Event: "What Keeps You up at Night?" A networking dinner sponsored by Kickbox
When/Where: 5 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Sept. 3 (Thursday) at 2556 N. Elm St. in Dallas
Cost: $79 per person
Contact: Nancy Hong, UNT Innovation Greenhouse executive director, at 940-369-5203 or nancy.hong@unt.edu
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- North Texas business leaders can crowdsource ideas and solutions at a Sept.3 dinner in Dallas.
"What Keeps You up at Night?" will begin at 5 p.m. at...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Allie Salgueiro of Garland, a senior hospitality and tourism management major at the University of North Texas, has received a Wyndham Worldwide WEC Scholarship that will allow her to attend the 2015 World Education Congress, the annual global conference of Meeting Professionals International. The World Education Congress will be held in San Francisco Aug. 1-4.
...DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Tommy Vinh Bui, a master's student in library science in the University of North Texas' College of Information, has been named a 2015 Spectrum Scholar by the American Library Association. Bui is earning his master's degree through the college's Greater Los Angeles Cohort.
The Spectrum Scholarships, which provide students with $5,000 for one academic year and are non-renewable, are considered to be among the most...
DENTON (UNT), Texas — The University of North Texas Financial Services Program will be awarded a $50,000 grant from TD Ameritrade Institutional as part of its NextGen Financial Planning Initiative. To celebrate the honor, TD Ameritrade Institutional will fly two UNT representatives to the New York Stock Exchange to accept the award July 22 (Wednesday), where they'll be joined by UNT's mascot, Scrappy, to help ring the closing bell.
Two grants and 14...
DENTON (UNT), Texas – University of North Texas President Neal Smatresk appointed Finley Graves as the university's provost and vice president of academic affairs. This two-year appointment follows Graves' service as interim academic leader since March 1.
"Dr. Graves' leadership has effectively advanced some of our major institutional initiatives," Smatresk said.
"His ongoing service will bring more continuity and stability to the executive leadership team during this dynamic phase in our university's evolution, especially as we strive toward national prominence and continue to...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) — Eric Coleman, lecturer in the UNT Department of Criminal Justice with expertise in campus safety, security administration and police response, is available to discuss a shooting reported today at a Naval Reserve Center, near a community college in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Coleman is a former associate vice president for campus safety and...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) -- How can iPads and other technology help a nonverbal child with autism communicate? Can equine therapy help individuals on the autism spectrum thrive? What can parents and caregivers do to best potty train an autistic child? Answers to some of the latest questions circulating in the autism world will be addressed in one of the largest state conferences for families, educators and professionals who interact with young children with autism.
Nearly 300 individuals are expected to attend the University of North Texas' annual "...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas' Printing & Distribution Solutions won five awards at the 2015 In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association Conference, the nation's largest conference for print shops housed in larger organizations which they service.
PDS won four In-Print awards, the only awards given exclusively to in-plant printers. A team of jurors selected 67 winners from 400 entries in several different categories. Gold,...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Gulin "Eva" Gelogullari, a graduate student at the University of North Texas, has received a $30,500 Rotary Global Grant to study at Tel Aviv University in Israel during the 2015-16 academic year.
Gelogullari, a master's student in UNT's Department of Media Arts, will use her grant to enroll in Tel Aviv University's one-year...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) -- The year was 2000, and a personal friend of then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush – Charles C. Francis – was breaking a barrier for gay-rights advocates by holding a meeting with the governor and 11 other gay Republican men and women. It was the first time a Republican presidential candidate had ever formally and publicly met with a group of openly gay and lesbian individuals. On the agenda for the group known as the "Austin 12": a frank conversation about gay and lesbian issues, sharing personal stories as gay and lesbian Republicans and a discussion about Bush's...