Dallas-area researchers have earned three of the five 2026 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards from TAMEST (Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology), showing the region’s strength in engineering, physics, and biomedical discovery.

The Dallas honorees—two from The University of Texas at Dallas and one from UT Southwestern Medical Center—were named alongside recipients from Baylor College of Medicine and bp.…

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The six recipients of the 2025 Hill Prizes have been announced by TAMEST (Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology) and Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

Funded by Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the prizes drive “high-risk, high-reward ideas and innovations” that show very significant potential for real-world impact and can lead to new, paradigm-shifting paths in research.…

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The Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology announced that Lyda Hill and Lyda Hill Philanthropies are this year’s recipients of its Kay Bailey Hutchison Distinguished Service Award.

TAMEST said it’s recognizing Hill—a Dallas businesswoman and philanthropist and the granddaughter of oil magnate H.L.…

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Five innovators whose work could deliver “real-world impact” to key fields in science have been announced as the winners of the inaugural 2024 Hill Prizes by TAMEST and Lyda Hill Philanthropies. Each of the five winners was awarded $500,000 to advance their research.…

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A professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center has been named the recipient of a prestigious biological sciences award.

Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular biology, will receive the 2024 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Biological Sciences from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST) for broadening the understanding of pseudokinases, a family of enzymes that play key roles in many physiological and pathological processes.…

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Every week, we do a little research of our own. We’re looking for scientists, professors, engineers, entrepreneurs—anybody, really—engaging in research and development across North Texas.

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Frederick R. Chang, director of Southern Methodist University’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security, is being inducted Tuesday into The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas.

It’s a high honor for Chang to become a member of TAMEST, which was founded in 2004 to promote broader recognition of Texas’ top achievers in engineering, medicine, and science. …

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