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Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸

Learn about the chemistry and math involved in fireworks!

#uteachdallas #fourthofjuly🇺🇸 #utdallas #utdsme #utdscience
July 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Congratulations to our @SPSNational chapter @UT_Dallas Department of Physics @UTDScience and their adviser, @JasonSlinker, for their very well deserved recognition as outstanding chapter for the 5th time in 6 years and 11 straight years of chapter distinctions!
December 15, 2023 at 5:02 PM
#UTeachDallas hosted the final #WeTeach_CS PD Workshop of summer for our cohort led by Mr Lalani & Ms Gregory & we teamed up w #SMU's cohort. Designed to prepare Ts for the Tx #computerscience certif exam by creatively teaching them CS #utdsme #utd #utdscience #stemeducation
July 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Congratulations to Mohammad Saleh! Awarded Pearce HS, Richardson ISD, Red Apple ~ Outstanding First Year Teacher of the Year!
We are so proud of you! #uteachdallasalumni #utdsmematalumni #utdscience #instarisd
March 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Happy First Day of Fall Comets! Today is the Autumnal Equinox, when the day and night are of equal length. Equinox occurs twice a year in Earth's orbit, once in the spring and once in the fall. 🌞🌎💫

#STEMeducation #UTDSME #uteachdallas #utdscience #autumnalequinox
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Happy First Day of Fall Comets! Today is the Autumnal Equinox, when the day and night are of equal length. Equinox occurs twice a year in Earth's orbit, once in the spring and once in the fall. 🌞🌎💫

#STEMeducation #UTDSME #uteachdallas #utdscience #autumnalequinox
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Interested in how cancer mutations affect drug inhibition?
Check out our latest paper, Published as part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B special issue “At the Cutting Edge of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics”.
#NIHFunded #UTDScience
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Impact of a Cancer-Associated Mutation on Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase1 Inhibition
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase1 (PARP1) plays a vital role in DNA repair, and its inhibition in cancer cells may cause cell apoptosis. In this study, we investigated the effects of a PARP1 variant, V762A, which is strongly associated with several cancers in humans, on the inhibition of PARP1 by three FDA-approved inhibitors: niraparib, rucaparib, and talazoparib. Specifically, we compared the inhibition of the mutant to that of wild-type (WT) PARP1. Additionally, we investigated how the mutation influences the binding of these inhibitors to PARP1. Our work suggests that while mutant PARP1 exhibits only minor differences in residual fluctuations, backbone deviations, and residue motion correlations compared to the WT under niraparib and rucaparib inhibitions, it shows significant and distinct differences in these features when inhibited by talazoparib. Among the three inhibitions, talazoparib inhibition uniquely lowers the average residue fluctuations in the mutant than the WT including lower fluctuations of mutant’s N- and C-terminal residues in the catalytic domain, conserved H-Y-E traid residues, and donor loop (D-loop) residues which are important for catalysis more effectively than other inhibitions. However, talazoparib also significantly enhances destabilizing interactions between the mutation site in the HD domain in the mutant than WT. Further, among the three inhibitions, talazoparib inhibition uniquely and significantly disrupts the functional fluctuations of terminal regions in the mutant, which are otherwise present in the WT. The mutation and inhibition do not significantly affect PARP1’s essential dynamics. Lastly, these inhibitors bind to the V762A mutant more effectively than to the WT, with similar binding free energies between them.
pubs.acs.org
February 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Join us for a fun day of hands-on learning at UTD
*Thurs July 24 9am-3pm
* K-12 Math/Science/CS teachers!
* $30 fee covers all sessions, lunch, & parking.
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#ProfessionalDevelopment #stemeducation #utdscience #utdsme #uteachdallas
May 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Our next UTeach Dallas spotlight is Malaek Shalabi, Neuroscience major. She will be looking for a science teaching job in the area. We know you will do great teaching the next generation.
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#uteachnation #stemeducation #preserviceteacher #utdgrad #utdscience #utdalumni #uteachalumni
December 20, 2024 at 2:19 AM
On 07/24 #UTDSME-#UTeachDallas hosted STEM-tastic Day, PD for teachers to learn about topics such as Zebrafish, Astro, Physics, CS, & the integration of art by visiting the new Crow Museum on campus!
Great to have our #UTDalumni back as presenters & attendees.
#utdscience #stemeducation
August 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
#UTeachDallas hosted the final #WeTeach_CS PD Workshop of summer for our cohort led by Mr Lalani & Ms Gregory & we teamed up w #SMU's cohort. Designed to prepare Ts for the Tx #computerscience certif exam by creatively teaching them CS #utdsme #utd #utdscience #stemeducation
July 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"Sensing Deep Space; Pandora's Cluster" A sciart collaboration including contributions from UTD Physics PhD student Antareep Gogoi and Profs. Lindsay King and Roger Malina @UTDScience
www.eisemanncenter.com/event/i/9756...
Event Details | Sensing Deep Space
www.eisemanncenter.com
January 11, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Congratulations to our #UTeachDallas program ~ stem education minor graduates! They are ready for their next adventure ~ several are starting to teach for the rest of the year and several are going on to medical/graduate school. spotlighting them over the next few days.
#utdgrad #utdscience
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Summer Orientations are going strong!! #UTeachDallas will have the largest incoming Step 1 classes ever this fall with 7 sections of S1. We are beyond excited for this next semester and the program. Welcome class of '29 !

