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The University of Texas at Dallas
File:University of Texas at Dallas Seal.svg
Former names
Graduate Research Center of the Southwest (1961-1967), Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (1967-1969)[1]
MottoLatin: Disciplina praesidium civitatis (Education, the Guardian of Society)
TypeState university
Established1969 [2]
EndowmentUS $250,000,000 [3]
PresidentDavid Daniel
ProvostB. Hobson Wildenthal[4]
Academic staff
963 (Fall 2009) [5]
Students15,783 [6]
Undergraduates9,801 [6]
Postgraduates5,982 [6]
Location
Richardson
,
Texas
,
USA
CampusSuburban, 455 acres (1.84 km2)*
RadioRadio UTD
ColorsGreen and Orange   
NicknameComets
AffiliationsAmerican Southwest Conference, The University of Texas System
MascotTemoc[7]
Websitewww.utdallas.edu
UT Dallas 2009 logo
UT Dallas 2009 logo

The University of Texas at Dallas[Note 1] (also referred to as UT Dallas or UTD) is a public research university in The University of Texas System. The UTD main campus is located in Richardson, Texas, United States in the heart of Telecom Corridor. The institution began as a research arm of Texas Instruments established in 1961 as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and was renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS) in 1967. In 1969 the founders bequeathed SCAS to the State of Texas and Governor Preston Smith signed the bill creating The University of Texas at Dallas on June 13 of that year.[1] The rapidly growing university is now known for its computer science, natural science, engineering, cognitive science, mathematics, and MBA programs, also the translation studies and Holocaust studies.

UTD offers over 135 academic programs across its seven schools.[8] With an array of interdisciplinary degree programs and over 50 research centers and institutes UT Dallas' curriculum is designed to allow study that crosses traditional disciplinary lines.[9][10] The University's faculty includes four members of the National Academies and a Nobel laureate. For the fall semester of 2009 entering freshmen average SAT and 75th percentile scores are among the highest of the public universities in Texas and ranked third in public universities in Texas for the number of freshmen National Merit Scholars.[11] As of the 2010 spring commencement the University has over 63,000 alumni who have earned more than 72,000 degrees since 1973.[12]

Having a larger campus than the UT System's flagship school, The University of Texas at Austin, there is enough room for growth. UT Dallas is on generally contiguous land including approximately 500 acres (2.0 km2) for campus development and another 468 acres (1.89 km2) devoted to Synergy Park.[13] Almost 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of new facilities have been added from 2007 with another 280,000 square feet (26,000 m2) planned to be completed by 2012.[14] In addition to the new facilities the campus is currently undergoing a 30-million dollar landscape enhancement.[15]

While UTD is relatively young, the school boasts a Division III athletics program in the American Southwest Conference. It also has a nationally ranked chess team that has won several Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship titles and the debate squad finished its 2009-10 season as the only organization in the country to advance a team to the quarterfinals in both the 64th Annual National Debate Tournament (NDT) and the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA).[16]

History

Establishment

Founders Building

The UT Dallas founders, Eugene McDermott, Cecil Howard Green and J. Erik Jonsson, purchased Geophysical Service Incorporated (GSI) in 1941. The General Instrument Division of GSI grew to the point it was reorganized as Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) in 1951 with GSI a wholly owned subsidiary.[17] Qualified personnel required by GSI and TI were not readily available in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the region's universities were only providing advanced training in engineering and physical sciences to a few who were quickly recruited by other high technology companies. Because TI was forced to recruit talent from other states during its expansion, the founders observed in 1959 that "To grow industrially, the region must grow academically; it must provide the intellectual atmosphere, which will allow it to compete in the new industries dependent on highly trained and creative minds".[18] Having identified the need they established the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1961. The institute initially was housed in the Fondren Science Library at Southern Methodist University. Land for the center was acquired by Jonsson, McDermott, and Green in Richardson, Texas in 1962 and the first facility, the Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Science (later named the Founders Building), opened on the grounds of the present-day campus in 1964 and would be the home for permanent faculty, visiting professors and post doctoral research associates. The Graduate Research Center of the Southwest was renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS) in 1967 and in 1969 the founders transferred the land and assets of SCAS to the State of Texas. Following recommendations from the Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System, on June 13, 1969, Governor Preston Smith signed the bill joining the institution to The University of Texas System and creating The University of Texas at Dallas.[1] In 1969 the school accepted its first students, physics, biology and geological sciences were the first PhD degrees offered, Francis S. Johnson served as interim president and William B. Hanson was named the director of the Division of Atmospheric and Space Sciences now known as the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences.[19]

