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• Standout nurse. Higher education doctoral student Gary Huey was named one of Dallas-Fort Worth’s Great 100 Nurses for 2017 — an honor recognizing nurses who are role models, community servants, compassionate caregivers and contributors to the profession. Huey, the learning institute coordinator at Medical City of McKinney, will be honored April 17 during an awards ceremony at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. • Constructing for the community. As part of their Hungry for Change initiative, students from UNT’s College of Public Affairs and Community Service partnered with Serve Denton to build nine Little Free Pantries. The pantries are housed in Denton neighborhoods or at local small businesses to help those who need a little support. Built by students, the pantries are small cedar cabinets containing non-perishable food, toiletries and other necessities available to and stocked by the community.
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Business computer information systems senior Brian Powers won first place in the most difficult portion of IBM’s Master the Mainframe contest for the North American region.
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Students in nine regions worldwide competed to come up with solutions to unique challenges simulating real-life scenarios faced by skilled computer programmers. In total, 4,174 students from more than 400 high schools and universities participated in the three-part challenge. For winning Part 3, Powers received an all-expenses-paid trip to the SHARE conference in San Jose, California, to learn and network with some of IBM’s biggest executives, business partners and clients.
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• Take a seat (and selfie!) with Scrappy. Scrappy’s made a new mark on campus with the November addition of a Scrappy Bench on the University Union’s south lawn. The bench, the result of collaborative planning by the Union board of directors and Division of Student Affairs, brings Mean Green pride to all who sit there. Communication studies graduate student Rachel Jackson (’12) poses for a photo with Scrappy. Follow the bench on Twitter @UNTscrappybench and tag your photos with #scrappyselfie.
ated Valley Carriers, a family company experiencing division Senior Dylan Lischau between the second and third helped his team win first place generations. in its division at the Global “Family businesses are vital to Family Enterprise Case the economy,” says Lischau, an Competition in January at the integrative studies major University of Vermont. specializing in entrepreneurThe competition, meant for ship, music and German. those who plan to own family “More than 70 percent of businesses, puts together businesses in the world are students from different family owned, but only about universities and allows them a 30 percent are successful few hours to solve a challenge. beyond the first generation. We Lischau and his team — offered alternatives to continue made up of students from the Netherlands, Vermont, Canada, growth that could be beneficial Florida and Michigan — evalu- to the company.” Family business focus