Category: Arts, Humanities, and Technology

The University of Texas at Dallas has been included in The Princeton Review‘s list of the “Top Schools for Video Game Design Study for 2011,” based on a survey of administrators at 150 schools offering video game design programs or degrees. UT Dallas made the list of top 10 graduate programs for its innovative Arts and […]

Dr. Monica Rankin’s essay, “La ropa cósmica: Identity and Fashion in 1940s Mexico,” published in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (SLAPC), Vol. 28 (2010), has been selected as the “Honorable Mention” for the Twenty-Fifth Annual Carlos and Guillermo Vigil award given for the best article in each issue. The announcement of the honor will be made […]

Moments after introducing Santa Claus at the 34th Annual Holiday Sing, UT Dallas faculty member (and Holiday Sing director) Kathryn Evans received a holiday gift of her own. Evans was presented with a special Distinguished Service Award to honor her 16 years at UT Dallas. Winston Stone, director of the UT Dallas Wind Ensemble, presented […]

Three Korean student interns at The University of Texas at Dallas have since returned home, but their memories will last a lifetime. The students were the first participants in the new Global Communication and Leadership Institute (GCLI), which plays a key role in the development of a global humanities program designed to foster international understanding. […]

Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth was interviewed on KERA’s “Think” program on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. She was promoting her new book, When the Danube Ran Red, an extraordinary and moving account of Ozsváth’s own experience of the Holocaust.

Literary studies student Sally Stewart has been selected to receive a University of Texas at Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. The award carries with it a $500 stipend for Stewart and an additional $300 in research support funds for her faculty advisor, Dr. Theresa Towner. Says Towner, “Sally won the research award to support her honors […]

UT Dallas dominated the recent Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) Student Competition, winning a total of four awards. In the Graduate Fiction category, Douglas Frank took first place with his short story, “The Last Summer of Fireflies.” For Undergraduate Fiction, first place was awarded to Paige Cunningham for her story, “Pens & Needles,” […]

Sarah Bowman, who received her PhD in Humanities in 2008 and is currently an adjunct instructor in ATEC, has recently published The Functions of Role-Playing Games. It’s a revised version of her dissertation. Wei Shao, a PhD candidate in Humanities, has published the Chinese version of her memoir, Homeland, with the New Century Publishing House in Taiwan.

Richardson, Texas (August 30, 2010) – As part of the Dallas Museum of Art’s “México 200” celebration of the bicentennial of Mexican independence, acclaimed poet Homero Aridjis will give a reading on Friday, September 17, at 9:00 p.m. at the Dallas Museum of Art’s monthly Late Night. The bilingual reading will come from two of Aridjis’ poetry […]

Two members of the Arts and Humanities faculty at UT Dallas will take part in the Late Nights program at the Dallas Museum of Art this Friday, Aug. 20. Frank Dufour will give a brief presentation about his favorite work of art at 9:00 pm, and Susan Briante will give a poetry reading at 9:30 pm […]