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Chess team slams the Pan-Ams

The UTD chess team secured No. 2 at the 2024 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship and will move on to the Final Four College...

By The MercuryJanuary 29, 2024

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Basketball spotlight: Alex Bowman making waves at UTD

Senior forward Alex Bowman shined with the first double-double in her career, scoring 20 points and 10 rebounds on Jan. 18 against Sul...

By The MercuryJanuary 29, 2024

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Chess player now UTD’s 10th grandmaster

Information technology and management master’s student Brian Escalante Ramirez became UTD’s 10th grandmaster after his exceptional performance at the 2023 US Masters Open...

By The MercuryJanuary 16, 2024

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Schitco Draws Against Carlsen Again

Economics junior Ivan Schitco repeated history on Nov. 15 at the 2023 European Team Chess Championship in Montenegro when he drew against world...

By The MercuryJanuary 16, 2024

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Comics & Activities: 12/04/23

By The MercuryDecember 4, 2023

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Comets gather for largest hackathon in Texas

HackUTD returned to ECSW on Nov. 4 for the competition’s 10th installment HackUTD is a weekend-long event where participants are given different challenges...

By The MercuryNovember 13, 2023

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UTD chess players place highly in Texas Intercollegiate Rapids

Two UTD students placed highly in the Texas Collegiate Rapids Championship Nov. 4, one making No. 2 overall and the other No. 1...

By The MercuryNovember 13, 2023

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‘I credit everything that I have in my life to chess’

From recruiter to chief science officer and from player to self-founded academy president, UTD’s chess program has taken Comets to places they never...

By The MercuryOctober 30, 2023

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