page_title: University of Texas at Dallas
section_title: Research
hierarchical_section_title: University of Texas at Dallas / Academics / Research
caption_attribution_description: English: This photo shows a scale model of the C/NOFS probe. NASA's CINDI instrument is installed on C/NOFS. Graphic courtesy of the U.S. Air Force
context_page_description: The University of Texas at Dallas is a public research university with its main campus in Richardson, Texas. The institution was initially established as a private research arm of Texas Instruments in 1961 as the "Graduate Research Center of the Southwest" and later renamed to the "Southwest Center for Advanced Studies". In 1969, SCAS was bequeathed to the state of Texas and joined the public University of Texas System, officially creating The University of Texas at Dallas. Approximately one-third of the college is located within Dallas County and includes an on-campus DART train station on the Silver Line. Some UTD buildings such as the Center for BrainHealth and Callier Center are located in downtown Dallas next to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
  The university has been characterized by rapid growth in research output and its competitive undergraduate admissions policies since its inception. Less than 47 years after its founding, the Carnegie Foundation had classified the university as a doctoral research university with "Highest Research Activity"—faster than any other school in Texas.
context_section_description: UT Dallas is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and had research expenditures of $113.3 million for the 2018 fiscal year. Research projects include the areas of space science, bioengineering, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, and behavioral and brain sciences. The university has more than 50 research centers and institutes and the UTD Office of Technology Commercialization, a technology transfer center.
  The William B. Hanson Center for Space Studies (CSS), affiliated with the Department of Physics, conducts research in space plasma physics. It has its roots in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Laboratory of the university's predecessor. The center conducts a NASA-sponsored mission, Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI), which was launched in April 2008 in cooperation with the United States Air Force. CINDI, which is part of the payload for the Communication and Navigation Outage Forecast System program, seeks to uncover information about the equatorial plasma bubbles that interrupt radio signals. Under the leadership of John H. Hoffman, the center designed the mass spectrometer for the Phoenix Mars Lander as part of the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) experiment in cooperation with the University of Arizona.
  UT Dallas conducts cybersecurity research in a number of areas including cross-domain information sharing, data security and privacy, data mining for malware detection, geospatial information security, secure social networks, and secure cloud computing. The university is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for the academic years 2008–2013 by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security.
  
  The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute was established in 2001 when Ray Baughman, a pioneering nanotechnologist, became the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry and director of the university's NanoTech Institute. In 2007, it was renamed in memory of the late Alan G. MacDiarmid, who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa. The NanoTech Institute has produced more than 200 refereed journal articles, 13 of which have been published in Science or Nature, and given over 300 lectures in the United States and abroad. Ray Baughman was ranked number 30 on the March 2, 2011, Thomson Reuters list of the top 100 materials scientists. 
  The Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL), a four-story, 192,000-square-foot (17,800 m²) research facility, was completed in December 2006 after two years of construction. Including ISO 7 cleanroom facilities, the $85 million building provides open floor plans that allows chemists, biologists, nanotechnologists, materials scientists and other specialists to conduct multidisciplinary research. The laboratory provides extensive wet lab, fabrication, instrumentation, and high performance computing facilities to foster biomedical engineering and nano-technology research. The Nanoelectronics Materials Laboratory, on the fourth floor, includes a system that allows researchers to deposit thin film materials one atomic layer at a time. In May 2011 a $3 million JEOL ARM200F scanning transmission electron microscope with an atomic resolution of 0.78 picometers, was added to the research laboratory, already home to two transmission electron microscopes.
  The Center for BrainHealth, both its own facility and part of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a research institute with clinical interventions focused on brain health. The center is located near the UT Dallas' Callier Center for Communication Disorders and adjacent to the north campus of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the city of Dallas. Brain research is concentrated on brain conditions, diseases, and disorders including, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, autism, dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and working memory.
  The Callier Center for Communication Disorders became part of the University of Texas at Dallas in 1975 as par
caption: Scale model of the C/NOFS probe. NASA's CINDI instrument is installed on C/NOFS.
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