DENTON (UNT), Texas — Three teams of University of North Texas students earned cash prizes totaling $7,400 in the Spring 2014 Northwestern Mutual Integrated Business Case Competition. The competition has been held twice every year at UNT since 1995 as part of the capstone course for graduating seniors in the UNT College of Business.
Students in the competition get hands-on experience solving complex problems for a real-world client. This year, the teams helped TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation develop a pl...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Robert McInturf recently joined the University of North Texas as executive director of the UNT Alumni Association. He comes to UNT from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he was director of alumni relations and executive director of the UNCW Alumni Association.
McInturf said he hopes to capitalize on the university's growing academic reputation, entrepreneurial spirit and athletics success to build alumni engagement.
"Engaging alumni in the life of the university needs to be at the cor...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- In today's global marketplace, business graduates may have to work with co-workers scattered across the world -- and they may never meet face to face.
So how do you learn how to work on a team with one person in Austria, another in Finland and yet another in China when you're in Texas?
Dr. Ted Farris, professor of logistics in the University of North Texas College of Business, developed a program that earned the Bobby G. Bizzell Innovative Achievement Award from the...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Lyndal M. Bullock, Regents Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the University of North Texas College of Education, was presented in April with the Outstanding Leadership Award from the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders for his contributions to the field....
DENTON (UNT), Texas – A University of North Texas communication design student from Coppell who recently won Best in Show at a Fort Worth advertising design competition took home a silver national American Advertising Federation "ADDY" award May 31 in Boca Raton, Florida.
The "Addy" Award is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, attracting more than 40,000 entries every year. The mission of the American Advertising Awards competition is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertisin...
What: University of North Texas Camp Communicate is a language-rich, summer day camp sponsored by the UNT Speech and Hearing Center for children ages 5-12 with speech, language and hearing disorders. Registration deadline is June 4.
When: 9 to 11:30 a.m. June 9-13 (Monday – Friday). Drop off begins at 8:30 a.m.
Where: Location Monday-Thursday:
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DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The Portal to Texas History, administered by the University of North Texas Libraries to provide access to more than 385,000 digitized books, photographs, maps, newspapers, letters and other historic materials, has been named a Service Hub by the Digital Public Library of America.
The DPLA Service Hubs are state or regional digital libraries that aggregate information about digital objects from libraries, arc...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Good things come in pairs for PUSH, Persevere UNTil Success Happens, a University of North Texas organization that gives support to UNT students formerly in the foster care or child welfare system, and also provides support to foster children in the Denton community. A featured speaker engagement at a national conference and an award by a community organization are among a string of recent honors bestowed on PUSH for its role helping foster care youth succeed.
"Success is our motto. Our...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- More than 20 University of North Texas students recently won awards at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Conference.
TIPA originated in 1909 and has become one of the nation's oldest and largest collegiate press associations. The association offers awards for more than 25 on-site contests at its annual conference, and also gives awards to pre-submitted entries in the categories of general magazine, radio, television, online media, yearbook, literary magazine and newspaper.
UNT had a total of 11 first place, seve...
What: The University of North Texas Sky Theater is featuring three matinee shows to teach children about the world from the ground up. See which matinee is currently being shown here or view the schedule below.
When: Noon on Saturdays. Shows are year-round, but only the summer schedule is set.
Where: UNT Sky Theater at the...