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SDCT's Top 10: Year in Review

Look back on the show-stopping events, national recognition, and milestones we're celebrating from the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Design in Health takes 1st and 2nd place in McCombs Healthcare Case Competition

November 22, 2021

Design in Health takes 1st and 2nd place in McCombs Healthcare Case Competition

Two teams from the Design Institute for Health placed 1st and 2nd in the McCombs Annual Health Innovation Case Competition, hosted by McCombs Health Innovation Fellows and the MBA Healthcare Association.

Cheryl D. Miller's illustration of the Megg’s 6th edition of the “History of Graphic Design," an industry and educational standard. Of the 594 designers covered in Megg's, 62 are women, 80 are people of color, and only three are Black.

How Cheryl D. Miller confronts white supremacy in graphic design

November 13, 2021

Sightlines Magazine

Since proclaiming Black designers 'missing in action' in 1987, Miller has continued her forthright criticism of an industry that marginalizes Black talent. She is now a distinguished lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin for the School of Design and Creative Technologies.

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Dr. Cheryl D. Miller: A Lifetime of Advocacy Culminates in a Year of Recognition

October 1, 2021

After fifty years of being one of the only Black designers at the table, famed graphic designer Dr. Cheryl D. Miller shares what it means to win a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in addition to the AIGA Medal. Miller is the only person in history to receive both industry awards in the same year. Additionally, she was named the inaugural Honorary IBM Design Scholar for 2021.

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Design Professor Gray Garmon Recognized by Fast Company for Work with Aga Khan Foundation

September 24, 2021

Fast Company recently selected the Aga Khan Foundation's Schools2030 initiative as an Innovation by Design honoree for most innovative educational design. Congratulations to their incredible team, including Design Professor Gray Garmon.

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Michael Baker named chair of Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies

July 8, 2021

Associate Professor of Practice Michael Baker has been named chair of the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Design in Health Edu: Meet Amanda Wu, Class of 2021

July 5, 2021

"Design will be a crucial aspect of how I approach care for my patients and challenge the current healthcare system. Its values – empathy, respect, and dignity – are all qualities I hope to embody as a future physician-designer.⁠"

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When Insights Incite: Embracing and Reframing the Insights Designers Discredit, Negate, and Fear

June 23, 2021

Medium

By Stephanie Morgan

Reposted from UT School of Design and Creative Technologies 2019 Journal

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The Responsibility of Design: Adopting a Futures-Oriented Mindset to Support a More Responsible Design Practice

June 23, 2021

Medium

By Adam Zeiner

Reposted from UT School of Design and Creative Technologies 2019 Journal

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Taking the History: How Medical Students Can Use Design Thinking to Build Deeper Connections with Patients

June 16, 2021

Medium

By Virginia Waldrop, Katherine Spitz, Taylor Smyth, Dainon Miles, Woody Green, Rachel Fresques, Jacquelyn Callahan, Anatoli Berezovsky, Francisco Barrios

Reposted from UT School of Design and Creative Technologies 2019 Journal

Left to right: Joshua Morris, Laura Bashour and Jacob Cooper

Design in Health Edu: What future doctors designed in their third year

May 20, 2021

The Design Institute for Health's 2020 cohort of doctor designers, the "Three Medsketeers," graduate from Dell Medical School this month. While the world shut down, these students dove in to keep momentum on design that makes a difference in people’s lives.

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