Int’l students find joy in festive season
During the holiday season, international students are experiencing their first American celebration with fellow UTD students. According to UTD’s university profile, 22 percent of the UTD population is international. A portion of these students will be experiencing the American holidays for the first time in their lives, and often away...
‘A home away from home’
At UTD, international students make up 23 percent of the population. During the first few months of the school year, adjustment and adaptation are part of the process as new students try to make a new place their “home away from home.” Statistics graduate Jiwon Nam said she struggled at...
Int’l student applications declining
International students are not sending as many applications to UTD as in previous years, according to data from the university. This fall is the first time the number has declined since 2011. This fall, the Office of Strategic Planning and Analysis’ preliminary estimate is for 12,614 applications, compared to 13,342...
SG Report: 9/18/17
UTD App After multiple years of development, the university’s in-house app developer created the UTD app that entered the beta-testing phase toward the beginning of the summer. Student Government President JW Van Der Schans, as well as the bulk of SG members, are part of the beta testing. The majority...
UTD orgs assist int’l students with arrival
Each year, more than 1,500 international students arrive at UTD. As these students prepare to study in a new country, UTD’s cultural student organizations prepare to welcome them and build an environment of home away from home. President of the Indian Students Association, Vishal Keswani, said his organization helps nearly...
Program helps int’l students with accents
For over a year, international students in the Jindal School of Management have been receiving help from a faculty member to work on an aspect of English that is crucial to their communication: their accent. Every Thursday, a group of students meet with Morgan May, an ESL specialist who runs...
International student startups stagnate
The three co-founders of UNIBEES — Abinav Kalidindi, Sanjay Kurani and Kiran Achanta — began looking for resources at the Jindal School of Management to turn their idea for a campus startup into a reality. After the three found a developer to create their app which markets free events to...
What’s the Buzz
Hungry and tired after a long day of classes, three friends sat on the bus contemplating what to eat. Only then did they learn, a bit too late, about an event with free pizza on campus. International students Sanjay Kurani, Abinav Kalidindi and Chandra Achanta channeled their frustration about the...
Food For Thought
Shrenik Jain stepped through the threshold of a small space in the ground floor of the Eugene McDermott Library. He scanned row after row of food items until one container caught his eye — it was a jar of peanut butter. The mechanical engineering graduate student’s interest piqued because he’d...
International students struggle for work permit
Foreign grads at UTD unable to take jobs in fields of study Strict caps on the number of H-1B visas distributed each year by the United States Citizen and Immigration Services means that only around of 36.5 percent of all applicants will be able to attain permanent jobs in the...
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