UNT experts, alumni, facilities, and teams recently landed in the news, and we were especially excited to see the Denton Record-Chronicle feature UNT Dining Services' newest eatery – Eagle Landing. The dining hall's seven restaurants feature chef-crafted, from-scratch recipes made with fresh, whole ingredients. Located across from the UNT Welcome Center, Eagle Landing is open seven days a week and offers all-you-care-to-eat fare for $8.20 plus tax. Here are other recent media hits from our UNT community:

• UNT's emergency preparedness department earned a national shoutout when Julie Elliott ('16, '20 M.S.), emergency management coordinator with Emergency Management and Safety Services, was interviewed on The Weather Channel during two morning shows.
• The premiere of Coming 2 America on Amazon Prime meant lots of recent press for alum Jermaine Stegall ('03 M.M.), who composed the movie's score. Read about Jermaine's successes from BMI, American Songwriter, Variety, Spitfire Audio, Soundworks Collection, or the North Texan.
• Dr. Michael Wise, associate professor of history and director of UNT's undergraduate Food Studies Certificate program, and Joshua Lopez, UNT's Julia Child Foundation Fellow, discussed food history, Texas style, and bringing under represented voices into the culinary conversation on the podcast Inside Julia's Kitchen, which pays homage to Julia Child.
• Enterprising alum Aaron Powell ('11) recently hooked a shark when pitching his Denton-based electric cargo bike company, Bunch Bikes, on Shark Tank March 26. Aaron's appearance was covered by The Dallas Morning News, Denton Record-Chronicle, NTXInno, and the North Texan.
• This year's faculty dance concert, "Awakened," was presented in a virtual format and showcased themes that mirrored what the COVID-19 pandemic magnified. NBCDFW detailed the ways the faculty worked together to perform pieces choreographed to eliminate physical contact. 
• UNT was sad to say goodbye last month to alumnus Larry McMurtry ('58), one of America's best-known authors of Western fiction. Larry, who died March 25, wrote more than 30 novels, as well as essay collections, memoirs, histories, and screenplays. One of his most famous works, Lonesome Dove, which he wrote in 1985, depicts two retired Texas Rangers cattle-driving a stolen herd from the Rio Grande to Montana in the 1870s. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and the story later was adapted into a TV mini-series. George Getschow, a retired UNT journalism professor and founder of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, was among those with UNT ties to discuss Larry's passing with The Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer, and Denton Record-Chronicle.

UNT's sport entertainment management program has partnered with the PGA of America to offer students an inside look at the modern-day business of golf. The eight-week summer course offered at UNT Frisco is open to students of all majors and will pay particular attention to the PGA's move to North Texas, covering golf operations, revenue generation, and challenges facing the $84.1 billion industry. UNT and the PGA of America signed a partnership agreement shortly after the organization announced it would move and build its new headquarters at PGA Frisco, which is a short distance from the Frisco campus. UNT's undergraduate and graduate sport entertainment management programs help students understand the sports industry from every angle.