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TI Foundation announces $1M gift to Dallas Achieves initiative
 Three
Dallas foundations, each with $1M gifts in hand,
have embraced the Dallas Independent School District’s
(ISD) mission to ensure every student graduates college
and is workforce ready.
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Executive on loan helps enrich and empower schools, shape future leaders
 When Marcia Page joined the Foundation for Community
Empowerment (FCE) in February 2005 as a loaned executive
from Texas Instruments (TI), she fulfilled a personal
commitment to immerse herself in the community and
make a difference in the lives of others. But her
passion for shaping future leaders through student growth
and educational achievement has gone beyond a personal
mission.
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Congressional Black Caucus hosts town hall meeting, workshop focused on education
Eleven Members of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Dallas on October 12-14 as part of the Congressional Black Caucus Political Leadership and Education Institute’s (CBCI) Southern Region Outreach Conference. The CBCI regularly sponsors a series of outreach events around the country for the CBC members to hear from the public on education and other issues.
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TI Foundation inducts first ten teachers into STEM Academy as fellows
 Emphasizing its commitment to building tomorrow’s workforce through education, the Texas Instruments (TI) Foundation inducted the first ten teachers into its new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academy as fellows. The TI Foundation established the STEM awards last year to recognize instructors at the secondary level who are enhancing student achievement and increasing interest in high school classrooms in the Dallas, Plano and Richardson independent school districts (ISD).
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TI Foundation grant helps expand United Way’s Destination: Graduation program to Collin County
As part of its commitment to making a difference in the community, the Texas Instruments Foundation (TIF) recently approved a $200,000 grant to the United Way for Destination: Graduation, $100,000 of which will help launch the program in Collin County.
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Preeminent scientist Yves Chabal first to hold Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics at UT Dallas
 Dr.
Yves Chabal, one of the world's foremost authorities on semiconductor
surfaces and materials — areas that are central to developing
future generations of microchips — is joining The University
of Texas at Dallas, where he will be the first to hold the
Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics.
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Dallas Center for the Performing Arts campaign celebrates 100th $1M+ donor
The
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts recently announced it
reached a milestone with gifts of $1M or more from
108 different families and organizations more than 2 years
before it opens. This number of $1M donors is unprecedented
for a capital campaign for an arts or cultural organization
in the U.S.
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TI puts energy behind solar power as Contributing Sponsor for 2007 Solar Decathlon
Texas Instruments has long been committed to energy innovation.
The company continues its tradition of building a greener
future as a contributing sponsor for the 2007 Solar Decathlon,
which is put on by the U.S. Department of Energy. The bi-annual
event brought together 20 university teams from around the
globe in a competition to design, build and operate the most
energy-efficient and attractive solar-powered home. The teams
came together to form a “solar village” on the National Mall
in Washington, D.C.
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TI allocates $15M to fund university medical technology research
TI
technology has been used in many recent advancements in the
medical field, including portable imaging, wireless communications
for patient monitoring, retinal prosthesis and DSP-based robotics
to improve quality of life for amputees.
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TI celebrates 40th anniversary of calculator with new line of products for math education
 Forty
years after inventing the world’s first handheld electronic
calculator and changing the way math was taught to generations
of students, TI is again transforming math education by introducing
the next generation’s technology: TI-nspire™
products for math learning.
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