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Baseball team falls to Condordia in ASC tournament

May 10, 2014

The baseball team lost in a 5-2 contest to Concordia, knocking them out of the ASC tournament. The top-seeded Tornados only outhit the Comets 7 to 6 , but the major difference was the 3 errors committed...

SG appoints members to Senate in first meeting

May 8, 2014

Student Government president Brooke Knudtson took the podium for the first time at the May 6 SG meeting after being elected, and she appointed new members to senate. Senate confirmed the appointment of...

Marcelo Yates | Staff

Baseball team heads to ASC tourney

May 7, 2014

The baseball team will begin postseason play Wednesday, May 7, against the Sul Ross State Lobos at Concordia University in Austin. Concordia, who has the No. 1 seed in the tournament, will host the tournament...

The TEDxUTD team after the event on april 13, 2014.

Overcoming obstacles focus of TEDxUTD talk

April 19, 2014

The lineup at TEDxUTD on Sunday, April 13, included six speakers from the UTD community and two talks streamed online. Albert Ok, undecided freshman, and one of three student speakers selected from an...

Peter Berkman of Anamanaguchi. (Christopher Wang/Photo Editor)

Slideshow: Spring Blowout Bash with Anamanaguchi & Nite

April 10, 2014

On Thursday, April 17, the Visual Arts Building, or Art Barn, was host to Denton-based Nite and New York-based Anamanaguchi for Radio UTD's Spring Blowout Bash. The event was also sponsored by The 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...

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...

Ted Yu| Courtesy
The concert in action

New ATEC’s first concert a huge success

November 11, 2013

The first musical concert “De Rerum Natura (2013)” played on the evening of Saturday, Nov. 9, to a sold out auditorium brimming with students, faculty and members of the community in the new Edith...

Judy Chan|Courtesy
Carmen plays at Winspear

Watch the gypsy enthrall in George Bizet’s opera, Carmen

November 9, 2013

The Dallas Opera’s 2013-2014 season name "Love Transformed"opened Oct. 25 with the crowd favorite French opera, Carmen, by George Bizet and and will play until Nov. 10. Opening night had one of the...

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