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Before World War II, Eugene McDermott, Cecil Howard Green and J. Erik Jonsson, the founders of Geophysical Service Incorporated, established Texas Instruments in order to focus on designing instruments for tracking enemy aircraft and submarines. Because the company was forced to recruit engineering talent from other states during its expansion, 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."

In 1961, the institution began as a research arm of Texas Instruments, named the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest. The institute initially was housed in a library at Southern Methodist University. The land in which the institution is currently located was purchased in 1962, and the faculty of the institute moved into the new campus in 1964. The new institution recruited some of the best scientific talent in the nation. In 1967, the institute, was renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies. Following recommendations from Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System, on June 13, 1969, Governor Preston Smith signed the bill joining the institution to the University of Texas System and creating the University of Texas at Dallas. It was pushed in the Senate by freshman member O.H. "Ike" Harris of Dallas County. The school accepted its first students on September 18, 1969, however, UTD conferred only graduate degrees until 1975. UTD it began to enroll upper-division undergraduate students in 1974. In 1986 UTD established the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. Eventually, freshmen and sophomores were allowed by legislative decree in 1990.

学术

Student body

In fall of 2009, UTD had a total of 15,783 students enrolled. The school is unusual because it has more males, 56%, than females. The largest demographic ethnicity at the school is Anglo, with the second largest category being Asian-Americans. The school is 15% international students, 10% Hispanic, and 6% Native American. Two percent reported being unknown or other. UTD has significantly more upperclassman than underclassmen. Of the school's 9,801 undergraduates, the school has 1,518 freshmen and 1,289 sophomores. As for juniors and seniors, enrollment was 3,102 and 3,625 respectively.

As a state public university, the University of Texas at Dallas is subject to Texas House Bill 588, which guarantees graduating Texas high school seniors in the top 10% of their class admission to any public Texas university. In 2009, 36% of incoming freshmen finished in the top 10th of their graduating class, 70% in the top quarter and 92% in top half. Thirty-four percent had a high school GPA of 3.75 and higher and 64% had a GPA of 3.50 and higher. Entering freshmen average math and critical reading SAT scores are consistently above 1200 and are among the highest of any public university in Texas. Ninety-four percent of the incoming freshmen took the SAT with the middle 50% scores as follows: critical reading, 520–660, math, 560–690 and in writing 500–620. Forty-six percent of the incoming freshmen took the ACT, with the middle 50% scoring between 24 and 30. UTD also ranked 1st for public universities in the state of Texas and ranked 122 for U.S. colleges and universities with the highest SAT 75th Percentile Scores. The number of UTD freshmen National Merit Scholars, Fall 2009 41, ranks third in public universities in Texas and among the top 100 in the U.S. colleges and universities. Peterson's College Search rates UTD's entrance difficulty as "Very difficult , 54% of applicants were admitted".

The School of Management had the largest enrollment of 32.5%. Next the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at 19.1%. The School of Natural Science and Mathematics, 13.8% and the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences followed at 10.5%. The School of Arts and Humanities enrollment was 10.4%. The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences and the School of Interdisciplinary Studies were under 10%.

Rankings

University rankings (overall)
ARWU World	303-401
ARWU North & Latin America	113-138
Forbes	409
USNWR National University	Tier 3
WM National University	241

UT Dallas undergraduate programs in engineering have emerged in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings placing 60th among the nation’s public schools of engineering. The school’s graduate program U.S. News ranked 46th among public graduate schools of engineering and third among publicly funded schools in Texas. The school’s electrical engineering graduate program ranked 38th among comparable programs at other public universities and the graduate program in computer science is among the top 50 such programs at public universities. The Full-Time MBA program is among the top 50 in the nation, 24th among the nation’s public universities and 3rd for public school programs in the state of Texas according to the ranking by U.S. News and World Report. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2009 ranked the UTD Executive MBA program 22 globally and the Professional Part-Time MBA program in the top 25 nationally. The Wall Street Journal ranked UTD's Executive MBA program 6th in the nation by ROI and the Financial Times, 2009, ranked UTD's EMBA 1st for public Universities in Texas and 51 globally. The university's graduate audiology program is ranked 4th in the nation, and its graduate speech-pathology program is ranked 12th. Kiplinger top 100 colleges for 2009 ranked UTD at 80.

