What: A screening of "The Great Hanging," a documentary film exposing the largest mass execution by hanging in history, will debut to the public in Gainesville, Texas, the town where the tragic incident occurred. There will be a Great Hanging Memorial social event prior to the screening.

When: 6 p.m. social event, 7 p.m. film screening May 21 (Saturday).

Where: The State Theater, 200 E. California St., Gainesville, Texas.

Cost: Screening (view movie trailer...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Ernest Kuehne Jr. was presented the inaugural Wings of Eagles Presidential Award by UNT President Neal Smatresk on April 16 at the Wingspan Gala.

The Wings of Eagles Presidential Award celebrates creativity, spirit and innovation at UNT. It is awarded to an alumnus or friend of the University who embodies what UNT represents: engagement, generosity and affinity. It is the most prestigious award presented by the president to someone who has made a transformative impact on the university.

Kuehne graduated from UNT with a political science degree in 1966 and...

What: Reading and presentation by UNT Associate Professor of English Miroslav Penkov, a 2012-2013 IAA Faculty Fellow. He will be reading excerpts from his recently published novel "Stork Mountain" and provide images and commentary from his time in Bulgaria researching for the book.

When: May 5 (Thursday),

Presentation on research at 7 p.m., followed by the Reading at 7:30 p.m.

Where: UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., Denton

Cost: Free

A young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his b...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- A University of North Texas broadcast student will visit the White House April 28 for the first College Reporter Day, an opportunity for student reporters to discuss issues relevant to college campuses with senior administration officials.

Jessy Diamba, a 20-year-old junior broadcast and digital journalism major in the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, will join a select group of other student reporters from around the nation for a day full of briefings and events at the White House, including a briefing with...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas Grammy-nominated One O'Clock Lab Band has an exciting summer in store – they are recording a new album and heading to Australia.

"Our student musicians will assist in leading concerts and clinics at the James Morrison Academy, perform for thousands of jazz students from all across Australia as featured headliner at the Generations of Jazz Festival, and collaborate with numerous jazz professionals and jazz orchestras from Australia and around the world," said One O'Clock Lab Band Director Jay Saunders. "This is a major recruiting opp...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The United States Treasury Department will today announce that Harriet Tubman, an African-American woman and Civil War era abolitionist who transported hundreds of slaves to freedom, will replace Andrew Jackson – a slaveholder and seventh president of the United States – on the new $20 bill.

Constance Hilliard, University of North Texas history professor and expert on the Civil Rights movement, is available to discuss the importance of this decision. Hilliard can be reached by email at connie@unt.edu, or by phone at 94...

What: Daniel Pardo, winner of the 2016 Sherman-Barsanti Inspiration Award, is reuniting his band From a Land Far Away for a Dallas concert.

When: 7 p.m. June 11 (Saturday).

Where: Gilley's – South Side Music Hall, 1135 S. Lamar St., Dallas.

Cost: $25, concert only; $50, concert and three hour drink ticket; $75, concert, dinner and drinks.

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- University of North Texas College of Music student Daniel Pardo has won the $10,000 top prize in UNT's 2016 Sherman-Barsanti Inspira...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The year was 1940, the school was named North Texas Teachers College and the notion of a wide-ranging music collection was in the works. The collaboration of Wilfred Bain, dean of the music school, school administrators and Columbia University recruit Anna Harriet Heyer would evolve into one of the largest educational music libraries in Texas and aid as a productive training-ground for many successful music librarians. The library, now called the University of North Texas Music Library, will celebrate its 75th anniversary April 22 (Friday) and April 23 (Saturday) with...

With funding from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, three University of North Texas biologists are investigating the effects of oil on water and fish species in the Gulf of Mexico.

UNT Associate Professor of Biology Dane Crossley, Associate Professor of Biology Aaron Roberts and Professor of Biology Warren Burggren received $2.7 million in 2015 to begin the three-year project.

Crossley is evaluating how oil impacts the ability juvenile fish to swim, eat and reproduce and is evaluating their capacity to recover from oil exposure. Burggren is evaluating the cardiovascular im...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- University of North Texas alumnus Fouad Fakhouri has been honored with a $1.1 million endowment by the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. The Fouad K. Fakhouri Endowment for Artistic Excellence will be used to help support activities of the orchestra including its seasonal concerts.

"My experience with the FSO has been exceptionally rewarding and fulfilling," Fakhouri said. "I have been able to achieve the artistic goals that I set when I first took over as music director and feel really positive and very proud of the organi...