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Study Outlines What Creates Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Technology
“Our discussion of image difficulty for racial bias is a relatively new topic. We show that as pairs of images become more difficult to distinguish — as quality is reduced — racial bias becomes more pronounced. That hasn’t been shown before,” said Dr. Alice O’Toole. Read more » |
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Can You Repeat That? Hearing Trouble More Obvious with Masks
“More than likely, these are people that had some kind of hearing loss prior to all this starting but they were adapting,” said Andrea Gohmert, director of the hearing clinic at The University of Texas at Dallas’ Callier Center for Communication Disorders. Read more » |
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Brain Imaging Links Cardiovascular Health to Multitasking Ability
Adults over 60 with optimal blood pressure and high fitness levels can keep up mentally with people half their age, according to a recent brain-imaging study from researchers in The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity (CVL). Read more » |
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Four Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows for Work in Science, Technology
“The AAAS plays a vital role in our society in promoting science and its relevance to understanding and combating the pressing problems of our era, such as public health and climate change, and advocating for science education at all levels with attention to equity and inclusion,” said Dr. Steven Small. Read more » |
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What We Know So Far About How COVID Affects the Nervous System
While many of these effects are typical of viral infections, the prevalence and persistence of these pain-related symptoms — and their presence in even mild cases of COVID-19 — suggest that sensory neurons might be affected beyond normal inflammatory responses to infection. That means the effects may be directly tied to the virus itself. Read more » |
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Researchers To Study How Fathers Influence Children’s Language Development
“The majority of early developmental work looking at parent-child behavioral interactions is focused on children and mothers. While there’s work on fathers and children, we have much to learn about the formative importance of these relationships,” said Dr. Raúl Rojas. Read more » |
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Protecting Your Brain Health During the Pandemic
It’s Dr. Sandra Chapman’s favorite mental challenge. “Rather than be discouraged by negativity or things falling apart, say ‘OK, how can I improve to make it different or new?’ It could be anything from how you write a subject line [in email] or what you cook.” Read more » |
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Hats Off to Fall 2020 BBS Graduates |
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Social Media Spotlights |
Dr. Denise Park and her team are working to identify and prevent Alzheimer’s disease decades before memory loss becomes apparent. View Facebook post |
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Looking for a new podcast? Check out the newest episode of “Could We Ever Unlearn Prejudice?” featuring our very own Dr. Salena Brody, a psychology lecturer in BBS! View Twitter post |
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Congratulations to 2021 BBS Green Fellows. We are so proud of you all and can’t wait to see what you do next semester! View Instagram post |
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BBS Alumni Note |
Nazia Hossain, EdD
Nazia Hossain BS’07 trained in psychology in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. After graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she helped launch the volunteer management office of Islamic Relief USA, a nonprofit humanitarian agency. She led volunteer-driven projects like “Bite the Bug” an anti-malaria campaign focused on Mali. Thousands of volunteers were mobilized to create hope for those in need across the globe.
Hossain returned to Dallas to pursue a master’s in counseling (marriage and family therapy) from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU, she worked as a career counselor at the Hegi Family Career Development Center, where she worked with students at all stages of their career development process, from choosing a major to evaluating job offers. She worked alongside Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Maria Dixon Hall on Cultural Intelligence Initiative at SMU, which inspired her to complete her doctorate in higher education policy and leadership. Hossain's dissertation was focused on parent impact on college access for first-generation students. Her research with parents of early-college high school students connected theory to practice in ways that benefit students, parents and pre-collegiate programs.
Today, she is a marriage and family therapist associate at Stanford Couples Counseling in Dallas. In her role, Hossain provides compassionate, solution-oriented therapy for individuals, couples and families. Hossain provides therapy in multiple languages to diverse populations via in-clinic sessions and teletherapy. Hossain is excited to use her skills to give back to the community during this pandemic.
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BBS Center Highlight |
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BBS’ Callier Center focuses on the causes, prevention, assessment and treatment of communication disorders. Callier’s two locations, in downtown Dallas and on the UT Dallas Richardson campus, house sophisticated clinical and neuroscience facilities for research. The center provides excellent opportunities to study a broad range of communication disorders, including outpatient clinics for people with speech, language and hearing disorders, as well as infant and preschool programs serving hearing, hearing-impaired and language-impaired children.
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