatient clinics for persons having speech, language, and hearing disorders.