Social Science
Carol Anne Costabile-Heming has been selected as the 2012 Post-Secondary Outstanding German Educator by the American Association of Teachers of German.
Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell, Regents Professor of history at UNT and the chief historian for the Texas State Historical Association, which is housed at UNT, is available to comment on the secession movement and Texas’ history as an independent nation from 1836 to 1845.
A team of researchers led by Dr. John Ruiz, assistant professor of clinical health and experimental psychology at UNT, will conduct a three-year study to determine a possible link between social vigilance and risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
UNT faculty members will be available to give in-depth analysis of election returns for the presidential race, the Texas Senate race between Ted Cruz and Paul Sadler, and other races.
Fourteen UNT anthropology students won awards for their op-ed pieces in a competition sponsored by the Center for Public Anthropology.
Author, distinguished professor and leader Lois Parkison Zamora will discuss New World Baroque art, architecture and literature at UNT as part of the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Distinguished Speaker Series.
Author and professor of Arab and Islamic studies at The New School, Dr. Nargis Virani, will lecture on sacred poetry and music in Muslim cultures as part of the Islamic Art and Culture Forum at UNT.
Meir Shlomo, consul general of Israel to the Southwest, and Dr. Alan Rosen, Holocaust scholar from Jerusalem, will both speak at UNT the week of Oct. 22.
Iranian author, cultural historian and fellow at Brown University Dr. Shiva Baghi will lecture on "Masculinity in Contemporary Iranian Art", co- sponsored by: the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute and the College of Visual Arts and Design’s Art History program.
University of North Texas Department of Dance and Theatre interprets William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream through a musical by newly composed tunes, classic jazz standards and choreographed dance numbers.
