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...
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....
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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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...
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....
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...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Three summer exhibitions at UNT on the Square will feature artwork from the Denton community – from youngsters to art veterans – as well as a poignant tribute to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The gallery, located at 109 N. Elm St., is open from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. The exhibitions are free.
The fifth annual Outside the Box: DISD Student Art Exhibition, running May 3-10 (Thursday-Thursday), will feature a variety of a...
DENTON (UNT), Texas The University of North Texas College of Music has named Yuxin Mei the 2018-19 Presser Graduate Music Award winner and recipient of the $10,000 Presser scholarship.
“It means really a lot to me,” Mei said. “I still remember that I was very insecure, nervous and stressed when I just started my study of ethnomusicology at UNT in 2012. I was not only frustrated by the language barriers as an international student, but also I needed to adapt to an entirely new academic area and a different educational system. Receiving this prestigious award today is special to me, a...
DENTON (UNT), Texas Jingran Sun, a doctoral candidate in the University of North Texas College of Health and Public Service’s Department of Public Administration, has earned a coveted C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The fellowship assists Ph.D. students whose research “complements the institute’s interests in land and tax policy.”
“I am extremely thrilled and honored to receive this award,” Sun said. “Receiving this fellowship makes me realize that the mentoring and training I have received at UNT is as good as or better than what...
DENTON (UNT), Texas ¾ Robert Milne...