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Political science student one of two UNT Hispanic Scholarship Fund awardees
Posted on Thursday August 21, @10:43AM
News A recent UNT political science graduate who is also starting her master’s degree work here is one of two UNT students receiving scholarships from the national Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Rosa Maria Fonseca Acosta of Halrom City will receive an award of up to $2,500.

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Russian invasion cuts short UNT geoarcheologist’s summer work in Georgia
Posted on Monday August 18, @01:18PM
News Like many UNT faculty members, Reid Ferring spends his summer focusing on his research and publishing agenda. A geoarcheologist in the Department of Geography, Ferring has been working with an international team of colleagues in the investigation of early humans in Europe. This summer, the 15th year Ferring has spent extended time in the Republic of Georgia, the enterprise was abruptly curtailed when hostilities broke out between his host country and Russia.

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UNT Center for Economic Education brings economics to thousands of Texas students
Posted on Monday August 18, @12:53PM
News Thousands of Texas students will be learning economics and personal finance this fall, due largely to the summer teacher training efforts of the UNT Center for Economic Education. Steve Cobb, the center director and chair of the Department of Economics, proposes that students need more than just “reading, writing and arithmetic” to be responsible citizens in our modern society.

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CAS supports UNT’s One Book, One Community program
Posted on Monday August 18, @08:27AM
Announce Beginning Wednesday, August 20, new freshman students will be meeting in small groups to discuss Barbara Kingsolver’s “The Bean Trees,” the chosen work for UNT’s inaugural One Book, One Community program. College of Arts & Sciences Dean Warren Burggren is among the faculty members who will lead discussion sessions for new freshman students that day. CAS departments are among the many units scheduling related events throughout the year.

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Journalism professor’s book analyzes Clintons’ success in dealing with press
Posted on Monday August 18, @08:07AM
News In his new book, “Tag Teaming the Press: How Bill and Hillary Clinton Work Together to Handle the Media,” James E. Mueller notes that in their more than 30 years in politics, the Clintons have fulfilled a number of roles for each other in dealing with reporters, including good cop, bad cop, lightning rod and schmoozer. Mueller is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism.

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