Faces of Poverty — As part of UNT's Hispanic Heritage Month events, Syl Flores, lecturer in rehabilitation, social work and addictions, talks about students' work with impoverished residents of Mexico. His presentation was Sept. 30.

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DIANA BLOCK, director of the UNT Art Gallery, was named one of the winners of the Legend Awards, which are given by the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art to individuals who have significantly advanced visual arts in Texas. The award was presented Sept. 18 in Dallas.

A book chapter by DON STAPLES, professor of radio, television and film, was published in Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History, University of Kentucky Press, May 2003. The chapter is titled "Wilson in Technicolor: An Appreciation." Also, Staples presented "John Huston Alive and The Dead: A Case Study of Adaptation from Novel to Film" at the annual conference of the University Film and Video Association at the University of South Carolina, July 21-26 in Columbia, S.C.

State

RICHARD DETER, director and chief of police and traffic, talks about campus security in the Sept. 19 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

EUGENE HARGROVE, professor and chair of philosophy and religion studies and director of the Center for Environmental Philosophy, discusses the proposed joint UNT-University of Texas at Arlington doctoral program in philosophy in the Sept. 22 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

JONEEL HARRIS, associate vice president of enrollment management, notes the importance of informing new students about university resources in the Sept. 12 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In a Sept. 13 Denton Record-Chronicle article, she credits the freshman retention rate as a contributing factor in the university's record enrollment.

DOTTY HORTON, assistant director of international studies and programs, comments on the difficulties many foreign students face getting into universities following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the Sept. 11 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

UNT President NORVAL POHL and SIGRID GLENN, Regents Professor and chair of the Department of Behavior Analysis, discuss a major endowment left to UNT as part of the estate of the late Beatrice H. Barrett in the Sept. 11 Dallas Morning News and Denton Record-Chronicle.

MIKE SAYLER, associate professor of technology and cognition and associate dean of the College of Education, discusses standardized tests in the Sept. 11 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

JAMES SCOTT, professor and dean of the College of Music, praises soprano June Card and the composition Pierre Lunaire, which she performed Sept. 19 in Denton, in the Sept. 18 Denton Record-Chronicle and the Sept. 19 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

BERNARD WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, talks about unemployment and the slow economic recovery in the Sept. 6 Dallas Morning News. He shares his views about struggling Texas technology company sales in the Sept. 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A column he wrote about electricity deregulation and the aftermath of the Northeastern power grid blackout appears in the Sept. 22 Dallas Morning News.

HARRY WILLIAMS, associate professor of geography, discusses his research on southeastern Denton County soil and its often ill effects on foundations in the Sept. 1 Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Sept. 19 Dallas Business Journal.

Regional

TERRY CLOWER, assistant professor of applied economics and associate director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, comments on employers' cautious return to hiring in the Sept. 5 Tyler Morning Telegraph.

PRISCILLA CONNORS, assistant professor of merchandising and hospitality management, discusses student nutrition in the Aug. 20 Gilmer Mirror.

The latest findings by HARRELL GILL-KING, program coordinator of biological sciences and a forensic expert studying the skeletal remains of three 1680s murder victims at historic Fort St. Louis near Victoria, have been published in several Texas newspapers: the Aug. 3 Perryton Herald; the Aug. 7 Hutto Herald; the Aug. 14 Polk County Enterprise, Lake Travis View and Ralls Reporter-Examiner; and the Sept. 7 Victoria Advocate.

UNT System Chancellor LEE JACKSON and JEAN KELLER, professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation and dean of the College of Education, offer their thoughts on the proposed online charter school in the Aug. 22 Victoria Advocate. Jackson talks about the same subject in the Sept. 1 San Antonio Express-News and the Sept. 2 Corpus Christi Caller Times.

UNT President NORVAL POHL discusses HOWARD C. JOHNSON's appointment as provost and vice president for academic affairs at UNT in the Aug. 27 Houston Business Journal.

KELLEY REESE, associate director of news and information, talks about the UNT requirement that students provide proof that their computers are free of the Blaster virus in the Sept. 4 Austin Daily Texan.

FOSTER RODEN, Regents Professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law, comments on UNT's Center for NAFTA Studies and the seventh annual Logistics Forum in the Sept. 19 Dallas Business Journal.

DON SMITH, associate professor of biological sciences, provides information about the root system of post oak trees and his efforts to save them in the Aug. 27 Graham Leader.

Local

RICHARD HARRIS, associate vice president for computing and communications services, talks about the cooperative relationship between Denton and its two universities, UNT and Texas Woman's University, in the Sept. 21 Denton Record-Chronicle.

UNT System Chancellor LEE JACKSON discusses construction challenges involving the Victory Hall complex in the Sept. 18 Denton Record-Chronicle.

BONITA JACOBS, associate professor of counseling, development and higher education and vice president for student development, shares her thoughts about the development of Sorority Row in the Aug. 1 Denton Business and Community News.

VINCENT RAMOS, lecturer of rehabilitation, social work and addictions, talks about the importance of art in the Latino culture in the Sept. 21 Denton Record-Chronicle.

