Category: Prospective Students

UT Dallas CS Department’s First Annual Undergraduate Research Expo The Computer Science Department at The University of Texas at Dallas held its first annual Undergraduate Research Expo in Computer Science on Saturday, April 11th 2015. Approximately 75 students attended the Expo, including 20 who came from other Universities. In his opening speech kicking off the […]

Living Learning Community Host a 31-Hour Hackathon The CS Living Learning Community (LLC) and the CS department sponsored a Hackathon over the weekend of March 7th and 8th. The event started at noon on Saturday and ended early Sunday evening. The principal objective of the weekend Hackathon was to bring together CS students to develop […]

NCWIT Encourages Young Women through the Aspirations in Computing Program Twelve young female high school students received the Award for Aspirations in Computing from the NCWIT (The National Center for Women & Technology) in a day-long event held in late February. The NCWIT is a non-profit community of 600 universities, companies, non-profits, and government organizations […]

Creator of ‘UTD Eats’ Franchises Dining App at Other Universities When Justin Ehlert was a freshman at UT Dallas, he and his friends occasionally became frustrated when they would walk to the dining hall and realize that it had already closed. That frustration drove him to develop UTD Eats, a website and iOS app that shows […]

Computer Science Students Earn Top Awards UT Dallas computer science students continue to impress with their technical prowess in cybersecurity. Top awards recently were earned at the 11th annual New York University Polytechnic School Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) conference and at the Capital One Coding for Good Hackathon competition. “Our students have shown time […]

UT Dallas Ranks #21 on LinkedIn’s “Best Universities for Software Developers” The professional networking site, LinkedIn, recently published their rankings of universities based on how successful recent graduates have been at landing desirable jobs.  In the category of “desirable software development job,” UT Dallas was ranked 21st. Carnegie Mellon University topped the rankings.   Only two […]

Cyber security Institute to Celebrate Its 10th Anniversary with Events In 2004, to address the increasing attacks to the nation’s computers, communications systems and infrastructure, UT Dallas became proactive in cybersecurity education and research by establishing what has become the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI). Since then, it has grown into one of […]

Women Who Compute (WWC) Students at UT Dallas Make a Difference This year, Make a Difference Day was held on Saturday, 10/25/2014.  Students at UT Dallas participated in a common mission with millions of other volunteers throughout the world to improve the lives of others. The mission statement on the Make A Difference Day website states: […]