What: Implementing an Effective Swim Coaching Strategy: Mental and Physical Approaches" -- A one-day workshop at the University of North Texas to enhance swim coaches' strategies and training plans. Sponsored by UNT's Center for Sport Psychology and PerformanceExcellence. Part of the UNT Coach Workshop Series.
When: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. May 17 (Saturday)
Where: Room 110 of UNT's Business...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Summer months are looming. Should your family plan a getaway? Is it worth the time off work and the hassle of planning?
University of North Texas doctoral student Debbie Farr, who has studied family vacations, can discuss changing perceptions of vacations throughout the decades and can talk about a body of research that shows the benefits of family vacations.
"In this country, we have forgotten there's a real purpose behind vacation, and it's not just to be slackers," said Farr, who has worked with parents and families for about 20 years. "We have this...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- As the president and owner of a communication skills training firm in Brooklyn, N.Y., Josh Gordesky wasn't sure he'd have time to go to a university campus several times a week to take classes for a doctoral degree, which he says will allow him to teach outside of his firm.
"While I am building my business in the field of professional development training, I would like to add teaching in college as an area of expertise," he said.
When Gordesky learned that the University of North Texas ...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – The University of North Texas will offer a variety of workshops for students, professionals and families this summer.
Several workshops are offered all summer long through the College of Music for students, professional musicians and teachers. Camp Communicate, from June 9-13, offers children ages 5-12 with speech, language and hearing disorders a chance to make friends and practice communication. Grandparents University, offering an opportunity for grandparents and family members to receive a college experience with their grandchildren, will take place June 19-...
What: Geopolitical analyst and author Robert D. Kaplan, chosen as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine, will present the final lecture of the University of North Texas Kuehne Speaker Series on National Security for 2013-14
When: Noon May 6 (Tuesday)
Where: Gold Room on the second floor of The Fairmont Dallas hotel, 1717 North Akard St.
Cost:...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Two UNT faculty members will gather inspiration from nature when they complete projects as fellows in UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2014-15 academic year.
Regents Professor of Studio Arts Harlan Butt and Department of English Lecturer David Taylor will be granted a semester off from teaching duties to work on their projects full time.
For Butt, that project will be a series of artwork inspired by nature while...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Division of University Relations, Communications and Marketing at the University of North Texas recently received awards for excellence in its communication materials in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District IV competition and the 2013 Collegiate Advertising Awards competition.
UNT earned:
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Edinburgh, Scotland, may be thousands of miles away from the University of North Texas, but the university will have its own piece of Scotland to mark its 125th anniversary in 2015.
Through April 23 (Wednesday), students, faculty, staff members, alumni and the general public will vote online to choose an official UNT tartan — a design for weaving that consists of two or more alternating colored stripes that intersect vertically and horizontally to form a repeated checkered pattern — from three designs. The designs...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Approximately 200 University of North Texas students will present the results of their original research projects during the university's Eleventh Annual University Scholars Day April 17 (Thursday).
Sponsored by the UNT Honors College, but open to all UNT students who are earning bachelor's degrees, Scholars Day gives students a chance to present their research in the same way that faculty members and other professionals present their research at conferences, either through display of research posters or by giving oral...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Chinazo Onwukaike, a senior journalism and radio/television/film major at the University of North Texas, has received a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study Korean in Wonju, South Korea, this summer. Onwukaike is a 2010 graduate of Garland High School.
A student in both UNT's Honors College and the Emerald Eagle Scholars...