University of Texas at Dallas
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The University of Texas at Dallas, also referred to as UT Dallas or UTD, is a public research university in the University of Texas System
. The main campus is in the heart of the Richardson
, Texas
, Telecom Corridor
, 18 miles (29 km) north of downtown
Dallas
. The institution, established in 1961 as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and later renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS), began as a research arm of Texas Instruments
. In 1969 the founders bequeathed SCAS to the State of Texas and Governor Preston Smith signed the bill officially creating the University of Texas at Dallas.
UTD offers over 142 academic programs across its seven schools and hosts more than 50 research centers and institutes. With a number of interdisciplinary degree programs, its curriculum is designed to allow study that crosses traditional disciplinary lines and to enable students to participate in collaborative research labs. Entering freshmen average math and critical reading SAT scores are consistently above 1200 and are among the highest of the public universities in Texas. The Carnegie Foundation classifies UT Dallas as a "comprehensive doctoral research university" and a "high research activity institution". Research projects include the areas of space science, bioengineering, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, and behavioral and brain sciences.
UT Dallas owns approximately 710 acres (2.9 km²) of generally contiguous land in Richardson, Texas consisting of 445 acres (1.8 km²) for campus development and another 265 acres (1.1 km²) adjacent to the main campus. From 2007 the university has added or started construction on more than 1000000 square feet (92,903 m²) of new facilities including the first academic structure in Texas to be rated a LEED
Platinum facility. In addition to the new facilities a $30-million campus landscape enhancement was completed in late 2010 and the university received a "B-" on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, which includes efforts to protect and conserve natural resources.
The school has a Division III athletics program in the American Southwest Conference
and fields 13 intercollegiate teams. Student activities include more than 160 registered organizations and students provided more than 20,000 volunteer hours at community agencies in 2010. The university has a nationally recognized debate team, recruits worldwide for its chess team and the only school in Texas to field teams in all three of the major pre-law competitions. As of the 2010 fall commencement the university had over 68,250 alumni, who have earned more than 74,900 degrees.
, Cecil Howard Green
and J. Erik Jonsson
, purchased Geophysical Service Incorporated
(GSI) on December 6, 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor
. With the increase in defense contracts 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. Qualified personnel required by TI were not readily available in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
because the region's universities did not provide enough graduates with advanced training in engineering and physical sciences. TI was forced to recruit talent from other states during its expansion and 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". To compensate for this shortage 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 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 UTD campus in 1964. 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. On June 13, 1969 Governor Preston Smith signed the bill adding the institution to the University of Texas System and creating the University of Texas at Dallas. 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.
became the university’s first president and served until 1981. At that time the campus consisted of only one facility, the Founders Building. During Jordan's 10 year tenure the university's campus expanded with the addition of a number of new facilities including the Cecil H. Green Hall, J. Erik Jonsson Hall, Lloyd V. Berkner Hall, the Eugene McDermott Library, a 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. Prior to 1975 only graduate students were enrolled. Juniors and seniors were admitted for the first time in 1975 and enrollment increased from 700 in the fall of 1974 to 3,333 in 1975 and by the fall of 1977 to more than 5,300 students. The university's first bachelor's degree was awarded at the school's 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. 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's 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. Robert H. Rutford, an Antarctic explorer recognized with the naming of the Rutford Ice Stream
and Mount Rutford
in Antarctica, became the second president of UT Dallas in May 1982. Rutford served as head of the university until 1994. During his tenure as president, the university secured approval for a school of engineering, added freshmen and sophomores to its student body and built the first on-campus housing. UT Dallas school of engineering opened 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. In 1990, the Texas Legislature authorized the university to admit freshman and sophomore students. Franklyn Jenifer became the third president of UT Dallas in 1994 and served until 2005. Under Jenifer, UT Dallas's enrollment increased from less than 8,500 to nearly 14,000.
(April 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007), UTD's second Nobel laureate, the institute has grown and is now the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute. The addition of new facilities continued with the Engineering and Computer Science South Building, a three-story 152000 square feet (14,121.3 m²) add-on to the university's existing engineering facility in August 2002 and in the fall of 2003 the 204000 square feet (18,952.2 m²) School of Management building opened and featured 29 classrooms, two computer labs, and a 350-seat auditorium. 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, a four-story 192000 square feet (17,837.4 m²) research facility, completed in December 2006, the Center for BrainHealth
, near the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
, dedicated in January 2007 and almost 600000 square feet (55,741.8 m²) of new facilities added from 2007 to 2010. In 2009 UT Dallas marked its 40 years as a Texas public university and 20 years of freshman enrollment in the university.
The U.S. News & World Report's 2012 edition of Best Colleges categorized the University of Texas at Dallas as a "Tier 1" national university, ranked 143 overall, 73 in their national public school rankings and 3rd among Texas public universities. The 2011 Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings
placed UTD at 301–400 worldwide and 111–137 national rank. They also ranked UT Dallas Social Sciences at 52–75 worldwide and Economics / Business at 44 worldwide. The Washington Monthly
2011 annual college and university rankings placed UTD at 222. Kiplinger's
Personal Finance magazine, 100 Best Values in Public Colleges 2011, ranked UTD at 54th in value for in state residents and 67th for out of state students.
UTD's undergraduate business programs ranked 81st overall and 39th among public university business schools in the U.S. according to BusinessWeek
's 2010 rankings and ranked 30th in overall student satisfaction The 2010 Bloomberg BusinessWeek public universities rankings of undergraduate programs by specialty placed the UTD school of management 10th in both accounting and business law, 1st in teaching of quantitative methods, 3rd in teaching of calculus and sustainability concepts, 6th in financial management, 7th in ethics and 9th in corporate strategy course work.
The U.S. News and World Reports, "America's Best Graduate Schools 2012", ranks the Full-Time MBA program among the top 40 in the nation and 17 among public universities in the U.S. Additional rankings by the U.S. News & World Report's, "Best Graduate Schools 2012", include, Computer Engineering at 61, Electrical Engineering at 66, Management Information Systems at 18 and the School of Engineering and Computer Science at 70.
UT Dallas ranked 10 in the 2011 Princeton Review’s
list of the top graduate game design programs. In 2010 the UTD Geography
and Geospatial Sciences
program ranked 16th nationally and first in Texas by Academic Analytics of Stony Brook, N.Y. Programs ranked less often than annually include the US News & World Report ranking of the university's graduate audiology program as 4th in the nation and its graduate speech-pathology program at 12th in the nation.
