for BrainHealth (near the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), and almost 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of new facilities added from 2007 to 2010.
The first fight song was written in September 2008; it was written to the music of Tiger Rag.
=== Attempted DFW-area UT System mergers ===
In July 2001, the 77th Texas legislature failed to pass two proposed bills which had very different plans for the future of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex UT System intuitions.
The first plan, 77(R) HB 3568 proposed by Kenn George, would have consolidated the two universities and one medical school under the name "The University of Texas at Dallas". It would have established UT Dallas (UTD) in Richardson, Texas, as the main flagship campus, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UTSW) as its medical school, and would have designated UT Arlington (UTA) as a UT Dallas satellite campus (a situation similar to UT Rio Grande Valley). The purpose of the bill was to consolidate all DFW UT System institutions into one, …
