College of Education

As a new mom, University of North Texas educational psychology associate professor Wendy Middlemiss was dissatisfied with information on safe infant sleep. She made infant sleep research a priority and dedicated years of study to best practices for parents when it comes to bedtime for babies.

Two College of Education faculty members were among the educators celebrated at UNT’s 2018 Salute to Faculty Excellence for their dedication through research, service and education.

Angie Cartwright, an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, received the Presidential Early Career Professor Award at the Oct. 5 ceremony. Julie Leventhal, lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology, received the ‘Fessor Graham Award, named after the late Professor Floyd Graham.

The tiny island nation of Jamaica recently had cause for celebration after its Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced the nation’s jobless rate hit a record low of 9.6 percent at the end of January.

A recent study conducted by the University of North Texas’ Kristin Farmer Autism Center found that traditional behavioral interventionists in the field of autism may lack many important clinical and interpersonal skills.

It’s a scene played out for dramatic effect in movies and on television — a soldier in full dress uniform showing up at the doorstep — but for the families of deployed U.S. military forces, it is a sobering reminder of the constant threats their loved ones face.

In the days following the June 2014 deaths of five American soldiers in Afghanistan, military officials arrived in the middle of the night at the home of Pfc. Aaron Toppen’s mother in Illinois to deliver the news. He had been killed in what has been described as the deadliest friendly fire incident of the war.