The start of spring means the start of severe weather season, with a potential to bring tornadoes, hail and strong storms to North Texas. Our department partners with the UNT Office of Emergency Management to offer tips to our community to help you prepare. The official UNT alert system is Eagle Alert. You will receive an alert via phone when there is a tornado warning for Denton. To ensure we... Read more
The Black Faculty Network (BFN) is an organization focused on improving the recruitment and retention of all full-time, black faculty at the University of North Texas. BFN addresses both career and psychosocial development through a variety of methods including peer-to-peer mentoring, writing groups, the mentorship of Black graduate and undergraduate students and... Read more
UNT Open Access Symposium 2019: Is Open Access an Answer for Access to Justice? The tenth annual UNT Open Access Symposium will be held May 17–18, 2019, at UNT Dallas College of Law. As usual, this year’s program includes a great set of presenters, this year coming from Penn, Harvard, Duke, UT, Saskatchewan, and other institutions in and outside Texas. Registration is free... Read more
The Faculty Success Program is all about learning the secrets to increasing your research productivity, getting control of your time, and living a full and healthy life beyond your campus. As the NCFDD's signature program, the Faculty Success Program is specifically designed to transform your personal and professional life. The program is for tenure-track and tenured faculty who are... Read more
Starting this May, UNT will be a local polling site. The Greek Life Center was chosen for both early voting and Election Day. During early voting (4/22-30), anyone in Denton County may use it. On Election Day (Saturday 5/4), only those living in the precincts around UNT may vote there. UNT voice faculty Jennifer Lane noted, “The Board of Elections liked the Greek Life Center for national... Read more
UNT Faculty members are welcome to encourage one or more students to work with them, in academic year 2019-2020, as part of the UNT Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) program. The goal is to have students conduct beyond-the-classroom research, under the guidance of mentors, that encourages undergraduates to learn professional methodology and make contributions to the field of... Read more
Michael Sexton is an alumnus and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management. He worked in industry for 23 years before joining UNT in 1999. He has taught 10,760+ students enrolled in eleven different courses. Mr. Sexton designs on-line (web- based) content and pioneered multiple locations video conferencing technology. He regularly introduces innovative teaching techniques in the classroom.
Mr. Sexton co-mentored twelve (12) new UNT faculty member from 2015-2019 (... Read more
A poet, a columnist and a social critic, writing in Kashmiri, English and Urdu, Dr. Sadaf Munshi is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Linguistics. A leading expert on Kashmiri and on the Burushaski language (an endangered language of Gilgit-Baltistan and parts of Srinagar), Dr. Munshi’s research focuses on documenting endangered languages in India and Pakistan. Her research tries to build lasting collaborations, infrastructure and capacity in... Read more
John L. Marino, Jr. is currently an assistant professor in the Information Science Department at the University of North Texas. He is formerly a teacher-librarian and a technology integration specialist in K-12 schools. His research focuses on learning through information problem-solving in a variety of contexts and impacted by social and technological factors. He investigates the validity and applicability of the Big6 information problem-solving process, developed by... Read more
