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What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
This benefactor of the Eugene McDermott Scholars Program also donated 30 million dollars for campus beautification through the Campus Enhancement Project.
Who is Margret McDermott?
This UTD and McDermott Scholar alum serves as the current Social Media Specialist for the Eugene McDermott Scholars Program.
Who is Mashal Noor?
The UTD mascot is (loosely) named for one of these astronomical phenomena.
What is a Comet?
All three founders of UTD worked for this company, now of graphing calculator renown.
What is Texas Instruments?
The Panda Express in the Student Union serves over 15,000 pounds of rice a year. That’s a bit more than the estimated living weight of “Sue,” the famous specimen of this extinct species, housed in Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History!
What is a Tyrannosaurus Rex?
Engineering & Computer Science West (ECSW) contains 9,150 cubic yards of concrete in its building structure. Turn that concrete into ice cream and you’d have enough to give every UT Dallas student about this many gallons of ice cream per week for a year!
What is 1? (1.2 to be exact)
The School of Management bears the name of this alum, business leader, and member of India's Parliament.
Who is Naveen Jindal?
UTD's cheerleaders serve not to root on a football team, but rather the athletes of this more intellectual sport.
What is chess?
This UTD and TI co-founder--also a former Mayor of Dallas--lends his name to the School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Who is (J.) Erik Jonsson?
UTD's Einstein Bros serves over 80,000 bagels a year. This is approximately how high a tower comprised of those bagels would stand.
What is 7.5 miles (accept ± 1 mile)?
The Comet Cruiser transports nearly 1.4 million people a year...more than the entire population of this county, whose border with Dallas Country runs through the middle of UTD's campus.
What is Collin County?
This UT Dallas alum and former astronaut serves as the current Director of the United States Geological Survey.
Who is James F(rancis) Reilly (II)?
Whilst graffiti is not allowed on campus, there is one exception: these creatively named objects, located near the Activity Center and Student Services Building.
What are the Spirit Rocks?
UT Dallas was founded as a graduate institution bearing this name, intended to be a feeder for Texas Instruments.
What is the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies?