Day: February 12, 2024
What’s that orange pod in the Student Union?
The Office for Campus Resources and Support introduced a LilyPad lactation pod to the Student Union’s first floor in the beginning of the...
FIRE gives UTD a red light, demands Spirit Rocks return
FIRE’s rating follows their Dec. 1 letter to UTD demanding the Spirit Rocks be reinstated and their Jan. 16 blog post urging for...
Former UTD chess coach and International Master passes away
International Chess Master Rade Milovanovic, a former long-time chess coach at UTD, passed away from natural causes at the age of 69 on...
Who’s who this election season?
Ly, a former child refugee from Cambodia and now a certified court manager, has lived in Dallas since the age of nine. As...
Alumni tech startup accelerates to success
Editor’s note: This story previously misrepresented the combined value of the startups. This has been corrected to $600 billion, and we apologize for...
Law and letters: Literature degree to debut pre-law concentration
After two years of program development, the legal field is coming to Literature students through a new pre-law concentration debuting in fall 2024....
UTD receives $1.6million to boost wind research, renovate wind tunnel, labs
Texas is leading the nation in renewable energy expansion – specifically in wind energy— with which UTD is playing a critical role. Now...
AI is changing real estate — and it’s not what you think
Will AI steal your job? Representatives from Weitzman, a large Texas real estate firm, think otherwise, saying AI will instead automate the tedious...
Dallas No. 50 in US for STDs — how to stay safe
A recent study from Innerbody Research found that Dallas ranks No. 50 in the top 100 U.S. cities with the highest rates of...
Alumnus invention lets you game with your feet
The former Comet’s innovative new controller, known as Glydr, has gathered almost $65,000 in funding A UTD Alumnus recently launched a Kickstarter campaign...