To celebrate its publication of the 2010-2011 Texas Almanac and the one-year anniversary of its move to the University of North Texas campus, the Texas State Historical Association will hold an open house from 5-7 p.m. November 30 at its office in Stovall Hall, Room 175. Admission to the open house is free.

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A four-student team from UNT received the first-place team trophy in the Mediation Division of the recent National Intercollegiate Mediation Tournament in Chicago. The students, Rehan Ali, April Brown, Erin Clegg, and Ceci Hutchings, are all political science majors. The team is coached by Barbara Kirby, a lecturer in the UNT Department of Political Science.

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UNT will host this year’s North Central Texas Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day and GIS Job Fair on November 17 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the first floor of the Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building. In addition to a student poster contest and a GIS job fair, the event includes representatives from various DFW municipalities that use GIS technology and representatives of DFW companies that supply it.

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Dr. Zhibing Hu, a UNT Regents Professor of physics, has helped develop a new and potentially better way to model the formation of glass, which could lead to improvements in the material's design and manufacturing. He has been working with a team of researchers from Harvard and Columbia universities on the findings, which are detailed in the November issue of Nature.

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College of Arts and Sciences faculty members garnered three of the six awards at the recent 2009 Research Reception and Awards Presentation sponsored by the Office of Research and Economic Development. At the Nov. 2 event, outstanding CAS faculty members Kent Chapman (Department of Biological Sciences), Paolo Grigolini (Department of Physics), and Angela Wilson (Department of Chemistry) received awards.

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