B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering. UTD's Arts and Technology program is Texas's first comprehensive degree designed to merge computer science and engineering with creative arts and the humanities. In 2004 the School of Arts and Humanities introduced the Arts and Technology (ATEC) program with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and in 2008 a complementary major, Emerging Media and Communication (EMAC), was offered. In January 2007 the university offered the first doctoral degree in criminology in Texas. The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences administers the degree. The Bioengineering department offers MS and PhD degrees in biomedical engineering in conjunction with programs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
and the University of Texas at Arlington
. Geospatial Information Sciences is jointly offered with the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and with the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS), which administers the degree. The EPPS program was the first from Texas admitted to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and offered the first master of science in geospatial information sciences in Texas. UT Dallas is the fourth university in the nation to received an accreditation from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
(USGIF) for a Geospatial Intelligence certificate.
For the fiscal year ending August 2011, UTD's research expenditures totaled $93,894,309.
Space science research 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. 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. 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
.
UT Dallas conducts cybersecurity research in a number of areas including cross-domain information sharing, data security and privacy, data mining for malware detection, geospatial information security, secure social networks, and secure cloud computing. The university is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for the academic years 2008-2013 by the National Security Agency
and Department of Homeland Security.
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
. The NanoTech Institute has produced more than 200 refereed journal articles, 13 of which have been published in Science
or Nature
, and given over 300 lectures in the United States and abroad. Ray Baughman was ranked number 30 on the March 2, 2011, Thomson Reuters list of the top 100 materials scientists.
The Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL), a four-story, 192000 square feet (17,837.4 m²) research facility, was completed in December 2006 after two years of construction. Including ISO
7 cleanroom
facilities, the $85 million building provides open floor plans that allows chemists, biologists, nanotechnologists, materials scientists and other specialists to conduct multidisciplinary research. The laboratory provides extensive wet lab, fabrication, instrumentation, and high performance computing facilities to foster biomedical engineering and nano-technology research. The Nanoelectronics
Materials Laboratory, on the fourth floor, includes a system that allows researchers to deposit thin film materials one atomic layer at a time. In May 2011 a $3 millon JEOL ARM200F scanning transmission electron microscope with an atomic resolution of 0.78 picometers, was added to the research laboratory, already home to two transmission electron microscopes.
The Center for BrainHealth
, both its own facility and part of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a research institute with clinical interventions focused on brain health. The center is located near the UT Dallas' Callier Center for Communication Disorders and adjacent to the north campus of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
in the city of Dallas. Brain research is concentrated on brain conditions, diseases, and disorders including, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, autism, dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and working memory.
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). Research, at the center, includes the causes, prevention, assessment and treatment of communication disorders and the facilities include laboratories for research in child language development and disorders, autism spectrum disorders, speech production, hearing disorders, neurogenic speech and language, cochlear implants and aural habilitation.
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.
and Collin
counties. UT Dallas owns generally contiguous land in Richardson, Texas consisting of approximately 465 acres (1.9 km²) for campus development and another 265 acres (1.1 km²) adjacent to the campus. UTD's Waterview Science & Technology Center and the Research and Operations Center, a leased building, are adjacent to the main campus, on the west side of Waterview Parkway in the Dallas, Texas city limits. UTD's Callier Center, 8 buildings, is on 5.5 acre (0.02225773 km²) adjacent to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
in the city of Dallas and nearby the Center for BrainHealth
, a single building, on 3.5 acre (0.01416401 km²). 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. The UTD Mercury noted in a February 15, 2011 article that a lack of on-campus parking has been an ongoing problem. Additional parking lots were added in 2010 and 2011. However, due to the continued increase in enrollment, the lack of available parking spaces continues to be a frustrating issue for the students. In November 2011 the UT System Board of Regents approved initial plans for two five-story parking structures. The two structures will increase the University’s parking capacity by 1,500 spaces. The university received a "B-" on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, which includes efforts to protect and conserve natural resources.
features such as bronze glass, bronze aluminum frames, unadorned geometric shapes, unusual surfaces, and unorthodox layouts. This later modern styling is seen in the Engineering and Computer Science building, School of Management, Cecil and Ida Green Center, and Natural Science and Engineering Research Lab facility (sometimes called the Mermaid Building due to its colorful anodized shingles). The Student Services building, completed in 2010, is the first academic structure in Texas to be rated a LEED
Platinum facility by the United States Green Building Council. To provide protection from inclement weather and extreme temperatures, many of the buildings on campus are connected by a series of elevated indoor walking paths also referred to as skyway
s.
corridor consisting of a densely planted natural creek bed along the central entry median to the campus Allée
. The main mall or 'Allée' includes 116 hand-picked columnar 'Claudia Wannamaker' Magnolias alongside five reflecting pools and four human-scale chess boards to represent the national and international achievements of the school's chess team. At the northern terminus of the Allée and between the McDermott Library and the Student Union is a pavilion-sized plaza. The plaza includes a granite fountain complete with mist column, an overhead trellis to be eventually covered in wisteria
vines and a temperature-modifying shade structure design. The landscape architecture firm of Peter Walker and Partners
(PWP) was the prime consultant for the project. PWP is recognized for design of the 1000 acres (4 km²) Millennium Parklands in Sydney, Australia for the 2000 Summer Olympics and currently the World Trade Center Memorial at Ground Zero in Manhattan.
—the firm that designed Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. A new Visual Arts Studio that will include areas for design, drawing, painting, sculpture studios and exhibition space is projected to start in June 2012 with a completion date in the summer of 2013. The $10 million, 25000 square feet (2,322.6 m²) facility will include space for advanced studio work for the Masters in Fine Arts. In October 2011 the University of Texas System Board of Regents approved a $25 million funding program to build a 100000 square feet (9,290.3 m²) addition to the Naveen Jindal School of Management with an estimated completion date in 2014. In November 2011 the UT System Board of Regents has approved initial plans for a fourth, 600 bed residential facility, including a dining hall with seating for 800, a recreation center and a parking garage. Work on the $75 million, 285000 square feet (26,477.4 m²), facility is expected to begin in November 2012.
course. The university’s Club Sports Program consists of student organizations that promote common sports and recreation interests.
The UT Dallas Debate Team was established in the fall of 1996 and won the Cross Examination Debate Association's
"Brady Lee Garrison Newcomer Sweepstakes Award" in spring 1997. UTD first qualified a team for the National Debate Tournament
in 2004 and has qualified each year since. In 2004 the team also hosted its first annual "Fear and Loathing" tournament, the largest annual regular season college tournament in the region with more than 325 participants, coaches, and judges in attendance. 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
and the Cross Examination Debate Association, held in March 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley
. In March 2011, UT Dallas was host to the 65th National Debate Tournament and placed 9th out of 78 teams.
The school fields teams in the major pre-law competitions: Moot Court, Mock Trial and Mediation. UT Dallas is the only Texas university to compete in all three and the law schools acceptance rate for UTD pre-law graduates was 86% in 2009. In November 2009, the UT Dallas team won the National Mediation Tournament championship in the advocate/client division. The tournament was held at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago
. In 2010, UTD students again placed first and second in the advocate/client division to win the Dan Stamatelos National Trophy for Advocacy. The tournament was held at the Drake University Law School
and UT Dallas was the only school to place two teams to the final rounds. UTD received first, second and fourth place at the November 2010, South Central Regional Moot Court Championships. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's, William H. Bowen School of Law
was host to the 32 teams.
