News Releases
UNT professor part of collaboration awarded $1 million research grant to create nuclear monitoring technology
DENTON (UNT), Texas — A University of North Texas engineering professor is starting a major new project in November that he hopes will help solve a critical problem in nuclear engineering.
Haifeng Zhang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology, is a major part of a collaboration that was recently awarded a $1 million research grant from the Department of Energy. He will be working to use an ultrasound through-wall data transmission technique to transmit...
UNT celebrates International Education Week
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – The University of North Texas will celebrate International Education Week November 14-18 with various events held by numerous departments, programs and student groups across campus.
“International Education Week gives us the opportunity to make the world a smaller place for the UNT community. One of UNT International’s goals is to further internationalize campus – to showcase the diversity of culture that exists here on UNT’s campus, to introduce more students and faculty to international opportunities and to prepare UNT graduates for the global workforce,” said...
UNT Wind Ensemble to present the music of Star Wars and other John Williams favorites
What: Just in time for the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the UNT College of Music’s Wind Ensemble will be performing favorites from composer John Williams.
When: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1 (Thursday).
Where: Margot and Bill Winspear Performance Hall in the Murchison Performing Arts Center, 2100 Interstate 35E, Denton. The event also will be streamed live at https://recording.music....
UNT psychology student wins $71,000 national award in support of research
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Renee Cloutier, a doctoral student in experimental psychology at the University of North Texas, has received a $71,674 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of the 25 centers and institutes that are part of the National Institutes of Health. Cloutier is the first UNT student to receive this award, which will provi...
UNT English doctoral student wins prestigious Legacy Award
DENTON (UNT), Texas - Sanderia Faye, University of North Texas Ph.D. student in English, has won the nation’s top honor for a debut novel by an African American writer – the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation 2016 Legacy Award.
Faye earned the honor in the Debut Fiction category for her book Mourner’s Bench (University of Arkansas Press), a novel about a woman who gets caught u...
UNT One O'Clock Lab Band to host world-renowned trumpeter and composer Sean Jones
What: The UNT College of Music’s Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band will perform with guest artist Sean Jones, internationally acclaimed trumpeter.
When: 8 p.m. Nov. 22 (Tuesday)
Where: Margot and Bill Winspear Performance Hall in the Murchison Performing Arts Center, 2100 Interstate 35E, Denton. The event also will be streamed live at https://recording.music.unt.edu/.
Cost: $15 for the public, $10 for UNT students, faculty, staff and...
University of North Texas design students, veterans give input to revamped Texas Veterans Portal
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Communication design majors and veteran students at the University of North Texas have played a role in the redesign of the Texas Veterans Portal, which debuted Nov. 11, 2016, for Veterans Day.
The portal is a comprehensive website that connects Texas veterans and their families to a wide variety of benefits and assistance. The new site’s features includes a responsive format so that it adapts to multiple screen sizes; a layout that makes the site easier to navigate; and conversational la...
'Tis the season for UNT College of Music to spread joy with unique takes on holiday tunes
DENTON (UNT), Texas - The University of North Texas College of Music is ringing in the season with drummers drumming and tubas bellowing with UNT Sounds of the Holidays and TUBACHRISTMAS.
At 8 p.m. Dec. 3 (Saturday), UNT Percussion will celebrate the season with UNT Sounds of the Holidays: Twelve Drummers Drumming at the Margot and Bill Winspear Performance Hall in the Murchison Performing Arts Center, 2100 Interstate 35E, Denton. The family-friendly event will be a festive musical celebration of drumming featuring UNT’s Percussion Ensemble, 2:00 Caribbean S...
UNT Debate students win state championship tournament
DENTON (UNT), Texas – Garrett Hammonds and Abron Hester, two members of the University of North Texas Debate Team, won the 2016 Fall Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association Championship Tournament held Nov. 3-5 at Tyler Junior College. The win came in UNT Debate’s second year in participating in this tournament.
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Faculty member gives advice on post-election letdown, election result discussions
If you’ve spent many hours the last year or two checking the latest presidential campaign news on the Huffington Post, Drudge Report, Politico and other websites watching or listening to political pundits and monitoring the polls, you may start feeling empty on Wednesday (Nov. 9), after the U.S. has a new president. You may wonder how to fill the hours that you had devoted to politics.
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