Research

In FY 2009, UT Dallas spent $65.8 million which currently places UTD research expenditure as the second highest, amongst non-medical institutions, in the University of Texas System for research funding. Current research is mostly centered in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science and the School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics. Much of the funding and support comes from Texas Instruments, UT Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas System, National Science Foundation, and NASA. For its work on cybersecurity, the university was designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research by the National Security Agency in 2008.

Research in space science 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 Dr. 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.

The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute was established in 2001 when Dr. 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. Since the NanoTech Institute’s establishment in the fall of 2001, the group has produced over 50 refereed journal articles, six of which have been published in Science or Nature.

The Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL), a four-story, 192,000-square-foot (17,800 m) research facility, was completed in December 2006 after two years of construction. Including ISO 7 cleanroom facilities, the $85 million building provides space for research from the university's departments of chemistry, biology, physics, electrical engineering, materials science and engineering, and behavioral and brain sciences. It also houses the Nanoelectronics Materials Laboratory, which conducts research into materials for integrated circuits used in technologies such as computers, mobile phones, and research into low-cost materials for organic electronics . One of NSERL's unique architectural features are the colorful anodized stainless steel shingles that cover 15% of the building’s façade. The spectrum of colors on the shingles is produced by the play of light on an oxide layer, which also protects them from corrosion.

Additional ongoing research initiatives at UT Dallas include, researchers overseeing the long-running British Election Study (BES). Dr. Harold Clarke, the Ashbel Smith professor of political science in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, and Dr. 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 Drs. David Sanders and Paul Whiteley of the University of Essex in England. Two UT Dallas computer science faculty will be working closely with a North Texas company that has received $2 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund to develop technology to enable instant deployment of wireless networks. UT Dallas physics student Alex Palmer has won an award from the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program to pursue research on particle physics. Studies to determine whether smoking harms hearing and whether childhood language development problems can be predicted were among the projects presented at a UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders forum for undergrad and graduate researchers. The University of Texas at Dallas Education Research Center will work with the National Student Clearinghouse and others to develop a groundbreaking research and reporting system that will help high schools measure the academic success of students after graduation. UT Dallas researchers have laid the groundwork for attaching virtually any organic molecule to silicon, a technological feat that promises to greatly improve semiconductor devices' performance in health care and solar power applications in particular. The findings by Dr. Yves Chabal's team were reported in the journal Nature Materials. Molecules that attempt to trick cancer cells into killing themselves off are the latest weapons being tested to win the war on cancer. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded $886,000 to Dr. Jung-Mo Ahn to study a new class of molecules designed to wring the life out of prostate cancer cells. Lauded for his landmark advancements in nanotechnology, optics and the science of physics as a whole, Dr. Anvar Zakhidov has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society. UT Dallas engineering faculty will play a leading role in three of the seven inaugural grants from a new medical technologies consortium, and engineering faculty will play a supporting role in three of the consortium's other four research awards.

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Although a relatively young institution, the university has grown quickly. Having a larger campus than the UT System's flagship school, University of Texas at Austin, there is plenty room for growth. The area controlled by UTD totals 866 acres (3.5 km²), with half of that (460 acres or 1.9 km²) designated as the real limit to "campus" development. The remainder is held and strategically subdivided and sold over time to increase the University's endowment.

Typical architecture

Early architecture on the campus exhibits typical characteristics of Brutalism which was 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 postmodern features of bronze glass, bronze aluminum frames, and include unadorned geometric shapes. Examples of later modern styling on campus are the Engineering and Computer Science building, the School of Management, the activities center, Cecil and Ida Green Center, the administration building and the new Natural Science and Engineering Research Lab building. These are unique in appearance, with marbled floors, large glass windows, unorthodox layouts, and in the case of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Lab, rather colorful. Facilitating rapid growth, there are also two temporary prefabricated units that serve as classrooms for many of the advanced math and science courses.

