The UNT Office for Nationally Competitive Scholarships led by Dr. James Duban has a great deal of success every year in helping UNT students win very competitive and prestigious awards. In fact, UNT has had more Barry M. Goldwater Scholars than any other Texas college or university. In 2007, UNT was one of only seven universities in the nation, and the only university in Texas, to have the maximum number of four Barry M. Goldwater Scholars in one year, and UNT had more scholars that year than the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins and Princeton Universities. Just last year, three UNT students were named Goldwater Scholars—once again winning more than any other public university in Texas.
Another prestigious award, the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, has consistently been won by UNT students as well. Two recent UNT graduates recently won 2011-2012 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships to study abroad for a year and engage in global public service. T. Lane Ingram, who graduated from UNT this year with a M.Ed. in counseling, will travel to New Zealand to earn a certificate in counseling at the Wellington Institute of Technology, and Juan Oliveros Facio, who graduated from UNT in May 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in communication design, will pursue a master’s degree in cultural management from Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla in Mexico.
