The following University of North Texas faculty members are available to discuss the advertising that will be shown during Sunday's (Feb. 2) broadcast of Super Bowl XLVIII, which will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.

Bill Ford is a senior lecturer in UNT's Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism,
Before teaching at UNT, Ford was the owner of his own advertising/graphic design agency in Dallas for 15 y...

What: Grand opening for UNT Artspace Dallas gallery, including an exhibition of nationally and internationally recognized artists who are alumni from the UNT's College of Visual Arts and Design.

When: 5 to 8 p.m. Feb. 8 (Saturday)

Where: UNT Artspace Dallas, on the first floor of University Center Building, 1901 Main Street, Dallas

Cost: Event is free.

Parking: Paid parking is available in the Elm Street Garage or in metered spots...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – West Hall, a residence hall on the University of North Texas campus, earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's prestigious ENERGY STAR. The ENERGY STAR is the national symbol for protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency.

The recognition signifies that West Hall performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy e...

What: The One O’Clock Lab Band’s spring Glenn E. Gomez Endowment concert will feature The Cookers, a band that includes alumnus Billy Harper on tenor saxophone and alumnus David Weiss on trumpet. Harper was the first African-American to earn a spot in the One O’Clock Lab Band, in 1964.

When: 8 p.m. Feb. 6 (Thursday)

Where: Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center, 2100 Interstate 35 Frontage Road, Denton. The concert will also be streamed online at...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas College of Engineering now offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering has become the college’s sixth department, with focus areas including biomedical instrumentation, bio mechanics and bioinformatics.

“Students who enroll in the new biomedical program will learn from engineering faculty who are world-renowned for their expertise in the biomedical engineering field,” said College of Engine...

What: What is love? Julie Leventhal, lecturer of educational psychology in the University of North Texas College of Education, attempts to answer this and other relationship-related questions in her courtship and marriage course. The course explores romantic relationships and how they change over a lifetime. In the class, students discuss communication, conflict, mate selection, pregnancy, childbirth, family planning and work-l...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Alumni of UNT’s College of Music won in four categories at the 56th annual Grammy Awards Sunday night. Snarky Puppy, founded by alumnus Michael League and featuring many UNT alumni, won for Best R&B Performance. Other alumni performed or recorded with the groups A Roomful of Teeth, Pacific Mambo Orchestra and Vampire Weekend, each of which also scored Grammy wins.

Snarky Puppy

College of Music alumnus Michael League is the bassist, composer and founder of the band Snarky Puppy. Among the other alumni who make up the band that has roug...

The flood waters rose quickly and silently swept through the mountain towns of Uttarakhand, North India in June 2013, taking the lives of an estimated 5,700 villagers, religious pilgrims and tourists who had no time to prepare or escape. Located in the foothills of the Himalayas, Uttarakhand is a destination each summer for thousands of devotees to worship in its temples. The government of India has said the actual number of people "missing and presumed dead" might never be confirmed, as bodies remain buried under land...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — When the creators of the Oscar-nominated movie “Dallas Buyers Club” needed to better understand the AIDS crisis among the city’s gay community during the 1980s, they only had to contact the University of North Texas Libraries.

Since August 2012, the UNT Libraries’ Special Collections department, formerly known as Archives and Rare Books, has housed a letter from Ron Woodroof, who started the Dallas...

The following University of North Texas faculty members are available to discuss President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, which will broadcast Tuesday evening (Jan. 28):

Valerie Martinez-Ebers, a professor in the UNT Department of Political Science, will discuss immigration reform as mentioned in the speech. Her expertise includes immigration policy analysis and program evaluation, and race, ethnicity and Latino politics, including the impact of migr...