Category: Alumni

The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) awarded a prestigious summer fellowship to a University of Texas at Dallas PhD student. Hamida Khatri, a UT Dallas teaching assistant at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology and second-year PhD student pursuing a degree in Arts, Technology, & Emerging Communication, is […]

Dr. Diane Durant, PhD’13, associate professor of instruction at the University of Texas at Dallas, is spearheading a project to spotlight members of the University’s LGBTQIA+ population through professional portraits, providing the UTD community a glimpse into the compelling personal narratives of each participant. Durant, a Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and […]

The Humanities Without Walls (HWW) consortium selected Kathryn Whitlock MA’21, a Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology PhD student, for a highly competitive career exploration program in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Whitlock, a second-year PhD student in Critical Media Studies, is among 25 doctoral candidates in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who […]

Megan Stewart, a senior at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (the Bass School) at The University of Texas at Dallas, secured a summer internship with video game giant Activision Blizzard. Stewart is expecting to graduate with a BA in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication with a concentration in Animation […]

For Joan Bernstein BA’08, MA’10, learning is an essential part of life. So even after she receives her doctoral degree in literature this spring and becomes the oldest-ever University of Texas at Dallas PhD graduate, Bernstein will continue to expand her education. “I can’t even call it learning — it’s like air. It’s an inner excitement,” she […]

University of Texas at Dallas donors contributed more than $2.5 million to 143 campus groups during Comets Giving Days on April 19-20. A record-breaking 2,959 gifts were made during the seventh annual two-day fundraising event. The Karbala Center for Humanity made one of the largest single gifts, contributing $136,000 to the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (AHT). The […]

Patricia Mathu BA’22, a recent history graduate from the School of Arts and Humanities, has been selected for the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The highly competitive national program provides a stipend and tuition support for students pursuing graduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “My time at UT Dallas has […]

Patricia Mathu was one of seven University of Texas at Dallas students and alumni selected for the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The highly competitive national program provides a stipend and tuition support for students pursuing graduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Mathu was born and raised in suburban […]

Dr. Nils Roemer, Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, presided over the school’s recent commencement ceremony, congratulating graduates on the completion of their degrees. He also spoke about the importance of creativity. Here is a small portion of his speech: “Creativity is the foundation on which you have honed skills, refined techniques, […]

Two recent PhD graduates from UT Dallas’ School of Arts and Humanities recently published separate short story collections. Brian DiNuzzo, PhD’19, a writer and educator based in Allentown, New Jersey, recently published a collection of short stories, called “Hoaxes and Other Stories.” The characters populating DiNuzzo’s debut short story collection may be eccentrics, but at […]