Expansion and growth

330,000-square-foot Engineering and Computer Science Complex

In July 1971 Bryce Jordan became the University’s first president. At the time, he was acting president of UT Austin and was the UT Dallas president for 10 years (1971 to 1981). He later became president of The Pennsylvania State University, commonly known as Penn State. During the '70s a number of new buildings opened on campus, the Cecil H. Green Hall, J. Erik Jonsson Hall, Hoblitzelle Hall, Lloyd V. Berkner Hall, the Eugene McDermott Library, the University Theatre, the Conference Center, the Campus Bookstore and the Visual Arts Building. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools granted accreditation to UT Dallas in 1972 and in 1973 the first UT Dallas diplomas were awarded.[20] By law, UT Dallas offered only graduate degrees until 1975.[21] The addition of juniors and seniors increased enrollment from 408 to 3,333 students and by the fall of 1977 to more than 5,300 students. The University's first bachelor's degree was awarded at spring commencement in 1976. The Callier Center for Communication Disorders became part of The University of Texas at Dallas in 1975 as part of the School of Human Development (now the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences).[22] Also in 1975, the School of Management opened and has become the University's largest and offers programs at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. UT Dallas' first Nobel laureate, the late Polykarp Kusch, was a member of the physics faculty from 1972 to 1982. When he retired, the University endowed a program of annual lectures with the theme Concerns of the Lively Mind in his honor.[23] Robert H. Rutford became the second president of UT Dallas in May 1982. He was an Antarctic explorer and recognized with the naming of the Rutford Ice Stream and Mt. Rutford.[24] Rutford served as head of the University until 1994 and is still on the faculty. During the '80s the Center for Translation Studies was established and the Center for Holocaust Studies.[25][26] UT Dallas school of engineering became a reality in 1986 due to the efforts of business, community and education leaders. The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science is now the second-largest school at the University. By its 20th anniversary, in 1989, enrollment at UT Dallas topped 8,000.[27]

UT Dallas admitted its first freshman class of 100 students in 1990.[28] The transition from an upper-division school to a four-year university with an emphasis on engineering, mathematics, the sciences and management has been facilitated by the UT Dallas faculty. The University has retained key faculty while attracting additional nationally and internationally prominent researchers, including four members of the National Academies – Ray Baughman,[29] David Daniel,[30] Brian Berry,[31] and Don Shaw[32] – and one Nobel laureate, Russell Hulse. Berry, who is the dean of the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, also received the Royal Geographic Society's highest honor, the Victoria Medal (geography), in 1988. Two new buildings, the Engineering and Computer Science facility and the Cecil and Ida Green Center, opened on campus in early 1992. The Galerstein Women's Center opened in 1996 and in the fall of 1998 an 89,000-square-foot (8,300 m2) Activity Center was completed. Franklyn Jenifer became the third president of UT Dallas in 1994 and served until 2005. He had previously been president of Howard University and the chancellor of the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education. Under Jenifer, UT Dallas' enrollment increased more than 61 percent to nearly 14,000.[33]

Recent history

204,000-square-foot School of Management

In the fall of 2001 Ray Baughman and Anvar Zakhidov left Honeywell International to establish the UT Dallas NanoTech Institute.[34] With a donation in 2001 from Jim Von Ehr of $3.5 million and the 2002 appointment of the late Alan MacDiarmid (April 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007), UTD's second Nobel laureate, the institute has grown and is now the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute.[35][36] The addition of new facilities continued with the Engineering and Computer Science South Building, a three-story 152,000-square-foot (14,100 m2) add-on to the University's existing engineering facility, opening in August 2002 and in the fall of 2003 the 204,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) School of Management building opened and featured 29 classrooms, two computer labs, and a 350-seat auditorium.[37][38] In June 2005, David E. Daniel became the fourth president of The University of Texas at Dallas and had served on the faculty at UT Austin and was the Dean of Engineering at the University of Illinois from 2001 to 2005. He has continued the expansion of the campus with the Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL), a four-story 192,000-square-foot (17,800 m2) research facility, completed in December 2006, the Center for BrainHealth, located near The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, dedicated in January 2007 and almost 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of additional new facilities added from 2007 through 2009, including a 148,000-square-foot (13,700 m2) residence hall providing housing for full-time freshmen and a 28,000-square-foot (2,600 m2) dining hall.[39][40][41]

