The Mercury 08/19/19

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August 19, 2019

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THE MERCURY

We are not the MIT of the plains, nor do we seek to be. We are a great university. We are the University of Texas at Dallas. — Theresa Oriabure Commencement 1992

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ifty years ago, UTD was nothing more than a small center for research and education. Forget undergraduate classes, sprawling engineering buildings and Temoc; UTD wasn’t even called “The University of Texas at Dallas” until 1969, 10 years after the research center was established. Today, it is considered one of the best research universities in the nation, has produced nobel laureates, parliamentarians and astronauts, and has grown to

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