DENTON (UNT), Texas — Author Alison Owings, who is known for her stereotype-challenging oral-history based books, will receive unique guidance in writing her fourth piece, “The Book of Del: A Life Before, During and After Homelessness.”

Owings is the winner of the Biography Fellowship awarded during the University of North Texas’ 2018 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, held July 20 – 22. Given in conjunction with the Mayborn conference,...

Campus Safety magazine honors school, university and hospital police chiefs, security directors and emergency managers annually

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- University of North Texas Chief of Police Ed Reynolds earned national honors this week as Campus Safety magazine tabbed the North Texas native as its Campus Safety Director of the Year in higher education.

Reynolds, who has spent more than 20 years with the university, runs a police department entrenched in community. Under his leadership, UNT police...

UPDATE:  After 27 hours and 34 minutes, UNT history professor Andrew Torget set a new world record for longest history lesson while also raising more than $12,000 for the The Portal to Texas History.

DENTON (UNT), Texas - University of North Texas History Professor Andrew Torget is trying to become a part of history himself by securing a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. Torget will begin his attempt to spend...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – The University of Texas’s Department of Engineering Technology is helping bring back DC BEST – Denton County’s Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology Robotics competition. It is a six-week extracurricular robotics contest among local middle and high school students during fall 2018.

Engineering Technology faculty Leticia Anaya and...

What: “Are You Not Entertained? Real Stories, Real People, Real Storytelling” — The 14th annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, hosted by the University of North Texas’ Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism.

When: July 20 to July 22 (Friday to Sunday).

Where: Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, located at 1800 Highway 26 East in Grapevine, Texas.

Cost:...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States with more than 795,000 people suffering one each year, according to the...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – In a paper published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, University of North Texas Ph.D. graduate student Benjamin Sirota explains a new method for protecting nanoelectronics that will result in longer-lasting components with better electronic stability.

“When dealing with electronics at the nanoscale  , exposure to foreign substances can have devastating effects,” said Sirota. “Remember, we are dealing with electronics at the smallest scale. Main electronic components such as...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – Texas is home to the second largest number of nonprofit organizations in the nation – behind California – according to the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Forecasts indicate a strong outlook for jobs in the nonprofit sector and, as the number of nonprofits grow, there will be increased demand for skilled workers.    

The University of North Texas College of Health and Public Service is addressing...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Four University of North Texas professors will receive time to work on personal projects – ranging from writing poetry to creating a virtual reality program – after receiving an Institute for the Advancement of the Arts fellowship.
The Faculty Fellows program allows UNT faculty members to take a semester off from teaching to pursue creative research in the arts. The IAA serves to promote artistic and creative expression at UNT.
 
Bruce Bond, Regents Professor of English
Bond will work on a book-length poem titled “The Calling” that...

DENTON (UNT), Texas  The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academy of Sciences has long recommended that adults consume at least 1,000 milligrams of calcium daily, and women age 50 and older should consume even more.
What’s great advice for Americans with European ethnicity, however, may not be great advice for Americans with West African ancestry. That demographic has high susceptibility to certain cancers when exposed to America’s calcium-rich, dairy food culture, according to Constance Hilliard, University of North Texas researcher in evolutionary African history....