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  • Tutoring company uses peer education

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    Interested tutors can now find opportunities at an education company which is working with the Venture Development Center at UTD to connect peer tutors at low cost. Peeyr, which was started by co-founders, CEO Gautam Bhargava and Chief Product Officer Patrick Dayton and have helped over 100 students so far. Bhargava and Dayton come from…

  • UTD startup impresses at conference

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    Correction: In a previous version of this story, the Office of Technology Commercialization was attributed incorrectly. The Mercury regrets this error. UTD’s startup scene got another boost this winter when BackStop Neural, a campus-based bioelectronics company, presented at the 2016 Materials Research Society conference in Boston. Backstop creates spinal cord simulators that tie shape memory…