2003 News Archive
Jan
- Jan. 2, 2003
- U.T. Dallas Selected As Oracle Center Of Excellence For Spatial Data Management
- Jan. 2, 2003
- UTD Chess Team Ties For Second Place In Pan-American Intercollegiate Tournament
- Jan. 3, 2003
- U.T. Dallas to Host LEGO Robotics Competition
- Jan. 6, 2003
- U.T. Dallas Holocaust Studies Program To Honor Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker István Szabó
- Jan. 8, 2003
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology Created by UTD to Combat Disease, Improve Health
- Jan. 9, 2003
- UTD Politics Center To Host Panel Discussion Jan. 24 On Judicial Selection Process in Texas
- Jan. 15, 2003
- Seminar and Lecture Series On Supply Chain Management To Be Presented at U.T. Dallas
- Jan. 16, 2003
- UTD Joins Collaborative Effort to Launch Nanotechnology Initiative in Rio Grande Valley
- Jan. 17, 2003
- UTD To Present John Guare's Play The House of Blue Leaves Feb. 14-23
- Jan. 21, 2003
- U.T. Dallas Researcher Receives NIH Grant to Study Aphasia
- Jan. 22, 2003
- Project Begun To Develop Code of Conduct For International Economic Consultants
- Jan. 23, 2003
- UTD's Green Center Wins Mellon Grant To Expand Research On Access of Minorities to Higher Education
- Jan. 24, 2003
- U.T. Dallas To Present Concert Featuring Artist-In-Residence Arkady Fomin on Feb.8
- Jan. 24, 2003
- UTD's Anvar Zakhidov Selected to Receive An Asian-American Engineer of Year Award
- Jan. 27, 2003
- UTD Economist Nathan Berg Wins Grant to Study Immigrants and Public School Education in Texas
- Jan. 28, 2003
- UTD To Present The James Gilyard Ensemble In Concert Feb. 21 As Part Of Jazz Series
- Jan. 29, 2003
- Young International Classical Guitarist Natasha Lipnitskaya to Perform at UTD
- Jan. 30, 2003
- Study Ranks UTD's School of Management Sixth Worldwide In Research Productivity in Key Areas
Feb.
- Feb. 3, 2003
- UTD Professor Awarded Skoog Cup
- Feb. 4, 2003
- UTD's Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies Resumes Lecture Series
- Feb. 5, 2003
- UTD's Green Center Receives $1.1-Million Grant From Packard Humanities Institute
- Feb. 6, 2003
- U.T. Dallas to Host Texas Visual Arts Association High School Art Competition Feb. 25-March 16
- Feb. 7, 2003
- U.T. Dallas To Present Antiquité Moderne Featuring DSO Musicians on Feb. 23
- Feb. 10, 2003
- UTD Electrical Engineering Professor Dian Zhou Wins China's Prestigious Chang Jiang Scholar Award
- Feb. 11, 2003
- Another Milestone For U.T. Dallas: Internet Radio
- Feb. 13, 2003
- Two UTD Professors Win Teaching Grant To Test Software Tools With Students
- Feb. 14, 2003
- 2nd Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival To Be Held at U. T. Dallas Feb. 27 to March 1
- Feb. 17, 2003
- Alumni To Award Class Rings to Two Seniors
- Feb. 19, 2003
- UTD Wins U.S. Amateur Team East Chess Tourney
- Feb. 21, 2003
- UTD Prof Questions War With Iraq
- Feb. 24, 2003
- Intervoice Establishes Voice Technology Center at UTD
- Feb. 24, 2003
- UTD Professor Honored In Vancouver At Criminology Group's Conference
- Feb. 27, 2003
- UTD To Present Violinist Vadim Gluzman In A Tribute to Issac Stern on March 29
- Feb. 28, 2003
- Neuroscientist To Discuss How Memory Works As Part of U. T. Dallas' Colloquium Lecture Series
March
- March 3, 2003
- Award-Winning Associated Press Veterans To Discuss Their Work March 27 at U. T. Dallas
- March 4, 2003
- UTD Is Going for 'Three-Peat' As Underdog In This Year's 'Final Four' of Chess in Miami
- March 5, 2003
- Human Language Technology Research Institute To Mark First Anniversary with Scientific Symposium
- March 5, 2003
- Parashkevov Takes $1,000 First Prize In 2nd Annual Texas Guitar Competition
- March 6, 2003
- UTD Lecture Series Continues With Talk On Women in Mexican Politics
- March 6, 2003
- UTD To Hold ChessFest March 19 to 22
- March 7, 2003
- UTD Holocaust Lecture Series To Begin March 23
- March 7, 2003
- UTD To Present A Tribute to Manhattan Transfer
- March 7, 2003
- UTD to Emphasize Study of Entrepreneurship Among Students in All Academic Disciplines
