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Three UNT faculty members
honored as Regents Professors
Paul Braterman
Guenter Gross
Allen Jackson
Three professors have been awarded
regents professorships by the UNT Board of
Regents to honor their achievements as fac-
ulty members.
Paul Braterman, Department of
Chemistry; Guenter Gross, Department of
Biological Sciences, and Allen Jackson,
Department of Kinesiology, Health
Promotion and Recreation, were elevated to
the rank of Regents Professor as of this fall.
The regents professorship program
began in 1987 to recognize UNT faculty
who have reached the rank of professor and
whose teaching or research have been supe-
rior over an extended period of time.
Regents Professors receive a permanent
increase of $5,000 annually in their nine-
month salary base. They are expected to
devote at least half of their teaching work-
load to introductory-level courses in their
disciplines.
Braterman has been at UNT since 1988
and served as chairman of the chemistry
department from 1988 to 1990. He received
his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1962
and master's and doctoral degrees in 1963,
all from Balliol College at Oxford
University. He received a second doctoral
degree from Oxford in 1985,
Bratcrman's expertise is in the areas of
inorganic chemistry and the origins of life.
He has published three books and more than
100 articles in professional journals. He is
also involved in developing courses to bridge
the gap between scicnce and the liberal arts.
Gross has been at UNT since 1985 in
the Department of Biological Sciences. He
also is the director of UNT's Center for
Network Neuroscience. He received his
bachelor's degree from Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken. N.J., and his doc-
toral degree from Florida State University.
Gross' expertise is in the study of
nerve cell networks. He pioneered the devel-
opment of photo-etched microelectrode
arrays used to measure the activity of net-
works in cell cultures. He has published
numerous articles in professional journals.
Jackson has been at UNT since 1978.
He received his bachelor's degree in physical
education from the University of Houston in
1978, his master's degree from Lamar
University in 1974 and his doctorate in edu-
cation from the University of Houston in
1979.
His expertise is in the areas of fitness
assessment, research methods, data analysis
and health aspects of physical activity and
fitness. He has published numerous articles
in professional journals.
No more than 10 UNT faculty mem-
bers may be awarded the regents professor-
ship cach year, and only 25 percent of pro-
lessors may hold the title at any given time.
— Michael Erickson
Novelist Pat Conroy scheduled
to speak at UNT festival April 10
Renowned novelist Pat Conroy, author
of The Prince of Tides and Beach Music.
will be coming to UNT April 10 as part of
the Arts & Sciences Week festivities.
Arts & Sciences Week is an annual
celebration of the departments and pro-
crams in the College of Aits and Sciences
and features a variety of events, displays
and presentations. It will run April 7-10.
For more information on Conroy's visit or
Arts & Sciences Week, call the college at
(817)565-2497.
Conroy will participate in a number of
events during his daylong visit to UNT. At
noon, he will attend a luncheon for faculty
and honors students from UNT an4 Tarrant
County Junior College. The luncheon is
sponsored by the UNT Alumni
Association.
At 6 p.m., the College of Arts and
Sciences will be the host of "An Evening
with Pat Conroy." The event will include a
private reception and dinner for sponsors
and special guests. Tickets may be pur-
chased at $ 150 per person, or $250 per
couple, with proceeds benefiting scholar-
ships for the UNT honors program. Those
purchasing tickets may park free in the
UNT parking garage and will have
reserved seating for Conroy's lecture,
"Stories of the South."
Conroy will give the lecture in the
Main Auditorium at 8 p.m. The lecture is
sponsored by the University Program
Council and w ill be followed by a recep-
tion at 9 p.m. in the University Union's
Silver Eagle Suite. The UNT School of
Merchandising and Hospitality
Management is the host of the reception.
The lecture and reception are free and open
to the public.
The son of a career military officer and
a Southern-bom mother to w hom he credits
his love of language. Conroy and his six
siblings moved regularly throughout their
childhood and changed schools frequently.
At his father's insistence, he eventually
attended the Citadel Military Academy in
Charleston, S.C., a place he w rote about in
his novel The Lords of Discipline, pub
lished in 1980. The novel, which was made
into the film of the same name, detailed
harsh military discipline, racism and sex
ism at the school.
After graduation Conroy w orked as a
school teacher on a rural island off the
South Carolina coast, but he was dismissed
after one year for an unorthodox teaching
style that included refusing to use corporal
punishment on his students. His book about
the experience. The Water is Wide, won a
National Education Association Award for
Achievement in Education.
In 1976 Conroy published his first
novel, The Great Santini, based on his
experiences growing up with an abusive
and often dangerous father. The novel w as
made into a movie by the same name, star
ring Robert Duvall.
In 1986 Conroy's best-known work,
The Prince of Tides, was published. With
more than five million copies in print, the
novel won its author international recogni-
tion. It also was made into a film, this time
directed by and starring Barbra Streisand,
who played opposite Nick Nolte. Nolte was
nominated for an Academy Aw ard for his
portrayal in the film.
1995 saw the publication of Conroy's
most recent work, Beach Music, which is
scheduled to be made into a movie.
Conroy's visit to campus also is being
sponsored by Delta Air Lines, the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram and Our Texas
Magazine.
Michael Erickson
If you are receiving more than one copy of
The North Texan, please let us know.
Call (817) 565-2108.
Groundbreaking for a Santa Fe-style dorm took place Nov. 5 at the comer of Prairie
and Avenue E. The first-class private residence hall designed to house international
students will be the first residence hall constructed at UNT since Kerr Hall was built
in 1969. Turning earth on the premises are Ifrom left] Chancellor Alfred F. Hurley;
Fred Pole, vice president of administrative affairs; Takeharu Miyama ofMirai
Corporation; and Elisabeth Warren, director of housing.
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