UNT Sustainability

Kurtis Carsch, a student in the University of North Texas' Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, has been named one of 40 finalists in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search.  For the full story read more here.

Follett Higher Education Group, the business that brings you the University of North Texas campus bookstore, strives to minimize its impact on student’s pocketbooks and the environment, as well as provide programs to ensure students get the most from their textbooks.

When minds from multiple disciplines meet, the intersection of expertise has the potential to breed innovative and creative ideas. Often, in our areas of expertise we tend to create rigid problem-solving techniques when other solutions may be available outside of our repertoire. When our areas of expertise intersect, our walls of absolutism crumble, and we can see things from a fresh perspective.

The Pharmacy at University of North Texas will take your unused prescription or over the counter drugs and dispose of them properly. Often when people have left over medicine they either keep them in the cupboard, which can be dangerous for children or for accidental use; or they put them down the sink or in the toilette, or toilette them. Our water system doesn’t currently filter pollutants from medications, so many times, if they are “toileted”, then the pollutants wind up in our drinking water.