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DALE YEATTS, professor of applied gerontology and sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, and CHERYL HARDING, assistant professor of applied gerontology, received a grant of $189,142 from the Commonwealth Fund to study the impact of self-managed work teams on employee morale, staff turnover, work performance and care for residents in nursing homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

International

REID FERRING, professor and chair of the Department of Geography, co-wrote an article that was published in the July 5 issue of Science about his archaeological find of a 1.75 million-year-old skull, which may indicate that three types of early humans were living in the same region of Eurasia at the same time. Ferring's work was also covered in many other media outlets around the world, including the Daily Telegraph of London, the London Times, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen, Swissinfo.org, Canada's Discovery Channel, the Associated Press — World Stream, AP Online, NewScientist.com, MSNBC, the Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Denton Record-Chronicle.

National

CONSTANCE HILLIARD, associate professor of history, writes about discriminatory practices of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in granting farm loans in an opinion column appearing in the July 12 USA Today.

State

AL BAVON, associate professor of public administration, comments in the July 17 Dallas Morning News on a program that brings African interns to the United States to help them learn skills to promote trade and prosperity in their countries. The program, funded by a $370,000 US State Department grant, is hosted by UNT.

JOSEPH DOSTER, professor of psychology, discusses the adoption of the idea of a mind-body connection by traditional medical professionals in the July 15 Dallas Morning News.

LEON KAPPELMAN, professor of business computer information systems and director of the Information Systems Research Center, discusses the negative effects of junk e-mail in the July 18 Dallas Morning News.

DIANE NEGRA, assistant professor of radio, television and film, discusses aging and the female body in American cinema in the July 19 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Local

JANET DENNY, job development specialist in student employment, comments on the improvement in the Denton job market in the June 30 Denton Record-Chronicle.

KURT NEUFANG, transportation manager, discusses eTrans, the campus transit system, and the possible impact on campus parking of upgrades being made to the Link, Denton's public transportation system, in the June 30 Denton Record-Chronicle.

RICHARD RAFES, UNT System vice chancellor and general counsel, was featured in a July 3 Denton Record-Chronicle article about his recent interim appointments as system vice chancellor for administration and UNT vice president for administrative affairs.

BOBBY RAY, UNT System Board of Regents chair, discusses the leadership experience of UNT chancellor finalist Lee Jackson in the July 4 Oak Cliff Tribune. Jackson was named chancellor on July 25 (see article).

TERRY TEHAN, professional leadership program coordinator in the College of Business Administration, comments on the diversity of higher education opportunities in Denton in the June 30 Denton Record-Chronicle.

CHARLOTTE JOAN HUNTER, 82, an instructor in the English department at North Texas from 1955 until her retirement in 1982, died July 17 in a Van Alstyne hospital.

She was born Nov. 7, 1919, in Van Alstyne. She earned her bachelor's degree in English from Austin College in 1941 and her master's degree in English from North Texas in 1953. She taught English at Van Alstyne High School from 1941 to 1954 before joining the North Texas faculty. Among her students here was Karleen Koen, who became a best-selling author with her 1986 book, Through a Glass Darkly. Hunter was a member of several professional organizations, including the National Council of Teachers of English, the College English Association, the Conference of College Teachers of English and the Texas Association of College Teachers.

She was an accomplished pianist and organist and enjoyed baking and candy making. She traveled often, especially in England and Spain. She was also an excellent bridge player and was active in her bridge club until she became ill in December 2001.

Survivors include two brothers, Harry Hunter of Van Alstyne and Mack Quinn Hunter of Dallas, and several nieces and nephews.

The funeral service was July 18 at Flesher Funeral Home in Van Alstyne. Burial was in Van Alstyne Cemetery.

See a full listing of events at www.unt.edu/events

Opera, The Magic Flute. 3 p.m. Aug. 3 and 4, 8 p.m. Aug. 6, Lyric Theater, Murchison Performing Arts Center. Admission $5. Call 369-7802 for ticket information.

Sunday Fun Day. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 18. Faculty and staff volunteers help students move into UNT residence halls. Call 565-2897 or e-mail moe@hsl.admin.unt.edu to volunteer.

Faculty Convocation. 3:30-5 p.m. Aug. 19, Lyceum. Reception follows in the Silver Eagle Suite.

New Faculty Orientation and Luncheon. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 20, Silver Eagle Suite.

Fall Classes Begin. Aug. 26.

Other featured articles in this issue:

• Regents confirm Lee Jackson as new UNT System chancellor
• There's a new bird on campus
• Summer graduation is Aug. 10
• About the commencement speaker
• Mean Green Village to return to practice field for Homecoming 2002
• UNT enters agreement with Mexican university
• 2002 Summer II enrollment climbs 8.5 percent over 2001
• UNT professor works to predict a fire's probable pathway
• UNT group ranks among the world's best computer security teams

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