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DATCU Named as New Mean Green Stadium Sponsor
On Monday, July 31, UNT Athletics announced a new sponsor for the home of Mean Green football – DATCU. A longstanding partner with UNT, DATCU was founded by two North Texas professors in the 1930s. It's an exciting time for the Mean Green and UNT Athletics as we embark on this new journey with The American Athletic Conference and DATCU. Go Mean Green!

Straight from Smatresk

Dear UNT supporter,

As we enter our inaugural year in the American Athletic Conference, with our first football game against Cal on Sept. 2, we announced big news this week for the home of Mean Green football! North Texas Athletics and DATCU entered into a new football stadium naming rights and campus agreement, as announced by UNT Vice President and Director of Athletics Jared Mosley. UNT's football stadium now will be recognized as DATCU Stadium with first competition beginning with the 2023 Mean Green football season.

We deeply appreciate the support that this sponsorship means for our community. I look forward to working together with DATCU as we start our first season with the American Athletic Conference and all the excitement this will bring to our students, faculty, staff, and community. We appreciate the support and sponsorship from Apogee Telecom since 2011, and we're looking forward to expanding our relationship with DATCU as we venture into a new era of Mean Green sports. I hope you're as excited as I am for a great season!

Our campus at Frisco has some big news as well. A $3 million gift from Satish and Yasmin Gupta was announced that will support scholarships and UNT at Frisco. The first gift entrusted to UNT's branch campus in Collin County will establish the Satish and Yasmin Gupta Career Center. I'm excited for our students, faculty, and staff in Frisco and can't wait to see what the future holds.

As summer winds down, I hope you will be able to visit us to see firsthand all the excitement on campus. If you're on campus or close by, check out the UNT calendar for the growing list of events throughout the fall semester. Homecoming is right around the corner! We can't wait to see you on campus.

UNT Proud,
Neal Smatresk
President
@UNTPrez

UNT Day of Giving Results

The inaugural UNT Day of Giving on May 2-3 was a great success! The final numbers included 913 donors and a total of $602,618 raised. The colleges that brought in the most were the College of Music, the G. Brint Ryan College of Business, and the College of Science. Thank you to everyone who donated. Giving to UNT is welcome all year, of course!

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We Bleed Green

Our Bleed Green alumni team did it again! They captured the regional title in The Basketball Tournament on July 23 in Lubbock, moving on to win the quarterfinals of The Basketball Tournament in Louisville on July 31. Check out the game highlights from their 72-61 victory over the Gutter Cats. We wish the team well as they move on to win it all in TBT semifinals in Philadelphia. Go Bleed Green!

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Ricco Scholars

The winners of the Ricco Ethics Scholarship Competition for the Fall 2023 semester are Sara Tonge, philosophy, first place graduate winner; Kiana Kawahara, flute performance, first place undergraduate winner; and Connor Kokora, mechanical engineering, second place undergraduate winner. The scholarship competition, which promotes intellectual and ethical debates relating to the students' field of study, began in 2011 with an endowment from Nicholas D. and Anna G. Ricco.

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Lifetime Service Award

Congratulations to Dana Mordecai, assistant director of graduate recruitment in the UNT admissions office, who received the Texas Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals' first ever Lifetime Service Award at the association's summer institute in Fort Worth in June. She is a past president of TxGAP, the Texas chapter of NAGAP, and has served in many leadership roles since the group began in 2009.

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the TxGAP »

Wolf Pack

Artistic talent at UNT is never in short supply from students and alumni of the College of Visual Arts and Design. Texas-based artists, many of them CVAD alumni, have their work featured in an interactive art experience, titled "The Real Unreal," at Meow Wolf in Grapevine, their fourth permanent exhibition. Meow Wolf is an art venue that originated in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its immersive exhibitions allow local artists to come together to develop and display their skills for the public. Each location features different artists, including many that are local. Read more about the talented alumni featured in Meow Wolf's first location in Texas.

Mean Green Sports

We're ready for an exciting season for Mean Green sports, our first ever in The American! Join us on Saturday, Aug. 12, for the Mean Green Kickoff. During this event for the entire family, fans can hear from select coaches and the vice president of athletics, Jared Mosley. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. in The HUB Club at the newly named DATCU Stadium. Be sure to get your tickets to some of our upcoming Mean Green football games. Our swimming and diving program announced that 17 members were honored on the American Athletic Conference's All-Academic team. To be eligible, athletes must have a minimum 3.0 GPA and completed a minimum of two consecutive semesters of academic work. In basketball, pairings were announced for the 2023-24 season for both women's basketball and men's basketball. Go Mean Green!

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