What: UNT's Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute hosts "By the Pen: The Art of Writing in Islamic Art," a lecture by Sheila Blair, Boston College professor of Islamic and Asian art. The lecture discusses the ways artists and craftsmen of the Islamic cultures have used writing to decorate buildings and objects.

When: 4-5 p.m. April 24 (Thursday)

Where: The Forum at Willis Library, 1506 Highland Ave., Denton

Cost: Free

What else:...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) – The University of North Texas will offer a variety of workshops for students, professionals and families this summer.

Several workshops are offered all summer long through the College of Music for students, professional musicians and teachers. Camp Communicate, from June 9-13, offers children ages 5-12 with speech, language and hearing disorders a chance to make friends and practice communication. Grandparents University, offering an opportunity for grandparents and family members to receive a college experience with their grandchildren, will take place June 19-2...

What: Geopolitical analyst and author Robert D. Kaplan, chosen as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine, will present the final lecture of the University of North Texas Kuehne Speaker Series on National Security for 2013-14

When: Noon May 6 (Tuesday)

Where: Gold Room on the second floor of The Fairmont Dallas hotel, 1717 North Akard St.

Cost:...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Two UNT faculty members will gather inspiration from nature when they complete projects as fellows in UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2014-15 academic year.

Regents Professor of Studio Arts Harlan Butt and Department of English Lecturer David Taylor will be granted a semester off from teaching duties to work on their projects full time.

For Butt, that project will be a series of artwork inspired by nature while camping...

What: The second annual Arab Film Festival Texas, presented by UNT's Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute, featuring the Texas premiere of award-winning short films, feature films and documentaries from Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.

When: 6:30-10 p.m. May 2 (Friday), and 1-10 p.m. on May 3 (Saturday) and May 4 (Sunday)

Where: Angelika Film Center, 5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230, Dallas

Cost:...

Students at E.P. Rayzor Elementary School in the Denton Independent School District helped gather thousands of books to be sent to children in Uganda as part of a project started by University of North Texas College of Education Associate Professor Marc Cutright.

"We all appreciate the opportunity to connect," said Abbas Tashakkori, professor and chair of the...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Natalie Parde, a graduate student in the University of North Texas College of Engineering, has won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her work researching natural language processing – which makes it possible for computers to understand how humans talk and write.

Parde, who studies computer science and engineering, will receive $32,000 per year for up to three years as part of the research fellowship. The fellowship also in...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Chelsea Wagenaar, graduate student in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, earned the 2014 Voertman/Academy of American Poets Prize. The award was presented at the UNT Rilke Prize reading on April 8 (Tuesday).

The $200 prize was awarded to Wagenaar for her poem "August" in which she describes an X-ray of a f...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Division of University Relations, Communications and Marketing at the University of North Texas recently received  awards for excellence in its communication materials in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District IV competition and the 2013 Collegiate Advertising Awards competition.
UNT earned:

• Honorable mention in Color Photography-Campus Environment in the 2...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Orders are being taken for The Best American Newspaper Narratives of 2012, an anthology of 10 newspaper articles that were honored during the 2013 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.

The 10 articles were the first-, second-, and third-place winners and seven runners-up of the first Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest off...