Skip to Main Content
UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

On the frontlines

On the frontlines

March 9, 2015

Veterans on campus share experiences of women in combat Retired Air Force Col. Kim Olson will visit campus March 26 to speak about women in combat as part of a series of events celebrating Women’s History...

Agree to disagree?

Agree to disagree?

March 8, 2015

Have you ever gone to bed with thoughts whirring through your head, and realized that you can't shut them out anyway? Activist voices are just like that. You could kill all your dissenters and reporters...

Too young to be a leader?

March 6, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMoCmOY6eW8

The abnormal "normal"

The abnormal “normal”

March 1, 2015

Normal isn’t really a yardstick by itself. It’s a standard we create based on a stereotype. In conversation, we’ll often hear people saying what is and what isn’t normal — like talking to...

Ex-husband arrested, charged with murder in Anna Moses case

Ex-husband arrested, charged with murder in Anna Moses case

February 27, 2015

Frisco Police arrested and charged 63-year-old Robert Moses with the murder of his ex-wife Anna Moses, a UTD employee, on Feb. 26 a little after 2 p.m. Robert Moses, who has been charged with first degree...

A sugar flood, no Noah's Ark

A sugar flood, no Noah’s Ark

February 22, 2015

It’s freezing out here in Dallas, and several hot cups of tea later, I'm still not quite unfrozen. While I’m here, trying to be Princess Elsa (exaggeration alert), farmers in a warmer region down...

Mother Language Day Special

February 17, 2015

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/191612776" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"...

Changing the urban-scape

Changing the urban-scape

February 15, 2015

This past week, the sunshine and lovely weather in Dallas got me out a lot more, and as I walked down the sidewalk, I thought to myself how robotic and geometric the roads here are compared to the chaotic,...

OFFICE OF FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Regents approve new ATEC school

February 13, 2015

The UT System Board of Regents approved the proposal on Feb. 12 to create a separate Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication school starting fall 2015. The new school will offer six degree programs...

Yang Xi| Staff
Eighteen-year-old Brooke Lopez, who is also an SG senator, first got involved in politics when her friend was murdered with a firearm in 2012. Since then, she has campaigned to pass a law that will make it more difficult for minors who commit a crime with a firearm to have their records expunged.

Ballot Bound

February 9, 2015

Public affairs sophomore Brooke Lopez runs for Wylie City Council The Saturday morning of March 31, 2012 dawned bright for Brooke Lopez and her family, as they prepared for their weekly fishing trip. They...

Rome's nod to world's oldest profession

Rome’s nod to world’s oldest profession

February 8, 2015

This past week, the news covered tons of stuff, rehashed some old feuds (Ukraine, for instance), updated us on some others, wars raged on and planes crashed. But here’s something you might have all...

Load More Stories
Activate Search
Anwesha Bhattacharjee