THE UTD MERCURY

Category: Life & Arts

  • Game Corner: What you need to know about Resident Evil 7

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  • Dance group fosters culture of confidence

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    Belly dancing has become a way for members of the newest dance organization on campus to become comfortable with their bodies and abilities. Yesenia Morales, a cognitive science junior, founded the UTD Belly Dance organization in fall 2016 when she realized there wasn’t an existing community for it on campus. Her college selection process was…

  • On the cutting edge

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    No Samurai ever met a knight on the field of battle, but at UTD’s Sword Arts club, katanas have met longswords. The student-run organization is a place for fans of weapons of all varieties to meet, train and pass along their experience. “I do enjoy the camaraderie. I do enjoy the people I practice with.…

  • Queens of Chess

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    Coach Rade Milovanovic started working with the UTD Chess team in 1999, when there were only two players on the team carrying the highest title competitive chess has to offer — Grandmaster. Now, 18 years later, there are triple that number on the team as the program grows and increasingly emphasizes female involvement.  UTD’s successful…

  • Student releases debut novel

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    Jacob Ashton entered into his three-year evaluation. While he worked as a Thinker making ends meet, his results came back askew, and he knew instantly that something was wrong. That’s how Drew Cordell, a senior business major with a concentration in innovation and entrepreneurship, opened his first novel, which came out this month. Cordell has…

  • Non-profit to combat cycle of poverty

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    A 15-year-old boy roams the streets of a new country. His future looks hopeful, considering he just fled his home in Vietnam after witnessing the devastation of war. Little does he know he’ll be given something that children in his country don’t recognize as a right, but rather as a privilege: free education. Several years…

  • New club engineers equality

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    Female engineering students will have an opportunity to gain valuable industry experience through a mentorship club founded by a UTD student. Jeanie Aird, a mechanical engineering junior, started Women Mentoring Women in Engineering after noticing how women are disadvantaged in the engineering workplace. According to the Society of Women Engineers, only 12 percent of women…

  • Game Corner: The Best Games of 2016

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  • Q&A: Tips to stay healthy in 2017

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    Fifty-five percent of college-aged Americans made a New Year’s resolution for 2017. Of those, 35 percent made a resolution related to their health, according to the Marist Poll. A new program, Resolution Revolution, is starting Jan. 9 to help members of the UTD community keep their health-related goals with weekly events and free Group X…

  • A Taste of Home

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    UTD students — many of them Iranian — celebrated Yalda, or the winter solstice, over break. The event was organized by the Iranian Student Community with two main aims: to share Iranian culture with all the students at UTD and to allow Iranian students to reconnect with the customs of their homeland. Historian Sahar Nadimi,…