Many of the buildings are connected by a series of aerial walkways, so it is possible to walk from one side of campus to the other without exiting the buildings. The layout of the Jonsson building is particularly unusual, as its first and second floors are split by the Jonsson Performance Hall, the location of all University theatrical performances until the recent addition of the University Theater.

Landscaping

Starting in September 2006, the 30-million dollar UTD Campus Landscape Enhancement Project, largely funded by the wife of founder Eugene McDermott, is meant to enhance the current feel of campus. The project will encompass all aspects of landscaping on the 500-acre (2.0 km) campus and include more than 5,000 trees, 116 magnolias, five reflecting pools, human chess board, fountain and overhead trellis.

The first of several enhancements to be made will involve UTD’s campus perimeter and entrance roads, as well as the central plaza, where the major north-south and east-west pedestrian routes meet. Additions to the campus perimeter and entrance roads could include planting, fencing, landscaping, lighting and signage.

World-renowned landscaping firm Peter Walker and Partners is spearheading the project. PWP is also known for creating the 1,000-acre (4.0 km) Millennium Park in Sydney, Australia for the 2000 summer Olympics. They are also in charge of the World Trade Center Memorial Park. Other projects include the Nasher Sculpture Garden in the Dallas Arts District.

Residential housing

On-campus housing capacity of 4,354 consist of 1,245 apartments and a 400-bed residential hall 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. UTD receives the Utley foundation profit from the housing revenues other than the amount needed to pay off bonds and interest; the proceeds are allocated to upkeep and a portion to academic scholarships. Buildings 38-67, 549 units, and the Residence Hall are owned by the university and privately managed by American Campus Communities under the name University Village. Freshman who live on campus have the option to live in either the Residence Hall or in UV Phase VIII apartments. Apartments are shared by up to four students and have individual hygiene and cooking facilities. Leisure facilities, including clubhouses and pools, are shared between the residents of each building.

On August 12, 2009, a 148,000 square feet (13,700 m2) residence hall opened providing housing for freshmen. The new residence hall offers living learning environments which 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 sizeable lounge area for residents to interact. The building also boasts two classrooms for freshmen-level classes. The building falls under the management of University Village.

Waterview Park consists of four “phases” of apartments for a total of 696 units and spans 33 acres. Each phase has a pool and occasionally other recreational areas including volleyball courts and basketball courts. There are 11 floor plans that vary from 1-bedroom efficiencies to 4-bedroom units. An additional seven buildings include offices, study/activity centers and laundry facilities. Waterview attracted a certain amount of controversy, being dubbed "the Dorm from Hell" in an April 2005 article in The Dallas Observer. University authorities took the allegations seriously enough to institute an internal inquiry. In 2006, $874,000 dollars in repairs were recommended by an inspection agency that was hired in response to this article. These repairs included things as simple as replacing bad smoke alarms. Most of the issues in that report have been remediated, as UTD Mercury covered in their report one year later.

Dining on campus

Students have a selection of food sources on campus, the Student Union building houses The Pub and Comet Cafe. The first dining hall on campus opened August 12, 2009, in conjunction with the opening of the first residence hall. The dining hall houses a wide variety of options, and is divided into seven sections. Terra Vé features vegetarian and vegan options, while The Kitchen includes home-style entrees. Chefs tending The Fresh Grille will prepare grilled-to-order items, and Fresh Market includes soup, salad and ice cream/yogurt bars. Trattoria features a brick oven and offers pizzas, pasta and other hot meals. The Bakery serves fresh baked breads and desserts, and My Pantry allows diners the option of making their own waffles, as well as a chef who will prepare made-to-order omelets. Finally, La Posada dishes out traditional Tex-Mex cuisine and is outfitted with a tortilla maker.

