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UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

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Hassle of a hackathon

April 29, 2024

UTD has hosted HackUTD every year since 2015; it is the largest hackathon in the state of Texas with around 1,000 attendees in 2023 alone. Planning for this massive endeavor falls entirely on students...

Rees Blatt | Mercury Staff

Flooding in UV: UTD needs to do better

April 29, 2024

Any resident of UV knows that after a rainstorm, it’s best to take the long way around and avoid the sidewalks. Whenever there is even a small amount of rainfall, housing areas become impassable quagmires...

Surjaditya Sarkar | Mercury Staff

Foundational physics in a fridge

March 18, 2024

In the underground floor of the Bioengineering and Sciences building sits the Quantum Transport Lab. Although it might not delve into teleportation, its study of particles interaction at the quantum level...

Yiyi Ding | Mercury Staff

Need resume advice? Skip ECS 3390

February 26, 2024

If you’re an ECS major looking for full time employment, a great way to accomplish this is through internships. Unfortunately, ECS 3390 — the class designed to help students with the rigorous internship...

not me tho I'm built different (worse)

Alumnus invention lets you game with your feet

February 12, 2024

The former Comet's innovative new controller, known as Glydr, has gathered almost $65,000 in funding A UTD Alumnus recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a product named Glydr, which introduces...

Yiyi Ding | Mercury Staff

AI is changing real estate — and it’s not what you think

February 12, 2024

Will AI steal your job? Representatives from Weitzman, a large Texas real estate firm, think otherwise, saying AI will instead automate the tedious parts of work and allow us to focus more on the parts...

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