UTD's recent campus enhancement project included four human-scale chess boards to represent the national and international achievements of the school's chess team. The internationally ranked UT Dallas chess team was launched in 1996 under the direction of Timothy Redman, a two-time president of the U.S. Chess Federation and professor of literary studies in UTD’s School of Arts and Humanities. The university recruits worldwide for its chess team and 18 Grandmaster and International Masters have played for UT Dallas from 1996 to 2010. UT Dallas offers chess scholarships to qualified student-players and several full four-year tuition tournament-based scholarships. UT Dallas has taken first place in eight of its 12 appearances at the Texas State College Championship and the UTD chess team has won or tied for first place in the Southwest Collegiate Championship for the years 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The UTD chess team has won the Transatlantic Cup in 2007, 2008, 2009 and tied the 2011 match with the University of Belgrade
. As of 2010, UTD's chess players have won or tied eight of the last eleven Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
titles. UT Dallas won first place with a perfect 6-0 score and the Best All-Around Women’s Team in the December 2010 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship The UT Dallas chess team has competed in each consecutive Final Four of Chess tournaments starting in 2001 though 2011, winning or tying for first place five times.
, the university's student-run, internet-only, radio station offers streaming music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and broadcasts UTD sports games. Radio UTD has also been featured on XM Satellite Radio Channel 43 (XMU
) on The Student Exchange Program. The radio station was nominated for three college radio awards at the 2010 College Music Journal
annual Music Marathon and Festival. The nominations were for the following categories, Best Use of the Internet, Best Use of Limited Resources and Station of the Year. 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.
under the name University Village. Apartment floor plans vary from 1-bedroom to 4-bedroom units and amenities include swimming pools, volleyball courts, outdoor grills, and study centers. According to a UTD Mercury September 18, 2011 article both graduate and upperclassman housing continues to be in short supply due to the increase in enrollment. During the 2010 fall semester, 64 percent of new freshmen lived on campus and 23 percent of undergraduates lived in on-campus housing.
On August 12, 2009 a 148000 square feet (13,749.6 m²) residence hall, (Residence Hall South), 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 1800 square feet (167.2 m²) glass-enclosed rotunda with pool and ping-pong tables, large-screen televisions, couches and chairs. A 2nd, 150000 square feet (13,935.5 m²) residence hall, (Residence Hall North), was officially completed June 27, 2011 and a 3rd freshmen residence hall adjacent to the two existing halls has been approved and planned for occupancy by fall 2012. In November 2011 the UT System Board of Regents has approved initial plans for a fourth, 600 bed residential facility, including a dining hall with seating for 800, a recreation center and a parking garage. Work on the $75 million, 285000 square feet (26,477.4 m²), facility is expected to begin in November 2012.
, Chick-fil-A
, Chef’s Table and Papa John's. The first dining hall on campus opened on August 12, 2009 in conjunction with the opening of the first residence hall. The 28000 square feet (2,601.3 m²) dining hall provides seating for more than 400 and offers a variety of options including vegetarian and vegan options, home-style entrees, grilled-to-order items, pizzas and pasta, made-to-order omelets and traditional Tex-Mex cuisine. All first-year students living on campus are required to purchase a meal plan; meal plans are optional for all other students who live on campus.
(1927 - 2005). Margaret McDermott, wife of UTD founder Eugene McDermott (1899-1973), presented the sculpture to the university in 1976. The sculpture is affectionately known on campus as the Love Jack. Recently added is the Spirit Rock 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.
(ASC) in 1998 and was granted full membership in the ASC in 2002. Varsity sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. In addition to varsity sports, the university's Sport Clubs Programs offers recreational and competitive sport clubs, including inline hockey, fencing, rugby, racquetball, mixed martial arts and soccer.
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. 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. 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 was the only undefeated NCAA Division III team in the nation at the time. The women’s volleyball team won the 2011 ASC East title with an un-defeated home record of 6-0, and a conference record of 14-2. The woman's 2009 basketball team won the ASC East Division title, whereas the UTD men's basketball team won the ASC East Division both in 2010 and 2011. For the 2011 season, the Comets men's baseball team finished in second place in the ASC East qualifying for the ASC Tournament for the eighth time in the program’s 10-year history.
UT Dallas people includes an Antarctic explorer, an astronaut, members of the National Academies, a Nobel laureate, a writer and folklorist, a member of India’s Parliament, the founder of the world’s first molecular nanotechnology company and others who have achieved prominent careers in business, government, engineering, science, medicine, the arts and education.
University of Texas System
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. The main campus is in the heart of the Richardson
Richardson, Texas
Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2011 the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high...
, Texas
Texas
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, Telecom Corridor
Telecom Corridor
The Telecom Corridor is a technology business center in Richardson, Texas , a northern suburb of Dallas, which contains over 25 million square feet of office space and accounts for over 82,600 jobs. The Corridor is a strip about 6.5 miles long along U.S...
, 18 miles (29 km) north of downtown
Downtown Dallas
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Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
. The institution, established in 1961 as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and later renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS), began as a research arm of Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
. In 1969 the founders bequeathed SCAS to the State of Texas and Governor Preston Smith signed the bill officially creating the University of Texas at Dallas.
UTD offers over 142 academic programs across its seven schools and hosts more than 50 research centers and institutes. With a number of interdisciplinary degree programs, its curriculum is designed to allow study that crosses traditional disciplinary lines and to enable students to participate in collaborative research labs. Entering freshmen average math and critical reading SAT scores are consistently above 1200 and are among the highest of the public universities in Texas. The Carnegie Foundation classifies UT Dallas as a "comprehensive doctoral research university" and a "high research activity institution". Research projects include the areas of space science, bioengineering, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, and behavioral and brain sciences.
UT Dallas owns approximately 710 acres (2.9 km²) of generally contiguous land in Richardson, Texas consisting of 445 acres (1.8 km²) for campus development and another 265 acres (1.1 km²) adjacent to the main campus. From 2007 the university has added or started construction on more than 1000000 square feet (92,903 m²) of new facilities including the first academic structure in Texas to be rated a LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
Platinum facility. In addition to the new facilities a $30-million campus landscape enhancement was completed in late 2010 and the university received a "B-" on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, which includes efforts to protect and conserve natural resources.
The school has a Division III athletics program in the American Southwest Conference
American Southwest Conference
The American Southwest Conference is a college athletic conference, founded in 1996, whose member schools compete in the NCAA's Division III. The schools are located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi...
and fields 13 intercollegiate teams. Student activities include more than 160 registered organizations and students provided more than 20,000 volunteer hours at community agencies in 2010. The university has a nationally recognized debate team, recruits worldwide for its chess team and the only school in Texas to field teams in all three of the major pre-law competitions. As of the 2010 fall commencement the university had over 68,250 alumni, who have earned more than 74,900 degrees.
