Category: Life & Arts
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SP/N Gallery
From Los Angeles and New York to Germany and France, June Owens’ filmography journey brings her back to UTD’s SP/N gallery with her exhibit, giving the children of the Holocaust a voice. Owens’ exhibit “revisit, remember, reconnect Fohrenwald children” features interviews and stories from children held at Jewish displaced person camps, specifically from the camp…
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Alumni launch indie video game
A group of UTD alumni created a startup company and a Kickstarter campaign to launch an indie video game, “Innerspace.” What began as a team of friends in an ATEC game production lab class creating simple, short games grew to become what is now PolyKnight Games, an indie game company. The original creators include alumni…
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Following Faulkner’s footsteps
A UTD professor helped lead a team of 24 professors from across the globe to digitize the fictional county author William Faulkner created. Literary studies professor Theresa Towner serves as an associate director on the project to develop a website for “Digital Yoknapatawpha.” The team of scholars, who teach everywhere from Glasgow to Taipei to…
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Microscopic masterpieces
With a resume full of accomplishments in nanotechnology, a UTD professor who spends his time researching elements on an atomic scale has managed to see the art within the atoms. Material science engineering professor Moon Kim started taking images of his work in 1985 using electron microscopes. Since then, he amassed a collection of NanoArt…
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Q&A: The Evasons
On Jan. 24, The Evasons, a renowned Mentalist duo, performed at UTD. The Mercury sat down with Jeff and Tessa Evason and asked them about their experience in psychic entertainment and their journey so far. When did you begin performing? Jeff: In 1983, Tessa had moved from the Caribbean to Canada. Tessa: Back to Canada.…
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Northside Drafthouse offers speedy service, fresh food
Northside Drafthouse and Eatery, the fifth food establishment at Northside, opened its doors to customers over winter break. This bar and restaurant is superior in the categories of its comfortable atmosphere, variety of appetizer, entree and drink options and attentive customer service. The first noticeable thing about the bar was its wide array of televisions.…
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A love for language
A UTD student is currently on his third study abroad trip in three years, using his passion for languages to propel him towards a career in international diplomacy. Vladyslav Wallace, a global business and international political economy sophomore, entered UTD as a pre-med biology student, but changed his mind after he pursued a gap year…
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Digitizing history
Nearly 50 years after the Apollo space missions, UTD researchers are digitizing audio recording from the Apollo and Gemini missions. Professor John Hansen, along with 15 other students and research faculty, began a project in 2012 to observe group dynamics by studying the Apollo 11 mission. After NASA provided access to audio tapes, they found…
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Music group wins contest
After a semester of hard work and practices, a UTD a cappella group won a competition in early December. UTD Dhunki won Anahat, a competition that is one of seven “bit-comps,” where South Asian a cappella teams compete to earn points. These bit-comps lead up to a final competition held at the end of the…
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Students launch short film lounge
Two UTD students are attempting to create a new source of entertainment for the Plano and Richardson area in the form of a short film lounge called The Kickback. Currently, The Kickback is based in the AramArt World Music and Art Institute in Plano. It features a selection of short films chosen by the founders,…