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Sports

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...

Sports

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...

Sports

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...

News

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...

Sports

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...

News

‘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...

Comics

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...

News

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,...

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