Establishment
The UT Dallas founders, Eugene McDermottEugene McDermott
Eugene McDermott was a geophysicist and co-founder of first of Geophysical Service and later of Texas Instruments.Born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 12, 1899. He graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 with a mechanical engineering degree.-Early career:Upon graduation,...
, Cecil Howard Green
Cecil Howard Green
Cecil Howard Green was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
and J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson
John Erik Jonsson was a co-founder and former president of Texas Instruments Incorporated. A skillful businessman, he became mayor of Dallas, a major factor in the creation of DFW airport and a philanthropist in later years....
, purchased Geophysical Service Incorporated
Geophysical Service Incorporated
Geophysical Service Inc. was founded by John Clarence Karcher and Eugene McDermott in 1930 for the purpose of using refraction and reflection seismology to explore for petroleum deposits. It became one of the most successful seismic exploration contractors in the industry for many years...
(GSI) on December 6, 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...
. With the increase in defense contracts 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. Qualified personnel required by TI were not readily available in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. The area is divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas–Plano–Irving and Fort Worth–Arlington. Residents of the area...
because the region's universities did not provide enough graduates with advanced training in engineering and physical sciences. TI was forced to recruit talent from other states during its expansion and 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". To compensate for this shortage 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
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...
. Land for the center was acquired by Jonsson, McDermott, and Green in Richardson 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 UTD campus in 1964. 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. On June 13, 1969 Governor Preston Smith signed the bill adding the institution to the University of Texas System and creating the University of Texas at Dallas. 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.
Expansion and growth
In July 1971, Bryce JordanBryce Jordan
Bryce Jordan was the fourteenth president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1983 until 1990. Prior to that he served as interim president of the University of Texas at Austin from 1970 to 1971 and as first president of The University of Texas at Dallas from 1971 to 1981.During...
became the university’s first president and served until 1981. At that time the campus consisted of only one facility, the Founders Building. During Jordan's 10 year tenure the university's campus expanded with the addition of a number of new facilities including the Cecil H. Green Hall, J. Erik Jonsson Hall, Lloyd V. Berkner Hall, the Eugene McDermott Library, a campus bookstore and the Visual Arts Building.. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...
granted accreditation to UT Dallas in 1972 and in 1973 the first UT Dallas diplomas were awarded. Prior to 1975 only graduate students were enrolled. Juniors and seniors were admitted for the first time in 1975 and enrollment increased from 700 in the fall of 1974 to 3,333 in 1975 and by the fall of 1977 to more than 5,300 students. The university's first bachelor's degree was awarded at the school's 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. 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's first Nobel
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
laureate, the late Polykarp Kusch
Polykarp Kusch
Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and...
, 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. Robert H. Rutford, an Antarctic explorer recognized with the naming of the Rutford Ice Stream
Rutford Ice Stream
Rutford Ice Stream is a major Antarctic ice stream, about 180 miles long and over 15 miles wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf...
and Mount Rutford
Mount Rutford
Mount Rutford is a sharp peak that rises to and marks the highest point on Craddock Massif in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. The peak stands just north of Bugueño Pinnacle and 2.1 mi north of Mount Craddock, with which this naming is associated...
in Antarctica, became the second president of UT Dallas in May 1982. Rutford served as head of the university until 1994. During his tenure as president, the university secured approval for a school of engineering, added freshmen and sophomores to its student body and built the first on-campus housing. UT Dallas school of engineering opened 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. In 1990, the Texas Legislature authorized the university to admit freshman and sophomore students. Franklyn Jenifer became the third president of UT Dallas in 1994 and served until 2005. Under Jenifer, UT Dallas's enrollment increased from less than 8,500 to nearly 14,000.
Recent history
In the fall of 2001 Ray Baughman and Anvar Zakhidov left Honeywell International to establish the UT Dallas NanoTech Institute. With a donation in 2001 from Jim Von Ehr of $3.5 million and the 2002 appointment of the late Alan MacDiarmidAlan MacDiarmid
Alan Graham MacDiarmid ONZ was a chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.-Early life:He was born in Masterton, New Zealand as one of five children - three brothers and two sisters...
(April 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007), UTD's second Nobel laureate, the institute has grown and is now the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute. The addition of new facilities continued with the Engineering and Computer Science South Building, a three-story 152000 square feet (14,121.3 m²) add-on to the university's existing engineering facility in August 2002 and in the fall of 2003 the 204000 square feet (18,952.2 m²) School of Management building opened and featured 29 classrooms, two computer labs, and a 350-seat auditorium. In June 2005, David E. Daniel
David E. Daniel
David Edwin Daniel is the current and fourth president of the University of Texas at Dallas where he has served since 2005. Daniel received his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980, where he also served as a faculty member until 1996 before moving to the...
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, a four-story 192000 square feet (17,837.4 m²) research facility, completed in December 2006, the Center for BrainHealth
Center for BrainHealth
The Center for BrainHealth, part of The University of Texas at Dallas' school of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a research institute focused exclusively on brain health that combines brain research with clinical interventions. Founded by Dr...
, near the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is one of the biomedical research institutions of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the teaching hospital, and biomedical research...
, dedicated in January 2007 and almost 600000 square feet (55,741.8 m²) of new facilities added from 2007 to 2010. In 2009 UT Dallas marked its 40 years as a Texas public university and 20 years of freshman enrollment in the university.
Student body
In fall 2010, UTD had a total of 17,128 students enrolled consisting of 10,648 undergraduates students and 6,480 postgraduates students, which includes 1,143 doctoral students. Relative to most universities in the United States, the school is unusual because it has more males, 56%, than females. The 2010 demographic ethnicity at the school was White American 44%, Asian-American 18%, International 16%, Hispanic 11%, and African-American 6%. Top undergraduate majors are Business Administration, Biology, Accounting & Information Management, Psychology, Electrical Engineering, Arts & Technology, and Computer Science. The top graduate programs are Business Administration, Accounting & Information Management, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Humanities, Finance, Information Technology & Management, and Communication Disorders. The U.S. News & World Report's 2012 edition of Best Colleges classified UTD's admission process as "more selective" with an acceptance rate of 49.9%. In the fall 2011-12 academic year 1,786 freshmen enrolled of which, 39% had finished in the top 10% of their class, 74% in the top quarter and 52 are National Merit Scholars. Entering freshmen average math and critical reading SAT scores are consistently above 1200, (1248 for fall 2011), and are among the highest of the public universities in Texas. For 2010 the middle 50% of the freshmen had average scores as follows: in critical reading, 540–670, math, 590–700, and in writing 530–650. The freshman-to-sophomore retention rate from 2009 to 2010 was 85 percent. For the spring 2011 commencement the university granted 989 graduate and PhD degrees and 1,166 undergraduates degrees. This brought the number of degrees granted by the university to more than 74,900 and over 68,250 alumni.Rankings
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| ARWU Academic Ranking of World Universities The Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually... World |
301–400 |
| ARWU Academic Ranking of World Universities The Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually... National |
111–137 |
| USNWR U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories... National University |
143 |
| WM The Washington Monthly The Washington Monthly is a bimonthly nonprofit magazine of United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D.C.The magazine's founder is Charles Peters, who started the magazine in 1969 and continues to write the "Tilting at Windmills" column in each issue. Paul Glastris, former... National University |
222 |
The U.S. News & World Report's 2012 edition of Best Colleges categorized the University of Texas at Dallas as a "Tier 1" national university, ranked 143 overall, 73 in their national public school rankings and 3rd among Texas public universities. The 2011 Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings
Academic Ranking of World Universities
The Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually...