The University of Texas at Dallas is classified by the state as an "Emerging Research University" and is among the universities that will receive additional state funding for advancement toward "Tier 1" status. Three funds—the Research University Development Fund, the Texas Research Incentive Program, and the National Research University Benchmark Fund—have been established and will provide $500 million in grants and matching funds during fiscal years 2010 and 2011.[42] In 2009 UT Dallas fund-raising push to achieve Tier One status netted $15.2 million in matching funds, the University’s share of money that lawmakers have set aside for the Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP). The University qualified for the funds after raising $16.9 million in private gifts in a competition with six other emerging research institutions.[43] In 2009 UT Dallas marked its 40 years as a Texas public university and a member of The University of Texas System and two decades of freshman enrollment in the university.[44]

Academics

Student body

2009 Demographics of student body[45][46]
UT Dallas Texas U.S. Census
Anglo 48% 71.5% 65.8%
Asian American 19% 3.3% 4.3%
International student 15% N/A N/A
Hispanic 10% 35.5% 14.5%
African American 6% 11.6% 12.1%
Native American 0.5% 0.6% 0.9%
Unknown/Other 2% N/A N/A

In fall of 2009, UTD had a total of 15,783 students enrolled.[6] The school is unusual because it has more males, 56%, than females. The largest demographic ethnicity at the school is Anglo, with the second largest category being Asian-Americans. Of the school's 9,801 undergraduates, the school has 1,518 freshmen and 1,289 sophomores. As for juniors and seniors, enrollment was 3,102 and 3,625 respectively.[47] For the fall 2009 and spring 2010 academic year the University granted 1733 graduate and PhD diplomas and 2161 undergraduate diplomas, this brought the number of degrees granted by the University in its 40-year history to over 72,000.[12]

The School of Management had the largest enrollment of 32.5%, next the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at 19.1%; the School of Natural Science and Mathematics enrollment was 13.8% and the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences followed at 10.5%. The School of Arts and Humanities enrollment was 10.4% and the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences and the School of Interdisciplinary Studies were under 10%.[48]

As a state public university, The University of Texas at Dallas is subject to Texas House Bill 588, which guarantees graduating Texas high school seniors in the top 10% of their class admission to any public Texas university. In 2009, 36% of incoming freshmen finished in the top 10th of their graduating class, 70% in the top quarter and 92% in top half. Thirty-four percent had a high school GPA of 3.75 and higher and 64% had a GPA of 3.50 and higher.[49]

Entering freshmen average math and critical reading SAT scores are consistently above 1200 and are among the highest of any public university in Texas. For the fall 2009 academic year ninety-four percent of the incoming freshmen took the SAT with the middle 50% scores as follow: critical reading, 520–660, math, 560–690 and in writing 500–620. Forty-six percent of the incoming freshmen took the ACT, with the middle 50% scoring between 24 and 30.[49] UTD also ranked 1st for public universities in the state of Texas and ranked 122 for U.S. colleges and universities with the highest SAT 75th Percentile Scores.[50] In the fall of 2009 UTD freshmen included 41 National Merit Scholars, which ranks third in public universities in Texas and among the top 100 in the U.S. colleges and universities.[11] Peterson's College Search rates UTD's entrance difficulty as "Very difficult, 54% of applicants were admitted".[51] In its 2010 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the university with a "more selective" admissions policy.[52]


Rankings

University rankings (overall)

ARWU World[53] 303-401
ARWU National[53] 113-138
WM National University[54] 241
Kiplinger 100 Best Values in Public Colleges[55] 80

University rankings by school

BW Public Univ. - Undergraduate Business Programs [56] 39
USNWR Public Univ. - MBA[57] 24
USNWR National - MBA[57] 50
WSJ National - Executive MBA by ROI[58] 6
BW Globally - Executive MBA[59] 22
FT Globally - Executive MBA[60] 51
USNWR Public Univ. - Undergraduate Engineering[61] 60
USNWR Public Univ. - Graduate Engineering[61] 46
USNWR Public Univ. - Graduate Electrical Engineering[61] 38
USNWR National - Graduate Audiology[62] 4
USNWR National - Graduate Speech-Pathology[63] 12

Various publications show UT Dallas consistently improving in scholastic rankings. The 2009 Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings placed UTD at 302 - 401 worldwide, 135-162 regional and 113-138 national rank. They also ranked UT Dallas Social Sciences at 52-75 worldwide and Economics / Business at 42.[53] The Washington Monthly 2009 annual college and university rankings placed UTD at 241.[54] Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, 100 Best Values in Public Colleges 2009-10, ranked UTD at 80.[55]

UTD's undergraduate business programs ranks 39th among public university business schools in the U.S. according to BusinessWeek 2010 rankings, and ranks 30th in overall student satisfaction.[56] The 2010 U.S. News and World Report ranks the Full-Time MBA program among the top 50 in the nation, 24th among the nation’s public universities and 3rd for public school programs in the state of Texas.[64] Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2009, ranked the UTD Executive MBA program "top ranked" at 22 globally[59] and the Professional Part-Time MBA program in the top 25 nationally.[65][66] The Wall Street Journal ranked UTD's Executive MBA program 6th in the nation by ROI[58] and the Financial Times, 2009, ranked UTD's EMBA 1st for public universities in Texas and 51 globally.[60][67]

