Alumni in the News: Comets Making Headlines
April 19, 2022
Alumni News
UT Dallas alumni are leaders right here in Dallas-Fort Worth and around the world. The following group of graduates includes a world-renowned expert on brain health, a young business leader tackling workplace challenges and researchers studying better ways to treat chronic pain.
Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman PhD’86, founder and chief director of the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth (CBH), was named to the #Dallas500 list by D Magazine as one of the region’s most powerful business leaders in the Health Innovation and Research category. In a magazine profile, Chapman called CBH “the heart and soul of my life purpose as we are committed to bringing brain health … to 7.8 billion people … around the globe to overcome the economic, societal, and climate crises the world now faces.”
Shoutout DFW published a Q&A with Aries Webb-Williams MBA’08, the podcaster and sales account manager who said she’s reached this point in her career by “scratching and surviving” while working in several difficult environments. Webb-Williams earned her master’s degree in business administration from the Naveen Jindal School of Management and is now co-host of the “BOLD (building, organizing, learning and developing) Black Girls Podcast” where the hosts share personal stories and interview other Black professional women.
Dr. Stephanie Shiers PhD’19 and Dr. Ted Price BS’97 are co-authors with colleagues of research published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The cover article investigates how human nerve cells differ from animal cells and provides clues to developing more effective chronic pain treatments. Shiers is a research associate in the Pain Neurobiology Lab and was a first author of the study with UT Dallas’ Dr. Diana Tavares-Ferreira. Price is the Ashbel Smith Professor of neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and director of the Center for Advanced Pain Studies.