FrEQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)

Why is your color scheme green and what’s with the WEIRD TREE-LOGO?

Green:

The green color comes from two rationales with a bonus unintended 3rd.

1) My Quality-of-Life focus has strong positions on protecting the environment and establishing green-corridors/rights-of-ways throughout the city.

2) Everyone uses red-white-and-blue and while I’m patriotic, I think we show our patriotism through actions not color schemes.

3) (Accidental but awesome) Denton is blessed with 3 collegiate systems. UNT, our largest university, uses green and white as its colors too!

Tree-logo:

The tree logo not only also points to my support for strong environmental stewardship, but also refers to my emphasis on data & data-analytics as it resembles the type of hierarchical classification tree-graphs I use in my bioinformatics/computational-biology career work. I drew up some crude concepts and local artist Clare Morales developed this logo for me. Denton is also blessed with a strong cadre of local artists.

Is it nerdy to put this kind of thought into a color scheme and logo? Proudly, YES! It’s the type of approach I will/do take with our city issues as well.

Why DO you say you’re a BIOLOGIST but you workED for a super-computing center? Pick a Lane …

I am a computational and structural biologist with degrees in Biochemistry & Biophysics. That means I use data-analysis methods on super-computers to study biology problems. This area can be called computational biology or bioinformatics. It means I had to study and practice biology, biochemistry, statistics, chemistry, physics, and computer science as part of my work.