MICHAEL MAHONEY, professor of psychology, earned three medals at the World Masters Weightlifting Championships, Sept. 5 in Savannah, Ga: silver in snatch, gold in clean-and-jerk and silver in the all-around competition. He lifted 297 pounds and set three American records in his age and weight class (57 years/121 pounds).

UNT faculty and staff who celebrated anniversaries in August:

35 years

• Ida Margaret Hudnall, College of Music
• David Kesterson, English
  

30 years

• Jerome Duggan, Physics
• Richard Dupree, College of Music
• James Glass, Public Administration
• Terry Holcomb, Technology and Cognition

25 years

• Lyndal Bullock, Technology and Cognition
• Allen Jackson, Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation
• J. Lynn Johnson, Management
• Paula King, President's Office

20 years

• Judith Ann Adkison, Teacher Education and Administration
• Gopala Ganesh, Marketing and Logistics
• Gerald Knezek, Technology and Cognition
  

15 years

• William Acree, Chemistry
• Melody Baker, Libraries
• Paul Braterman, Chemistry
• Betty Crocker, Teacher Education and Administration
• Martin Gieda, Counseling and Testing
• Deborah Ann Graham, School of Visual Arts
• Janice Holden, Counseling, Development and Higher Education
• Abraham John, Student Development

10 years

• Steven Carroll, University Union
• William Hernandez, Facilities

5 years

• Aaron Brodie, Radio, Television and Film
• Shea Austin Brown, Biological Sciences
• Mayra Contreras, Housing Maintenance
• Douglas Elrod, TRIO Center for Student Development
• Pamela Flint, Counseling and Testing
• Randolph Garcia, Facilities
• Peter Giglio, Facilities
• Lisa Hollinger, Intensive English Language Institute
• Gina Howell, Center for Continuing Education and Conference Management
• Veronica Kronvall, Survey Research Center

Because so many employees have August anniversaries, those with last names beginning with L through Z will appear in the Oct. 17 issue of InHouse.

NANCY NORMAN JONES, 60, adjunct instructor of counseling, development and higher education in 2001 and 2002, died Sept. 15. She was born on Sept. 24, 1942, in Winters. She earned her bachelor's degree at Hardin-Simmons University in 1964 and her master's degree in 1968 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She earned her doctorate at Texas Woman's University in 1996.

Active in many early childhood and child development programs, she was the first director of First Texas Council of Camp Fire and was on the staff of Christian Community Action in Lewisville. She was serving as director of the Week Day School at University Park United Methodist Church in Dallas and was a partner in a Denton consulting firm, Consulting By Design, focusing on early childhood training and parent education.

She was a Certified Family Life Educator and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the National Council on Family Relations and numerous other organizations.

Survivors include her husband, Marvin Jones of Denton, and her brother, Steve Norman of Abilene. Services were Sept. 16 at DeBerry Funeral Directors in Denton. Burial was in Winters.

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

Hispanic Heritage Month. Events continue through Oct. 16. Call (940) 565-3424 for information.

Friday Films. Noon Fridays in October, Chilton Hall, Room 111 (Media Library). Call (940) 565-2480 for information.

Mean Green Women's Swimming and Diving. Noon Oct. 4, Student Recreation Center. Call (940) 565-2527 for information.

Mean Green Women's Soccer. UNT vs. Arkansas-Little Rock, 1 p.m. Oct. 5; UNT vs. Denver, 7 p.m. Oct. 10. Mean Green Soccer Complex on Precision Drive. Call (940) 565-2527 for information.

Mean Green Women's Volleyball. UNT vs. Denver, 1 p.m. Oct. 5; UNT vs. Prairie View A&M, 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Men's Gym. Call (940) 565-2527 for information.

Reduced Shakespeare Co. 6 p.m. Oct. 5, University Union, Lyceum. Call (940) 565-3805 for ticket information.

Fibers Group – Senior Show. Opening reception, 7-9 p.m. Oct. 6, Union Gallery. Exhibit runs through Oct. 23.

Faculty Senate Meeting. 2 p.m. Oct. 8, Wooten Hall, Room 322.

UNT Symphony Orchestra. Christian Leotta, pianist. 8 p.m. Oct. 8, Winspear Hall. Call (940) 565-3805 for ticket information.

National Customer Service Week Campus Party. 3:30-5 p.m. Oct. 10, University Union, Silver Eagle Suite.

North Texas Wild. Fort Worth Zoo show. 1 p.m. Oct. 17, University Union, One O'Clock Lounge.

COBA Distinguished Lecture Series. Byron Baird of Mrs. Baird's Bakeries. 2 p.m. Oct. 17, General Academic Building, Room 105.

Other featured articles in this issue:

• UNT Board of Regents awards construction contract for Eagle Point projects
• Homecoming is Oct. 16-18
• Professor to serve as guest researcher at CDC
• Princeton Review includes UNT in The Best Western Colleges guidebook
• UNT faculty, staff encouraged to contribute nominations for annual alumni awards
• The Club at Gateway Center opens for fall season; new chef brings new flavor
• SECC campaign puts focus on caring
• NAFTA pumps dollars into Texas economy, but at border cities' expense
• Faculty Senate hears reports from Pohl, new VP for research and technology transfer

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