- March 10, 2003
- 'Reprogramming the Human Brain' To Be Subject Of Major Scientific Conference in Dallas April 10-11
- March 11, 2003
- 12th Annual UTD Golf Tourney Set For April 25 At Sherrill Park; Proceeds To Go For Scholarships
- March 12, 2003
- UTD's Callier Center To Continue National Institutes of Health Study With DISD Students
- March 12, 2003
- UTD Vice President Da Hsuan Feng Joins Science Advisory Board of New Economy Strategies
- March 18, 2003
- UTD Economist Berg Wins Fulbright Grant To Study Demographic Challenges in Germany
- March 19, 2003
- New Art Exhibition, Capital F, To Run at UTD March 24 to April 19
- March 19, 2003
- UTD Finishes Second to CalTech in U.S. Amateur Chess Tourney Playoff Conducted Over the Internet
- March 25, 2003
- Geosciences Seminar To Address Seismic Processing, March 27
- March 25, 2003
- Iraq Geography Lecture at UTD, March 28
- March 25, 2003
- UTD To Present A Free Concert, Music of Five Centuries, April 19
- March 26, 2003
- DFW Homeland Security Alliance Chairman To Give Presentation At UTD March 31
- March 26, 2003
- Leading Corporate Executive, Academic Bob Helms Named UTD Engineering, Computer Science Dean
- March 26, 2003
- Space Scientist Roderick A. Heelis To Deliver 2003 Kusch Lecture at UTD
- March 28, 2003
- Drs. Goodman, Pace To Give Talks April 4 On Work of UTD's Sickle Cell Disease Center
- March 28, 2003
- UTD To Present Classical Guitar Concert With Composer Ernesto Cordero
- March 31, 2003
- UTD To Host Free Outdoor Music Festival Featuring Cowboy Mouth, Mest and A Tribe Called Quest
- March 31, 2003
- UTD To Present David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers Two Weekends In April
April
- April 1, 2003
- UTD Chemistry Professor to Receive Award At Microbeam Analysis Society Convention
- April 2, 2003
- U. T. Dallas To Present Dance Production, The M Project & Friends, April 18 and 19
- April 3, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Nanotechnology Scientists Win Research Grants Worth $500,000
- April 3, 2003
- UTD Athletics Start To Shine: Men's Golf Team Ranked Number 7 Nationally in NCAA Division III
- April 4, 2003
- UTD Chamber Singers and UTD Chorale To Perform All-Mozart Concert April 27
- April 4, 2003
- University Of Texas At Dallas Names Latest Class Of Eugene McDermott Scholars
- April 7, 2003
- Alcatel Picks UTD To Help With Second Design Project, This One for Mobile, Wireless Devices
- April 7, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Takes Second Place In Third Annual 'Final Four' of Chess
- April 8, 2003
- Educators, Students To Go 'Shark Hunting' in W. Texas
- April 8, 2003
- U.S.-Mexico Studies Lecture To Address U.S.-Mexico Security and Democracy
- April 9, 2003
- Dr. Chapman To Give Interview on KERA, April 9
- April 9, 2003
- U.T. Dallas' Student Newspaper and Staff Win Seven Awards At College Journalism Conference
- April 10, 2003
- Former U. T. Dallas President Rutford To Serve On Oversight Committee Requested by Senate
- April 10, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Student Art To Be Exhibited During Spring Arts Festival on April 25-26
- April 11, 2003
- McDermott Lecture Series Continues With Lecture By Dr. Marion Underwood
- April 11, 2003
- UTD To Offer Series of Programs Designed To Help Smaller Companies Market Their Products Abroad
- April 14, 2003
- Two Academicians, Medical Doctors Join External Advisory Research Council at UTD
- April 16, 2003
- Four UTD Faculty Members Win $625,000 For Face Recognition Research Efforts
- April 17, 2003
- One-Year-Old Twins To Have Cochlear Implants Turned On, Expected To Hear For First Time
- April 17, 2003
- Translator Hoggard to Speak on Writer Marie d'Agoult As Part of U. T. Dallas' Claire Rich Lecture Series
- April 21, 2003
- Geosciences Department to Reach Milestone With Publication of 1,000th Research Paper
- April 22, 2003
- UTD Criminal Justice Professor Named To OPEN Board
- April 23, 2003
- Dr. Louis 'Bob' Hunt Named Teacher of the Year At The University of Texas at Dallas
