DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Sam Atkinson, professor and interim chair of the University of North Texas Biology Department has been named a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers designs, engineers, builds and maintains infrastructure throughout the United States. The Environmental Advisory Board serves to...

The University of North Texas offers summer programs to fit the needs and interests of North Texans, from innovative science programs to inspiring arts and humanities programs.

For your convenience, we have included a list of UNT summer highlights below. The list is in chronological order by program start date. For more information on any of these summer programs, contact UNT News Service at news.service@unt.edu or 940-565-2108.

UNT SUMMER PROGRAMS/EVENTS:

June 4 – 8

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What:       “A Chicano Photographer’s Journey: 1969 to the Present” — A lecture by

                 Jesús Manuel Mena Garza, leading documentary photographer of the 1970s

                 Chicano Civil Rights Movement. The 12^th Annual Commemorative Lecture in

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DENTON (UNT), Texas — As soon as he received his acceptance letter to the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at the University of North Texas, David Hao began searching for a UNT faculty member who would allow him to work in his or her research laboratory for the summer, before he even began classes as a TAMS student. TAMS is a two-year residential program at UNT that allows talented students to complete their freshman and sophomore years of college by taking UNT classes, and  earn their high school diplomas at the same time.

Hao, from P...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – Dr. Wendy Middlemiss, associate professor of educational psychology in the University of North Texas' College of Education, is available to discuss how parents can help their children cope with this week's onslaught of news – from the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday to the West fertilizer plant explosion on Wednesday and the hunt for the marathon bombing suspect today.

Middlemiss can be reached at wendy.middlemiss@unt.edu or 940-369-8870.

Midd...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — The University of North Texas will open its Goolsby Chapel from 4-5 p.m. today (April 18) for reflection and prayer for the victims of the bombings in Boston and the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. The chapel is at 1622 Maple St. in Denton.

The UNT chapter of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity is collecting items for residents of West who have been left homeless from yesterday evening’s fertilizer plant explosion.            

Fraternity members have set up a collection box in Room 422 of UNT’s Univ...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — In an effort to encourage narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across America, the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and The Dallas Morning News are launching a new writing contest this year. The Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest will award prizes to three long-form narrative nonfiction pieces previously published in daily U.S. newspapers or on the newspapers’ websites.

Newspaper reporters and editors may submit one...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Lee Hughes, an assistant professor of biology in the University of North Texas College of Arts and Sciences, has been named an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer.

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Distinguished Lecturer Program annually selects a scientifically diverse group to deliver lectures at ASM b...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – University of North Texas experts are available to comment on the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, that has reportedly killed and injured several people.

Dr. David McEntire, professor of public administration, is available until 3 p.m. today (April 18) to discuss emergency management response and multi-organization coordination. Previously, McEntire conducted research on a 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, Calif., studying how organizations adapt, plan and improvise i...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – Word wizards will gather at the University of North Texas April 18 (Thursday) to test their vocabulary prowess — while raising money for a children’s reading program.

A UNT Scrabble® tournament — open to the public — will benefit Success for Life through Reading, a nonprofit organization at UNT that promotes early childhood literacy in north Texas. Program volunteers visit area preschools and infant and toddler classrooms each week to read to children. In turn, each child gets to take home a copy of...