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UNT fashion designers help furry friends at Denton’s Linda McNatt Animal Care and Adoption Center
MEDIA: Click here for photos of designs to be featured by UNT fashion design graduate R’Bonney Gabriel and UNT fashion design student Amber Houston
What: Fundraising Best in (Fashion) Show featuring University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design fashion design students and the dogs of Denton’s Linda McNatt Animal Care and Adopti...
UNT MFA studio art candidates featured in first annual Interlude exhibition
MEDIA: Photos available upon request
What: Interlude exhibition featuring third year Master of Fine Arts candidates from the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design
When:
Opening Reception
May 10
5-7 p.m.
Exhibition
May 11-26
Tuesday & Wednesday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday...
A record number of UNT foreign language students earn top scholarships and awards
DENTON (UNT), Texas — A record four World Languages, Literatures and Cultures students have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for English Teaching Assistantships for the 2018-2019 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
These students are among the over 1,900 U.S. citizens who will study, conduct research and teach abroad for the 2018-2019 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academ...
UNT launches bachelor’s degree in nonprofit leadership studies this fall
DENTON (UNT), Texas – Texas is home to the second largest number of nonprofit organizations in the nation – behind California – according to the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Forecasts indicate a strong outlook for jobs in the nonprofit sector and, as the number of nonprofits grow, there will be increased demand for skilled workers.
The University of North Texas College of Health and Public Service is addressing that...
Four UNT professors to pursue artistic pursuits thanks to IAA fellowship
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Four University of North Texas professors will receive time to work on personal projects – ranging from writing poetry to creating a virtual reality program – after receiving an Institute for the Advancement of the Arts fellowship.
The Faculty Fellows program allows UNT faculty members to take a semester off from teaching to pursue creative research in the arts. The IAA serves to promote artistic and creative expression at UNT.
Bruce Bond, Regents Professor of English
Bond will work on a book-length poem titled “The Calling” that explore...
Standard recommendation on calcium intake may trigger certain cancers in African Americans, evolutionary historian says
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academy of Sciences has long recommended that adults consume at least 1,000 milligrams of calcium daily, and women age 50 and older should consume even more.
What’s great advice for Americans with European ethnicity, however, may not be great advice for Americans with West African ancestry. That demographic has high susceptibility to certain cancers when exposed to America’s calcium-rich, dairy food culture, according to Constance Hilliard, University of North Texas researcher in evolutionary African history....
Standard recommendation on calcium intake may trigger certain cancers in African Americans, evolutionary historian says
DENTON (UNT), Texas The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academy of Sciences has long recommended that adults consume at least 1,000 milligrams of calcium daily, and women age 50 and older should consume even more.
What’s great advice for Americans with European ethnicity, however, may not be great advice for Americans with West African ancestry. That demographic has high susceptibility to certain cancers when exposed to America’s calcium-rich, dairy food culture, according to Constance Hilliard, University of North Texas researcher in evolutionary African history.
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UNT College of Visual Arts and Design takes home top honors at national competition, including “Best School”
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Seventeen communication design students and faculty from the University of North Texas took home top prizes from the National Student Show and Conference, the largest student creative competition in the United States.
UNT earned the “Best School Award” in the competition, whose winners were announced at a banquet on April 14. Professors Troy Abel, Clinton Carlson, Karen Dorff, Michael Gibson, Jude Landry, Doug May, Keith Owens and David Wolske were all named in the honor.
“As faculty, we work hard to challenge and develop our students in the classroom and...
UNT biomedical engineering awarded $2 million NIH grant
DENTON (UNT), Texas – The University of North Texas College of Engineering recently received a $2 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a biodegradable medical stent.
Medical stents are small tubes used to widen passageways within the body, such as the trachea and blood vessels. Traditional stents are made of anti-corrosion polymers or metals such as stainless steel, but the permanent presence of these stents can cause problems such as in-stent restenosis – the re-narrowing of an artery or other large blood vessel – and late thrombosis – or clotting....
UNT fashion design students earn top honors at international competition
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Students from the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design’s fashion design program took home top prizes from the 2018 Fashion Group International of Dallas Scholarship Competition. UNT had a total of 21 garments or accessories selected on either the runway or mounted exhibition at the event, held April 20 at Dallas Market Center.
“The awards definitely show the success and efforts of our students and the fashion design program,” said Li-Fen Anny Chang, associate professor of fashion design and program coordinator. “Through a rigorous curricul...