Building plans

Building projects under way at UT Dallas include a major landscape enhancement, a Math, Science and Engineering Teaching-Learning Center, a renovation and expansion of Founders Hall and a new Student Services Building. A total of 600,000 square feet were added from 2007-2009.

During 2010, substantial completion of the MSET Learning Center is expected in June and operational occupancy by July . The Student Services Building completion date is projected for July and operational occupancy by August. Founders renovation is to be completed during April and operational occupancy in June. The major portion of the campus landscape enhancement will be completed in Spring of 2010.

Other projects that have been proposed or approved, but have not yet broken ground include a Greek Village consisting of a Greek center to house offices, meeting rooms, guest quarters and study rooms, and Greek Lodgings; expansion of classrooms and offices; a new, cutting-edge, arts and technology center; 6,000 additional parking spaces, possibly including a parking garage on campus; a campus services building to house the bookstore, a visitor center, coffee shop, and technology store, along with a large multi-purpose room and gathering spaces (indoor and outdoor) situated along a mall-like corridor; and a second residence hall for 400 freshmen, slated for completion in 2012.

Student life

Activities

The University of Texas at Dallas has many activities and registered student organizations.

The Billiard team was organized by a group of students known as the BOC Crew. They spent most of their free time in the Student Union and PUB playing pool. They organized this group to help bring competition to the University. The UTD Billiard team has won numerous trophies in all divisions, including A, B and C ranks. They have competed in tournaments held at various universities throughout Texas.

Operating under the auspices of the Office of Undergraduate Education, the UTD Debate Team has won the Cross Examination Debate Association's "Brady Lee Garrison Newcomer Sweepstakes Award" in Spring 1997. The team hosted its first annual 'Fear and Loathing in Dallas' tournament in January 2004. It is now the largest annual regular season college tournament in the region with over 325 participants, coaches, and judges in attendance. UTD first qualified a team for the National Debate Tournament in 2004 and has qualified each year since. The UT Dallas debate squad wrapped up its 2009-10 season as the only organization in the country to advance a team to the quarterfinals in the nation’s two most-prestigious tournaments. Members of UTD debate team come from across the country and most receive some level of merit-based scholarship.

The internationally-ranked UT Dallas chess team was launched in 1996 under the direction of Timothy Redman, and has contended for many recent national championships. UTD's chess players have won or tied for the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship title for four out of the last five years. The university recruits worldwide for its chess team and has been able to attract many International Master level players. Currently, the team includes two Grandmaster level players, Alejandro Ramirez and Magesh Panchanathan. The UTD chess team won the Southwest Collegiate Championship in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008. It also won the Transatlantic Cup in 2007 and 2008, defeating University of Belgrade in an international chess match.

Student government

The UT-Dallas Student Government is the official voice of the student body and acts on its behalf as authorized by the University of Texas System Board of Regents. As a "recognized forum of student opinion," Student Government makes recommendations to the Board of Regents and the University, takes positions on non-University issues pertinent to students, obtains feedback from students, and performs other services as needed.

The business of Student Government is carried about by a Student Senate that is elected annually during the Spring semester. There are 44 members of Senate: the President, Vice President, seven freshmen Senators appointed from Residential Senate, seven sophomores elected at-large, one junior and one senior from each of the University's seven schools, and fourteen graduate students. The Executive Committee comprises the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Chairmen of each standing committee. Any seats unfilled after elections or vacated during the year are filled by Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation.

The Senate meets monthly during the summer and semimonthly during the Fall and Spring semesters. It conducts business formally according to Robert's Rules of Order. Visitors are permitted to speak at the beginning of each meeting and always permitted to observe.

Student media

The UTD Mercury is the official student newspaper of the University of Texas at Dallas since 1980. The UTD Mercury is published in 7,000 copies at two week intervals on Mondays during the fall and spring semesters except holidays and exam periods, and once every three weeks during the summer. Copies of the current publication can be picked up for free around campus or by stopping in the newsroom for additional copies. The UTD Mercury also publishes online at utdmercury.com.