The UTD undergraduate programs in engineering have emerged in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings placing 60th among the nation’s public schools of engineering. U.S. News ranked the school’s graduate program 46th among public graduate schools of engineering and third among publicly funded schools in Texas. The school’s electrical engineering graduate program ranked 38th among comparable programs at other public universities and the graduate program in computer science is among the top 50 such programs at public universities.[61][Note 2]

UT Dallas’ Geography and Geospatial Sciences program ranked 16th nationally and first in Texas by Academic Analytics of Stony Brook, N.Y. This ranking places UTD ahead of longer-established programs at the University of California at Berkeley, Texas A&M University and Cornell University. [68] Additional rankings include the US News & World Report ranking of the University's graduate audiology program as 4th in the nation[62] and its graduate speech-pathology program at 12th in the nation.[63] UT Dallas has been included in the Princeton Review’s list of the “Top 50 Undergraduate Game Design Programs” in the U.S. and Canada.[69][70]

Academic programs

Main article: University of Texas at Dallas academic programs

The University of Texas at Dallas offers over 135 academic programs across its seven schools.[71] With an array of interdisciplinary degree programs UT Dallas' curriculum is designed to allow study that crosses traditional disciplinary lines.[9] The Arts and Technology program is Texas' first comprehensive degree designed to explore and foster the convergence of computer science and engineering with creative arts and the humanities.[72] UT Dallas offers both a BA and an MA in Emerging Media and Communication. Students take courses covering a range of digital media, from social networks and designing and writing for the web, to digital videography and mobile media. Students also participate in several collaborative research labs.[73] The Bioengineering department offers MS and PhD degrees in biomedical engineering through a program operated in conjunction with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and UT Arlington. Emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach, the curriculum includes a selection of courses from electrical engineering, computer science, materials science and the life sciences.[74] Dual degrees offered include M.S. Electrical Engineering (M.S.E.E.) degree in combination with an MBA in management, Molecular Biology and Business Administration (Double Major) B.S., Molecular Biology and Criminology (Double Major) B.S.. UT Dallas is the fourth university in the nation to received an accreditation for a Geospatial Intelligence certificate along with George Mason University, University of Missouri and Penn State. The Geospatial Intelligence Certificate is backed by the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), a collection of many organizations including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and GeoEye.[75][76]

Research

In FY 2009, UT Dallas spent $65.8 million which currently places UTD research expenditure as the second highest, among non-medical institutions, in The University of Texas System for research funding.[77] UTD is considered by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to have "high research activity".[78] The University has over 50 research centers and institutes and documented 44 patents in 2009.[10] Current research is mostly centered in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science and the School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics. Much of the funding and support comes from Texas Instruments, UT Southwestern Medical Center, The University of Texas System, National Science Foundation, and NASA. For its work on cybersecurity, the university was designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research by the National Security Agency in 2008.[79]

Research in space science has been a hallmark of the university since its inception in 1964. The William B. Hanson Center for Space Studies (CSS), affiliated with the Department of Physics, conducts research in space plasma physics. It has its roots in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Laboratory of the university's predecessor. The center also conducts a NASA-sponsored mission, Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI), which was launched in April 2008 in cooperation with the United States Air Force.[80] CINDI, which is part of the payload for the Communication and Navigation Outage Forecast System program, seeks to uncover information about the equatorial plasma bubbles that interrupt radio signals.[81][82] Furthermore, under the leadership of John H. Hoffman, the center designed the mass spectrometer for the Phoenix Mars Lander as part of the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) experiment in cooperation with the University of Arizona.[83]

The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute was established in 2001 when Ray Baughman, a pioneering nanotechnologist, became the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry and director of the university's NanoTech Institute. In 2007, it was renamed in memory of the late Alan G. MacDiarmid, who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa. Since the NanoTech Institute’s establishment in the fall of 2001, the group has produced over 50 refereed journal articles, six of which have been published in Science or Nature.[84]

The Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL), a four-story, 192,000-square-foot (17,800 m2) research facility, was completed in December 2006 after two years of construction. Including ISO 7 cleanroom facilities, the $85 million building provides space for research from the university's departments of chemistry, biology, physics, electrical engineering, materials science and engineering, and behavioral and brain sciences. It also houses the Nanoelectronics Materials Laboratory, which conducts research into materials for integrated circuits used in technologies such as computers, mobile phones, and research into low-cost materials for organic electronics.[39]

