DENTON (UNT), Texas--Tao Zhang, assistant professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation in the University of North Texas College of Education, has earned the Mabel Lee Award from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) — the largest organization of professionals involved in physical activity and health, and other areas related to a healthy and active lifestyle.

The Mabel Lee A...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — When Justin Litvin enrolled in the University of North Texas, he declared a psychology major without knowing about many of the career opportunities in the field. He thought he’d become a Christian-based marriage and family counselor.

His career goals changed when he learned about the psychology research he could conduct as a UNT McNair Scholar, Litvin, a graduate of Northwest High School in Justin, now researches the stress of HIV-positive adults, their perceptions about their health, and their social support through UNT’...

Recently awarded the prestigious VIDA Art and Artificial Life Awards grant, UNT College of Visual Arts and Design new media assistant professor Paula Gaetano-Adi is working on a robotic art installation that will pay homage to her Latin-American roots.

Think it’s hard to envision large robotic sculptures coexisting with ancestral techniques? It wasn’t too long ago that even our own grandparents couldn’t imagine living side-by-side with robots, Gaetano-Adi points out, and now they are commonplace.

“Robots are as much at home in art, cinema, popular culture and literature as the...

DENTON (UNT), Texas--University of North Texas online graduate degree programs in business and education have been ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News and World Report in its 2013 Best Online Education Program rankings released this week.

The College of Education was ranked 13^th in the nation for Best Online Graduate Education Programs, including its master’s degree in educational psychology with a concentration in gifted...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Confirming the existence of the Hispanic Mortality Paradox, a new analysis of health studies, led by a University of North Texas psychologist shows that the Hispanic-American participants’ survival rates from heart disease and other medical conditions were substantially higher than that of the non-Hispanic white and African-American participants.

John Ruiz, assistant professor of psychology, said the existence of the paradox — the finding that Hispanic Americans tend to have health outcomes that...

DENTON (UNT) Texas – The Arbor Day Foundation has recognized the University of North Texas as a 2012 Tree Campus USA University for its dedication to campus forestry management and environmental stewardship. This marks the fifth year in a row that UNT has earned the designation.

Tree Campus USA is a national program that honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy management of their campus forests and for engaging the community in environmental stewardshi...

DENTON (UNT), Texas--University of North Texas experts are available to discuss cyclist Lance Armstrong’s reputation and image before and after Armstrong’s highly publicized interview with Oprah Winfrey, slated to air Thursday and Friday nights, in which he addresses allegations of using performance-enhancing drugs.

Sam Bufkins, lecturer of strategic communications in the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, can address audience reaction on social media during the br...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – The University of North Texas College of Music continues its mission to cultivate new music this spring with the Composers on Campus series, which brings a number of world-class guest composers to campus for performances of their works, in addition to showcasing faculty talent. 

The diverse group of guests includes Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner, intermedia artist Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, jazz arranger Claus Raible and leading opera composer Jake Heggie.

“While the composition division regularly invites new music specialists to campus — in...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Veteran CNN anchor Don Lemon, who in 2011 released a memoir to discuss his homosexuality, as well as racism, homophobia and colorism in the African-American community, will give one of three keynote addresses at “A Journey to Freedom,” the University of North Texas’ 13^th Equity and Diversity Conference Feb. 1 (Friday).

The theme of the conference was chosen to commemorate the 150^th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abr...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Phillip Davis of Greenville, S.C., a doctoral student in the University of North Texas’ College of Business, was honored as one of the top business students in Texas at the Texas Business Hall of Fame 30^th Annual Induction Dinner in Houston last fall.

Davis plans to use his scholarship award to fund additional academic conferences to present his research in entrepreneurship and strategy.

The foundation annually awards one scholarship at each of the program’s current 19 participating Texas universities. Thi...