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. Up to five editors are selected in each semester by the contributing body of AMP, and they serve the duration of the semester. 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 UTD, the university's student-run radio station, is a young but growing force in college radio. It offers streaming music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and also broadcasts UTD sports games. The station has been nominated three times for College Music Journal (CMJ) awards. Radio UTD has also been featured on XM Satellite Radio Channel 43 (XMU) on The Student Exchange Program. They are the youngest station to be chosen to "take over" the airwaves for this two hour show.

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 and more.

UTD offers a distinguished season of musical, theatrical and visual arts events. The independent movie Primer was partially filmed at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2004 by Shane Carruth. The film went on to win the Grand Jury and the Alfred P. Sloan awards at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

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, and Family Day.

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 all rules of student conduct.

体育运动

UTD Comets athletics logo

The University of Texas at Dallas athletics program started when UTD provisionally joined the NCAA Division III and the American Southwest Conference in 1998. UTD was granted full membership in the ASC in 2002, and since then the Comets have become perennial title contenders in several sports including men's and women's soccer, baseball, men's tennis, softball, men's basketball and most recently volleyball. Additionally, athletes from several individual sports have made their mark on conference competition.

Varsity athletics

During the 2002 inaugural season, the men's 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. Baseball and softball also made its third consecutive appearance in the ASC post-season tournament.

In 2006, the Comets women's volleyball team claimed an ASC East Division regular season co-championship (shared with East Texas Baptist University). On 20 December, the Comets men's basketball team upset the University of Texas at Arlington 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 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.

In 2008, the women's volleyball team claimed the ASC East Division regular season co-championship once again. The team then captured the school's first volleyball conference championship by defeating East Texas Baptist University in the conference tournament championship match.

In 2009, the men's basketball teams won the ASC championship, advancing in the NCAA Division III Tournament as far as the "Elite Eight" before falling in a OT loss. While the woman's team won a ASC East Division title.

Intramural sports

The Intramural Sports program at The University of Texas at Dallas offer a wide array of activities that include various leagues and tournaments ranging from Texas Hold ‘Em Poker to Flag Football and Sports Trivia.

UTD has grown as a collegiate level flag football powerhouse. Its 2004 Co-Rec intramural flag football champs, the Killer Bees, went on to defeat many NCAA Division I schools at the Texas regional tournament, including UT Austin (in a shut-out win) where they were crowned regional champs. They progressed to the national championships where they finished third at the National Tournament in New Orleans, beating college football powerhouses Nebraska and North Carolina State along the way. UTD played host to the 2005 Texas Regional Flag Football Tournament and host to the 2007 National Flag Football Tournament. In 2007 UTD teams placed in the Top 8 in the Men's and Co-Rec Division and again defeated the University of Texas at Austin.

In the Fall of 1992 the university had an intercollegiate pistol team that won several placements in state tournaments and collegiate sectionals, in both individual and team events. The events competed in are as follows: air pistol, junior air pistol, women's air pistol, standard pistol, free pistol and women's sport pistol. One member of the team, Eric Colbath, was an All-American and went to Collegiate Nationals in 1993, 1994 and 1995 as an individual and Chris Jones went to Collegiate Nationals as an individual in 1995. The team disbanded at the end of Spring 1995 when the core members graduated.

[edit] Academic programs

It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article titled University of Texas at Dallas academic programs. (Discuss)

The University of Texas at Dallas offers over 135 academic programs across its seven schools.

School of Arts and Humanities

The School of Arts and Humanities (A&H) teaches courses in literature, foreign languages, history, philosophy, music, dance, drama, film, and visual arts. A&H also includes the Arts and Technology, Emerging Media and Communication, and Translation Studies programs. The school offers bachelors degrees in Literary Studies, Historical Studies, Arts & Humanities, Art & Performance, Arts & Technology, and Emerging Media and Communication. The school grants masters degrees in Arts and Technology (MA and MFA), Emerging Media and Communication (MA), Historical Studies (MA), and Humanities (MA and MAT) and a doctorate in the Humanities (PhD).

