Category: Giving

Culture of Value Micro-grant Fuels Second Annual Art of Kindness Competition Student art contest hosted by Kindness Enterprise at the Center for BrainHealth, in collaboration with ATEC and Computer Science – all with UT Dallas The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture has awarded a Culture of Value micro-grant to a UT Dallas […]

CS Alumnus Helps Create Emergency Fund for University’s International Students Yanjie Liu, a University of Texas at Dallas computer science senior from Nanchang, China, had big plans this spring and summer. He was preparing for an internship that would have transitioned after graduation into a full-time job. Then the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. The internship […]

Alumni Step Up To Help Protect Health Care Workers on COVID-19 Front Lines Two University of Texas at Dallas alumni have designed and manufactured a valve attachment that can convert a snorkel mask into safety gear for health care workers in the event of a shortage of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. James […]

Dr. Janell Straach Talks with D Magazine About Closing the Gender Gap in Tech Via D Magazine | By Danielle Abril  – Companies seeking to bolster the pipeline of women in tech target education. Before Jaime Chambron was even 10 years old, she had already discovered she had an affinity for math and problem-solving. Her interests led her on […]

UT Dallas Coding Camps Help More Than 2000 Kids Build Computing Skills Since 2012, thousands of kids from all over North Texas and beyond, ranging from ages five all the way to seventeen have traveled to the UT Dallas Computer Science department to explore the world of Computer Programming. To help accomplish this, over 90 […]

UT Dallas Computer Science Students Get New Internship Opportunity with State Farm Via NBC DFW – Computer Science students at University of Texas at Dallas are participating in a new, “remote” internship opportunity with State Farm. “This is a first here at UT Dallas,” said Pete Poorman, a corporate relations manager for UTD. “We are excited […]

Education Matters: Coding Club – Dr. Veerasamy Discusses Coding Club with Arkansas Matters Arkansas Matters – More schools are including “coding” in their curriculum, and the students are younger than ever. Nine-year-old Isabelle Visser loves to “play” on the computer, but her classwork is no ordinary game. She is learning how to code! “There’s a […]

NCWIT Honors the Achievements of 15 North Texas Female High School Tech Enthusiasts The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) 2016 Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC) honored fourteen female high school technologists and one educator from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex during a daylong celebration at the UT Dallas Campus. The NCWIT Award […]

Alumnus Gives in Support of National Society of Black Engineers During a pause from a busy workday, Niyi “John” Olajide BSTE’04 sits at a conference table overlooking the Dallas North Tollway to visit with four engineering students who want to know about his career journey. Olajide is young, successful and philanthropic: At 34 years old, he is […]

Dr. Veerasamy talks with the Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press about Coding for Kids Dallas Morning News — When the last bell rings through the halls of Herfurth Elementary School, 10-year-old Savannah Schwarz races to the computer lab. She posts up outside the door in anticipation of coding club. The after-school sessions were […]