- April 24, 2003
- NASA Astronaut Dr. James F. Reilly II To Deliver UTD Commencement Address
- April 28, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Freshman Wins Prestigious Chess Fellowship Worth $32,000 Per Year
- April 29, 2003
- 12th Annual UTD Golf Tourney At Sherrill Park Raises Nearly $19,000 For Scholarships
- April 29, 2003
- SARS To Be Subject of Discussion At U. T. Dallas on May 15
- April 30, 2003
- Triple Student Art Exhibition Will Run at UTD May 16-June 7
May
- May 6, 2003
- Engineers' Group to Honor UTD's Da Hsuan Feng
- May 7, 2003
- U.T. Dallas Men's Golf Team Gets First Bid To NCAA Division III Championship Tourney
- May 7, 2003
- UTD's Paul Jargowsky to Become Affiliate Of National Poverty Center at U. of Michigan
- May 12, 2003
- U. T. Dallas' Callier Center Selected Beneficiary Of 2003 Crystal Charity Ball
- May 14, 2003
- UTD Expands Summer Fluency Programs For Children and Adolescents Who Stutter
- May 15, 2003
- Navy's Anti-Terrorism and Force Protection Program To Be Discussed at U. T. Dallas On June 11
- May 19, 2003
- Papers Authored by Two UTD Faculty Members Among Most-Cited in Journal's 50-Year History
- May 20, 2003
- Two Professors Win Chemistry Research Grants Worth $300,000 from Welch Foundation
- May 20, 2003
- Professor Alan MacDiarmid Elected Fellow of Royal Society of London
- May 22, 2003
- UTD To Offer Innovative Ph.D. in Political Science
- May 23, 2003
- Dallas Mayor Laura Miller to Visit Callier Center To Spotlight May as Better Hearing, Speech Month
- May 27, 2003
- UTD President Dr. Franklyn Jenifer To Speak At Excellence in Education Banquet June 12
- May 29, 2003
- U. T. Dallas' Creative Problem Solving Teams Take Two Firsts, Two Seconds In Global Competition
June
- June 2, 2003
- Wright Brothers' Bitter Patent Battles Didn't Slow Aviation Growth, Smithsonian Expert Says
- June 3, 2003
- Experts To Discuss Latest Findings On Brain Health In TV Panel Discussions
- June 4, 2003
- Dr. Frank Bass Wins Top Marketing Research Award
- June 5, 2003
- Student Art Exhibition, 'There's No Home For You Here,' To Run At UTD June 13-July 5
- June 6, 2003
- Homeland Security Lecture To Be Rescheduled
- June 9, 2003
- 'Career Management Strategies In An Unpredictable Economy' To Be Topic Of Forum At UTD June 19
- June 9, 2003
- Intervoice Funds Special Anniversary Scholarship for Engineering Student at The University of Texas at Dallas
- June 10, 2003
- UTD To Offer Emergency Preparedness Courses
- June 11, 2003
- UTD Student Takes First At Prestigious Pan American Junior Chess Tournament
- June 11, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Scientists Spin Carbon Nanotube Fibers with Record Strength and Toughness
- June 12, 2003
- U.T. Dallas to Host Discussion About How to Find a Literary Agent
- June 16, 2003
- U.T. Dallas Expands Its Theatre Program With Appointment of Educator-Director Riccio
- June 17, 2003
- U. T. Dallas' Steven Goodman Elected to Lead National Biomedical Sciences Organization
- June 18, 2003
- Two Added to External Advisory Council for UTD Office Of Vice President for Research and Graduate Education
- June 19, 2003
- UTD Biologist Wins $1.29-Million NIH Grant
- June 30, 2003
- $300 Million Earmarked for UTD Under Texas Instruments-State Plan
July
- July 11, 2003
- Dr. Stanley Liebowitz To Speak July 17 At New York's Harvard Club on Dot.com Crash
- July 17, 2003
- U.T. Dallas, Hebrew University Scientists To Test 'Snowball Earth' Hypothesis
- July 24, 2003
- Callier Center To Hold 8th Annual Camp For Children With Cochlear Implants
- July 24, 2003
- UTD's Susan Jerger Wins $1.78-Million NIH Grant To Study Word Development in Children
- July 28, 2003
- Richardson Branch of Nationally Recognized Callier Center To Open at U. T. Dallas Aug. 18
- July 29, 2003
- UTD to Offer Ph.D. in Economics in Fall Semester
- July 30, 2003
- UTD Freshman Wins Prestigious Asian Junior Chess Tournament
- July 31, 2003
- UTD Announces 2003-2004 Season of Events
Aug.
