Category: alumni

Adventures in Iceland Tectonic bucket list by M.E. Clary In September, a group of 14 alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to Iceland, led by Dr. David Hyndman, dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) and Francis S. and Maurine G. Johnson Distinguished […]

By Carly OrewilerMay 9, 2024 Harnessing the universal language of art, an alumna and visionary microbiologist is on a mission to bridge the gap between science and society. Recently accepted into the Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD program at the University of California San Diego this fall, Freya Hammar BS’21, MS’22 seems to do it […]

By Caryn BerardiMarch 18, 2024 In the ever-evolving world of science and healthcare, innovation is key to progress and advancing patient care. For Dr. William D. Freeman BS’96, this has been a driving force in his career as an internationally renowned neurologist and neurointensivist. His belief: Make it better than you found it. “Neurocritical and […]

By Caryn BerardiFebruary 9, 2024 To understand what it takes to bring a pharmaceutical drug from the lab to a patient, Dr. Elizabeth Rainbolt BS‘10, PhD‘14 says to think about it like the rolling credits at the end of a blockbuster movie. It requires a large-scale collaboration among thousands of employees, scientists and experts from […]

by Eric Butterman For decades, Phillip Anderson MS’85, PhD’90, physics professor and director of the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, has had a dream to unravel the mysteries of the ionosphere-thermosphere. Even as a UT Dallas graduate student in the ‘80s working with Dr. Hanson, Anderson knew understanding the upper layers of Earth’s […]

On Saturday, March 25, John Ryals MS’80, PhD’82 will be honored at the 2023 UT Dallas Awards Gala. Ryals is a veteran of the biotech industry with over 35 years of experience in a variety of senior leadership and research positions. He is CEO of Integrated Precision Biosystems and was previously the founder or co-founder of Paradigm […]

Physics Alum on Mission to Send Night Vision Technology to Ukraine by Caryn Berardi In 1992, Dr. Joseph Estrera graduated from UT Dallas with his master’s and PhD in physics. In 2023, he is in the process of sending more than one thousand of his company’s image intensifier night vision products overseas to aid the […]

Computational mathematician Georgia Stuart BS’12, MATs’14, PhD’20 is one of the rare scholars who received all her degrees – bachelor’s, two master’s and a doctorate – from UT Dallas. According to the Office of Statistics, Planning and Analysis, only 10 students in the university’s history have graduated with the same order and number of degrees from […]

Subas Acharya, PhD’22, who worked under the co-supervision of Professor Dmitriy Rachinskiy (Department of Mathematical Sciences) and Professor Alain Bensoussan (ICDRiA, JSOM), submitted his dissertation on applying stochastic processes to finance. His work was advised and supported by Dr. Alejandro Rivera (JSOM). The research applies techniques on problems of mathematical finance and economics, such as stochastic optimal control […]

by Haywood McNeill The year 2021 was good for University of Texas at Dallas alumnus Dr. Richard McCullough BS’82. He became the 16th president of Florida State University (FSU) on August 16, 2021, bringing more than 30 years of academic research and leadership experience to the role as well as a commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship, […]

After a childhood often spent looking at the past, UT Dallas alumnus John Thurmond, BA’97, PhD’06, now spends much of his time gazing into the future.  Thurmond is a geoscientist serving as an advisor on emerging technology in geosciences at Hess Corporation, an independent energy company in Houston.  “I am effectively a technology scout,” Thurmond […]

UT Dallas alumna Dr. Leah Salditch MS’16 recently was awarded the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research. Presented annually to one or more promising young scientists studying natural hazards and risks, the honor recognizes outstanding contributions to natural hazards research and is judged based on impact or potential impact to the field. […]

Peter Niedbalski, PhD’17, received his doctorate in physics from The University of Texas at Dallas. During his time at UT Dallas, he studied dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) under physics Associate Professor Lloyd Lumata. Following his graduation, Peter accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to perform pulmonary imaging research. Building on the […]