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...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Two University of North Texas sustainability projects received Green Ribbon Awards at the U.S. Green Building Council North Texas Gala.

The Green Ribbon Awards recognize the outstanding efforts of North Texas Chapter members, their customers and clients, and area communities to develop and promote extraordinary sustainable programs and creative sustainable solutions within the region.

The UNT SMART, or Save/Measure/Achieve/Reduce/Track, project won the...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Two explosions have been reported at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.

Associate Professor in UNT’s Emergency Administration and Planning Program David McEntire can be reached at 940-565-2996 and David.McEntire@unt.edu. McEntire is available by phone until 5:30 p.m. and is available by email after.

McEntire’s research and field of expertise includes emergency management...

University of North Texas College of Business student Thomas Pemberton, a junior studying marketing, has been named DFW American Marketing Association Collegiate Marketer of the Year.

Winners were announced at an April 11 gala in Dallas.

Pemberton, who plans to graduate from UNT in December, is the former president of the UNT AMA chapter.

While attending UNT, Pemberton works full-time as a project manager with SPYCH – a Dallas-based marketing research and...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Meal plan sales at the University of North Texas have gone up 35 percent over the last four years. UNT Dining Services is adapting to the growth with renovations to Bruce and Clark dining halls, and the addition of a new coffee retail location in UNT’s General Academic Building.

“Our best ideas come from listening to our students - that has been the driver behind the changes we are making and the success we have had in creating a...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- To help feed the planet in the future, University of North Texas biology students are working with plant scientists to develop drought-resistant plants with high crop yields.

UNT graduate students in behavior analysis and their professors are putting into practice the latest scientific research on autism to help children with the disorder and their families.

The university’s renowned...

The University of North Texas has been recognized on the 2013 Affordable Colleges Online list of the “Most Affordable Large Public Colleges”.

Affordable Colleges Online lists 100 universities that the editors of the site selected after a review of data provided by the National Center for Education Statistics, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and the Carnegie Foundation.

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DENTON (UNT), Texas— The University of North Texas will celebrate Earth Week April 22-25 (Monday-Thursday) as part of the university’s Celebrating Great Global Citizens Month. The university will offer events to educate students, faculty, staff and community members about sustainability. Earth Day is nationally recognized each year on April 22.

The week’s events are sponsored by the Office of Sustainability  and the...

What: Condoleezza Rice, Stanford University professor of political science and 66^th U.S. Secretary of State, will speak April 16 (Tuesday) as part of the University of North Texas Distinguished Lecture Series.

Where: UNT Coliseum, 600 Avenue D, at the southeast corner of North...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Anne Milner Fields and her great nephew UNT alumnus Bryan Milner (’00) have pledged $1 million to UNT’s College of Business to endow scholarships for study abroad opportunities.

The gift is eligible to be matched with $1 million from Charn Uswachoke (’73 M.B.A.) as part of his historic $22 million gift to the university in 2011. Uswachoke set aside a portion of his gift for matching opportunities as a way to encourage more donors to support UNT. Milner said that the match heavily influenced the...