A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

This report is written in response to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about military funeral honors and military cemeteries. It provides information to questions in three general areas: implementation of the funeral honors and eligibility criteria; components of the honor detail and the funeral ceremony; and specific questions on burial and honors at Arlington National Cemetery. It also cites legislation requiring the Department of Defense (DOD) to make military funeral honors available to every eligible veteran upon request.

This report examines developments in U.S. policy restricting travel and remittances to Cuba, including significant changes that have occurred, current permissible travel and remittances, enforcement of the travel restrictions, and debate on lifting the travel restrictions.

This report discusses the federal government's role in the country's information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) activities. The government's support of IT R&D began because it had an important interest in creating computers and software that would be capable of addressing the problems and issues the government needed to solve and study.

Poster presentation for the 2015 Texas Digital Humanities Conference. This poster discusses embedded Omeka support for art history.

This report discusses the U.S. policy approaches for countering the financial resources of the Islamic State, which has seized significant territory in Iraq and Syria and threatened to conduct attacks against the United States and its citizens.

This report discusses food safety legislation passed by Congress in December 2010 (FDA Food Safety Modernization Act [FSMA], P.L. 111-353).

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This report describes the potential employer penalties related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; P.L. 111-148, as amended) as well as regulations to implement the ACA employer provisions. The regulations address insurance coverage requirements, methodologies for determining whether a worker is considered full time, provisions relating to seasonal workers and corporate franchises, and other reporting requirements.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Vernon Bowen. Bowen quit school and joined the Navy in August 1944. After training, he went aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13) and served as messman and as a 40mm antiaircraft gun loader. He describes his experiences when the ship was bombed in March, 1945 and how he escaped from below decks. Bowen rode the ship back to New York. He was discharged in June, 1946.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Paul Simpson. Simpson joined the Army in December of 1944. After boot camp, he deployed to Saipan where he served on patrol. Simpson participated with the 147th Infantry Regiment through the Battle of Iwo Jima, where he was stationed when the war ended. He returned to the US and received his discharge around early 1946.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Dean. Dean was born in Sapulpa, Oklahoma on 7 September 1924 and graduated from high school in 1942. Upon being drafted in 1943, he was sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri for thirteen weeks of basic training. While there he was selected to attend the Army Specialized Training Program at Colorado State College at Fort Collins. Soon after he entered the program, it was discontinued and he joined the 80th Infantry Division and went to Fort Dix, New Jersey. There, the division boarded HMS Queen Mary bound for Scotland. Dean recalls landing at Normandy three weeks after the invasion and describes seeing wreckage and bodies that remained. The division joined the 8th Army and advanced across France. During December 1944 he was hospitalized for three weeks with a severe case of trench foot. Upon being released from the hospital, he was assigned to the 60th US Army Band. The band played during the funeral for General George Patton and he describes the formalities of the funeral. Dean returned to the United States in 1946 and was discharged soon thereafter.

Photograph of Provost Graves (right) speaking with Anna G. Ricco (center) and Nicholas D. Ricco (right), funders of the Nicholas D. and Anna Ricco Ethics Awards at the 2015 Honors Day program.

Photograph of Nicholas D. Ricco (left) and Ricco award winner, Brittney Olson (right) at the 2015 Honors Day program.

Photograph of Natnaree Suwanpotipra playing musical interlude Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the Rain) from Estampes (Prints), L100 Claude Debussy (1862-1918) during Honors Day 2015.

Photograph of Nicholas D. Ricco, Ricco Ethics Awardee, at the 2015 Honors Day program.

Photograph of the Ricco scholarship recipients posing with Anna G. and Nicholas D. Ricco, funders of the Nicholas D. and Anna Ricco Ethics Awards. Award winners: Nora Ward, Nicholas Hunt, Iridiana Soto, Vipin Abraham, Serhiy Polyakov, Destiny Bickel, Michael Chandler, Harvey Hubbard, Brittany Olson, Kyle Blankenship.

Photograph of University of North Texas (UNT) president Neal Smatresk taking a selfie with a student award winner at the 2015 Honors Day program.

Photograph of University of North Texas (UNT) President Neal Smatresk behind a podium while speaking at the 2015 Honors Day program.

Photograph of University of North Texas (UNT) president Neal Smatresk, UNT student Brittney Olson (Honors College recepient of Ricco Ethics Award), and Nicholas D. Ricco at the 2015 Honors Day program.

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Vernon Bowen. Bowen quit school and joined the Navy in August 1944. After training, he went aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13) and served as messman and as a 40mm antiaircraft gun loader. He describes his experiences when the ship was bombed in March, 1945 and how he escaped from below decks. Bowen rode the ship back to New York. He was discharged in June, 1946.