This video contains the social justice keynote address for the 2018 University of North Texas Equity and Diversity Conference featuring Dr. Dafina-Lazarus (D-L) Stewart (PGPs: ze, zim, and zir). Dr. Stewart is professor in the School of Education and Tri-Chair of the Student Affairs in Higher Education program at Colorado State University. Over the course of zir 17-year faculty career, ze has focused most intently on issues of race and ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, as well as religion, faith, and spirituality in their research, teaching, and service to professional organizations and institutions across the nation. In this session, Dr. Stewart speaks on navigating privilege and marginalization in building social justice competence.

This video contains opening remarks for the 2018 University of North Texas Equity and Diversity Conference. Joanne Woodard, Vice President of the Division of Institutional Equity & Diversity, along with Shani Barrax-Moore, Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, introduce the conference and welcome the conference attendees. Presented by sponsor GCC Enterprises, UNT Housing and Residence Life receives the award for Inclusive Excellence.

This video contains an invitation-only panel discussion, wherein Rosa Clemente fields questions from the audience on a variety of topics pertaining to the conference theme of building bridges and granting access.

This video contains the keynote speech for the 2018 University of North Texas Equity and Diversity Conference featuring Rosa Clemente, 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate, community organizer, and journalist. From Harvard to prisons, Rosa has spent her life dedicated to scholar activism. She is the president and founder of Know Thy Self Productions, which has produced four major community activism tours and consults on issues such as Hip-Hope activism, media justice, voter engagement among youth of color, third party politics, intercultural relations between Black and Latinx, immigrants’ rights as an extension of human rights, and universal healthcare. During her keynote session, Clemente addresses identity intersectionality as a bridge to inclusion.

Program for the 2018 UNT Equity & Diversity Conference. This year's theme "Access Granted: Building Bridges to Inclusion" features speakers and presenters related to topics such as coalition building, faith/belief systems and non-faith tradition, Minority Serving Institution(MSI), gender identity and expression, citizenship and immigration, organizational change, and leadership and mentoring.

This review looks at the religious communities influence health-related behaviors of adherents in important ways for public health promotion. Questions remain about the processes involved and resultant health promotion actions of the religious adherents.

Study examines the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database wasto identify fatal accidents during 2015 in the United States in which a deceased pilot used a prescribed medication or had a disease that potentially reduced pilot performance and was not reported to their aeromedical practitioners (AMEs) in order to gain insight on issues with the duty of notification process.

Article presents the methodological approach of the Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP).

Article describes experiment in which juvenile alligators were exposed to 12‰ saltwater for 5 weeks to determine the effects of chronic exposure to saline environments.

This article summarizes the contributions from the Genome-wide Association Study group (GWAS group) of the GAW20. The GWAS group contributions focused on topics such as association tests, phenotype imputation, and application of empirical kinships. This summary article reports on promising statistical approaches and findings of the members of the GWAS group applied on real and simulated data which encompass the current topics of epigenetic and pharmacogenomics.

Study examines the effect of cutting conditions on wall surface roughness and back-wall dross by carrying out fiber laser cutting of AZ31 magnesium alloy tubes.

Paper presents the holographic fabrication of a graded photonic super-crystal with a rectangular unit super-cell.

Article describes study which focuses on gas-phase binding preferences of cyclic imide dioximes to uranyl, neptunyl, plutonyl, and americyl.

Article reports on a systematic analysis of differences observed in the prediction of structural characteristics, electron withdrawing effects, and binding energies of [An(NO3)]2+ (with An = Ac to Lr) in gas and aqueous phases.

This highlight video features clips from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Dr. Joseph Oppong describes the goals and process of the competition. This video includes comments from competitors and judges.

Photograph of ABM Rezbaul Islam speaking during his presentation at the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition.

Photograph of Debbie Cockerham speaking during his presentation at the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition.

Photograph of Devasantosh Mohanty speaking during his presentation at the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition.

Photograph of Dr. Joseph Oppong and all of the competitors at the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition.

Photograph of Dr. Joseph Oppong and Debbie Cockerham displaying the First Place award at the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. Competitors Eunho Cha and Devasantosh Mohanty stand in the background.

Photograph of Dr. Joseph Oppong awarding a check to Debbie Cockerham at the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. Competitors Eunho Cha and Devasantosh Mohanty stand in the background.

[Photograph of Dr. Joseph Oppong, Deborah Cockerham, and the judges of the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition.

Photograph of Eunho Cha speaking during his presentation at the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition

Photograph of Jamie Thomas speaking during his presentation at the Fall 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition.