DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Two UNT faculty members will gather inspiration from nature when they complete projects as fellows in UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2014-15 academic year.

Regents Professor of Studio Arts Harlan Butt and Department of English Lecturer David Taylor will be granted a semester off from teaching duties to work on their projects full time.

For Butt, that project will be a series of artwork inspired by nature while camping...

What: The second annual Arab Film Festival Texas, presented by UNT's Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute, featuring the Texas premiere of award-winning short films, feature films and documentaries from Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.

When: 6:30-10 p.m. May 2 (Friday), and 1-10 p.m. on May 3 (Saturday) and May 4 (Sunday)

Where: Angelika Film Center, 5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230, Dallas

Cost:...

Students at E.P. Rayzor Elementary School in the Denton Independent School District helped gather thousands of books to be sent to children in Uganda as part of a project started by University of North Texas College of Education Associate Professor Marc Cutright.

"We all appreciate the opportunity to connect," said Abbas Tashakkori, professor and chair of the...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Natalie Parde, a graduate student in the University of North Texas College of Engineering, has won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her work researching natural language processing – which makes it possible for computers to understand how humans talk and write.

Parde, who studies computer science and engineering, will receive $32,000 per year for up to three years as part of the research fellowship. The fellowship also in...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Chelsea Wagenaar, graduate student in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, earned the 2014 Voertman/Academy of American Poets Prize. The award was presented at the UNT Rilke Prize reading on April 8 (Tuesday).

The $200 prize was awarded to Wagenaar for her poem "August" in which she describes an X-ray of a f...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Division of University Relations, Communications and Marketing at the University of North Texas recently received  awards for excellence in its communication materials in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District IV competition and the 2013 Collegiate Advertising Awards competition.
UNT earned:

• Honorable mention in Color Photography-Campus Environment in the 2...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Orders are being taken for The Best American Newspaper Narratives of 2012, an anthology of 10 newspaper articles that were honored during the 2013 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.

The 10 articles were the first-, second-, and third-place winners and seven runners-up of the first Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest off...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Edinburgh, Scotland, may be thousands of miles away from the University of North Texas, but the university will have its own piece of Scotland to mark its 125^th anniversary in 2015.

Through April 23 (Wednesday), students, faculty, staff members, alumni and the general public will vote online to choose an official UNT tartan — a design for weaving that consists of two or more alternating colored stripes that intersect vertically and horizontally to form a repeated checkered pattern — from three designs. The designs...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Ensembles from UNT's acclaimed College of Music will be spotlighted on the University of North Texas Showcase Stage at the 34th annual Denton Arts and Jazz Festival.

Lab Band Madness, which features all nine lab bands and begins at 1 p.m. on April 26 (Saturday), is the highlight of the programming on the UNT Showcase stage. Jazz Singers, Latin Jazz Lab, Jazz Repertory Ensemble, and a variety of jazz small and large ensembles, plus the Mariachi Águilas and Afric...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Approximately 200 University of North Texas students will present the results of their original research projects during the university's Eleventh Annual University Scholars Day April 17 (Thursday).

Sponsored by the UNT Honors College, but open to all UNT students who are earning bachelor's degrees, Scholars Day gives students a chance to present their research in the same way that faculty members and other professionals present their research at conferences, either through display of research posters or by giving oral resea...