DENTON (UNT), Texas -- As a part of the University of North Texas' Staff Appreciation Week celebrations, 12 members of the UNT staff have received Staff Contribution Awards, presented by President Neal Smatresk.

The winners were nominated by their colleagues and a committee from UNT's Staff Senate evaluated each nomination to choose the winners. Each winner has demonstrated a commitment to UNT's four bold goals a...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Join scientists, astronomers and other fans of the universe for a "Big Bang" event celebrating the opening of the M.R. and E. Hudson Foundation Planetwalk at 8 p.m. on April 5 (Saturday) at the University of North Texas Rafes Urban Astronomy Center observatory.

The observatory is located at 2350 Tom Cole Road in Denton.

"The Hudson Planetwalk provides a uniquely informative introduction to our Rafes Urban Astronomy Center," says Ron DiIulio, director of UNT's astronomy prog...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- For the third consecutive year, the University of North Texas will observe Celebrating Global Citizens Month in April. The university will offer events every week to educate students, faculty, staff and community members about diversity, internationalism and sustainability.

The event is sponsored by UNT-International, UNT Sustainability and the Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity.

One of the month's main events, the Great Glo...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Intensive English Language Institute (IELI) at the University of North Texas has been teaching academic English to non-native speakers for 37 years. Occasionally, short programs have been taken outside the U.S., but April 2014 will see the largest such program to date. In April 2014, IELI will begin a two-year program of teaching English at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan.

UNT's Intensive English Language Institute was selected by Kansai Gaidai based on careful analysis of the programs and services offered by IELI and due to the long relationship b...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Innovation Greenhouse at the University of North Texas will host the Big D Big Data Hackathon beginning at 6 p.m. March 28 (Friday) through March 29 (Saturday) at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Irving, where participants will show off predictive analysis skills to judges, working professionals, entrepreneurs and more.

The Microsoft Innovation Center is located at 70...

What: The last speaker in the University of North Texas Spring 2014 Visiting Writers Series, Katie Peterson, will answer student questions, read from her works and sign her books. Peterson is the winner of the 2014 UNT Rilke Prize given by the UNT Department of English.

When: April 8 (Tuesday).The questio...

What: Cold Connections, an exhibition of wearable decorative jewelry and metal artworks made using classic techniques and new technologies by UNT College of Visual Arts and Design metals and jewelry alumni and master's students

When/Where: Now through April 16 (Thursday) at UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., Denton. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with extended hours to 8 p.m. on Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday....

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- On March 24 (Monday) the University of North Texas received a Gold Level award from the American Heart Association as a Fit-Friendly Worksite. Fit-Friendly Worksites are workplaces that go above and beyond when it comes to their employees' health. The Gold Level award is for worksites that fulfill criteria such as offering employees physical activity support, increasing healthy e...

What: UNT College of Music's Jazz Singers will give two performances of their spring concert featuring Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer

When: 8 p.m. April 11 (Friday) and 8 p.m. on April 12 (Saturday)

Where: Voertman Hall in the College of Music building, 415 Avenue C, Denton, TX

Tickets: $10 for adults; $8 for seniors, non-UNT students, children, UNT faculty, staff and retirees, and groups of 10 or more; free for UNT students with valid ID. UNT stu...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Pops and Uno did not always cooperate with the museum staff at the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney, Texas. They would run away and play rather than follow directions. Fortunately, University of North Texas students of behavior analysis found ways to train the precocious ring-tailed lemurs and teach these techni...