Sensationalism of child actors causes long-term damage
Child actors and influencers are subject to public scrutiny as a result of media sensationalism and social media networks. While seeing child actors all over news articles and videos is nothing new, our increased attention on them is giving rise to a new problematic phenomenon – children who rise to...
Baseball season in review
The Comets baseball team won the American Southwest Conference for the first time in the program’s history, making it to the Division III Regional Tournament and ending their year with a 32-17 record. While the Comets have gone to the ASC tournament playoffs 15 out of their 17 years and...
Men’s basketball travels to Italy
The men’s basketball team returned from an international trip to Italy, where it secured two victories in the process. During the two-week trip, the team visited Rome, Florence and Venice. In Rome and Florence, the team played against Cantini Lorano and Santa Maria, two experienced European club teams, winning both...
Varsity esports coming to UTD
UTD Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Bill Petitt announced the addition of esports as the university’s 14th varsity sport. The newest addition to the Comets is the first since the inclusion of volleyball in 2004 nearly 14 years ago and will be the university’s first sponsored coed team. The initial focus...
Professor raises awareness of bacterial disease in South
After years of misdiagnoses from various health professionals, one UTD professor set out to raise awareness for her daughters’ disease and ensure no one would have to share their experiences. Sarah Maxwell, an associate professor of economic and political policy, launched the Texans & Ticks Facebook campaign in December 2017...
Embracing oddities through art
As part of his last art show of the semester at UTD, Master of Fine Arts candidate Clayton Harper created the piece “NextGen10” as a criticism of society’s idea of the future. His work incorporated stock videos of smiling people testing VR sets juxtaposed with images of litter in the...
Professor helps patients regain voices
A UTD professor developed a portable speech processor allowing people who have suffered the loss of their larynx the ability to speak again. Assistant professor of bioengineering Jun Wang developed a speech processor designed to read the movements of a person’s tongue and lips and register them into words. His...
UTD labs launch green initiative
A new on-campus initiative could make laboratories more sustainable and environmentally friendly. The Office of Research Lab Safety introduced the Green Labs initiative on April 19 at the 2018 Earth Fair during UTD Earth Week. The initiative will bring sustainability to both teaching and research laboratories on campus including the...
‘League’ team advances to nationals
UTD’s “League of Legends” team — now recognized by the athletics department as a varsity sport — qualified for and competed at the annual national championships held in Los Angeles last week. “We went into the championship not expecting much,” said Karlin Oei, a finance junior who was one of...