Day: January 9, 2017

  • UTD startup impresses at conference

    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…

  • Comet becomes star

    A UTD student celebrated what aspiring movie stars constantly dream of — receiving an important role in an independent film. Finance freshman Sasha Singh hits the big screen in a Telugu film, “Appatlo Okadundevadu,” which follows the life of an aspiring cricketer. “It is based on a true story about how he gets involved with the…