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The University of Texas at Dallas honored its latest endowed chairs and professors along with their supporters at an investiture ceremony before honorees’ families, colleagues and friends April 17 in the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building Lecture Hall. “UT Dallas is one of the nation’s youngest premier research universities,” Dr. Richard C. Benson, UT […]

The University of Texas at Dallas received a record 3,141 gifts and raised more than $1 million for the sixth consecutive year during the ninth annual Comets Giving Days on April 9-10. The annual fundraising event brought in $1.1 million to benefit 128 UT Dallas groups. The Basic Needs Resource Center, which opened last fall, […]

Harold Williams BA’13, MA’14, PhD’24 admits he was a terrible high school student. Regardless, education has always been an important part of his life, culminating with a PhD in the history of ideas from The University of Texas at Dallas at the age of 72. From a Vietnam veteran to a horse wrangler to a […]

Friends and family continue to honor the life and legacy of Enric Madriguera MS’84, PhD’93 nearly a year after the death of the longtime University of Texas at Dallas professor. Richard Kurjan MA’82, a 2024 UT Dallas distinguished alum, established the Enric F. Madriguera Guitar Fund to support the guitar studies program and its students. […]

New $5 million partnership aims to enhance safety and efficiency in aviation maintenance using XR technologies Richardson, Texas – [2/11/2025] – The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are embarking on a groundbreaking research initiative focused on the application of Extended Reality (XR) technologies—such as virtual reality (VR), augmented […]

The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas mourns the recent passing of Dr. David F. Channell, one of the University’s longest-serving educators.

Dr. Paula Cuellar Cuellar, an oral historian of modern and contemporary Latin American history, seeks to shed light on the stories of people traditionally marginalized by society during periods of human rights violation and mass violence. Cuellar Cuellar, who recently joined The University of Texas at Dallas as an assistant professor of history and a […]

The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at UT Dallas is proud to host the 16th Annual Research, Art and Writing (RAW) Graduate Student Conference on March 1, 2025.   This year’s theme, “Bait, Prompt, and Aid,” invites critical dialogue on cultural identity, migration, colonial legacies, and heritage preservation, bridging embodied and digital […]

In December, the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas celebrated the academic achievements of 200 undergraduate and graduate students. The Fall 2024 semester concluded with a commencement ceremony on December 17th. A total of 160 bachelor’s, 14 master’s, and 16 doctoral degrees were awarded […]

The University of Texas at Dallas’ 3D Studio LightSquad is giving the more than 2 million viewers of the Dallas night skyline a gift of holiday light animations across the 23-story LED facade of the Omni Dallas Hotel. The 12 Days of Christmas LED light display, produced by undergraduate and graduate students in Andrew Scott’s […]