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Domee Shi, an Academy Award-winning director and artist, has been selected to receive the 2023 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to her 2018 Oscar for the animated short film “Bao,” Shi was nominated again for an Academy Award this year for Disney and Pixar’s “Turning […]

The University of Texas at Dallas speech team continues to grow and improve its program, earning second place in a statewide spring tournament. “We had an exceptional showing at the state tournament — probably one of our best tournaments yet,” said Dr. John Gooch, coach of Comet Speech and Forensics and associate professor of rhetoric […]

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 […]

“The type of experience that creative hobbies can give you, a lot of people need to realize how useful they are.” Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always loved art. I’ve been drawing and painting forever. Once I started at UT Dallas, I found that I had electives and began exploring the possibilities of […]

This spring, three retired faculty leaders at The University of Texas at Dallas were awarded honorary emeritus titles for their dedicated service and long-lasting influence on the University. Drs. Paul Fishwick, Edward J. Harpham and Allan Dean Sherry joined 90 current retired UT Dallas presidents, deans and professors who have received this lifetime academic appointment. […]

The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at UT Dallas recently announced a major gift from alumnus Richard Kurjan MS’82 to name the school’s Center for Translation Studies after its founder, Dr. Rainer Schulte. According to Kurjan, the gift acknowledges the world-renowned expert in literature translation who he credits with deeply […]

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 […]

“I feel that an artist’s perspective is really integral to any business.” I want to do advertisements and social media in the future. I want to do movie trailers and advertise art events, or produce ads for music festivals or film festivals. I think that a minor in visual arts will really help me understand […]

“Music sort of has always been, obviously a creative outlet, but also you know my main social outlet.“ Up until my senior year of high school, up until it was time to decide, I had been planning to audition for conservatories. I was in the Utah Youth Symphony. I played in several different ones, but […]

At The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center in Dallas, groups of vulnerable individuals come together every Tuesday and Thursday evening for an art therapy session led by Gia Kirk, a student at The University of Texas at Dallas.  For the first time in the day, approximately ten men and women at the center put down their […]