U.S. News & World Report has named the University of North Texas’ College of Education online graduate education program the fourth best in the nation.
UNT was ranked No. 4 out of 275 schools listed. The program rose from a No.16 ranking last year.
“We are developing high-quality educator preparation programs and bringing them closer to the settings where our students work with kids,” said Randy Bo...
What: “UNT Music in the City:“When a Ray of Light Meets a Prism,” featuring UNT College of Music faculty.
When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 (Friday)
Where: Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. in Dallas, Texas
Cost: $10 for the public; $8 for UNT faculty, staff and Alumni Association members; free for UNT students. Students can pick up their free ticket at the Murchison Performing Arts Center box office. UNT faculty, staff, alumni and the public, may purchase their tickets at the ...
A new proposal by the U.S. Department of the Interior under President Donald Trump would open more than 90 percent of U.S. coastal waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. Aaron Roberts, a University of North Texas associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Advanced Environmental Research Institute is an expert in environmental toxicology and risk assessment and he discusses the potential implications f...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- University of North Texas College of Music master’s student Kyle McKay was playing a gig with a band in New England when he noticed what turned out to be a common theme – freelance musicians need help with their finances, including tax preparation. That’s what inspired him to create The Musician’s Bookkeeper.
“I mentioned that I needed to keep track of the miles I was driving so I could deduct them on my taxes. The other band members’ mi...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- José R. Torres-Ramos, University of North Texas College of Music doctoral student, has received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to study mariachi in Mexico for a year. He is the first UNT Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology to earn this honor.
“I told myself that if I were to win this award, I’d just start crying because it’s probably one of the most prestigious awards somebody in ethnomusicology can win,” Torres-Ramos said. “I’m very humbled, I’m ve...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas College of Music will begin offering the world’s first Ph.D. in music with a concentration in performing arts health in fall 2018. The doctoral degree will focus on hearing, vocal, musculoskeletal and psychological health of musicians and other performing artists.
“It’s really exciting to help develop classes for this unique program,” said Kourtney Austin, teaching fellow in performing arts health. “As a new degree plan, it leaves students wide open to pursue the...
DENTON (UNT), Texas — University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design’s Lauren Cross, lecturer in interdisciplinary art and design studies, and art education doctoral student Ellie Ivanova were selected to be 2018 visiting artists for the Dallas Museum of Art. The Center for Creative Connections – or C3 – invites artists from a variety of disciplines to participate in the development and facili...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- A Swiss contemporary music duo named UMS ‘n JIP – comprised of Javier Hagen and Ulrike Mayer-Spohn – will tour the world performing works of University of North Texas College of Music students and alumni as part of “USA Project 2017.”
“The aim was to create a collaborative environment that would allow the students to experiment and learn a great deal throughout the compositional process,” said Panayiotis Kokoras, associat...
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Air Force Lt. Col. John Dickens and Maj. Aaron Glassburner will both soon add Ph.D. to their already impressive credentials.
The two service members are completing their doctoral degrees at UNT as part of a unique program with the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), a graduate school out of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, that provides professional training and continuing education opportunities for service members.
Much of AFIT’s training is done in-house, but the institute periodically sends s...
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Researchers in the University of North Texas College of Engineering’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering have found a way to create an ultralight, highly heat-resistant, magnesium-based material by engineering bonds at an atomic level. Their research has been published in the “Nature Communications” journal.
“We’v...