Allison Benis White’s Please Bury Me in This, published by Four Way Books, has won the 2018 UNT Rilke Prize. The
$10,000 prize recognizes a book written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year that demonstrates
exceptional artistry and vision.
It has been three months since Hurricane Harvey devastated the Houston area and coastal regions of Texas, which, according to National Public Radio, dumped trillions of gallons of water on Texas over a four-day period. As Texans continue to recover from the historical hurricane, students in the COMM 3420: Communication and New Technology class, taught by Professor Mark Congdon Jr. at the UNT New College at Frisco, completed a semester-long service project during the Fall 2017 semester to help aid in the recovery efforts. Specifically, students organized a supply drive for Hurricane Harvey Relief by applying course concepts of digital communication to implement a social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook.
NYC, NY). The Women Who Compose for Broadway – A Musical Entertainment featuring the music of Nell Benjamin, Nancy Ford, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, Brenda Russell, Lucy Simon, Kay Swift, Jeanine Tesori, and more, will perform for one special performance December 9, 2017, 4pm at the Triad Theatre.
At the Fall meeting of the Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association, UNT Debate championed every single debate format to win overall best debate program.
In 2013, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state's 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.
Marie-Christine Koop received the Renaissance Française Gold Medal for Francophone Values at the French Embassy Cultural Service in New York City on October 2.
UNT philosophy professor and ecologist Dr. Ricardo Rozzi was awarded the 2017 Enrique Beltran Prize for the Conservation of Natural Resources, during the 2017 International Congress for Natural Resources which met in Mexico City, Mexico, September 6 – 8, 2017.
All seminars are held on Friday from 3-4 PM in the Environmental Education Science and Technology Building, 1st floor
Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public.
The University of North Texas Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program (SBCP) was represented at the Ecology Society of America (ESA)’s 102nd Annual Meeting held in Portland, Oregon, where Dr. Ricardo Rozzi of UNT’s Department of Philosophy was a featured speaker at a storytelling event, “Before the Abstract,” hosted by The Story Collider in partnership with Springer Nature.