UT Dallas also started two major research initiatives in recent years. The Office of Technology Commercialization was created in April 2008 to oversee all activities related to new venture development, intellectual property protection and licensing and UT Dallas is to be the hub for a Nanoelectronics Research Consortium. Texas FUSION is a nanoelectronics consortium that is exploring smaller, faster and more energy efficient semiconductors. The consortium make it the largest research program at UT Dallas started from scratch.[85][86]

Additional ongoing research initiatives at UT Dallas include, researchers overseeing the long-running British Election Study (BES). Harold Clarke, the Ashbel Smith professor of political science in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, and Marianne Stewart, professor of political science are the co-principal investigators for the study, which began in 1964 and is one of the world's oldest continuous political research projects. The other two co-investigators are David Sanders and Paul Whiteley of the University of Essex in England.[87]

Scholarship programs

In addition to the various scholarship programs UTD provides their Academic Excellence Scholarship Program for freshmen. All freshmen admitted to the University for the fall semester are automatically considered for an Academic Excellence Scholarship Award. The awards range from $2,000 per year up to the cost of tuition and mandatory fees through eight semesters (four years) of enrollment plus $2,000 per year contribution toward rental expenses incurred at University on-campus housing and a cash stipend to defray the cost of books, supplies and other educational expenses.[88] The McDermott Scholars Program, established at UT Dallas in 2000, provides full scholarships and unique cultural and civic opportunities to academically talented high school students. As scholars, students have all of their educational expenses — including travel, housing and books — covered for four years and participate in a wide variety of artistic and educational experiences.[89] UT Dallas is also among only seven universities whose students are eligible for consideration for Terry Scholarships and became part of the program in 2006.[90]

Campus

Having a larger campus than the UT System's flagship school, The University of Texas at Austin, there is enough room for growth. UT Dallas is located on generally contiguous land in Richardson, Texas consisting of approximately 500 acres (2.0 km2) for campus development and another 468 acres (1.89 km2) devoted to Synergy Park; an industrial park adjacent to the campus.[13] In addition, the UTD Callier Center is located on 5.5 acres ([convert: unit mismatch]) adjacent to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the city of Dallas and the Center for BrainHealth on 3.5 acres ([convert: unit mismatch]) located nearby. The city of Richardson, Texas passed a bond election on May 8, 2010, which allocated $2.8 million in funding for a UT Dallas loop road to connect the roads around campus. The loop road will be designed to help keep traffic contained within the campus, rather than on the city’s roads.[91]

Architecture

NSERL building

Early architecture on the campus exhibits typical characteristics of Brutalism that was a popular civic style when the structures were designed and built. In accordance with this style many of the early buildings are pale, off-white, precast concrete with repetitive structures. Later architecture exhibits late modern or postmodern features of bronze glass, bronze aluminum frames, unadorned geometric shapes, unusual surfaces, unorthodox layouts and some of the buildings are connected by a series of skyways. Examples of later modern styling are the Engineering and Computer Science building, the School of Management, Cecil and Ida Green Center and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Lab (NSERL) facility which has become known on campus as the Mermaid Building due to the colorful anodized stainless steel shingles.

Landscaping

Starting in November, 2008 and ongoing in 2010 is the 30-million dollar UTD Campus Landscape Enhancement Project, largely funded by the wife of founder Eugene McDermott, to enhance the current feel of campus. The project will encompass all aspects of landscaping on the 500-acre (2.0 km2) campus and include more than 5,000 trees, 116 magnolias, five reflecting pools, human chessboard, fountain and overhead trellis. A new roundabout drive will be installed near the intersections of University Parkway and Drive A, an amphitheater and stage constructed near the existing steps in front of the Student Union and a greenery-lined waterway that will run from the School of Management Building to the Eugene McDermott Library.[92] World-renowned landscaping firm Peter Walker and Partners is spearheading the project. PWP is also known for creating the 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) Millennium Park in Sydney, Australia for the 2000 summer Olympics. They are also in charge of the World Trade Center Memorial Park. Other projects include the Nasher Sculpture Garden in the Dallas Arts District.

Residential housing

UTD Residence Hall

Total on-campus housing capacity of 4,354 beds consist of 1,245 apartments (3,954 beds) and a 400-bed residential hall for freshmen.[93] The apartments are split into two areas. Buildings 1-37, 696 units, are owned by the Utley Foundation and is a self-managing entity under the name Waterview Park Apartments, LLC.[94] Buildings 38-67, 541 units, and the Residence Hall are owned by the university and privately managed by American Campus Communities under the name University Village.[95] Freshman who live on campus have the option to live in either the Residence Hall or in UV Phase VIII apartments.[96] Apartments are shared by up to four students and have individual hygiene and cooking facilities. Leisure facilities, including clubhouses and pools, are shared among the residents of each building.

