UNT Insider: President's newsletter

Your dreams can take flight with a degree from UNT, as highlighted by our spring advertising campaign at DFW International Airport, Dallas Love Field Airport and on Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses and trains.

Straight from Smatresk

Dear UNT supporter,

Big things continue to happen at the University of North Texas, and this month, we announced the creation of a 36-credit-hour professional online M.B.A. in sport entertainment management in partnership with the Dallas Cowboys. We are tremendously excited about the educational opportunities our students will receive by interacting with our acclaimed faculty from the G. Brint Ryan College of Business and with executives from the Dallas Cowboys, ranked by Forbes as the most valuable sports franchise in the world. The online M.B.A. can be completed in 12 months for full-time students and is designed specifically for industry executives, coaches, and current or former professional athletes. Our first cohort will launch in August and registration is open now.

Creating new, innovative degrees in emerging fields is one way UNT is responding to the needs of industry executives and preparing students to become leaders in our rapidly changing world. This fall, we also will launch Texas' first Master of Science degree in artificial intelligence with concentrations in machine learning, autonomous systems and biomedical engineering. And we will welcome our second cohort to UNT at Frisco's project design and analysis program, which allows students to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in just three years while learning, growing and graduating together. Collaborative engagement with industry professionals each semester and multiple summer internship experiences are features of the design and analysis program that differentiate it from UNT's other 230 successful degree programs.

UNT is dedicated to providing students with innovative learning experiences and 21st-century career preparation not offered by other institutions. Our legacy of creativity and boundless learning opportunities are highlighted in our spring advertising campaign, on display at Dallas Love Field and DFW International airports, as well as throughout Dallas on DART buses and trains. If you spot UNT messaging before an upcoming flight or on your daily commute, snap a photo and share it with me @UNTPrez on Twitter — I'd love to hear your thoughts on the ways we tell UNT's story.

UNT Proud,
Neal Smatresk
President
@UNTPrez

The Inside Scoop

Chef Bryant Terry

UNT is proud to host Bryant Terry, a James Beard Award-winning chef, author and food justice activist, on March 31 for the President's Lecture Series, and April 1 for the College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism's Celebrity Chef Series. Terry's March 31 lecture, "Food Justice at the Intersection of Food, Politics, Poverty, Public Health and the Environment," is free and open to the UNT community. All proceeds from CMHT's April 1 Celebrity Chef Series will benefit UNT's Hospitality Program, and sponsorships can be purchased now.

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Alumni Award nominations

Now is the time to nominate your friends and fellow alumni for UNT's annual Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awards to celebrate their outstanding achievement, service and support of UNT. The awards are presented in the fall at Homecoming and the recipients represent the best of our alumni community. Throughout their careers, honorees have contributed significantly to their companies, communities and the university while upholding the highest standards and values.

Nominate a deserving alum
for the 2020 Alumni Awards »

Spotlight on Excellence

Statistics lab named for alumnae

A new statistics lab in the College of Science pays tribute to alumna Linda Truitt Creagh ('62, '63 M.A., '67 Ph.D.). In 1945, Dr. Creagh started her educational journey as a kindergartner at North Texas State College's demonstration school since her father, Dr. Price Truitt, was a science professor here. After receiving her bachelor's and master's degrees at UNT, she became the university's first chemistry doctoral graduate in 1967. She went on to have a successful career as a research chemist, advancing liquid crystal display (LCD) technology at Texas Instruments and developing printer and ink-jet technology for Xerox, Spectra and Fuji Film. After being inspired by UNT associate professor of statistics Xuexia Wang's research on cancer, Dr. Creagh made a $150,000 donation to the mathematics department. The College of Science and the mathematics department honored her with the naming of the Dr. Linda Truitt Creagh Statistics Lab, which was covered by NBC DFW.

Mean Green tennis coach wins honors

For the third time, UNT head tennis coach Sujay Lama was named the United States Professional Tennis Association Texas Coach of the Year. The Mean Green tennis team's all-time winningest coach has put UNT on the collegiate tennis map and guided North Texas to its first Intercollegiate Tennis Association Texas Regional doubles championship last year. Coach Lama has led UNT to three conference championships, multiple NCAA Tournament appearances, and has coached 16 student-athletes to 28 all-conference honors and over 165 total victories while in Denton. Congratulations Coach Lama! Thank you for serving UNT since 2005.

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