DENTON (UNT), Texas — Texas Secretary of State Carlos H. Cascos will lead a discussion on cross border trade with Mexico and today's transportation challenges at the University of North Texas Center for Logistics Education and Research annual scholarship breakfast. The event, hosted by Dallas-based...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas launched four Institutes of Research Excellence, bringing together a critical mass of knowledge and faculty collaborating on projects designed to create a stronger platform for interdisciplinary research and partnerships with industry to create solutions and further contribute to the North Texas region's economic growth.

"These institutes build on areas where our faculty are already well-known experts and are making important contributions through their solutions-based research," UNT President...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — It happened in 2013, 2014 and now this year: Students in the University of North Texas logistics program have taken the top prize at the Intermodal Association of North America's annual Intermodal EXPO Academic Challenge held in September...

What: "Adversity is a Great Teacher" – J. C. Penney Company Executive Chairman Myron E. (Mike) Ullman III, opens the University of North Texas 2015-16 Executive + Scholar Lecture Series with a Q&A conversation about how challenges and obstacles in business and personal life can help individuals learn important lessons.

When/Where: 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 8 (Thursday) in the ballroom of UNT's...

What: The University of North Texas' Club at Gateway Center opens for the 2015 fall season. The restaurant offers three-course lunches to the public and UNT community and is run by students in the UNT College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism.

When: Monday – Friday, Sept. 28 to Nov. 25, with seating from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Where: The Club at Gateway, located in the UNT Gateway Center, 801 North...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Four leading business executives will relate first-hand knowledge of the business world to University of North Texas students this fall as part of the annual College of Business Distinguished Speaker Series.

The series, which is free and open to the public, begins Sept. 18 (Friday) and will feature two speeches and one panel discussion. All presentations will take place from 10 – 11:30 a.m. in Room 080 of the ...

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 — 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 — Four students in the University of North Texas College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism are among 25 students in the nation named semifinalists in the 2015 Ray Greenly Scholarship Competition sponsored by the National Retail Federation.

The UNT students — Maggie Brown, a senior from Flower Mound; Nichole Fallis, a senior from San Antonio; Taylar Gomez, a sophomore from Friendswood and Marcy Plefka, a senior...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — The University of North Texas College of Business' online MBA program was ranked in the Top 25 Online MBA programs by The Princeton Review for excelling in five areas of criteria: academics, selectivity, faculty, technical platforms, and career outcomes. UNT ranked...