UTD apartments

On August 12, 2009 a 148,000-square-foot (13,700 m2) residence hall opened providing housing for 384 full-time freshmen residents and 16 peer advisers. The new residence hall offers living learning environments that group students with similar interests and majors. The building includes a mix of three-bedroom, single-bath suites for freshmen and one-bedroom, one-bath units for peer advisers. On each wing and each floor are several communal study areas, and the ground floor features a 1,800-square-foot (170 m2) glass-enclosed rotunda complete with pool and ping pong tables, a large-screen television, couches and chairs. The building also boasts two classrooms for freshmen-level classes. The building falls under the management of University Village.[97] A second residence hall, directly north to the current hall, is scheduled for completion in 2011. The Phase II residence hall will look identical to the first residence hall but will have additional study lounges and music practice rooms.[98]

Waterview Park consists of four “phases” of apartments for a total of 696 units and spans 33 acres (130,000 m2). Each phase has a pool and occasionally other recreational areas including volleyball courts and basketball courts. There are 11 floor plans that vary from 1-bedroom efficiencies to 4-bedroom units. An additional seven buildings include offices, study/activity centers and laundry facilities. Waterview attracted a certain amount of controversy, being dubbed "the Dorm from Hell" in an April 2005 article in the Dallas Observer.[99] University authorities took the allegations seriously enough to institute an internal inquiry. In 2006, $874,000 dollars in repairs were recommended by an inspection agency that was hired in response to this article.[100] Most of the issues in that report have been remediated, as UTD Mercury covered in their report one year later.[101]

Dining on campus

Students have a selection of food sources on campus, the Student Union building houses The Pub and Comet Cafe.[102] The first dining hall on campus opened August 12, 2009, in conjunction with the opening of the first residence hall.[103] The 28,000-square-foot (2,600 m2) dining hall houses a wide variety of options, and is divided into seven sections. Terra Vé features vegetarian and vegan options, while The Kitchen includes home-style entrees. Chefs tending The Fresh Grille will prepare grilled-to-order items, and Fresh Market includes soup, salad and ice cream/yogurt bars. Trattoria features a brick oven and offers pizzas, pasta and other hot meals. The Bakery serves fresh baked breads and desserts, and My Pantry allows diners the option of making their own waffles, as well as a chef who will prepare made-to-order omelets. Finally, La Posada dishes out traditional Tex-Mex cuisine and is outfitted with a tortilla maker.[104]

Building plans

Student Services building. A LEED Platinum Building.

By fall of 2010, almost 600,000 square-feet (56,000 m2) has been added to the campus since 2007,[37] including a 73,000-square-foot (6,800 m2) Math, Science and Engineering Teaching-Learning Center (MSET), a renovation and expansion of Founders Hall, a new 74,000-square-foot (6,900 m2) Student Services Building and a 148,000-square-foot (13,700 m2) 400-bed Residence Hall.[105][106] The UT System Board of Regents has approved plans for a second $31 million 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) freshman Residence Hall. Site work is set to begin in July 2010 and the second residence hall is planned for occupancy by fall 2011.[107] The UT System Board of Regents has also approved plans for a new, 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m2), University Bookstore and Visitors Center. The project has a budget of $9.5 million and a projected completion date of November 2011. In addition to the bookstore and visitors center the project will include a coffee shop, a Comet merchandise retail center, a Technology Store and a Copy Center.[108] A new $40 million, 96,000-square-foot (8,900 m2), Arts and Technology Center is scheduled to start in 2011 with a projected completion date of May 2012.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Student life

Activities

The University of Texas at Dallas has many activities and over 130 registered student organizations.[109] The Activity Center contains a state-of-the-art fitness center, racquetball courts, squash courts, basketball courts, a multi-purpose room, and indoor swimming pool. Also available are sand volleyball courts, soccer fields, tennis courts, softball fields, and baseball fields. The Club Sports Program consists of recognized student organizations whose goals are to promote and develop common sports or recreation related interests. Each club sport has been formed, organized, managed, and maintained by student leaders at The University of Texas at Dallas.[110]

The Billiard team was organized by a group of students known as the BOC Crew. They spent most of their free time in the Student Union and PUB playing pool. They organized this group to help bring competition to the University. The UTD Billiard team has won numerous trophies in all divisions, including A, B and C ranks. They have competed in tournaments held at various universities throughout Texas.[111]

