DALLAS - University of North Texas System Chancellor Lee F. Jackson today announced plans to retire before the end of 2017 from a position he has held for 15 years. Jackson, the second Chancellor in UNT System history, is currently the longest-serving university system chancellor in the State of Texas and has guided UNTS and its three universities through a period of unprecedented growth since being appointed by its Board of Regents in 2002.

“It has been a great privilege to lead the UNT System team, our Board, and our three campuses in service to the North Texas region,” Jackson said...

DENTON (UNT), Texas - Liss LaFleur of the University of North Texas will discuss how two destabilizing elements – queerness and virtual reality – work together in a panel discussion at SXSW in Austin.

LaFleur, assistant professor and program coordinator of new media art in the College of Visual Arts and Design, will speak at “Virtual Life’s a Drag: Queering VR,” at 3:30 p.m. March 13 at the downtown Hilton...

DENTON, Texas (UNT) — An institute with the University of North Texas’s College of Engineering is part of a new cooperative agreement established by the Army Research Laboratory. The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute will be working with three other universities to research new ways to keep soldiers safe. 

“This is a large and significant award for UNT,” said Tom McCoy, Vice President for Research and Innovation at UNT. “It w...

What:       The 13th annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, hosted by the

                 University of North Texas’ ...

Wayne Miller is the 2017 UNT Rilke Prize winner for his book of poetry, “Post-.” The $10,000 prize, sponsored by UNT’s Department of English, recognizes a book published by a mid-career poet that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision.

 “There were many strong books in the mix this year, but Wayne Miller’s work stood out as a vital collection of poems that places personal loss—the death of a father—within the complex cultural and historical forces that buffet 21st-century American life,” said Corey Marks, UNT’s Creative Writing director...

           DENTON (UNT), Texas - On April 20, 2010, a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico led to 11 people being killed and millions of gallons of oil spilled. The oil spill was an instant change to the environment for the animals and plants that live in that water. Since 2015, Warren Burggren and his colleagues in the RECOVER Consortium from the Department of Biological Scie...

Nicholas Fuselier, a staff member in the University of North Texas' College of Health and Public Service, has received an Annuit Coeptis Emerging Professional Award from the ...

What: Women’s History Month lecture at the University of North Texas, featuring Katie Hindmarch-Watson, a cultural historian of modern Britain and the British Empire and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University.

When: 3 p.m. March 23 (Thursday)

Where: Room 080, Business Leadership Building, 1307 W Highland St. in Denton.

Cost: Free

More information: A Parkmobile lot is also available at the corner of Eagle Drive and Avenue B. For more information on parking, visit the transpor...

What: Proof: Photographs from Four Generations of a Texas Family, an exhibition of photographs from the Byrd Williams family and a cooperative project between the University of North Texas Libraries’ Special Collections and UNT on the Square.

When: April 14 (Friday) – May 13 (Saturday). The opening reception is from 3 to 5 p.m. April 23 (Sunday).

Hours: 9 a.m. - noon an...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- In the fall of 2016, a young, vibrant and already extremely successful computational chemistry professor named G. Andrés Cisneros came to the University of North Texas. However, he did not come alone.