placed UTD at 301–400 worldwide and 111–137 national rank. They also ranked UT Dallas Social Sciences at 52–75 worldwide and Economics / Business at 44 worldwide. The Washington Monthly
The Washington Monthly
The Washington Monthly is a bimonthly nonprofit magazine of United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D.C.The magazine's founder is Charles Peters, who started the magazine in 1969 and continues to write the "Tilting at Windmills" column in each issue. Paul Glastris, former...
2011 annual college and university rankings placed UTD at 222. Kiplinger's
Kiplinger
Kiplinger is a Washington, D.C.-based publisher of business forecasts and personal finance advice, available in print, online, audio, video and software products ....
Personal Finance magazine, 100 Best Values in Public Colleges 2011, ranked UTD at 54th in value for in state residents and 67th for out of state students.
UTD's undergraduate business programs ranked 81st overall and 39th among public university business schools in the U.S. according to BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek
Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
's 2010 rankings and ranked 30th in overall student satisfaction The 2010 Bloomberg BusinessWeek public universities rankings of undergraduate programs by specialty placed the UTD school of management 10th in both accounting and business law, 1st in teaching of quantitative methods, 3rd in teaching of calculus and sustainability concepts, 6th in financial management, 7th in ethics and 9th in corporate strategy course work.
The U.S. News and World Reports, "America's Best Graduate Schools 2012", ranks the Full-Time MBA program among the top 40 in the nation and 17 among public universities in the U.S. Additional rankings by the U.S. News & World Report's, "Best Graduate Schools 2012", include, Computer Engineering at 61, Electrical Engineering at 66, Management Information Systems at 18 and the School of Engineering and Computer Science at 70.
UT Dallas ranked 10 in the 2011 Princeton Review’s
The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review is an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company. The Princeton Review operates in 41 states and 22 countries across the globe. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college...
list of the top graduate game design programs. In 2010 the UTD Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
and Geospatial Sciences
Geospatial
Geospatial analysis is an approach to applying statistical analysis and other informational techniques to geographically based data. Such analysis employs spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets, including geographic information systems and...
program ranked 16th nationally and first in Texas by Academic Analytics of Stony Brook, N.Y. Programs ranked less often than annually include the US News & World Report ranking of the university's graduate audiology program as 4th in the nation and its graduate speech-pathology program at 12th in the nation.
Academic programs
For fall 2010, the University of Texas at Dallas offered 142 academic programs across its seven schools including, 51 baccalaureate programs, 62 masters programs and 30 doctoral programs. The school also offers 30 undergraduate and graduate certificates. With a number of interdisciplinary degree programs its curriculum is designed to allow study that crosses traditional disciplinary lines and enable students to participate in collaborative research labs. In 2002 the UTD Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science was the first in the United States to offer an ABET-accreditedAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
ABET, Inc., formerly the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, is a non-profit organization that accredits post-secondary education programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology...
B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering. UTD's Arts and Technology program is Texas's first comprehensive degree designed to merge computer science and engineering with creative arts and the humanities. In 2004 the School of Arts and Humanities introduced the Arts and Technology (ATEC) program with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and in 2008 a complementary major, Emerging Media and Communication (EMAC), was offered. In January 2007 the university offered the first doctoral degree in criminology in Texas. The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences administers the degree. The Bioengineering department offers MS and PhD degrees in biomedical engineering in conjunction with programs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is one of the biomedical research institutions of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the teaching hospital, and biomedical research...
and the University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington is a public research university located in Arlington, Texas, United States. The campus is situated southwest of downtown Arlington, and is located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. The university was founded in 1895 and served primarily a military...
. Geospatial Information Sciences is jointly offered with the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and with the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS), which administers the degree. The EPPS program was the first from Texas admitted to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and offered the first master of science in geospatial information sciences in Texas. UT Dallas is the fourth university in the nation to received an accreditation from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation is a non-profit organization in Virginia dedicated to supporting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft. The organization's mission is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, share best practices, and promote the education and importance of a...
(USGIF) for a Geospatial Intelligence certificate.
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Research
The 2010 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education classifies UT Dallas as a "comprehensive doctoral research university" and a "high research activity institution". Research projects include the areas of space science, bioengineering, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, and behavioral and brain sciences. The university has more than 50 research centers and institutes and the UTD Office of Technology Commercialization, a technology transfer center, serves as the bridge between laboratory research and commercial development.For the fiscal year ending August 2011, UTD's research expenditures totaled $93,894,309.
Space science research 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)
CINDI
CINDI, or the Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation is a NASA mission of opportunity payload aboard the C/NOFS satellite. Mission of opportunity is part of the Explorer program.-External links:**...
, which was launched in April 2008 in cooperation with the United States Air Force. CINDI, which is part of the payload for the Communication and Navigation Outage Forecast System
C/NOFS
C/NOFS, or Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System is a satellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate to investigate and forecast scintillations in the Earth's ionosphere...
program, seeks to uncover information about the equatorial plasma bubbles that interrupt radio signals. Furthermore, under the leadership of John H. Hoffman
John H. Hoffman
John Hoffman is a space scientist who developed instruments for Apollo 15, Apollo 16, Apollo 17, the Pioneer Venus project, and Giotto mission. He also designed the mass spectrometer for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission in May 2008. He is currently a professor of physics at the University of Texas...
, the center designed the mass spectrometer for the Phoenix Mars Lander as part of the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer
Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer
The Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer is a scientific instrument aboard the Phoenix spacecraft. TEGA's design is based on experience gained from the failed Mars Polar Lander. Soil samples taken from the Martian surface by the robot arm are eventually delivered to the TEGA, where they are heated in...
(TEGA) experiment in cooperation with the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
.
UT Dallas conducts cybersecurity research in a number of areas including cross-domain information sharing, data security and privacy, data mining for malware detection, geospatial information security, secure social networks, and secure cloud computing. The university is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for the academic years 2008-2013 by the National Security Agency
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
and Department of Homeland Security.
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
Hideki Shirakawa
Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of conductive polymers together with physics professor Alan J. Heeger and chemistry professor Alan G...