- Aug. 4, 2003
- U.T. Dallas Space Scientist Hoffman on Team Selected by NASA for 2007 Unmanned Mars Mission
- Aug. 4, 2003
- Nobel Laureate Dr. Russell Hulse To Give Lecture Sept. 5 at U. T. Dallas
- Aug. 7, 2003
- U.T. Dallas' School of Management Finally Has a Place to Call Home
- Aug. 11, 2003
- UTD's Da Hsuan Feng Named Vice President Of American-European Academy of Sciences
- Aug. 13, 2003
- UTD's Center for BrainHealth To Offer Popular Lecture Series for Second Year
- Aug. 14, 2003
- PAR Rated Most Cited Public Administration Academic Journal for the Third Year in a Row
- Aug. 18, 2003
- Latin Jazz With Salsa/Rock Twist To Kick Off UTD's Arts Season Sept. 5
- Aug. 25, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Economist to Join Harvard Debate On Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace
- Aug. 27, 2003
- Art Exhibitions at UTD to Challenge Stereotypes During Month-Long Latino Cultural Celebration
- Aug. 28, 2003
- Dr. John Ferraris Appointed Interim Dean of UTD's School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Aug. 28, 2003
- UTD Computer Science Professor Wins National Science Foundation Career Award
Sept.
- Sept. 2, 2003
- Veteran Collegiate Sports Leader Chris Gage Joins U. T. Dallas as Athletic Director
- Sept. 2, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Chemistry Graduate Student Wins Coveted Homeland Security Fellowship
- Sept. 5, 2003
- UTD Composer-In-Residence Rodríguez To Conduct 'Playing with Falla' on Sept. 12
- Sept. 8, 2003
- UTD Geoscientist Searches for Diamonds By Studying Groundwater in Canada
- Sept. 10, 2003
- 'Sounds of Class' Slated For Sept. 27 at UTD
- Sept. 11, 2003
- UTD Confers More EE and CS Bachelor's, Master's Degrees Combined Than Any School in the U. S.
- Sept. 12, 2003
- UTD Enrollment Tops 13,600; Number Of Students Up 43.7 Percent Since Fall 1998
- Sept. 12, 2003
- McDermott Library Lecture Series To Highlight Research of UTD's School of Management
- Sept. 15, 2003
- U. T. Dallas' Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies To Resume Lecture Series on Oct. 4
- Sept. 16, 2003
- Sculptress Phyllida Barlow to Exhibit Work at U. T. Dallas Oct. 10 to Nov. 15
- Sept. 17, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Chess Club Offers Lessons to Kids
- Sept. 18, 2003
- UNT's Renowned One O'Clock Lab Band Will Return to U. T. Dallas on Sept. 26
- Sept. 19, 2003
- Classical Pianist Ana Cervantes Crosses Borders With Unique Style and Program Selections
- Sept. 24, 2003
- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Manager to Discuss Program's Economic Impact on Metroplex
- Sept. 25, 2003
- Harvard Invites UTD Scholars to Present Research On Barriers to Latinos' Transfer to 4-Year Colleges
- Sept. 25, 2003
- Voz y Guitarra: Concert and CD Release Oct. 10
Oct.
- Oct. 2, 2003
- Dr. Franklyn Jenifer To Retire As President of UTD, Will Remain in Post Until Successor Is Named
- Oct. 2, 2003
- UTD Rises to 34th in Kiplinger's 'Best Value' Survey
- Oct. 3, 2003
- UTD to Host Free Performance Of Comedienne Margaret Cho
- Oct. 6, 2003
- UTD to Offer Arts and Technology Degrees Beginning In Spring Semester 2004
- Oct. 7, 2003
- UTD To Present Beta Test, A New Innovative Performance
- Oct. 7, 2003
- UTD Creates Office of International Education To Accommodate Growing Demand to Study Abroad
- Oct. 8, 2003
- Two UTD Management Professors Up Next In McDermott Library Lecture Series Oct. 20
- Oct. 8, 2003
- James L. Richardson Jr. Is Named Development Officer at U. T. Dallas
- Oct. 9, 2003
- UTD Holocaust Lecture Series to Host Renowned Scholar Dr. David Wyman on Nov. 9
- Oct. 14, 2003
- Forum on Workplace Diversity To Be Held at U. T. Dallas Oct. 24
- Oct. 15, 2003
- UTD To Present Grave Performances, An Evening of Family Halloween Fun
- Oct. 15, 2003
- U.T. Dallas Nanotechnologist Invents Molecular-Scale Mechanical Amplifiers
- Oct. 16, 2003
- UTD's Suresh Sethi Elected Fellow of Institute For Operations Research and Management Sciences
- Oct. 17, 2003
- McDermott Library-UTD Mercury Writers Series To Feature Professor and Novelist Clay Reynolds
- Oct. 22, 2003
- Center for the Study of Texas Politics to Host Two Lectures
- Oct. 22, 2003
- UTD Student Wins Major Tournament in Budapest
- Oct. 23, 2003
- Congressman, Two CEOs To Receive Alumni Awards from UTD's School of Management
- Oct. 23, 2003
- UTD To Present Student Dance Show 'Movement, Minds & Magic V
- Oct. 23, 2003
- The Clavier Trio To Return in Concert Nov. 9 As Part of UTD Classical Series
- Oct. 24, 2003
- Three Outstanding Local Guitarists To Pay Tribute to Andrés Segovia at UTD
- Oct. 27, 2003
- UTD Electrical Engineering Professor Dian Zhou Takes Leave to Become Dean at China's Fudan U.
