The University is pleased to introduce
UT Dallas Magazine. This biannual publication takes an in-depth look at the University's most important stories and events.

Research Is Teaching

  • Research Is Teaching
    Research is teaching, say faculty and off-campus experts, and effective teaching requires research.  Students and professors state their cases and describe early experiences.

  • Town and Gown
    There once was a tiny burg known as Richardson. Then, courtesy of some big dreamers, a few research grants and lots of bulldozers, it grew into a city whose destiny was linked to a fledgling campus in the middle of open fields on Campbell Road.
  • Courtside Success
    A conversation with Marci Sanders and Terry Butterfield who lead two of the most successful athletic programs at UT Dallas—volleyball and men's basketball.

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A Campus Transformed

  • How Undergraduates Came To UT Dallas
    More than 20 years after the controversial decision to add undergraduate students, key players provide their accounts of the pitfalls and rewards of re-inventing the University.
  • A Campus Transformed
    Pre-eminent landscape architect Peter Walker and Partners guided the transformation of the University's front door and the heart of campus. The September dedication is captured in a pictorial essay.
  • BMOCs and Campus Sweethearts? Student Leaders Transcend Type
    It's not your grandfather's—or grandmother's—college campus anymore. Today's Big Man on Campus is just as likely to be a woman. UT Dallas student leaders do share some characteristics: They tend to be persistent risk-takers who are generous with their time.

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Tier One

  • Tier One, Here We Come
    The behind-the-scenes story of a white paper from the desk of UT Dallas President David E. Daniel that morphed into law and set off a race among seven universities to become Texas' next research powerhouse.
  • Back to the Future
    1969 marked the beginning of the Internet, Sesame Street, the first moon walk and The University of Texas at Dallas as a public university and member of the UT System. The Comets marked the milestone with a series of events and historical sleuthing.
  • Young Alumni Perspective: Hannah Frank
    A Peace Corps mission in Ghana as seen through the eyes and the lens of Hannah Frank BA '08.

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