Student Recognition

Who Took Home Prizes At This Year’s Dallas International Film Festival?
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Tue, Apr 24, 2012 - 12:01pm

On Friday night, admist the celebration of a handful of legendary careers — including some pre-recorded accolades for costume designer Bernie Pollack via Robert Redford and Harrison Ford — a group of young filmmakers received acclaim (and a financial boost) from the Dallas International Film Festival. Winning for best narrative feature was Kristina Nikolova, a Bulgarian filmmaker currently studying at New York University. FrontRow’s Bradford Pearson said of Nikolova’s Faith, Love and Whiskey, it “ makes you cherish youth, but also reel at its violence and foolhardiness.” Taking home honors for...

Engineering student receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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Mon, Apr 16, 2012 - 3:00pm

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Jennifer Williams, a first-year graduate student at the University of North Texas, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to conduct research in engineering, a career she decided to pursue when she was an elementary school student.  It was during a project, in which her fourth-grade teacher challenged the class to construct bridges out of ordinary craft materials, that Williams’ passion for engineering was ignited.  “I was fascinated that we could take glue and popsicle sticks and all come up with different designs. I went home and asked my mom what...

UNT senior wins 2012 Undergraduate Ethnobiologist Award
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Tue, Mar 27, 2012 - 12:55pm

Jonathan Dombrosky, a senior anthropology major and honors student at the University of North Texas, received the Society of Ethnobiology's 2012 Undergraduate Ethnobiologist Award.

The award comes with a one-year membership to the Society of Ethnobiology, an...

Creative Quarterly 27 Winners Announced
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Thu, Mar 8, 2012 - 6:00am

CQ will be featuring a couple of my illustrations on their online gallery for Creative Quarterly 27. The Alternative Medicine cover illustration for Oakland Magazine and the Momo Monster illo for St. Louis Magazine.

Congrats to all the other CQ winners as well! Here's the full list and post from CQ's website

Congratulations to our winners and runner-ups. Judging was tough as always and there were a good many pieces that fell just shy of getting in. Winners will be featured in Issue 27 coming out this Spring; we’ll also feature them and our runner’s-up online as soon as the issue is out.

*Denote multiple...

UNT fashion student's work selected for international fur competition
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Wed, Jan 18, 2012

Browse > Home / Arts & Life / UNT fashion student’s work selected for international fur competition UNT fashion student’s work selected for international fur competition Filed under Arts & Life Holly Harvey / Senior Staff Writer – After designing everything from the UNT holiday card to striking evening gowns, fashion design senior Kim Pham’s latest creation has landed her in the international fashion spotlight. The Emerald Eagle scholar’s coat design was selected as one of three garments to represent the United States in the International Fur REMIX competition, going up against designers...