- Oct. 28, 2003
- UTD's 27th Annual Holiday Sing Celebrates Christmas from Around the World on Dec. 7
- Oct. 30, 2003
- Jazz Great Joey DeFrancesco To Perform at U. T. Dallas on Nov. 15
Nov.
- Nov. 3, 2003
- UTD Honors Albert Black Jr. With Distinguished Alumni Award
- Nov. 4, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Graduate Student Harsh Shah Receives Prestigious Kodak Fellowship
- Nov. 5, 2003
- Supply Networks, E-Commerce to be Discussed In McDermott Library Lecture Series Nov. 17
- Nov. 5, 2003
- UTD's Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Appointed to New Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies
- Nov. 6, 2003
- UTD Team, Players Take Top Honors In Texas Collegiate Chess Tournament
- Nov. 6, 2003
- U. T. Dallas' Fall Arts Festival Nov. 21-22 To Feature Work of Hundreds of Students
- Nov. 7, 2003
- Robert X. Rodriguez to Conduct Musica Nova Ensemble In Free Concert at UTD on Dec. 5
- Nov. 10, 2003
- Former Press Secretary to Laura Bush To Speak At U. T. Dallas on Nov. 15
- Nov. 11, 2003
- Six UTD Chess Players to Enter Expanded National K-12/Collegiate Championship
- Nov. 14, 2003
- Future of 'Human-like' Robots To Be Topic of Presentation at UTD
- Nov. 17, 2003
- 1993 Nobel Laureate Dr. Russell Hulse To Join U. T. Dallas as Visiting Professor
- Nov. 19, 2003
- Altered States Addresses Emerging Technology's Place in Visual Culture
- Nov. 19, 2003
- President Franklyn Jenifer To Be Interviewed At Noon Thursday on KERA's Glenn Mitchell Show
- Nov. 20, 2003
- UTDFs Dr. Larry D. Terry Named Executive Vice Provost
- Nov. 21, 2003
- New UTD School of Management Building To Be Dedicated Dec. 3
- Nov. 24, 2003
- Philanthropist Dianne Cash Pledges $5 Million to UTD's Center for BrainHealth
- Nov. 25, 2003
- UTD Reaching Out to Community Singers With the Return of Tenor Kim Childs
Dec.
- Dec. 1, 2003
- UTD Geoscientist Appointed to Steering Group To Develop Science Plan for 2013 Mars Mission
- Dec. 3, 2003
- UTD Professor to Evaluate Effectiveness Of Dallas County Juvenile Drug Court
- Dec. 5, 2003
- WaterTower Theatre's Terry Martin to Direct Regional Premiere of Betty's Summer Vacation at UTD
- Dec. 8, 2003
- Advancements in Matter To Be Topic Of International Conference at UTD in Jan
- Dec. 9, 2003
- U. T. Dallas Aims to Reclaim Number 1 Ranking In College Chess At Pan Am Tourney in Miami
- Dec. 11, 2003
- UTD's 'Callier Signing Choir' To Be Featured In Holiday Program With Turtle Creek Chorale
- Dec. 15, 2003
- UTD Chess Players Win National Tournament
- Dec. 15, 2003
- Seminar at U. T. Dallas Jan. 20 to Focus On Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Dec. 17, 2003
- UTD Professor to Address Annual Meeting Of Texas Mayors and Municipal Officials
- Dec. 30, 2003
- UTD Chess Team Reclaims Number 1 Ranking By Winning the Top College Tournament Held Each Year in the Western Hemisphere
