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A series of brilliant cast performances from Mitchell Horn, Cal Thompson, Curtis Gerstner, Fahad Ahmed and others
brings Treviño’s vision for the play to life on stage. "Bent" will run 8 p.m. shows on campus through April 30. Photo by Tatwik Bodepudi | Mercury Staff

Comets ‘Bent’ on remembering Holocaust

April 25, 2022

With Holocaust Remembrance Day coming up on April 27, the UTD Theater’s spring play sheds light on an often-overlooked part of the horrors of Hitler’s regime: the persecution and murder of gay...

Photo courtesy of Sandro Galea

Retrograde Reads: ‘Well’

April 25, 2022

Maybe this book hit me so hard because I read it while violently ill, but I’d like to believe it’s more due to Sandro Galea’s sheer skill as a writer. Between a veritable horde of academic citations,...

Timemaster provides a disturbing look at a man who gains power through time travel. Photo courtesy of Tor Books

Retrograde Reads: ‘Timemaster’ by Robert L. Forward

April 11, 2022

Some books have fascinating premises that grab you right off the bat. Some books have well-written, clever dialogue and snappy explanations of scientific ideas backed by real experience. Some books have...

Ukraine-Russia conflict impacts several Comets

March 28, 2022

While Ukraine is physically distant from UTD, Russia’s continued invasion hits close to home for some Comets. Computer science sophomore Tayisiya Chernenko, who emigrated with her parents in 2007, fears...

Fierce Femme's titular narrator "puts the
“fabulous” in confabulous, subverting and
breaking free of all expectations." Photo courtesy of Metonymy Press

Retrograde Reads: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

March 28, 2022

Running away from home, reinventing yourself and encountering roadblocks along the way - it’s a typical structure for a typical coming-of-age novel. However, “Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A...

Clark's action-packed novel features a trio
of monster-hunting Black women seeking
to save humanity from the eldritch horror
of the KKK in the post-war American South. Photo courtesy of Tor.com Publishing

Retrograde reads: P. Djèlí Clark’s novel ‘Ring shout’

March 8, 2022

With a captivating cast and thrilling action, P. Djèlí Clark’s “Ring Shout”-- alternately titled “Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times”-- imagines the post-war American South as a place less...

Graphic by Danielle Bell | Mercury Staff

Profiling Eating Disorder Awareness Week

March 8, 2022

UTD’s Student Wellness Center partnered with on-campus and national organizations to host National Eating Disorder Awareness Week at the end of February, reminding Comets that their wellbeing is not...

Photo courtesy of UTD Office of Facilities & Economic Development

DART Update

February 21, 2022

After years of running the same paths, DART has redesigned its public transit offerings to improve access throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth region. UTD students stand to benefit… if they can learn to...

Spending a day in the heartbeat of UTD

Spending a day in the heartbeat of UTD

February 21, 2022

As the clock struck midnight on Friday, Feb. 11, I settled on a rock by the Memorial Pond with a simple sign: “Mercury Marathon – 24 Hours on the Plinth!” And what a 24 hours it was. Let’s...

Graphic by Danille Bell | Mercury Staff

Oh ResNet, RestNet, where art thou today?

February 7, 2022

On the first day of online classes for the spring 2022 semester, countless Teams calls dropped midstream as Apogee’s MyResNet wifi disconnected throughout Canyon Creek, University Village and the Residence...

Beck Da Jose lip-syncing as Sin Diesel. | Photo courtesy of Audrey Ruliawan

Dazzling Drag returns to UTD

January 24, 2022

Chi Alpha Iota (XAI) diaternity’s annual drag show returned this fall in a night filled with dazzling costumes, charitable donations and energizing performances. Featured performers from the gender-inclusive...

War Dogs tells a Martian marine's
thrilling tale of ailen warfare, trauma
and conspiracy. | Photo courtesy  of Orbit Books

Retrograde Reads: War Dogs By Greg Bear

January 24, 2022

Interviewing Vietnam veterans was certainly one of my more formative high school experiences. I remember long nights in garages among folding chairs and spent beer cans, asking for permission to record...

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