DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Artists and enthusiasts will come together to celebrate creativity at the 26th annual VAST (Visual Arts Society of Texas) Members Exhibition Aug. 12-22 (Wednesday-Saturday) at the UNT on the Square gallery, 109 N. Elm Street in Denton.

This is the first year the exhibition will be held at the UNT on the Square gallery. The exhibition is juried, and prizes totaling $2,550 in cash and merchandise will be awarded to winners of the exhibition.

The opening reception and award cerem...

What: Add Architecture, Stir Memory, a performance piece by novelist and playwright Shay Youngblood about the memory of home

When: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Aug. 4 (Tuesday)

Where: UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., Denton

Cost: Free

DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Shay Youngblood traveled to Japan in 2011 to research a novel on memory and home. Ten days later, a 9.0 earthquake struck, followed by a tsu...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Four students in the University of North Texas College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism are among 25 students in the nation named semifinalists in the 2015 Ray Greenly Scholarship Competition sponsored by the National Retail Federation.

The UNT students — Maggie Brown, a senior from Flower Mound; Nichole Fallis, a senior from San Antonio; Taylar Gomez, a sophomore from Friendswood and Marcy Plefka, a senior f...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Richard Funes, a student in the University of North Texas' College of Visual Arts and Design, won a gold American Advertising Award, or Addy, at the 2015 American Advertising Awards national competition in Las Vegas for his mock ad campaign for Fix-a-Flat, a tire sealant company.

The American Advertising Awards is the nation’s largest advertising competition, receiving more than 40,000 entries every year. Participants must advance through local and district level competiti...

NOTE: This year's camp is now full. Please check back next year for details on the 2016 Science Adventure Camp. 

Students in UNT’s Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science are hosting a free Science Adventure Camp from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. on Aug. 8 (Saturday) in UNT’s Environmental Education, Science and Technology building located at 1704 W. Mulberry St.

The Science Adventure Camp is geared toward children enrolled in 2^nd through 5^th grades. Parents are welcome to accompany their children at th...

NASA launched the New Horizons craft in January 2006 to explore the outermost edges of our solar system for the first time.

On July 14 (Tuesday), the craft will make its closest approach to Pluto and will head toward the Kuiper Belt, a band of debris left over from the formation of our solar system that is located nearly 4 billion miles from Earth’s orbit.

Director of the UNT Astronomy program and NASA Ambassador Ron DiIulio is available for...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) -- How can iPads and other technology help a nonverbal child with autism communicate? Can equine therapy help individuals on the autism spectrum thrive? What can parents and caregivers do to best potty train an autistic child? Answers to some of the latest questions circulating in the autism world will be addressed in one of the largest state conferences for families, educators and professionals who interact with young children with autism.

Nearly 300 individuals are expected to attend the University of North Texas' annual "...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The New York Times reporter and columnist Dan Barry won the 2015 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest top prize for "The Boys in the Bunkhouse," published in the Times in March 2014. The contest is sponsored by the University of North Texas' Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.

The contest is co-sponsored by The Dallas Morning News, and has been offered by the Maybo...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas' Printing & Distribution Solutions won five awards at the 2015 In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association Conference, the nation's largest conference for print shops housed in larger organizations which they service.

PDS won four In-Print awards, the only awards given exclusively to in-plant printers. A team of jurors selected 67 winners from 400 entries in several different categories. Gold, silver...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Gulin "Eva" Gelogullari, a graduate student at the University of North Texas, has received a $30,500 Rotary Global Grant to study at Tel Aviv University in Israel during the 2015-16 academic year.

Gelogullari, a master's student in UNT's Department of Media Arts, will use her grant to enroll in Tel Aviv University's one-year...