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Fair Labor Standards Act: UNT human resources expert shares Top 4 tips for businesses
DENTON, Texas (UNT) — By December 1, businesses across the U.S. must implement the Department of Labor’s final rule – a change in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) extending the threshold for overtime pay exemptions from $23,660 to $47,476 yearly. Human resource expert Julie Hancock, an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the University of North Texas, is available for interviews about the new r...
UNT TAMS student's research on detecting mercury leads to spot in national Siemens Competition
DENTON (UNT), Texas — When Prateek Kalakuntla learned that between 6,000 and 12,000 children in Flint, Michigan, may experience serious health problems because their drinking water contained high levels of lead, he wondered about a solution.
“This is a problem in developing countries. Communities need a low-cost way to detect mercury, lead and other toxins,” he said.
So Kalakuntla, a student at the University of North Te...
UNT dietician shares advice to avoid the holiday eating binge
DENTON, Texas (UNT) — The winter holidays can be a time for indulgence, with the average Thanksgiving Day meal weighing in at 4,500 calories and Christmas Day diners eating up to 7,000 calories. Those numbers are well above the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recommended 2,000 to 2,500 daily consumption of calories. However, eating healthy on holidays isn’t impossible.
University of North Texas registered dietician Ann Marie Afflerbach, a lecturer in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, offers advice.
Contact her at Ann.Afflerbach@unt.edu or 9...
UNT engineering professor wins lifetime achievement award
DENTON, Texas (UNT) — A major honor was recently presented to Leticia Anaya, a senior lecturer in the University of North Texas’ College of Engineering. The Regional Hispanic Contractor Association presented its 2016 Women’s Luna Lifetime Achievement Award to Anaya. She was chosen for her more than 19 years of teaching engineering technology courses at UNT, as well as her experience working in the industry.
...UNT students tell stories through dance at New Choreographers Concert Dec. 2-4
What: New Choreographers Concert: Movement in Meaning, featuring original dance works by senior choreography students from the Department of Dance and Theatre at the University of North Texas. Artistic director is dance professor Shelley Cushman.
When: 8 p.m. Dec. 2-3 (Friday-Saturday) and 2 p.m. Dec. 4 (Sunday)
Where: University Theatre,...
UNT teams up with NASA for new mission
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – A new partnership with NASA has the University of North Texas aimed at getting students excited about space science. UNT’s Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning, IITTL, established a five- year partnership with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the...
Descendant of Davy Crockett finds family photo on UNT's Portal to Texas History
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – He is one of the most famous names in American history, Davy Crockett. Now a new piece of Crockett history has been uncovered on the University of North Texas website, The Portal to Texas History.
The “photograph of a man’s face” has been on the portal since 2008. However, the identity of the subject in the photo was a mystery until Crockett’s great-great-great-granddaughter, Carol Campbell, recently reached out to the University Of North Texas. She...
UNT professor part of collaboration awarded $1 million research grant to create nuclear monitoring technology
DENTON (UNT), Texas — A University of North Texas engineering professor is starting a major new project in November that he hopes will help solve a critical problem in nuclear engineering.
Haifeng Zhang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology, is a major part of a collaboration that was recently awarded a $1 million research grant from the Department of Energy. He will be working to use an ultrasound through-wall data transmission technique to transmit...
UNT celebrates International Education Week
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – The University of North Texas will celebrate International Education Week November 14-18 with various events held by numerous departments, programs and student groups across campus.
“International Education Week gives us the opportunity to make the world a smaller place for the UNT community. One of UNT International’s goals is to further internationalize campus – to showcase the diversity of culture that exists here on UNT’s campus, to introduce more students and faculty to international opportunities and to prepare UNT graduates for the global workforce,” said...
UNT Wind Ensemble to present the music of Star Wars and other John Williams favorites
What: Just in time for the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the UNT College of Music’s Wind Ensemble will be performing favorites from composer John Williams.
When: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1 (Thursday).
Where: Margot and Bill Winspear Performance Hall in the Murchison Performing Arts Center, 2100 Interstate 35E, Denton. The event also will be streamed live at https://recording.music....