Author: The UTD Mercury
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Abstract art professor teaches from experience
Painting lecturer Michelle Mackey uses background as career painter in course, works in New York on sets for TV shows At seven years old, Michelle Mackey would tag along to her grandmother’s real estate work. She was shy and devoted much of her time in drawing in the open houses while her grandmother attended to…
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Meet the candidate
Caitlynn Fortner is a international political economy junior from Dalton, Georgia. She chose UTD for its emphasis on academics and its diversity. Since high school, she’s focused on fighting hunger though agricultural research, and she’d like to have more hunger-awareness events on campus. She is the vice president of the Sustainability Club, and created a…
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Man arrested, charged for murder of UTD employee
Frisco Police arrested and charged 63-year-old Robert Moses with the murder of his ex-wife Anna Moses, a UTD employee, on Feb. 26. Moses, who has been charged with first-degree murder, has been transported to the Frisco Police Detention Center, a Frisco Police Press release stated. His bond has been set at $1 million. On Jan.…
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SG Report
Student government spring election results will be announced at 6 p.m. on March 11. after online voting takes place from March 9 to 11. Grant Branam, an arts and technology freshman and Caitlynn Fortner, an international political economy junior, are running for vice president and president, respectively. Fortner said she would like to hold more…
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Female representation lacking in STEM fields
Students, faculty explain need for participation from girls in computer science, engineering industries, present role models during event Women still lag in science, technology, engineering and math jobs as compared to biology, nursing or teaching which have a balanced gender representation in the workforce. Only 18.2 percent of degrees in computer science and 19 percent…
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CROSS COMMUNICATION
Emily Tobey wears many hats. She became the Nelle C. Johnston Chair in Communication Disorders in Children in 1995. Today, she still holds this position in addition to being vice provost and vice president of diversity and community engagement at UTD. Tobey works in speech pathology, a field that is overwhelmingly female. According to a…
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Breaking Boundaries
For some, March’s warming weather and days indicate the beginning of spring. For the Galerstein Women’s Center and feminists across the world, March means Women’s History Month. In the late ’70s, Sarah Lawrence College, the Women’s Action Alliance and the Smithsonian Institution came together to put on a two-week conference celebrating women’s history. After an…
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“What is the most important issue facing women today?”
“I think one of the issues is that they should be encouraged to take up STEM courses such as engineering and computer science.” — Rahul Gupta Supply chain management senior “I think representation within politics. It’s generally a white, male, Christian demographic and there’s very little representation of anybody else whether it’s women, Hispanics, Asians or…