Operating under the auspices of the Office of Undergraduate Education, the UTD Debate Team has won the Cross Examination Debate Association's "Brady Lee Garrison Newcomer Sweepstakes Award" in spring 1997. The team hosted its first annual "Fear and Loathing in Dallas" tournament in January 2004. It is now the largest annual regular season college tournament in the region with over 325 participants, coaches, and judges in attendance. UTD first qualified a team for the National Debate Tournament in 2004 and has qualified each year since. The UT Dallas debate squad finished its 2009-10 season as the only organization in the country to advance a team to the quarterfinals in both the 64th Annual National Debate Tournament (NDT) and the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA).[112] Members of UTD debate team come from across the country and most receive some level of merit-based scholarship.[113]

The internationally-ranked UT Dallas chess team was launched in 1996 under the direction of Timothy Redman, and has contended for many recent national championships.[2] UTD's chess players have won or tied for the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship title for four out of the last five years. The university recruits worldwide for its chess team and has been able to attract many International Master level players. Currently, the team includes two Grandmaster level players, Alejandro Ramirez and Magesh Panchanathan. The UTD chess team won the Southwest Collegiate Championship in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008. It also won the Transatlantic Cup in 2007 and 2008, defeating University of Belgrade in an international chess match.[114]

In 2008 and for the eighth year in a row, creative problem-solving teams from UT Dallas excelled at the Destination ImagiNation Global Finals, taking an unprecedented seven firsts and one second against collegiate teams from across the country. The UT Dallas teams placed first in Hit or Myth, CHORIFIC! Switch!, Super Max Extreme, Max Extreme, Extendo Day, Extendo Night and second place in SuperMax Extreme. Other collegiate teams hailed from The University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University, Virginia Tech, James Madison University, the University of Michigan, the University of Wyoming and Clarkson University. [115]

Student government

The UT Dallas Student Government serves as the official student voice to the UTD administration, The University of Texas System Board of Regents, and other governmental entities.[116] The student government makes recommendations to the Board of Regents and the University, takes positions on non-University issues pertinent to students, obtains feedback from students, and performs other services as needed.[117]

The business of Student Government is carried about by a Student Senate that is elected annually during the spring semester. There are 44 members of Senate: the President, Vice President, seven freshmen Senators appointed from Residential Senate, seven sophomores elected at-large, one junior and one senior from each of the University's seven schools, and fourteen graduate students. The Executive Committee comprises the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Chairmen of each standing committee. Any seats unfilled after elections or vacated during the year are filled by Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation. The Senate meets monthly during the summer and semimonthly during the fall and spring semesters. It conducts business formally according to Robert's Rules of Order. Visitors are permitted to speak at the beginning of each meeting and always permitted to observe.[118]

Student media

The UTD Mercury is the official student newspaper of The University of Texas at Dallas since 1980. They publish 7,000 copies every other Monday during the fall and spring semesters, and every third Monday during the summer. It is distributed for free around campus or at the UTD newsroom in the Student Union. The UTD Mercury also publishes online at utdmercury.com.[119] In 2004, another student newspaper named A Modest Proposal (AMP) was formed. In contrast to The UTD Mercury, which is almost all news articles, AMP features mostly editorial content. AMP is published once a month, eight times a year. Any student, faculty, or staff of UTD can contribute to the paper. The contributing body of AMP selects up to five editors in each semester, and they serve the duration of the semester. Copies of AMP are available for free at the first of each month around the campus, and can also be downloaded in PDF format from their website.[120]

Radio UTD, the university's student-run radio station, is a young but growing force in college radio. It offers streaming music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and also broadcasts UTD sports games. The station has been nominated three times for College Music Journal (CMJ) awards.[121][122] Radio UTD has also been featured on XM Satellite Radio Channel 43 (XMU) on The Student Exchange Program. They are the youngest station to be chosen to "take over" the airwaves for this two-hour show.[123] In 2009, UTD TV, an internet-based campus TV station, was founded and launched by students. Still in its infancy, it has already webcast a range of student-interest programs from campus news and amusing serial stories to student affairs coverage and more.[124]

Traditions

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Cecil Green's head

Some of the traditions that give UT Dallas its distinctive flavor are Homecoming, Annual Oozeball Tournament, Ceremonial Mace, Legacy Lane, Welcome Week, Sounds of Class, Family Day and Cecil Green’s Head. Cecil Green helped found The University of Texas at Dallas and outside Green Hall there is a bronze bust of Cecil Green. Rubbing Green’s head for good luck has become a tradition for many students on their way to exams or presentations. Holiday Sing is one of the oldest tradition on campus, the annual Holiday Sing started in 1976 and is hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities during the month of December. Splatterbeat takes place in mid-semester in the fall. It is the opportunity to beat trashcans in rhythm to music while each tap flings different color paint all over you and your friends. Recently added is the Spirit Rock located on the mall between the Jonsson and Green buildings. Students and organizations are allowed to paint whatever they like on the rock, provided it conforms to rules of student conduct.[125]

