Category: Campus News
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Student emails move to Office 365
University email accounts are being moved from Zmail to Microsoft Office 365 to give users better accessibility, security and user experience. The Information Resource department is overseeing the transition. The Office of Information Resources is transferring approximately 40,000 student and legacy accounts with an initial budget of $100,000. Director of Technology Customer Services Don Davis…
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Ulbricht Found Guilty
Ross Ulbricht, a 2006 UTD graduate accused of running an online drug market, has been found guilty of seven crimes, including narcotics trafficking and money laundering. FBI agents arrested Ulbricht in 2013 in San Francisco. He went on trial on Jan. 13 in New York facing allegations from the FBI and other federal agencies claiming…
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Ballot Bound
Public affairs sophomore Brooke Lopez runs for Wylie City Council The Saturday morning of March 31, 2012 dawned bright for Brooke Lopez and her family, as they prepared for their weekly fishing trip. They were sitting in Mogio’s Pizza, a little parlor in Sachse, near Wylie, at around 11 a.m. when Lopez, now a public…
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Black History Month
Black leaders on campus discuss community, success When the late historian Carter G. Woodson started the Association for The Study of Afro-American Life and History in 1915, his aim was to document the past and triumphs of African-Americans. He commemorated what he called Negro History Week in 1926. In 1976, the U.S. government designated February…
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‘Dark Girls’ a dialogue on colorism
The Meteor Theatre kicked off Black History Month on Feb. 4, 2015 in the Jonsson Performance Center with “Dark Girls,” a film that delves into the much unspoken world of colorism. This documentary takes viewers into a world filled with prejudice, anger, and conflict over a physical attribute that people have the inability to change,…
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Scholarships now harder to acquire
The Academic Excellence Scholarship, established at UTD in 1992, has become increasingly difficult to earn. Over the years, the university has undergone significant expansion and the number of students accepted into the university — plus the scores needed for a scholarship — have increased. “The growing number of applications we receive has resulted in increased…
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International Center merges existing offices
International student services including ISSO, Intercultural Programs, Education Abroad combine to alleviate increasing needs of foreign students The centralization of international student services under one office will be formally inaugurated in February. UTD’s international students comprise 24 percent of the student body, and there is an increasing interest in education abroad by domestic students according…
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ATEC split from A&H planned for fall’15
UTD President David Daniel proposes new School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication The Arts and Technology and Emerging Media and Communication programs might soon spin out from Arts and Humanities into a separate school as early as Sept. 1, UTD President David Daniel said on Jan. 20 at the Student Government meeting. The split…
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SG requests higher Pub alcohol limit
Policy includes modified four-drink maximum, allows for BYOB tailgates by student organizations Student Government is working on a new alcohol policy that could modify the drink limit from two to four beverages in The Pub and grant student organizations the ability to host their own Bring Your Own Beer tailgates. Currently, The Pub allows a person…
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Employee murdered in home
Updated 01/26/2015 Cause of death currently unreleased; state and local officials investigate further Anna Moses, the assistant director of strategic planning and analysis, was found dead on Jan. 14 in her home in Frisco. Police have ruled the death a homicide. Moses was 43 years old. Police arrived at Moses’ house around 10:50 a.m. in…