. The NanoTech Institute has produced more than 200 refereed journal articles, 13 of which have been published in Science
Science (journal)
Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals....
or Nature
Nature (journal)
Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
, and given over 300 lectures in the United States and abroad. Ray Baughman was ranked number 30 on the March 2, 2011, Thomson Reuters list of the top 100 materials scientists.
The Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL), a four-story, 192000 square feet (17,837.4 m²) research facility, was completed in December 2006 after two years of construction. Including ISO
ISO 14644-1
ISO 14644-1, Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments—Part 1: Classification of air cleanliness, was the first ISO 14644 International Standard prepared by ISO Technical Committee 209...
7 cleanroom
Cleanroom
A cleanroom is an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, that has a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. More accurately, a cleanroom has a controlled level of contamination that is specified by...
facilities, the $85 million building provides open floor plans that allows chemists, biologists, nanotechnologists, materials scientists and other specialists to conduct multidisciplinary research. The laboratory provides extensive wet lab, fabrication, instrumentation, and high performance computing facilities to foster biomedical engineering and nano-technology research. The Nanoelectronics
Nanoelectronics
Nanoelectronics refer to the use of nanotechnology on electronic components, especially transistors. Although the term nanotechnology is generally defined as utilizing technology less than 100 nm in size, nanoelectronics often refer to transistor devices that are so small that inter-atomic...
Materials Laboratory, on the fourth floor, includes a system that allows researchers to deposit thin film materials one atomic layer at a time. In May 2011 a $3 millon JEOL ARM200F scanning transmission electron microscope with an atomic resolution of 0.78 picometers, was added to the research laboratory, already home to two transmission electron microscopes.
The Center for BrainHealth
Center for BrainHealth
The Center for BrainHealth, part of The University of Texas at Dallas' school of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a research institute focused exclusively on brain health that combines brain research with clinical interventions. Founded by Dr...
, both its own facility and part of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a research institute with clinical interventions focused on brain health. The center is located near the UT Dallas' Callier Center for Communication Disorders and adjacent to the north campus of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is one of the biomedical research institutions of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the teaching hospital, and biomedical research...
in the city of Dallas. Brain research is concentrated on brain conditions, diseases, and disorders including, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, autism, dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and working memory.
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). Research, at the center, includes the causes, prevention, assessment and treatment of communication disorders and the facilities include laboratories for research in child language development and disorders, autism spectrum disorders, speech production, hearing disorders, neurogenic speech and language, cochlear implants and aural habilitation.
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
University of Essex
The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...
in England.
Scholarship programs
All freshmen admitted to the university are automatically considered for an Academic Excellence Scholarship Award. Effective for the fall 2012 incoming freshmen class the awards range from $3,000 per year for tuition and mandatory fees up to complete coverage of UT Dallas tuition and mandatory fees plus $3,000 per semester cash stipend to defray the costs of books, supplies and other expenses. 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. 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.Campus
The main campus is in the heart of the Richardson, Texas, Telecom Corridor, 18 miles (29 km) north of downtown Dallas, on the boundary of DallasDallas County, Texas
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,218,899 people, 807,621 households, and 533,837 families residing in the county. The population density was 2,523 people per square mile . There were 854,119 housing units at an average density of 971/sq mi...
and Collin
Collin County, Texas
As of the census of 2000, there were 491,675 people, 181,970 households, and 132,292 families residing in the county. The population density was 580 people per square mile . There were 194,892 housing units at an average density of 230 per square mile...
counties. UT Dallas owns generally contiguous land in Richardson, Texas consisting of approximately 465 acres (1.9 km²) for campus development and another 265 acres (1.1 km²) adjacent to the campus. UTD's Waterview Science & Technology Center and the Research and Operations Center, a leased building, are adjacent to the main campus, on the west side of Waterview Parkway in the Dallas, Texas city limits. UTD's Callier Center, 8 buildings, is on 5.5 acre (0.02225773 km²) adjacent to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is one of the biomedical research institutions of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the teaching hospital, and biomedical research...
in the city of Dallas and nearby the Center for BrainHealth
Center for BrainHealth
The Center for BrainHealth, part of The University of Texas at Dallas' school of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a research institute focused exclusively on brain health that combines brain research with clinical interventions. Founded by Dr...
, a single building, on 3.5 acre (0.01416401 km²). 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. The UTD Mercury noted in a February 15, 2011 article that a lack of on-campus parking has been an ongoing problem. Additional parking lots were added in 2010 and 2011. However, due to the continued increase in enrollment, the lack of available parking spaces continues to be a frustrating issue for the students. In November 2011 the UT System Board of Regents approved initial plans for two five-story parking structures. The two structures will increase the University’s parking capacity by 1,500 spaces. The university received a "B-" on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, which includes efforts to protect and conserve natural resources.
Architecture
Early architecture on the campus exhibits typical characteristics of Brutalism, 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 postmodernPostmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture began as an international style the first examples of which are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but did not become a movement until the late 1970s and continues to influence present-day architecture...
features such as bronze glass, bronze aluminum frames, unadorned geometric shapes, unusual surfaces, and unorthodox layouts. This later modern styling is seen in the Engineering and Computer Science building, School of Management, Cecil and Ida Green Center, and Natural Science and Engineering Research Lab facility (sometimes called the Mermaid Building due to its colorful anodized shingles). The Student Services building, completed in 2010, is the first academic structure in Texas to be rated a LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
Platinum facility by the United States Green Building Council. To provide protection from inclement weather and extreme temperatures, many of the buildings on campus are connected by a series of elevated indoor walking paths also referred to as skyway
Skyway
In an urban setting, a skyway, catwalk, sky bridge, or skywalk is a type of pedway consisting of an enclosed or covered bridge between two buildings. This protects pedestrians from the weather. These skyways are usually owned by businesses, and are therefore not public spaces...
s.
Landscape Architecture
A 30-million dollar Campus Landscape Enhancement Project, largely funded by Margaret McDermott the wife of UTD founder Eugene McDermott (1899-1973), was started in October 2008 and completed in late 2010. The project encompassed all aspects of landscape architecture from campus identity to pedestrian strategies, future growth patterns, sustainability and establishing a campus core. The project included the reforestation of the main entry drive with more than 5,000 native trees. Each tree hand-picked and individually arranged by the landscape architect after careful study of native stands in Texas, which includes the commitment to a riparianRiparian zone
A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. Riparian is also the proper nomenclature for one of the fifteen terrestrial biomes of the earth. Plant habitats and communities along the river margins and banks are called riparian vegetation, characterized by...
corridor consisting of a densely planted natural creek bed along the central entry median to the campus Allée
Avenue (landscape)
__notoc__In landscaping, an avenue or allée is traditionally a straight route with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each, which is used, as its French source venir indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape or architectural feature...
