THE UTD MERCURY

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  • Engineering graduate student starts medical company

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    Correction: In a previous version of this story, Yara Almubarak’s name was misspelled. The Mercury regrets this error.  After a UTD engineering team won a national design competition, a group member co-founded a medical device company that modified the team’s design to relieve hemorrhoids, which affects 30 percent of the U.S. population. The design project…

  • Northside move in delayed

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    Hundreds of students are without apartments for at least the first week of school due to delays in the construction of Northside, the private luxury apartments north of Synergy Parkway and managed by Balfour Beatty Communities. Over the course of the last week, residents received emails from Northside informing them their apartments would not be…

  • High number of students fall for email scam

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    Due to a recent spike in fraudulent emails coming to UTD accounts, the Information Security Office has increased its efforts to teach internet safety to students. The emails — referred to as “phishing” scams — bore the UTD logo and requested recipients, specifically students, enter their usernames, passwords or other confidential information into a malicious…

  • Brotherhood in Blue

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    UTD Police Officer Miqueas Figueroa lost someone he knew when Dallas police officers were targeted at a shooting downtown about a month ago. Although the Dallas community has worked to heal and look to the future, Figueroa said both he and the city still need more time. “The civilians that were injured in the shooting…

  • School introduces new undergraduate degree

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    The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences has added a Bachelor of Science in public policy to its lineup of degree plans, making UTD the first public university in Texas to offer such a program. The program is intended for individuals who will systematically analyze public policy issues such as education, health care and…

  • New food options come to campus

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    Five new dining services will come to UTD this fall thanks to the efforts of Auxiliary Services. Director of Auxiliary Services Carrie Chutes and Assistant Vice President of Auxiliary Services Bob Fishbein said that they look forward to the implementation of the new dining services as well as new dining options. In order to better…

  • Campus carry takes effect Aug. 1

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    Signage has been posted on all areas on campus where the possession of a concealed firearm is prohibited in preparation for Senate Bill 11’s early August roll out. SB 11 permits concealed handgun license holders to carry their concealed weapons on campus and into the general buildings of public universities and colleges in Texas starting…

  • Accessibility on campus

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    When Mimi Newman was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome-Type III with Marfanoid characteristics, a disorder that leads to chronic joint pain, she withdrew herself from her surroundings to numb the shock of hearing about her condition — but it hurt more than it helped. The arts and performance junior was 20 years old at the time…

  • Clark Demolition

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  • Student-run app eases job search

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    Students struggling to find summer work will now have better access to jobs and internships, thanks to a new app co-created by a UTD sophomore. Tyler Hargreaves, a computer science major, co-founded Condecca, a web and mobile platform designed to connect students to job opportunities at partnering companies. The idea for the company originally came…