Tag: Aafiya Aslam
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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 Ross State University. Since transferring to UTD, she has dominated the court and claimed Athlete of the Week recognition three times. On Nov. 13 2023, Jan. 8 2024 and Jan. 22 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 from Nov. 22-26 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ramirez began playing chess in elementary school in Peru at a local level; he was drawn to the sport because of the logic required to…
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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 champion Magnus Carlsen for the second time. This is Schitco’s second time drawing with Carlsen, the first being in August 2022 in the Chess Olympiad. According to Chess Results, 38 teams participated…
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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 to solve by expressing themselves through technology. The 2023 hackathon included 1,001 people from 18 different countries. The total pool of prize money was $62,000, the largest amount HackUTD has distributed so…
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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 out of players under 2200 ELO. The Rapids Championship was an online chess tournament where 40 players from seven schools faced each other individually; 14 students from UTD participated. The tournament consisted…
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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 imagined possible. In commemoration of the program, on Oct. 7, staff and student alumni gathered to recount how UTD chess has led them to personal and professional highs. At the Chess Alumni…
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Comics & Activities: 10/30/23
Chess Pacman! Shape-Making Edition Rules: Black to move. Use the Black knight to take all of the white pawns one after another, without touching an empty square.
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JSOM ranked No. 10 public business school in U.S.
Naveen Jindal School of Management is officially ranked No. 10 in public business schools in the U.S. and No. 27 business schools overall, according to a new ranking from U.S News and World Report; a six-place jump from a ranking of No. 33 in Sept. 2021. Dean of JSOM Hasan Pirkul credits the rating jump…