. The main mall or 'Allée' includes 116 hand-picked columnar 'Claudia Wannamaker' Magnolias alongside five reflecting pools and four human-scale chess boards to represent the national and international achievements of the school's chess team. At the northern terminus of the Allée and between the McDermott Library and the Student Union is a pavilion-sized plaza. The plaza includes a granite fountain complete with mist column, an overhead trellis to be eventually covered in wisteria
Wisteria
Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing vines native to the eastern United States and to China, Korea, and Japan. Aquarists refer to the species Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae, as Water Wisteria...
vines and a temperature-modifying shade structure design. The landscape architecture firm of Peter Walker and Partners
Peter Walker (architect)
Peter Walker is a landscape architect in the United States.-Biography and Influences:Peter Walker grew up in California and attended the University of California, Berkeley. Walker initially started out in Journalism but quickly changed his field...
(PWP) was the prime consultant for the project. PWP is recognized for design of the 1000 acres (4 km²) Millennium Parklands in Sydney, Australia for the 2000 Summer Olympics and currently the World Trade Center Memorial at Ground Zero in Manhattan.
Building plans
The university added almost 600000 square feet (55,741.8 m²) of new facilities from 2007 through 2010. The facilities include a 74000 square feet (6,874.8 m²) Science Learning Center (SLC), a renovation and expansion of Founders Hall, a 74000 square feet (6,874.8 m²) Student Services Building and a 148000 square feet (13,749.6 m²) 400-bed Residence Hall South. More than 600000 square feet (55,741.8 m²) of additional facilities are planned for completion from 2011 through 2013. A second, $31 million 150000 square feet (13,935.5 m²), freshman Residence Hall North was started in July 2010 and officially completed on June 27, 2011. A $9.5 million 33000 square feet (3,065.8 m²), University Bookstore and Visitor Center was started in January 2011 and completed in July 2011. A 3rd, $31 million 151000 square feet (14,028.4 m²), freshmen Residence Hall has been approved and planned for occupancy by fall 2012. Groundbreaking for a $60 million, 157920 square feet (14,671.2 m²), Arts and Technology Building was held on September 28, 2011 with a projected completion date of fall 2013. Spaces include 2,150 classroom seats and 50 faculty offices, a 1200 seat auditorium, 2D drawing and painting art studios, 3D art studios, and an exterior video screen showcasing ATEC projects and other visual arts. For the design UT Dallas chose Studios ArchitectureStudios Architecture
STUDIOS Architecture is an international design firm that was founded in 1985 in San Francisco, California. The firm provides architecture, master planning, interior design, environmental graphic design and strategic consulting services on commercial, mixed-use, civic, and institutional projects...
—the firm that designed Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. A new Visual Arts Studio that will include areas for design, drawing, painting, sculpture studios and exhibition space is projected to start in June 2012 with a completion date in the summer of 2013. The $10 million, 25000 square feet (2,322.6 m²) facility will include space for advanced studio work for the Masters in Fine Arts. In October 2011 the University of Texas System Board of Regents approved a $25 million funding program to build a 100000 square feet (9,290.3 m²) addition to the Naveen Jindal School of Management with an estimated completion date in 2014. In November 2011 the UT System Board of Regents has approved initial plans for a fourth, 600 bed residential facility, including a dining hall with seating for 800, a recreation center and a parking garage. Work on the $75 million, 285000 square feet (26,477.4 m²), facility is expected to begin in November 2012.
Activities
The University of Texas at Dallas has more than 160 registered student organizations, 15 national Greek-letter fraternities and sororities and students provided more than 20,000 volunteer hours at community agencies in 2009. UTD's 89000 square feet (8,268.4 m²) 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, baseball fields and a disc golfDisc golf
Disc golf is a disc game in which individual players throw a flying disc into a basket or at a target. According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, "The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc." Of the more than 3000...
course. The university’s Club Sports Program consists of student organizations that promote common sports and recreation interests.
The UT Dallas Debate Team was established in the fall of 1996 and won the Cross Examination Debate Association's
Cross Examination Debate Association
The Cross Examination Debate Association is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States. Throughout the school year, CEDA sanctions over 60 tournaments throughout the nation, including an annual National Championship Tournament that brings together over 175...
"Brady Lee Garrison Newcomer Sweepstakes Award" in spring 1997. UTD first qualified a team for the National Debate Tournament
National Debate Tournament
The National Debate Tournament is one of the national championships for collegiate policy debate in the United States. The tournament is sponsored by the American Forensic Association with the Ford Motor Company Fund.-History of the NDT:...
in 2004 and has qualified each year since. In 2004 the team also hosted its first annual "Fear and Loathing" tournament, the largest annual regular season college tournament in the region with more than 325 participants, coaches, and judges in attendance. 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
National Debate Tournament
The National Debate Tournament is one of the national championships for collegiate policy debate in the United States. The tournament is sponsored by the American Forensic Association with the Ford Motor Company Fund.-History of the NDT:...
and the Cross Examination Debate Association, held in March 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. In March 2011, UT Dallas was host to the 65th National Debate Tournament and placed 9th out of 78 teams.
The school fields teams in the major pre-law competitions: Moot Court, Mock Trial and Mediation. UT Dallas is the only Texas university to compete in all three and the law schools acceptance rate for UTD pre-law graduates was 86% in 2009. In November 2009, the UT Dallas team won the National Mediation Tournament championship in the advocate/client division. The tournament was held at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago
John Marshall Law School (Chicago)
The John Marshall Law School is a law school in Chicago, Illinois, that was founded in 1899 and accredited by the American Bar Association in 1941. The school was named for the influential nineteenth century U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall....
. In 2010, UTD students again placed first and second in the advocate/client division to win the Dan Stamatelos National Trophy for Advocacy. The tournament was held at the Drake University Law School
Drake University Law School
Drake University Law School is a fully accredited law school of Drake University, located in Des Moines, Iowa. The school has over 400 full-time students. The school is presently led by Dean Allan Vestal. The most recent edition of US News and World Report's Best Law Schools ranked Drake in the...
and UT Dallas was the only school to place two teams to the final rounds. UTD received first, second and fourth place at the November 2010, South Central Regional Moot Court Championships. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's, William H. Bowen School of Law
University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law
The William H. Bowen School of Law is part of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and was established in 1975. The law school is public, and has approximately 450 law students enrolled in full-time and part-time divisions. The annual entering class is approximately 155 students...
was host to the 32 teams.
UTD's recent campus enhancement project included four human-scale chess boards to represent the national and international achievements of the school's chess team. The internationally ranked UT Dallas chess team was launched in 1996 under the direction of Timothy Redman, a two-time president of the U.S. Chess Federation and professor of literary studies in UTD’s School of Arts and Humanities. The university recruits worldwide for its chess team and 18 Grandmaster and International Masters have played for UT Dallas from 1996 to 2010. UT Dallas offers chess scholarships to qualified student-players and several full four-year tuition tournament-based scholarships. UT Dallas has taken first place in eight of its 12 appearances at the Texas State College Championship and the UTD chess team has won or tied for first place in the Southwest Collegiate Championship for the years 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The UTD chess team has won the Transatlantic Cup in 2007, 2008, 2009 and tied the 2011 match with the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...
