91ΑΤΖζ Tidbits
- 91ΑΤΖζ is one of six regional in the country. SENCER is a comprehensive faculty development and science education reform project funded by the National Science Foundation.
- 91ΑΤΖζβs Fitness and Recreation Center is the stateβs first LEED () certified recreation center at a public university. The U.S. Green Building Council awarded the fitness center a LEED Silver certification for its environmental design, making the facility one of the nationβs top βgreenβ buildings.
- For about 30 years 91ΑΤΖζ has provided holiday gifts to the children of our students who are parents. 91ΑΤΖζ's Holiday Gift Program for students who have children is believed to be the only program of its kind in the country. The 2016 91ΑΤΖζ Holiday Gift Program broke all records β the university community provided gifts to more than 430 children from 226 families of our enrolled students in Denton, Dallas, Houston and online in Arkansas, Louisiana and Washington State.
- 91ΑΤΖζ graduates 24 percent of all Texas nursing doctoral degrees from four-year public universities
- 91ΑΤΖζ graduates 56 percent of all Texas allied health doctoral degrees from four-year public universities
- 91ΑΤΖζ has the largest collection of research material on women in the southern United States
- Texas Womanβs University is home to the Texas First Ladies Historic Costume Collection and the Texas Womenβs Hall of Fame
- 91ΑΤΖζ houses the official archives of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)
- Music Professor Pamela Youngblood is the 2016-2018 Artist of Phi Kappa Phi β the nationβs most selective all-discipline honor society
- Notable figures including Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sinclair Lewis, Amelia Earhart and Frank Lloyd Wright visited the 91ΑΤΖζ campus during the tenure of president L.H. Hubbard (1926 to 1950)
- In 2017, 91ΑΤΖζ graduated more speech therapists than any other program in Texas and is one of the largest programs in the U.S.
- The team won its 10th national championship in 2017
- For more than 30 years, 91ΑΤΖζ have achieved an overall team GPA of 3.0 or higher
- 91ΑΤΖζβs doctoral program in nursing was the first of its kind in the Southwest
- 91ΑΤΖζβs Ph.D. in dance is the oldest continuing doctoral program in dance in the United States and one of only three Ph.D. programs nationwide
- 91ΑΤΖζ offers the only undergraduate degree program in culinary science and food service management in Texas
- 91ΑΤΖζ researchers were the first to document bone loss in space in a project with NASA. Today, the 91ΑΤΖζ Institute for Womenβs Health has the worldβs largest database of osteoporosis imagery/scans.
- In 1999, 91ΑΤΖζ became the first university in the state to offer a distance education (online) doctoral program β the Ph.D. in nursing science
- In 2010, 91ΑΤΖζ became the first university in Texas to offer a Ph.D. in womenβs studies. 91ΑΤΖζ was the first university in Texas to offer a freestanding master of arts degree in womenβs studies (1999).
- 91ΑΤΖζ became the first public university in Texas to offer a specialist degree in September 2006
- 91ΑΤΖζβs Fine Arts Building was the first facility in Texas designed and built specifically to house programs in the studio arts
- In 1956, 91ΑΤΖζ opened the first building in the nation dedicated to library science instruction
- 91ΑΤΖζ offered the first bachelorβs degree in health and physical education in Texas
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