DENTON (UNT), Texas – The University of North Texas Debate Team received the Debate Sweepstakes Award at the fall Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association Championship Tournament, held this month in Corpus Christi. Team members won three of the 14 events and accumulated enough points for wins in preliminary rounds and participation in elimination rounds to win the award for best overall performance by...

DENTON (UNT), Texas - In 2013, two years before the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, a couple in Texas, agreed to join a lawsuit challenging their state's 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. Their challenge is chronicled in "Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss,...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — George Alfred James, a faculty member in the University of North Texas Department of Philosophy and Religion, has been named the university's first Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain...

The University of North Texas Libraries has released more than 100 free e-books for those wanting to learn more about Texas and Oklahoma history.

A $95,599 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Humanities Open Book Program made the release of the e-books possible.

The e-books, relating to the history of Texas and Oklahoma, are available...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Kim Horner of Richardson, communications manager at the University of Texas at Dallas, received the top prize of $3,000 and a provisional book contract with the University of North Texas Press in the Book Manuscript competition sponsored by the 2017 ...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Best-selling author and journalist Julia Flynn Siler has been awarded the 2017 Mayborn Fellowship in Biography from University of North Texas' ...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — For the second year in a row, a Washington Post reporter received the top prize in the annual Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest sponsored by the University of North Texas' Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.

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DENTON (UNT), Texas — Like so many other high school students, Leta Cunningham spent the second semester of her senior year preparing for life at a university — the University of North Texas, where she was accepted into the Honors College.

She was looking forward to her graduation ceremony and...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — University of North Texas sophomore Nikki Lyssy learned to surf when she was in middle school, during a family vacation to Texas' Gulf coast.

When Lyssy had the chance to try parasailing in Port Aransas a few years later, she couldn’t wait to soar above the bay — and not being able to see the sky or the ocean below wouldn’t stop her.

That’s why Lyssy, an English major at UNT who has been blind since birth, was so eager to share her...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — The University of North Texas has received a 2017 Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award from NAFSA: Association of International Educators...