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UNT Astronomy Program celebrates 40th anniversary of moon landing
Posted on Wednesday July 01, @03:54AM
News UNT’s Astronomy Program will observe the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a set of commemorative “Moonth Month” events, including a moon party on the evening of July 4th at UNT’s Rafes Urban Astronomy Center and a July 20 showing of “Dawn of the Space Age” at the UNT Sky Theater.

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Six Journalism graduate students awarded Mayborn scholarships
Posted on Wednesday July 01, @03:45AM
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Six graduate students have been awarded $10,000 scholarships by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism. The scholarships, designed to support the students’ 2009-10 master’s degree work in journalism at UNT, may be renewed for an additional year.

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CAS Dean’s office announces 2009 Superior Performing Department Awards
Posted on Wednesday June 24, @11:43AM
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In the fourth round of the annual College of Arts and Sciences “Superior Performing Department Awards,” the Departments of Chemistry, Geography, and Philosophy & Religion Studies were honored for their excellent departmental contributions in teaching, service, interdisciplinarity, and contributing to the mission of UNT.

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Tales from the road: Exploring Geneva Switzerland with CAS alumna Afshan Kamrudin
Posted on Wednesday June 24, @06:52AM
News

We’re continuing our coverage of Afshan Kamrudin, a 2009 CAS alumna and former McNair Scholar and Honors College student, sponsored by Pennsylvania State University and funded by the National Institutes of Health. Kamrudin has now travelled to Geneva, Switzerland for a placement at the International Center for Migration Health and Development. In this article, she tells us about her experience.

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CAS faculty involved in projects funded by UNT’s Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity
Posted on Tuesday June 23, @08:41AM
News

UNT’s new Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID), the first establishment of its kind in the nation, recently solicited proposals for funding through its Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund. Two of this year’s awardees with substantial CAS representation are the Environmental Arts Group and CSI Family Day, while the other involves PACS, UNTHS-Fort Worth, and Denton County.

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New Life Sciences Complex Takes Shape

The new Life Sciences Complex, a four-story structure with 87,000 square feet of space, will be a state-of-the-art research facility for biochemistry and molecular biology; developmental physiology and genetics; and plant science and will contain office and lab space for biology faculty in those subfields. Read more...

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