Athletics

UTD Comets athletics logo

The University of Texas at Dallas athletics program started when UTD provisionally joined the NCAA Division III and the American Southwest Conference in 1998.[126] UTD was granted full membership in the ASC in 2002, and since then the Comets have become perennial title contenders in several sports including men's and women's soccer, baseball, men's tennis, softball, men's basketball and most recently volleyball. Additionally, athletes from several individual sports have made their mark on conference competition. UT Dallas fields 13 intercollegiate teams with more than 250 student athletes.[127]

Varsity athletics

During the 2002 inaugural season, the men and women's soccer teams competed for conference championships. The women won the 2002 ASC title and UTD ended up hosting the conference tournament as well as the first round of NCAA playoffs in UTD's first year as active members. The success continued in 2003-04 when men's and women's soccer, men's basketball, baseball and softball all advanced to the post-season.[128] In 2005, the UTD Athletic Program claimed three ASC Championships: men's soccer and men's basketball as well as a co-championship in women's soccer. The men's soccer and basketball teams advanced to the NCAA Division III national playoffs in their sports. Baseball and softball also made its third consecutive appearance in the ASC post-season tournament.[128] The Comets women's volleyball team claimed an ASC East Division regular season co-championship (shared with East Texas Baptist University) in 2006. On December 20, 2006 the Comets men's basketball team upset the The University of Texas at Arlington Mavericks 78-76 at UT Arlington's Texas Hall and became the first Division III team to defeat a Division I basketball team during the 2006-2007 season.[129] In 2007, the men's soccer team won the ASC championship, advancing to the NCAA tournament. Having 8 new team players as starters and only 3 veterans, the Comets led by top goal scorers Kevin White from Houston and Mihai Cotet from Braila, Romania led the team to its second ASC Tournament title in history.[130] The 2007 men's tennis program had a very successful season, beating Division II teams and advancing as far as the ASC Conference final before falling to Hardin-Simmons. The women's volleyball team claimed the 2009 American Southwest Conference championship at the UT Dallas Activity Center. The 25-0, 2009 women's volleyball team were the only undefeated NCAA Division III team in the nation. [131] The woman's 2009 basketball team won the ASC East Division title and in 2009 the men's basketball team won the ASC championship, advancing in the NCAA Division III Tournament as far as the "Elite Eight" before falling in an OT loss. [132]

Intramural sports

The Intramural Sports program at The University of Texas at Dallas offer a wide array of activities that include various leagues and tournaments ranging from Texas Hold ‘Em Poker to Flag Football and Sports Trivia.[133] UTD has grown as a collegiate level flag football powerhouse. Its 2004 Co-Rec intramural flag football champs, the Killer Bees, went on to defeat many NCAA Division I schools at the Texas regional tournament, including UT Austin (in a shut-out win) where they were crowned regional champs. They progressed to the national championships where they finished third at the National Tournament in New Orleans, beating college football powerhouses Nebraska and North Carolina State along the way. UTD played host to the 2005 Texas Regional Flag Football Tournament and host to the 2007 National Flag Football Tournament. In 2007 UTD teams placed in the Top 8 in the Men's and Co-Rec Division and again defeated The University of Texas at Austin.[134]

In the fall of 1992 the university had an intercollegiate pistol team that won several placements in state tournaments and collegiate sectionals, in both individual and team events. The events competed in are as follows: air pistol, junior air pistol, women's air pistol, standard pistol, free pistol and women's sport pistol. One member of the team, Eric Colbath, was an All-American and went to Collegiate Nationals in 1993, 1994 and 1995 as an individual and Chris Jones went to Collegiate Nationals as an individual in 1995. The team disbanded at the end of spring 1995 when the core members graduated.[135]

Notable people

NASA Astronaut - James Reilly

Main article: List of The University of Texas at Dallas people

UT Dallas people includes an Antarctic explorer,[24] an astronaut,[136] members of the National Academies,[137] a Nobel laureate,[138] a writer and folklorist,[139] a member of India’s Parliament,[140] the founder of the world’s first molecular nanotechnology company[141] and others who have achieved prominent careers in business, government, engineering, science, medicine, the arts and education.

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Notes

  1. ^ Official name of the University includes the article, "The University of Texas at Dallas"
  2. ^ Some publications require a paid subscription to view their rankings, an indirect reference is provided in those cases.

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