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September 13, 2011 • Archive
G.I. Jobs, a magazine for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, awarded the UNT Health Science Center its Military Friendly School designation for 2012. The 2012 Military Friendly Schools list honors the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America's military service members and veterans as…
September 12, 2011 • Archive
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) second-year medical students improved their scores over last year's class on the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX) Level 1. TCOM students continue to score well above the national average performance in all specialty areas. The three-part COMLEX series examination, the licensing exam for the osteopathic profession, is taken…
September 1, 2011 • Archive
Alakananda Basu, PhD, professor of Molecular Biology and Immunology, and Shree Bose, whom Dr. Basu mentored, will be featured on the evening news tonight. The two were recognized for Bose's first-place award in the Google Science Fair at a presentation at Fort Worth's Science and History Museum this morning by Senator John Cornyn, as well…
August 26, 2011 • Archive
The UNT Health Science Center will be closed for the Labor Day holiday on Monday, Sept. 5. Administrative offices will re-open at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6. All clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians will also be closed Monday, Sept. 5, in observance of the holiday. Regular clinic hours will resume Tuesday, Sept. 6. Lewis Library…
August 24, 2011 • Archive
Summertime, when kids and grown-ups abandon the confines of the indoors and head outside to camp, hike, fish and commune with nature --- and all of her friends. Flies, mosquitoes and ticks are just a few of the critters that go along with summer outdoors, and we all do our best to avoid the biting…
August 19, 2011 • Archive
The UNT System Board of Regents have approved a UNT System College of Pharmacy, as authorized in the 82nd Texas legislative session. As part of the three-way partnership among UNT, the UNT Health Science Center and UNT Dallas, the College of Pharmacy students will earn a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree and will attend the…
August 15, 2011 • Archive
Girls Inc. Smart Camp conducted a Disease Detectives session for 14 students ages 12 to 17 on campus. The students spent the week dealing with a fictitious disease outbreak, determining the best way to protect public safety and doing hands-on activities in UNTHSC's simulation lab. Melissa Oden, MPH (‘06), DHEd, president of the School of…
July 25, 2011 • Archive
A reception honoring Carl Everett, DO, was held July 15 at the UNT Health Science Center. Everett was instrumental in founding and building the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Education and Administration Building has been named after him.Everett was born in 1914 in Mountain View, Ark. He earned a bachelor's degree from the…
July 22, 2011 • Archive
Frank Filipetto, DO, recently was named chair of Family Medicine. Before joining the UNT Health Science Center on July 15, he was the vice chairman of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey's (UMDNJ) Family Medicine Department. Filipetto holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology, graduating summa cum laude from Temple University…
July 19, 2011 • Archive
Shree Bose, a high-school student from Fort Worth, is the Grand Prize winner (and also winner in the 17-18 age group) of the Google Science Fair and will receive a $50,000 scholarship from Google. Bose did her research at the UNT Health Science Center, where her mentor, Alakananda Basu, PhD, is professor of Molecular Biology…
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