#utdallas #utdorientation #utdscience #uteachnation
July 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸

Learn about the chemistry and math involved in fireworks!

#uteachdallas #fourthofjuly🇺🇸 #utdallas #utdsme #utdscience
July 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
SME - UTeach Dallas Professors Gregory, Hennessy, and Lalani are in Indiana sharing their Computer Science skills with a week of Intro to Programming for K-5 and 6-12.
#CSPD #utdscience #utdsme #uteachdallas #csta #cstaindiana
June 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Congrats to our #UTeachDallas Class of '25! These students earned their STEM Education Minor & Teaching Certificate with their major. We start our Graduate Spotlights with these #utdbiology Kathryn Ditzler, Khanh Hoang, & Jonathan Islas.
#utdgrad #utdscience #stemed #dallasisd
May 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
We celebrated our #UTeachDallas S25 Apprentice Teacher grads (-2 clinical teaching in Houston). Very proud of them for completing their #STEMEducation minor & teaching certif w/ their STEM degree!🎉👏
#preserviceteacher #UTeachnation #UTeachalumni #utdscience
April 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Our @CharlesButtFdn Scholars have earned the #Scholarship for Aspiring Teachers. Aman Rahman is our next #ScholarSpotlight. He is a #utdChemistry major & #UTeachDallas #STEMEducation Minor in Chemistry 7-12 along with his degree.
#CBFFriday #preserviceteacher #utdscience 1/2
April 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Our Charles Butt Scholars have earned the Scholarship for Aspiring Teachers. Jahnavi Yadlapati. Jahnavi is a Data Science major who is pursuing her #UTeachDallas #STEMEducation Minor in Math 7-12 along with her degree.
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#CBFFriday #scholarship #preserviceteacher #cbuttfoundation #utdscience
April 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Tonight our PBI students joined our Apprentice Teacher class to quiz them on all they really need to know on the ins & outs of AT semester. Lots of good questions & discussion.

#preserviceteacher #stemeducation #utdscience #uteachnation
April 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Founded in 1988, 3/14 became known as Pi Day to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi) because the numbers 3, 1 and 4 are the first significant digits of π which corresponds to the date 3/14.
How will you celebrate Pi Day?

#piday #utdscience #uteachdallas #utdsme #STEMeducation
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Our last UTeach Dallas AT grad for F24 is neuroscience major, Rezwan Ross Siraj. He has been hired at Allen High School to teach Advanced Chemistry. ⚛️ Teachers touch the future.
#allenisd
#stemeducation #preserviceteacher #uteachnation #utdallasalumni #utdgrad #utdscience
December 21, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Congratulations to UTD SME - UTeach Dallas Dept Annual Award Winners! Wesley Tyree, Graduate Student Award; Marissa Distin, Undergraduate Student Award; and Haley Bilbray, BS '14 MS '20, Alumni Award! We are so very proud of them all.
#awardwinners #stemeducation #utdscience
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
WOW! Naturally Inquisitive, Science Unplugged: Live Experiments and Fun!
Wednesday 3-4:30!
Stop by the SME/UTeach Dallas booth for UV beads & math fun. FO atrium #utd #utdscience #utdsme #utdwelcome
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM