Dr. Eric Nestler, Distinguished Teaching Professor, joined the faculty of the College of Music in 1992. Since that time, he has conducted master classes and performed solo recitals in Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, and the United States, culminating in a 2003 debut recital in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He published numerous scholarly articles in the peer reviewed Saxophone Symposium focusing on literature for saxophone including a critical edition of the Concerto by Henri Tomasi. Nestler’s students earned teaching positions and professorships at... Read more
Dr. Yan Huang from Computer Science and Engineering, joined the College of Engineering at UNT in 2003. She was named the University’s Decker Scholar and an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Distinguished Member in 2019 for her scientific contributions to spatial databases and spatial data mining. Her work focuses on organizing, making best use of, and finding interesting patterns in large amounts of data. She developed theoretical foundations as well as novel and fast query processing algorithms for large geospatial computations. She pioneered research in... Read more
Kate Imy is an Assistant Professor in the History Department and has been at the University of North Texas since 2016. She teaches courses on British imperialism and war. In 2019, she hosted a conference at UNT entitled “Imperial Legacies of 1919” which featured fifty student and scholarly presentations, a poster competition, keynote addresses by Susan Kingsley Kent and Shrabani Basu, and screenings of "Victoria & Abdul" and Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old." She has organized events in the U.K. on the History of the Body and colonialism and she serves as a... Read more