Diane Guerrero—an actress best known for her work on “Orange is the New Black” and “Jane the Virgin”— will speak at the University of North Texas on April 26 (Wednesday) as part of the university’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Guerrero’s lecture begins at 8 p.m. in the UNT Coliseum, located at 600 Ave. D. Tickets and parking passes are available and may be purchased online. UNT students wil...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) — A University of North Texas student has been awarded with one of the highest honors in the scientific community. Michael Thomas, a doctoral student studying in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected to receive a 2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Thomas said his eight years serving in the U.S. Marines, including a tour in Afghanistan, helped lead him to his rese...

What: “Hair,” a play presented by the University of North Texas’ Department of Dance and Theatre, focuses on the hippie counterculture and anti-war sentiment of the late 1960s. The play was written by James Rado and Gerome Rani and will be directed by UNT faculty member Timothy Wilson, with music direction by Brian Piper.

When: 7:30 p.m. April 27, 28, 29 and 2 p.m. April 30

Where: University Theater, Radio Television Film and Performing Arts Buildin...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Baolong Zhang, Graduate Artist Certificate student at the University of North Texas College of Music, has earned first prize in the 2017 Virginia Waring International Piano Concerto Competition, held March 26-April 2. He earned the prestigious honor – and a $10,000 prize – for his performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

“I feel happy and a little surprised to earn this honor,” Zhang said. “There were a lot of classical music fans in the audience wh...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The University of North Texas College of Music has named Jonathan Thompson the 2017-2018 Presser Graduate Music Award winner and recipient of the $10,000 Presser scholarship.

The Presser Graduate Music Award is a program designed to “encourage and support in a special way the advanced education and career of truly exceptional graduate music students who have the potential to make a distinguished contribution to the field of music.”...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Grant Thornton, one of the largest professional accounting services networks in the world, has named a University of North Texas student its first fellow.

Sonja Hightower, a first-year doctoral student and former lecturer in the UNT College of Business Department of Accounting, is the first person to be honored as a Grant Thornton Doctoral Fellow in Accounting. The fellowship comes with a $40,000 award to be divided over four years...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Going against the friendly nature of his breed, Drill Bit, a young yellow Labrador, had started to be afraid of certain types of people. Sometimes he would bark if someone he didn't know looked at him, particularly if the person showed intimidating body language. Drill Bit's behavior interfered with his training as a Patriot PAWS service dog.

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 DENTON (UNT), Texas - When you use a computer you typically read an article, watch a video or access information from a graph. These may seem like simple tasks, but to a person who is visually impaired, these tasks can be challenging.

One University of North Texas professor knows these challenges all too well. Stephanie Ludi works in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She is also visually impaired. 

 “As an undergraduate I had the usual difficulties of learning about what computer science...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — A nearly $350,000 grant awarded to a University of North Texas researcher by the Walmart Foundation and the U.S. Conference of Mayors is helping to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

Bugao Xu, a professor and chair of the Department of Merchandising and Digital Retailing, received one of five grants in 2016 from the U.S. Manufacturing Innovation Fund to develop digital technology to detect flaws in fabric at domestic te...

DENTON (UNT), Texas - Seventeen communication design students from the University of North Texas took home top prizes from the Dallas Society of Visual Communicators National Student Show and Conference, the largest student creative competition in the United States.

UNT also won “Best School Award” in the competition, whose winners were announced at a banquet on April 1. Principal Lecturer Karen Dorff won the Golden Apple Award forBest Educator.

A panel of professional designers, illustrators a...