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The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

Pablo Arauz.
Post-doctoral material sciences student Erika Fuentes-Fernandez operates a semi-conductor that heats up filaments at extremely high temperatures to create ultrananocrystaline diamonds. The machine heats the material to temperature upwards of 1,500 degrees Celsius in order to grow samples of UNCD.

For those with vision loss, sunglasses featuring diamond-coated chip could partially restore sight

January 14, 2014

A world without blindness may sound like something out of a sci-fi novel, but thanks to the research of material science professor Orlando Auciello, it may someday become a reality. For more than a decade...

Connie  Cheng|Staff
Daniel Nsomekala, a political science senior, is a Zambian political activist and disability rights advocate.

Disabled after political violence, Zambian student fights for rights

December 10, 2013

Daniel Nsomekala sat in a wheel chair patiently waiting for the UTD 883 shuttle on a warm November morning. The bus arrived and the driver got up patiently, moved to the middle of the bus and opened the...

Pablo Arauz. Jose Sifuentes, a worker at the State Farm construction site, signs the cross for deceased worker, Rodolfo Santillan

Worker death fuels protest against unsafe work conditions close to UTD

November 24, 2013

About two dozen demonstrators and observers met on a rainy, bitter cold Saturday on Nov. 23, at the construction site for State Farm regional headquarters on North Plano Rd, to honor the death of Rodolfo...

BENEDICT BERNADAS’ FAMILY/COURTESY.
UTD alumnus Benedict Bernadas has family in eastern Phillipines, an area where Typhoon Haiyan caused major destruction. More than 3,600 people are confirmed dead. Donations for disaster relief can be made through the Office of Student Volunteerism.

Alumnus: “I just feel helpless”

November 20, 2013

Marketing alumnus Benedict Bernadas has family in the Leyte province of the eastern Philippines where Super Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, hit hardest on Nov. 9. Much of his family on both...

Friends mourn loss of fellow student

November 18, 2013

Some people thought it was a joke. When Dongkwon Shin posted a Facebook status to let friends know that Tam Hoang had died in the car accident they were both in earlier that day, Shin said some believed...

Cathryn Ploehn | Staff

Feds seize Ulbricht, shut down site

October 10, 2013

The FBI arrested a UTD alumnus on Oct. 1, allegedly the leader behind Silk Road, an underground black market website. Ross Ulbricht, a 2006 graduate, was arrested in a branch of the San Francisco Public...

Center to offer assistance for those recovering from drug, alcohol abuse

April 15, 2013

The threat of abuse of alcohol on college campuses is a very real one. UTD stepped up to tackle this problem when a UT System Regent, the UT Center for Students in Recovery director and a UTD student came...

Confucius Institute adds new partner university in China

April 1, 2013

Institute creates mandatory debriefing program in effort to avoid cultural, relational issues overseas The plane landed at the Beijing International Airport on a hot summer day last fall. Then-history...

Pre-med students have access to free summer program

January 14, 2013

Pre-med and pre-dental students have the opportunity to attend the six-week Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, application and program free of charge, at universities across the nation upon completion...

Yang Xi | Mercury Staff

Chess team wins third straight Pan-Am

January 14, 2013

Grandmaster Julio Sadorra sat across the board from Webster University’s Fidel Corrales of Cuba in the Frick Laboratory at Princeton University waiting to land the upper hook in the final round. That...

Family, classes, country

December 10, 2012

How one student finds time for pre-K classmates, late-night study sessions and pumping jet fuel The sound of scantrons shuffling reverberated through the room for Test 3 in Marco Atzori’s Cellular Neuroscience...

Asia Center allows chance to bring Asian culture to UTD

October 8, 2012

The opening of the new Asia Center will herald in an era of cooperation between UTD and developing economies of the East such as China, India and Japan, UTD officials said. Previously, the well-established...

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