Center for Holocaust Studies

Over the past two decades, the Center for Holocaust Studies of The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) has developed a significant international reputation. Its multi-faceted program, housed in UTD's School of Arts and Humanities, is augmented and supported by the Ackerman Challenge Endowment, the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies, the Burton C. Einspruch Holocaust Lecture Series, and the Arnold A. Jaffe Holocaust Book Collection. The Certificate in Holocaust Studies (Certificate) is offered to MA, MAT, and PhD students in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Center for Translation Studies

The Center for Translation Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas has received widespread national and international recognition for its pioneering role in enriching and promoting the study and practice of literary translation. Faculty within The Center for Translation Studies and The School of Arts & Humanities work closely with students to design degree plans with an emphasis on Translation Studies that also supply a broad general background in one or more of three scholarly areas: Literary Studies; History of Ideas; and Aesthetic Studies. Both the M.A. and Ph.D. also allow for students to major in one of these three areas, e.g., Ph.D. in Humanities -- Major in Literary Studies, though the actual courses taken and final written work (portfolio or dissertation) allow each student to focus on various aspects of the field of Translation Studies. The M.F.A. in Translation Studies is currently under development.

School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

The School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) focuses on the study of human development, including perception, cognitive, linguistic, emotional, social, and psychological processes. BBS includes the Callier Center for Communication Disorders which has clinical and neuroscience facilities for research in the communication sciences and disorders and the Center for BrainHealth which uses research and clinical treatment programs to understand the human brain, its healthy function, and its ability to protect and heal itself. BBS offers bachelors degrees in Psychology, Child and Learning Development, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. The school awards graduate degrees in Applied Cognition and Neurosciences (MS and PhD), Audiology (PhD), Communication Disorders (MS and PhD), Human Development and Early Childhood Disorders (MS), and Psychological Sciences (MS and PhD). The university's graduate audiology program is ranked 4th in the nation, and its graduate speech-pathology program is ranked 12th.

School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) offers courses and programs in criminology, economics, geography and geospatial sciences, political science, public affairs, public policy and political economy, and sociology. UTD became the first university in Texas to implement a PhD Criminology program on October 26, 2006, when its program was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The school grants degrees in Applied Sociology (MS), Constitutional Law Studies (MA), Criminology (BA, MS, PhD), Economics (BA, BS, MS, PhD), Geography (BA), Geospatial Information Sciences (BS, MS, PhD), International Political Economy (BA, BS, MS), Justice Administration and Leadership (MS), Legislative Studies (MA), Public Affairs (BS, MPA, PhD), Public Policy (MPP), Public Policy and Political Economy (PhD), Political Science (BA,MA, PhD), and Sociology (BA).

The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science houses the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments as well as UTD's Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Software Engineering, and Telecommunications Engineering programs. The school offers degrees in Computer Engineering (BS, MS, PhD), Computer Science (BS, MS, PhD), Electrical Engineering (BS, MS, PhD), Engineering Management (MBA, MS), Materials Science & Engineering (MS, PhD), Mechanical Engineering (BS, MS), Software Engineering (BS, MS, PhD), and Telecommunications Engineering (BS, MS, PhD). The university's computer science program is ranked 3rd in state and 29th nationally. Its graduate program in software engineering is ranked 2nd in the state and 24th in the world. The school is currently developing new programs in bioengineering, chemical engineering, and systems engineering.

Industrial Practice Programs

The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science provides students with an internship/co-op program called "Industrial Practice Programs", or IPP. Employers registered with IPP send internship/co-op requests to the program. IPP then compiles a list of students whose skill sets match those required by the employer and sends the list to the employer for review.

School of Interdisciplinary Studies

The School of Interdisciplinary Studies, formerly The School of General Studies, provides interdisciplinary programs encouraging students to understand and integrate the liberal arts and sciences. The school also offers a teacher certification program. Interdisciplinary Studies grants degrees in American Studies (BA), Gender Studies (BA), and Interdisciplinary Studies (BA, BS, MA).

