DENTON (UNT), Texas -- As a part of the University of North Texas' Staff Appreciation Week celebrations, 12 members of the UNT staff have received Staff Contribution Awards, presented by President Neal Smatresk.
The winners were nominated by their colleagues and a committee from UNT's Staff Senate evaluated each nomination to choose the winners. Each winner has demonstrated a commitment to UNT's four bold goals...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Join scientists, astronomers and other fans of the universe for a "Big Bang" event celebrating the opening of the M.R. and E. Hudson Foundation Planetwalk at 8 p.m. on April 5 (Saturday) at the University of North Texas Rafes Urban Astronomy Center observatory.
The observatory is located at 2350 Tom Cole Road in Denton.
"The Hudson Planetwalk provides a uniquely informative introduction to our Rafes Urban Astronomy Center," says Ron DiIulio, director of UNT's astronomy...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- For the third consecutive year, the University of North Texas will observe Celebrating Global Citizens Month in April. The university will offer events every week to educate students, faculty, staff and community members about diversity, internationalism and sustainability.
The event is sponsored by UNT-International, UNT Sustainability and the Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity.
One of the month's main events, the Great...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Intensive English Language Institute (IELI) at the University of North Texas has been teaching academic English to non-native speakers for 37 years. Occasionally, short programs have been taken outside the U.S., but April 2014 will see the largest such program to date. In April 2014, IELI will begin a two-year program of teaching English at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan.
UNT's Intensive English Language Institute was selected by Kansai Gaidai based on careful analysis of the programs and services offered by IELI and due to the long relationship...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Innovation Greenhouse at the University of North Texas will host the Big D Big Data Hackathon beginning at 6 p.m. March 28 (Friday) through March 29 (Saturday) at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Irving, where participants will show off predictive analysis skills to judges, working professionals, entrepreneurs and more.
The Microsoft Innovation Center is located at...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- On March 24 (Monday) the University of North Texas received a Gold Level award from the American Heart Association as a Fit-Friendly Worksite. Fit-Friendly Worksites are workplaces that go above and beyond when it comes to their employees' health. The Gold Level award is for worksites that fulfill criteria such as offering employees physical activity support, increasing healthy...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Pops and Uno did not always cooperate with the museum staff at the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney, Texas. They would run away and play rather than follow directions. Fortunately, University of North Texas students of behavior analysis found ways to train the precocious ring-tailed lemurs and teach these...
What: The Big Event -- The University of North Texas' largest single day of community service. More than 2,500 students, staff members and alumni will give up a Saturday morning to do 40 service projects at 70 locations in Denton County, including the UNT campus. Many of the students will represent student organizations.
When: 8 a.m.–2 p.m. March 29 (Saturday).
Where: The volunteers will begin the day by meeting in the mall area outside UNT's...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Incoming freshmen and new transfer students to the University of North Texas in the fall of 2014 can sign up for a new flat-rate tuition plan that offers students graduating in four years a $3,000 reduction in tuition and fees plus a $1,000 bonus.
The new Eagle Express tuition plan was approved Thursday by the UNT System Board of Regents and locks in tuition rates for four years. Students who sign up for the Eagle Express plan and earn the graduation incentives could effectively pay the same price for four years of tuition and fees as they would pay if this...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Carmen Santos grew up hearing legends about the Chamorro people of her native Mariana Islands, but she didn't know she could use those stories in a career.
That changed when she was a student in the University of North Texas College of Information's distance education program for the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands. Last summer, Santos took an online class, SLIS 5440, Storytelling for Information Professionals, as part of her master of library science degree and...