UNT faculty members offer seminars to local teachers

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation recently invited UNT to participate in the Teachers as Scholars program.

Started by Harvard University in cooperation with schools near the university, Teachers as Scholars offers kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers an opportunity for intellectual renewal. The program invites North Texas-area teachers to participate in seminars offered by outstanding UNT scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and arts.

A North Texas Teachers as Scholars kick-off event was held concurrently on the UNT Denton, the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the UNT System Center at Dallas campuses May 2.

Paul Braterman, Regents Professor of chemistry; David Golden, Regents Professor of physics; Su Gao, assistant professor of mathematics; Keith Johnson, Regents Professor of music; John Murphy, associate professor of music; Sally Packard, assistant professor of visual arts; and Don Schol, professor of visual arts, are among the UNT professors who will provide two-day seminars for teachers beginning this fall.

UNT sponsors of Teachers as Scholars include the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Music, the School of Visual Arts, the Health Science Center and the System Center.

For more information about North Texas Teachers as Scholars, call UNT's Meadows Chair of Excellence in Education, Mary Harris, at 565-4327.

BY CATHY CASHIO ccashio@unt.edu

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