Tony-Award-nominated Broadway performer Carmen Cusack returned to the University of North Texas Saturday night for the annual Wingspan Gala, where President Neal Smatresk presented the lauded singer with an honorary bachelor’s degree.

At this year’s event, “The Bright Lights of UNT,” Smatresk also honored alumnus Jim McNatt with the Presidential Wings of Eagles Award, and art history professor Nada Shabout, as well as recent UNT Honors College graduate Krystin Rodriguez with the Presidential Excellence awards. The annual Wingspan Gala celebrates teaching excellence, stude...

DENTON (UNT), Texas - The world’s Next Visionary Filmmaker is a media arts student at the University of North Texas.

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DENTON (UNT), Texas -  An Indian dance troupe will perform at the University of North Texas as part of the Mary Jo and V. Lane Rawlins Fine Arts Series.

The Dallas-based Eyakkam Dance Company will present “Release, Reach, Rejoice” at 7 p.m. April 4 in the Lyceum of the University Union, which is located at 1155 Union Circle. The free event will feature four Indian stories – Ramayana, the story of Prince Rama rescuing...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — University of North Texas accounting doctoral candidate Megan Seymore, CPA, has been awarded the $10,000 Michael J. Barrett Doctoral Dissertation Grant to study how visualizations of big data and differing data sources influence decision-making in internal audits.

The grant comes from the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Internal Audit Foundation, whi...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — More than 50 University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design Department of Studio Art graduate students in ceramics, metals, fibers, sculpture, photography and drawing and painting will be giving a behind-the-scenes look at their creative research on April 13. Artists will be on site to discuss their works at three locations:

• 1-3 p.m.: Oak Street Hall, 1120 W. Oak St.; ceramics
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Ana Cleveland, Regents Professor at the University of North Texas, is the recipient of the 2018 Marcia C. Noyes Award, the highest honor that the Medical Library Association confers.

Cleveland, the Sarah Law Kennerly Endowed Professor and in the College of Information’s Department of Information Science, will receive the award at the MLA annual meeting in Atlanta in Ma...

DENTON (UNT), Texas - UNT’s College of Music will be hosting their annual Music Entrepreneurship Competition where music students can create and submit business plans in hopes of winning a cash prize. More than $19,000 in cash prizes will be awarded for winners to launch or expand student businesses.

Competition founder Fabiana Claure, director of career development and entrepreneurship...

What: Brendan Fernandes artist talk and performance of Free Fall 49, hosted by the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design, in collaboration with the Greater Denton Arts Council.

When: April 6 (Friday); Performance at 6 p.m., with an artist talk at 5 p.m.

Where: Greater Denton Arts Council, 400 E. Hickory Street in Denton.

Cost: Free

DENTON (UNT), Texas - The University of North Texas College of V...

DENTON (UNT), Texas - Poet Allison Benis White, winner of the 2018...

DENTON (UNT), Texas ¾The University of North Texas’ Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism and the Headliners Foundation of Texas presents Women with Words: Female Pioneers in Journalism March 21 (Wednesday).

This free event begins at 6 p.m. at the University Union Lyceum. Panelists include Leona Allen of the Dallas Morning News; Carolyn Barta, formerly with the Dallas Morning and a journalism professor at Southern Methodist University; Katie Sherrod, retired from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and curren...