. As of 2010, UTD's chess players have won or tied eight of the last eleven Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
The Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship is the foremost intercollegiate team chess championship in the Americas...
titles. UT Dallas won first place with a perfect 6-0 score and the Best All-Around Women’s Team in the December 2010 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship The UT Dallas chess team has competed in each consecutive Final Four of Chess tournaments starting in 2001 though 2011, winning or tying for first place five times.
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 free around campus or at the UTD newsroom in the Student Union. The UTD Mercury also publishes online at utdmercury.com. In April 2011, the Mercury won 12 awards at the 101st annual Texas Intercollegiate Press Association IPA convention. 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. 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. Radio UTDRadio UTD
Radio UTD is the student-run, internet-only radio station of the University of Texas at Dallas located in Richardson, TX. Radio UTD streams 24/7, though live shows are broadcast from Sunday-Friday 8am-2am. The station employs five student managers and is home to more than forty volunteer DJs with...
, the university's student-run, internet-only, radio station offers streaming music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and broadcasts UTD sports games. Radio UTD has also been featured on XM Satellite Radio Channel 43 (XMU
XMU (XM)
Sirius XMU is an indie pop, indie rock, unsigned artist music channel on XM Satellite Radio channel 35...
) on The Student Exchange Program. The radio station was nominated for three college radio awards at the 2010 College Music Journal
College Music Journal
College Music Journal, commonly known as CMJ, is a music events/publishing company which hosts an annual festival in New York City, the CMJ Music Marathon, as well as a weekly magazine of and for the music industry and college radio stations in the United States and Canada. It publishes top 30...
annual Music Marathon and Festival. The nominations were for the following categories, Best Use of the Internet, Best Use of Limited Resources and Station of the Year. 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.
Residential housing
Total on-campus housing capacity for the 2011-2012 academic year was 4,754 beds, which consisted of 1,237 apartments (3,954 beds) and two 400-bed residential halls for freshmen. 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. Buildings 38–67, 541 units, and the residence halls are owned by the university and privately managed by American Campus CommunitiesAmerican Campus Communities
American Campus Communities Inc. is a university housing development company with its headquarters in Bee Cave, Texas, near Austin....
under the name University Village. Apartment floor plans vary from 1-bedroom to 4-bedroom units and amenities include swimming pools, volleyball courts, outdoor grills, and study centers. According to a UTD Mercury September 18, 2011 article both graduate and upperclassman housing continues to be in short supply due to the increase in enrollment. During the 2010 fall semester, 64 percent of new freshmen lived on campus and 23 percent of undergraduates lived in on-campus housing.
On August 12, 2009 a 148000 square feet (13,749.6 m²) residence hall, (Residence Hall South), 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 1800 square feet (167.2 m²) glass-enclosed rotunda with pool and ping-pong tables, large-screen televisions, couches and chairs. A 2nd, 150000 square feet (13,935.5 m²) residence hall, (Residence Hall North), was officially completed June 27, 2011 and a 3rd freshmen residence hall adjacent to the two existing halls has been approved and planned for occupancy by fall 2012. In November 2011 the UT System Board of Regents has approved initial plans for a fourth, 600 bed residential facility, including a dining hall with seating for 800, a recreation center and a parking garage. Work on the $75 million, 285000 square feet (26,477.4 m²), facility is expected to begin in November 2012.
Dining on campus
Students have a selection of food sources on campus. The Student Union building houses The Pub and the Comet Cafe food court which includes a SubwaySubway (restaurant)
Subway is an American restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates, Inc. . Subway is one of the fastest growing franchises in the world with 35,519 restaurants in 98 countries and territories as of October 25th, 2011...
, Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A
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, Chef’s Table and Papa John's. The first dining hall on campus opened on August 12, 2009 in conjunction with the opening of the first residence hall. The 28000 square feet (2,601.3 m²) dining hall provides seating for more than 400 and offers a variety of options including vegetarian and vegan options, home-style entrees, grilled-to-order items, pizzas and pasta, made-to-order omelets and traditional Tex-Mex cuisine. All first-year students living on campus are required to purchase a meal plan; meal plans are optional for all other students who live on campus.
Traditions
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, Splatterbeat 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. In front of the Erik Jonsson Academic Center is the sculpture Jack, created in 1971 by artist Jim LoveJim Love (artist)
Jim Love was an American modernist sculptor who was born in Amarillo, Texas. He graduated from Baylor University in 1952 with a baccalaureate in business administration. After graduation, He moved to Houston, Texas...
(1927 - 2005). Margaret McDermott, wife of UTD founder Eugene McDermott (1899-1973), presented the sculpture to the university in 1976. The sculpture is affectionately known on campus as the Love Jack. Recently added is the Spirit Rock 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.
Athletics
The University of Texas at Dallas athletics program started when UTD provisionally joined the NCAA Division III and the American Southwest ConferenceAmerican Southwest Conference
The American Southwest Conference is a college athletic conference, founded in 1996, whose member schools compete in the NCAA's Division III. The schools are located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi...
(ASC) in 1998 and was granted full membership in the ASC in 2002. Varsity sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. In addition to varsity sports, the university's Sport Clubs Programs offers recreational and competitive sport clubs, including inline hockey, fencing, rugby, racquetball, mixed martial arts and soccer.
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. 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. On December 20, 2006 the Comets men's basketball team upset the University of Texas at ArlingtonUniversity of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington is a public research university located in Arlington, Texas, United States. The campus is situated southwest of downtown Arlington, and is located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. The university was founded in 1895 and served primarily a military...
Mavericks 78–76 at UT Arlington's Texas Hall
Texas Hall
Texas Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington is a combination theater and special events center. Seating capacity is 2,709 for stage productions and 3,309 for athletic events.Texas Hall hosts an average of 200-300 events per year...
and became the first Division III team to defeat a Division I basketball team during the 2006–2007 season. 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. 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 was the only undefeated NCAA Division III team in the nation at the time. The women’s volleyball team won the 2011 ASC East title with an un-defeated home record of 6-0, and a conference record of 14-2. The woman's 2009 basketball team won the ASC East Division title, whereas the UTD men's basketball team won the ASC East Division both in 2010 and 2011. For the 2011 season, the Comets men's baseball team finished in second place in the ASC East qualifying for the ASC Tournament for the eighth time in the program’s 10-year history.
Notable people
UT Dallas people includes an Antarctic explorer, an astronaut, members of the National Academies, a Nobel laureate, a writer and folklorist, a member of India’s Parliament, the founder of the world’s first molecular nanotechnology company and others who have achieved prominent careers in business, government, engineering, science, medicine, the arts and education.
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