Castleberry Peace Institute Established at UNT
We alluded to it in the spring 2010 issue, but it's now a reality: We're pleased to announce that the UNT Board of Regents approved the creation of the Castleberry Peace Institute at their May meeting! We also pay our respects to Steve Poe, founder of UNT's Peace Studies Program, whose untimely death in 2007 cut short an influential career in that field.

Additional NSF grant supports Research Training Group in Logic and Dynamics
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And the Winner of the LTC Summer Institute Blogging Contest is...
We featured the new Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication in the fall 2009 issue of Synergies. Here's an update on the LTC Summer Institute. The third annual institute attracted nearly 100 ESL students and teachers from Mexico and incorporated a blogging contest to enhance the students' language skills and cultural knowledge.

Research Cluster News
Though it's only been a short time since UNT began its collaborative research cluster initiative in 2009, the initiative is making significant progress. This progress includes the addition of senior faculty members like Ron Mittler and Vladimir Shulaev, who will join the Department of Biological Sciences and participate in the Signaling Mechanisms in Plants research cluster.

UNT-Chile Program hires director, gains funding, expands activities
An update on NSF funding, a multi-campus telecourse, new director Christopher Anderson, and "research cluster" status for the UNT-Chile Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Research and Conservation Program.
 

Teach North Texas garners Texas Instruments Foundation funding, adds new master teachers
UNT was recently included, along with several other area schools, in a multimillion dollar grant from Texas Instruments Foundation in support of science/math education initiatives. UNT's share will allow the university to add master teachers to the TNT program and meet an unexpected level of student interest in becoming science and math teachers.

New Life Sciences Complex nears completion
Weeks of fall rain have hampered progress a bit but haven't dampened the enthusiasm for finishing the new Life Sciences Complex building project on schedule. See images of the building's progress and administrators getting a recent building tour, and check the current webcam view.