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News ➺
Plains Theatre Conference, a nationally renowned competition.
Chris Correa, Chicago, Ill. ::
It’s been 10 years since
the release of Norah
Jones’
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Come Away With Me, the Grammy-winning album that would become one of the best-selling of the decade. This year, the former UNT music student is in the
Denton :: and her husband,
Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/
Ryan, welcomed their first child, Garrett Cade McCullough, in January. He weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces and was 21 inches long.
EMI), featuring original songs
she co-wrote with producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton).
NPR says Jones is “making her sound cooler and more
unflappably sophisticated than ever.” She’s touring the U.S.,
Europe, Japan and South America, with shows in Austin,
Houston and Dallas Oct. 19-22.
➺ Sudhish Srikanth,
Amanda Dawn McCullough,
news with her fifth solo effort,
2012 graduate of the Texas Acad-
emy of Mathematics and Science at UNT, was the lead author on research featured in more than 100 media outlets, including WebMD and ScienceDaily. The research, conducted in the UNT Center for Sport Psychology and Performance Excellence, indicates that middle school students who have good cardiovascular fitness — strong hearts and lungs — are more likely to score higher on state-required tests in mathematics and reading than those who aren’t as physically fit. Srikanth
Dave Ragan, Denton :: was promoted to senior financial planning specialist at Grunden Financial Advisory Inc. He previously was a financial planning specialist with the firm for nine years after earning his degree in finance. He also teaches a personal finance course at UNT.
2004
worked with center director Trent
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Yo Goto
results at the American Psychological Association annual
(M.M., ’05
meeting in August.
M.Ed.), Tokyo,
Haxton (’80) led to a production
consultant credit on the Sam Raimi-produced horror film The Possession — and a multitude of interviews. In the movie, released by Lionsgate in August, a mysterious cabinet said to be haunted by an ancient spirit wreaks havoc on
Japan :: was awarded the American Bandmasters Association 2011 Sousa/Ostwald Award for his composition Songs for Wind Ensemble.
its victims. Haxton is the current owner of the cabinet and details its history in his book The Dibbuk Box (Truman State University Press). The director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine at A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Mo., he exhibits the museum’s artifacts around the world. Haxton credits UNT’s English faculty and rigorous writing program for his success as an author. He attended the movie’s red carpet premiere at the ArcLight theater in Hollywood.
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2009 Jasmine Stewart (M.B.A.), Atlanta, Ga.
:: student relations coordinator for the Georgia State Alumni Association, received the Outstanding Advisor award from CASE Affiliated Student Advancement Programs. She also was accepted into the Colonial Academic Alliance Visiting Professionals Program.
2010
Petrie and faculty Christy Greenleaf and Scott Martin and presented
The research of Jason
received his Doctorate of Podiatric Medicine from Scholl College at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science this summer. He is a resident at West Houston Medical Center in podiatric medicine and surgery.
2007 Robin Buckallew (Ph.D.),
Hastings, Neb. :: wrote the play There is no Woman, which was chosen to be presented at the spring workshop of the Great
Chelsie Springer Witt (M.S.), Roanoke :: is the new adminis-
trator of Good Samaritan Society Lake Forest Village in Denton. She moved from Bozeman, Mont., to earn her master’s in long-term care, senior housing and aging services from UNT and completed an internship at Good Samaritan. She worked there as director of resource development for a year while studying for her license.