DENTON, Texas (UNT) -- Claire Vaye Watkins will judge the 2017 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, a writing contest hosted by the University of North Texas. Watkins is the author of Gold Fame Citrusand Battleborn, which won her the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) -- Texas' annual sales tax holiday runs Aug. 5 – 7 (Friday through Sunday) this year, with state shoppers saving about $8 on every $100 spent on most clothes, backpacks, shoes and other school-related supplies priced under $100. Paul Goebel, senior director of the University of North Texas Student Money Management Center, can talk to media about ways families can stay within their budgets and get the most bang for their buck during the tax-fre...

DENTON (UNT), Texas − Today, the University of North Texas System Board of Regents voted unanimously to appoint Wren Baker as the new UNT Vice President and Director of Athletics, effective Aug. 22.

Baker, who currently is the interim Director of Athletics at the University of Missouri, will be offic...

What: Recalling, an exhibition at the University of North Texas Art Gallery featuring three different artists whose works remember origins, journeys and people. The artists featured are Faith Jessup of Denton, Chris Ramsay of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Frank Hamrick of Ruston, Louisiana.

When: Aug. 30 (Tuesday) – Oct. 22 (Saturday). Opening reception is from 5 to 7 p.m. and Artist Talks is at 6 p.m., both on Sept. 15 (Thursd...

DENTON (UNT) -- The University of North Texas recently celebrated its 125th birthday and now one proud alumna is celebrating her 100th. Mabel Dickinson (formerly Beckett) was born on July 28th, 1916. She graduated from UNT in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in library service and in 1968 with a master's in library services.

She went on to spend nearly 40 years as a public school librarian, but still to this day she often tells stories of her time here at UNT.

"Mamma was able to get her degrees while she had us and spent most of her summers in Denton while we lived in Denver City (...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — The fall semester is right around the corner, and incoming college students will be looking for ways to pay for school and fund their lifestyles. Paul Goebel, director of the Student Money Management Center at the University of North Texas, shares steps to take to avoid the most common money pitfalls that students make while they're in college:

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DENTON (UNT), Texas -- David Collins of Fulton, Missouri, 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 2016 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.

Collins' manuscript, "Accidental Texas Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and their Fight for Marriage Equality in the Lone Star State," tells the story of two ordinary men who challenged Texas' ban on same-sex...

What: Conversations: Art, Politics and North Texas, a series of five Dallas-Fort Worth artists/scholars discussing the intersection of art and politics, at the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas.

When: 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 28, Oct. 27, Feb. 2 and March 2

Where: Room 101, Art Building

Cost: Free

Parking: Visitors may park at Highland Street Garage and Union Circle Garage for $2 an h...

The following faculty members at the University of North Texas are available for media interviews on topics related to the 2016 Summer Olympics, which begin Aug. 5 (Friday) in Rio de Janeiro.

Tracy Everbach, a professor in UNT's Frank. W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, will discuss the news media's coverage and representation of female athletes and how it compares to that of male athlete...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) - Linguistics is set to be the third department in the College of Information at the University of North Texas. The elevation to department gives the program distinction and increases notability. The change in status will take effect on August 22 (Monday).

"It was my great pleasure to serve as the interim dean when the Linguistics program became an official department in the College of Information," said Victor Prybutok, interim dean of the College of Information. "Having Linguistics as a department in our college will offer some un...