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xREZ Art + Science Lab to host Leonardo LASER Series

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xREZ Art + Science Lab is officially a designated host for the Leonardo/ISAST LASER series! Beginning in Sept. 2016, the UNT LASER will be hosted by xREZ Art + Science Lab and held twice each year in the spring and fall semesters. The events will include an informal mix and mingle rendezvous hour followed by...
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Christopher Lee Appointed UNT System Student Regent

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xREZ Art + Science Lab alumnus Christopher Lee has been appointed as the UNT System Student Regent, which means he represents the UNT Denton campus, UNT Dallas and the UNT Health Science Center in Ft. Worth in discussions with the UNT System Board of Regents. Statewide appointments are announced by the Office...
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Meghan Kajihara on the Short List for Yale Internship

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member Meghan Kajihara is on the short list of students interviewing this week for the Yale University Human Relations Area Files internship. If selected, Kajihara will live in New Haven, CT for one year doing cultural anthropological research and helping maintain Yale’s “database of culture”. Founded in...
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Segmentation Team Publishes at ACM’s ETRA Symposium

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The 3D Segmentation team at xREZ Art + Science Lab published their second paper this year, “Where Do Experts Look While Doing 3D Image Segmentation” at the 2016 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA), held March 14-17 in Charleston, South Carolina. The ACM...
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xREZ Presence Research at ERVR 2016

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xREZ Art + Science Lab students Max J. Parola and Violet Johnson, together with professor Ruth West presented their research on presence in virtual environments at The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2016 conference held in San Francisco Feb. 18, 2016. Their paper, “Turning Presence Inside-Out: MetaNarratives” traces operational definitions of presence from...
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The National Academies Cultural Programs Director is Coming to UNT

Events, Featured, News, Rendezvous March 2016, TxHATS March 2016

Dallas native JD Talasek, the director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, is coming to UNT to participate in a public dialogue event as well as the TxHATS experts meeting to be held March 30, 2016 at xREZ Art + Science Lab. The TxHATS (Humanities, Art, Technology...
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Segmentation Team Wins Best Paper at ISVC 2015

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xREZ Lab’s 3D Segmentation research team won best paper for their publication, “Guided Structure-Aligned Segmentation of Volumetric Data” at the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2015 conference, held Dec. 14-16, 2015 in Las Vegas, NV. The paper, authored by Michelle Holloway of Washington University in St. Louis, Anahita Sanandaji of...
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Lucero Cantu Judges the Annual Longhorn Classic Debate Tournament

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member Lucero Cantu traveled to Austin, TX to participate as a judge for the 17th Annual Longhorn Classic Tournament held on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin Dec. 4-5, 2015. The tournament was a nationally competitive Tournament of Champions event, and Cantu judged...
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xREZonance Dialogue, Episode #1 Brings Disciplines Together

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xREZonance Dialogues, Episode #1, held Nov. 4, 2015 brought students from anthropology, chemistry, psychology, print-making, sculpture, political science, journalism, computer science, environmental science, math and more together at xREZ Art + Science Lab to talk about how art and science intersect. The main event was a massive whiteboarding activity where...
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xREZ Joins NAKFI KECK Futures Initiative 2015

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The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) is a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation. Every year, NAFKI brings interdisciplinary researchers together to work in task groups and challenge teams to tackle tough real-world problems through innovative, outstanding communication and cooperation among disciplines....
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Australian News Network’s “Drive” Podcast Interviews Ruth West

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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Tasmanian radio station 936 ABC Hobart interviewed creative catalyst Ruth West Aug. 3 to learn about the art and the science behind her work and to talk about her stay at the University of Tasmania this summer. West is a visiting scholar at the University of Tasmania’s Creative Exchange Institute (CxI) for the month of...
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BBC’s Discovery Podcast Features Sonified CSTAR Data

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The soundtrack of today’s BBC World Service Discovery podcast episode “Sounds of Space: Deep Space” uses data from CSTAR telescopes sonified by Andrew Blanton as part of the data-sound project “INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night,” an interactive artwork currently under collaborative development by a team of national and international artists, scientists,...
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Duoc Le Wins $5,000 in Mercedes-Benz Art Program

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member Duoc Le is one of six students selected for the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Experiencing Perspectives art program, which includes a $5,000 award for Le. Le’s work was chosen last June as part of a curated exhibition installed throughout the Mercedes-Benz Business Center Operations facility...
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Student journalist digs into the story behind Texas coal power

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member Amelia Jaycen’s energy story, “Price of Power” was published Sunday, May 24 in the Denton Record-Chronicle. The page one feature digs into the history of Denton’s municipally-owned electric utility and the science behind its coal-fired power plant built in 1973, which the city is still using today to...
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UNT Honors Day 2015

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member and psychology senior Max Parola received the Art+Science Research and Creative Work Undergraduate Award today Apr. 10, 2015 at the UNT Honors Day Convocation at Murchison Performing Arts Center. Lab member and journalism graduate student Amelia Jaycen received the Art+Science Research and Creative Work Graduate Award....
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