News Center Digest
News Center Digest compiles the most recent UT Dallas news by category. Dates indicate the first day of publication.
students
Program Helps Students Bond While They Are Abroad
(Feb 3, 2012) The chance to learn about new cultures, different languages or exotic foods might make the iFriend program seem like a good idea to just about anyone, but a few UT Dallas students walk away with the best perk of all: a lifelong pal. Begun in fall 2010 as a way to help new international teaching assistants acclimate to life on campus, the program has morphed into a partnership between the International Student Services Office and the Office of Student Volunteerism that provides an immersive cultural experience to both domestic and international students. read more
faculty
New Media Rewriting the Ad Playbook for Super Bowl
(Feb 3, 2012) This year’s Super Bowl ads are using a variety of tools that go far beyond the traditional TV commercial, said Abhi Biswas, a UT Dallas marketing professor in the Naveen Jindal School of Management. Companies have been using social media and targeted marketing to whet the public’s appetite for game-day ads. read more
Citigroup Whistleblower to Discuss ‘60 Minutes’ Story
(Feb 3, 2012) Richard Bowen, a former vice president at Citigroup, tried to warn the bank’s senior management and board of directors about the increasing levels of defective mortgages he was seeing. The news program, 60 Minutes, recently featured his experiences in a story focusing on why large Wall Street banks have not been prosecuted under the Sarbanes-Oxley law. Bowen, who also testified before a congressional commission and is now a professor of accounting at UT Dallas, on Feb. 6 will offer a glimpse behind the scenes of the troubled mortgage industry at the heart of the nation’s financial meltdown. read more
campus news
Weekend Events to Strike a Chord With Classical Music Fans
(Feb 3, 2012) The School of Arts and Humanities has scheduled back-to-back classical music concerts this weekend with performances by a guitar virtuoso and a piano duo on separate nights. Guitarist Javier Calderón plays Friday, Feb. 3. The music continues Saturday, Feb. 4, with a piano concert for four hands by the Euphonia Duo, made up of Fenia Chang and Evelyn Chen. read more
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