FOUNDERS & FUNDERS IT'S ABOUT TIME BY THE NUMBERS IT'S THE McDERMOTTS THEY CALL IT UTD
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What is $32 million?
Margaret McDermott endowed this amount to the University of Texas at Dallas to establish a scholar program in honor of her late husband
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What is 2001?
The first McDermott class officially launched in this year
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Who is Richard C. Benson?
The fifth and current president of The University of Texas at Dallas
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What are academics, leadership, service, and character?
The pillars of the McDermott Program
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What is Galaxy?
Log onto ______ to access eLearning and other useful student portals
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Who is Eugene McDermott?
Founder of Geophysical Service Inc. and Texas Instruments, this avid philanthropist is the namesake for one of the most prestigious college scholarship programs for Texas public universities
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What is the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies?
This became the official name of the university that would become UT Dallas in July of 1967
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What are eight schools of study?
The number of schools of study at UT Dallas
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Who is Eric Fackler?
This member of the McDermott Scholars Program Staff graduated from Skidmore College
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Who is Temoc?
This UTD school spirit icon is a non-human entity which possesses a human host during school activities and frequently appears at athletic events and games
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Who is Dr. Hobson Wildenthal?
This former President ad Interim and Provost now offices next door to the McDermott Programs office and worked with Margaret McDermott to create the Eugene McDermott Scholars Program
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What is May?
This month in 1971 marked the creation of UTD’s first logo
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What is the trellis in the Margaret McDermott Trellis Plaza?
The dimensions of this UTD structure is 165 ft by 146 ft by 25 ft
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Who is Renee’ Green?
This member of the McDermott Scholars Program Staff has a masters in Information Technology
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What is the library?
This building at UTD is named after Eugene McDermott
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Who is Mary McDermott/Mary McDermott Cook?
This daughter of Eugene and Margaret McDermott has often accompanied new Scholars on their trip to Santa Fe?
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What is the McDermott class of 2020?
This McDermott Scholars class cohort marks the number of years in a “score”
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What is 17?
The number of years out of the last twenty that the UTD chess team has participated in the Final Four collegiate chess tournament
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What is Pee-Pee Tom?
The clay turtle on the front desk of the Eugene McDermott front office
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What is Blaze?
The original name of UTD's mascot before it was changed to Temoc
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What is the Green Center?
The building at UT Dallas named for this university founder houses the Hobson Wildenthal Honors College and has perhaps the strangest shape of any building on campus
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What is 46?
This is the number of months of which the McDermott Scholars Program award is comprised
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Who are students who identify as LGBTQ+
UT Dallas was recently ranked number 14 in the US for its support of this student population
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What is 20?
“This is the number of Scholars in the first McDermott class back in 2001
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What is the Terry Scholars Program?
Often affiliated with the Eugene McDermott Scholars, this public Texas university scholarship group is greatly distinguished at UT Dallas and are often housed with McDermott Scholars






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