School of Management

The School of Management is the business and management school at UTD, offering courses in business administration, accounting, finance, marketing, organizational management, and international business. The school offers several MBA programs, including a 16-month Cohort MBA, professional MBA, and Executive Education MBA. According to U.S. News and World Report, the Full-Time MBA program at UTD is among the top 50 in the nation. It ranks 3rd for public school programs in the state of Texas. U.S. News and World Report also ranked the UT Dallas Professional Part-Time MBA program No. 22 among U.S. public universities and No. 41 overall.

The school grants degrees in Accounting and Information Management (BS, MS), Business Administration (BS, MBA), Finance (BS, MS), Healthcare Management (MS), Information Technology and Management (MS), International Management Studies (MA, PhD), Management and Administrative Sciences (MS), Management Sciences (PhD), and Supply Chain Management (MS).

The School of Management is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. According to Financial Times, the school ranks 21st in the world in research productivity. Also, Financial Times ranks UTD's Executive MBA (EMBA) Program first in the state of Texas and tied for 10th place nationally with Georgetown University, and the 35th in the world.

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics offers courses in biology, chemistry, earth science, mathematics, and physics. The school grants degrees in Applied Physics (MS), Biochemistry (BS), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (MS), Biology (BA, BS), Molecular and Cell Biology (MS, PhD), Biotechnology (MS), Chemistry (BA, BS, MS, PhD), Geosciences (BA, BS, MS, PhD), Mathematical Sciences (BS, MS, PhD), Applied Mathematics (BS, MS, PhD), Engineering Mathematics (MS), Statistics (BS, MS, PhD), Mathematics Education (MAT), Molecular Biology (BS), Physics (BA, BS, MS, PhD), and Science Education (MAT).

UTeach Dallas

Modeled after UT Austin's teacher preparatory program, UTeach Dallas, in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, addresses the current national deficit of qualified math, science, and computer science teachers, as well as K-12 students' lack of interest in the STEM fields. 建立于 in 2007, this teacher development program combines a bachelor’s degree plan (biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geosciences, mathematical sciences, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience, or physics) with any of the different teaching certifications at either the middle or the high school level. All undergraduates, who will receive early teaching experience and financial assistance, are required to complete specialized professional development courses as well as content courses for their area of teacher certification. Donors such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ExxonMobil, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Sid W. Richardson Foundation, Tellabs Foundation, and the National Math and Science Initiative were instrumental to the establishment of UTeach Dallas.

GEMS Center

The GEMS Center is part of the Office of Student Success and Assessment and portal to educational enhancement and educational success. UT Dallas provides a remarkable amount of resources which it has dedicated to the GEMS Center. Whether it is individualized tutoring, Peer-led Team Learning, Supplemental Instruction, coordinated group study or another approach to improving academic achievement, the student success team members make every attempt to assist students in achieving their academic goals across a wide variety of subject areas.

Honors

Collegium V is the honors and enrichment program of The University of Texas at Dallas. 建立于 in 1997, Collegium V embodies UTD's quest for academic excellence. Small classes, innovative instruction, world class faculty, bright and inquisitive colleagues, and an array of extracurricular events offer Collegium V members special opportunities for professional and personal growth at the university.

Scholarship program

In addition to the various scholarship programs UTD provides their Academic Excellence Scholarship Program for freshmen. All freshmen admitted to the University for the Fall semester are automatically considered for an Academic Excellence Scholarship Award. The awards range from $2,000 per year up to the cost of tuition and mandatory fees through eight semesters (four years) of enrollment plus $2,000 per year contribution toward rental expenses incurred at University on-campus housing and a cash stipend to defray the cost of books, supplies and other educational expenses.

UTD also established the Eugene McDermott Scholars Program which provides generous scholarships to twenty of the nation's brightest students attending the campus each year and a rigorous and personalized education as well as intensive extracurricular activities.

Notable people

External links

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