DENTON (UNT), Texas – A University of North Texas interior design junior from Austin was recently awarded the Most Valuable Volunteer award for the Campus Center Awards from the International Interior Design Association.
The IIDA only gives out one Most Valuable Volunteer Award for students each year.
"When I found out I had received the award, I was elated," said College of Visual Arts and Design student Lindsey Torpey. "I was checking my email when I gasped and began jumping up and down in my seat. My friend...
What: High school students in the University of North Texas' first Multimedia High School Journalism Summer Workshop taking photos and shooting video at UNT's Crime Scene City, which simulates crime scenes with fingerprints, bloodstains and other evidence.
When: 1 p.m. July 22 (Tuesday)
Where: UNT's Crime...
Watch video of previous camps here and here.
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – The internationally-renowned Mariachi Sol de Mexico — a Grammy-nominated ensemble — will be the headline performer of the University of North Texas Mariachi Aguilitas Summer Camp, an annual week-long...
DENTON (UNT), Texas – A Dallas native and music performance sophomore in UNT's College of Music received a $6,000 annually renewable scholarship that will allow her to pursue her dream career in opera and on the stage.
The youngest of five children, Chabely Rodriguez attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She completed her freshman year at the University of North Texas in May 2014. It was important to Rodriguez and her family that she continue her education, though they knew...
What: "Why I'm Not Still a Novelist: Nonfiction as Literary Art" -- A presentation by David Quammen, contributing writer for National Geographic. Quammen, author of "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic," is the first keynote speaker for this year's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference sponsored by the Frank W. ...
What: American Brides: Inspiration and Ingenuity, an exhibition of more than 40 wedding gowns, dresses and ensembles that span from 1840 to the present. The exhibition is a collaboration between UNT's Texas Fashion Collection and the Greater Denton Arts Council.
When: June 28 (Saturday) to Oct. 24 (Friday); gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
Where: The Greater Denton Arts Council's Patterson-Appleton...
Books from past keynote speakers also up for bids
What: The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Benefit Auction,celebrating the 10th year of the conference, which is hosted each July by the University of North Texas' Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism
When: Online auction June 27(Friday) to July 20 (Sunday). Live auction, with first editions of 11 autographed novels by Pulitzer Prize...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Students, faculty and alumni from the University of North Texas College of Music are headed to Europe for an 11-concert, three-country tour in Germany, Austria and Croatia from July 1 (Tuesday) to July 21 (Monday). Current and former members of the UNT Baroque Orchestra, the UNT Collegium Singers and special guests will come together to perform as a baroque ensemble called "Fantasmi."
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DENTON (UNT), Texas – A University of North Texas communication design student from Coppell who recently won Best in Show at a Fort Worth advertising design competition took home a silver national American Advertising Federation "ADDY" award May 31 in Boca Raton, Florida.
The "Addy" Award is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, attracting more than 40,000 entries every year. The mission of the American Advertising Awards competition is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Portal to Texas History, administered by the University of North Texas Libraries to provide access to more than 385,000 digitized books, photographs, maps, newspapers, letters and other historic materials, has been named a Service Hub by the Digital Public Library of America.
The DPLA Service Hubs are state or regional digital libraries that aggregate information about digital objects from libraries,...