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Life of Purpose Treatment Opens at The University of North Texas
Life of Purpose Treatment announces the opening of its second location on a university campus at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, Texas. The program’s facility is housed at UNT’s Chilton Hall, adjacent to the office of the UNT Collegiate Recovery Program.
Gov. Abbott appoints Three To Teacher Retirement System
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed John Elliott and Greg Gibson and reappointed Christopher Moss to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas Board of Trustees for terms set to expire August 31, 2021. The board manages retirement and other benefits for teachers and employees of the state's public schools and institutions of higher education.
Feeding body and mind
Friday morning, sophomore Lesia James made her regular stop in Suite 200 of the Old Main Building at Texas Woman’s University.
Inside the TWU social work program’s office is a discreet refrigerator stocked with produce from Johnson’s Backyard Garden, and a large office closet with shelves of dry goods. Students and employees can go into the pantry, past Nila Ricks’ office, and take as much food as they need. No questions asked.
UNT Students Seek Elusive Albino Squirrel On Campus
Some University of North Texas students are squirreling around on campus in search of an Albino squirrel they believe brings luck for finals.
A Confession of Liberal Intolerance
By Nicholas Kristof
WE progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren’t conservatives.
Phantom Pop delivers instrumental funky jazz to Martin's
By Tad Dickens
Phantom Pop wasn’t really supposed to be a band. It was just supposed to be a group of players getting together to record some music. At least that’s how bassist Dave Lowenthal saw it in the beginning.
Drummer Josh Schusterman had other ideas for the Brooklyn, New York, collective.
“When we were getting ready, I said to him, dude, we all live here and we’ve learned the music,” Schusterman said in a Friday phone call. “We might as well play some gigs."
A new poll finds that liberal Democrats are turning away from Israel
By Zack Beauchamp
On May 5, the Pew Research Center released a big poll of 2,000 Americans that asked their opinions on a range of foreign policy topics. The research didn't get a lot of attention — there was Donald Trump to cover, after all. But buried in the report was a striking finding about the way Americans see the Israel-Palestine conflict.
UNT women’s hoops roster update
North Texas backup guard Brooke Jolivette is leaving the program, while incoming recruit Mya Johnson is not expected to join the program next season.
UNT coach Jalie Mitchell confirmed both roster moves late Thursday afternoon.
Jolivette played sparingly last season when she averaged 1.2 points while playing in just 13 games. She joined the Mean Green during the tenure of former coach Mike Petersen.
“Brooke signed with Mike and feels like she could get more of an opportunity somewhere else,” Mitchell said. “We support that.”
Communities In Schools of North Texas announces new chief executive officer
Communities In Schools of North Texas, an organization dedicated to surrounding students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life since 1993, has announced the selection of Ann Pape, MPA, as its new chief executive officer.
Pape will fill the vacancy created by Dana Smith’s departure in February to join CIS National. The decision was made after a national search and selection process conducted by the CISNT Board of Directors.
18 universities join Carnegie-Knight News21 voting rights investigation at ASU
Top journalism students from 18 universities will lead an investigation into voting rights as part of the 2016 Carnegie-Knight News21 national multimedia investigative reporting initiative.
North Texas Woman Hopes App Will Help Human Trafficking Victims Be Seen
Human trafficking happens everywhere, but it's a crime that is hidden in plain sight.
"I think it would be hard not to find a location in our area that didn't have some form of human trafficking," said Lisa Mercer, a design teacher at the University of North Texas.
For her graduate thesis, Mercer developed an app to help report suspected cases of human trafficking. It's called Operation Compass.
Officials OK parking ban
City leaders agreed Tuesday to ban on-street parking for one block of Highland Street near UNT after the neighborhood petitioned for the change.
Some members of City Council called the one-block parking ban a piecemeal solution to a much larger problem. Several members called for greater study of on-street parking on narrow city streets, particularly near the University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University and other trouble spots.
Hold Your Horses! There’s Now a Drug-Sniffing Car
When AM 760’s Brett Winterble first told me this story, I swore that it was either out of The Onion or some sort of satirical version of The Drudge Report. However, this looks to be more realistic than a fantasy:
Researchers developing drug detection car
Researchers in Texas have developed a car that can detect drugs just from a drive-by.
"You start getting this chemical signature before they even have to come in contact with the drug," said Dr. Guido Verbeck with the University of North Texas.
Verbeck and a University of North Texas team are now perfecting what they think will be the next high-tech tool in law enforcement built into an electric, silver Ford sedan.
UNT Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia receives substantial electronic music donation from French studio
The International Institute of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges – a French electronic music studio known for holding an annual music festival, international composition competitions and commissioning musicians to compose works – has donated their entire archive of digital music to the University of North Texas College of Music's Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia.
Weird Homes Tour stop is a collection of collections
Two enormous balls of rusting barbed wire nestle near Steve Wiman’s front porch. Like offspring, round iron buoys of various sizes — some the size of bowling balls, others much larger — snuggle in the grass nearby.
The arrangement of orbs is carefully, artfully composed. Likewise the thousands of things inside Wiman’s Travis Heights home.
EMC Announces "Leaders of the Modern Data Center" Award Winners at EMC World 2016
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced the recipients of the first-ever EMC Leaders of the Modern Data Center award.
Denton film archivist's find leads to grant
by Phillip Townsend
DENTON — History books are easy to find at the University of North Texas Library. But in one room, there's a piece of history on 16mm film that only a few people have ever seen.
"Once I found it I sort of just kept going," said film archivist Laura Treat, who is the moving image preservation and digitization librarian at UNT.
Treat found a promotional video of Denton from 1970. What makes it special is that most people in the city thought it was long gone.
The drug sniffing car: Texas researchers say vehicle can pinpoint homes of drug users from a quarter of a MILE away
by Cheyenne MacDonald
A 'drug-sniffing' car developed by researchers at the University of North Texas can track down drug users from a quarter of a mile away.