Bob Bilyeu Camblin: An Iconoclast in Houston's Emerging Art Scene

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Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Bob Camblin (1928-2010) was an artist, first and foremost. He earned his BFA and MFA degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute. His studies were followed by a Fulbright Fellowship that allowed him a year’s stay in Italy. Returning to the USA, he held teaching positions at the Ringling Museum, the University of Illinois, Detroit Mercy, and the University of Utah before moving to Houston in 1967 to teach at Rice’s new art department. He was active in Houston during the late 1960s through the 1980s, collaborating with Earl Staley and Joe Tate on many projects, including “happenings” on the beach in Galveston. His career led him to creative undertakings all over the world. Throughout his lifetime he constantly experimented with various art media. He remained open to new ideas and new techniques until his death in Louisiana in 2010. Camblin was a central figure in the period of artistic fermentation in Houston that is now beginning to receive increasing critical attention. He chose Rowland to be his historian while still at Rice, and her insights into him are based on many personal letters and conversations. In addition, she is a trained art historian and …
Date: April 2020
Creator: Rowland, Sandra Jensen
System: The UNT Digital Library
2020 Supplement to Texas Real Estate Forms Manual Third Edition (open access)

2020 Supplement to Texas Real Estate Forms Manual Third Edition

Additions and changes to a manual compiled by professional lawyers in the state of Texas regarding the processes and forms needed for typical real estate transactions: "This supplement updates the practice notes and forms and incorporates relevant statutory and case law handed down since 2019" (p. 1).
Date: 2020
Creator: State Bar of Texas. Real Estate Forms Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2021, Volume 3 (open access)

University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2021, Volume 3

Proposed budget for the University of Texas at Austin outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: 2020
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2021, Volume 2 (open access)

University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2021, Volume 2

Proposed budget for the University of Texas at Austin outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: 2020
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 7

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This anthology collects the winners of the 2019 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Eli Saslow, “It Was My Job, and I Didn’t Find Him” (The Washington Post), narrates the life of a former officer at the Parkland high school shooting. Second place: Elizabeth Bruenig, “What Do We Owe Her Now?” (The Washington Post), is the story of a high school rape victim who received no justice. Third place: Hannah Dreier, “The Disappeared” (ProPublica), follows a mother who lost her teenage son to gang violence. Runners-up include Jamie Thompson, “Standoff” (The Dallas Morning News); Lane DeGregory, “Lincoln’s Shot” (Tampa Bay Times); Jenna Russell, “The World, the Stage, the Way Ahead” (The Boston Globe); Evan Allen, “Under a Dark Sky, a Baby is Born” (The Boston Globe); Lisa Gartner, “She’s Taught at the Parkland High School for 14 Years. Can She Go Back?” (Tampa Bay Times); Claire McNeill, “So You Remember the Student Who Was Shot at FSU? He’s Pretty Sure We’ve All Moved On” (Tampa Bay Times); and Bethany Barnes, “Targeted” (The Oregonian).
Date: June 2020
Creator: Reaves, Gayle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Essentials of Texas Water Resources (open access)

Essentials of Texas Water Resources

The 6th edition of "Essentials of Texas Water Resources," providing a beneficial education to new students of Texas water issues as well as assisting experienced water practitioners to continue their education, especially on emerging issues. Includes chapters on desalination, aquifer storage and recovery, reuse, conjunctive use, flood management, etc.
Date: 2020
Creator: State Bar of Texas. Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section.
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 35, No. 5, Pages 3492 to 4344, April 13 - April 24, 2020 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 35, No. 5, Pages 3492 to 4344, April 13 - April 24, 2020

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: April 2020
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library