The University of Texas at Dallas received a record 3,141 gifts and raised more than $1 million for the sixth consecutive year during the ninth annual Comets Giving Days on April 9-10. The annual fundraising event brought in $1.1 million to benefit 128 UT Dallas groups. Members of the UT Dallas Pep Band won three games, earning $650 to jump-start the band’s fundraising efforts. Lori Gerard PhD’18, director of the pep band, said that the group owed much of its growth to its fundraising success during Comets Giving Days. “We first participated in Comets Giving Days in 2019, and we were really small then,” said Gerard, assistant professor of instruction in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology.