Alexandria Poole, PhD Candidate, published as co-author in Sustainability an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. The article, "The New Global Urban Realm: Complex, Connected, Diffuse, and Diverse Social-Ecological Systems," discusses urbanization as a global transformative process and proposes a conceptual framework to broaden the development of urban ecological research and its application to sustainability.

Emmanuela Akosua Opoku, a doctoral student in the University of North Texas' Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, has been awarded a $5,000 P.E.O., or Philanthropic Educational Organization, International Peace Scholarship. Seven UNT students have received the scholarship since 2002.

"The Moral Dimensions of Infrastructure" Moral issues in urban planning involving technology, residents, marginalized groups, ecosystems, and future generations are complex cases, requiring solutions that go beyond the limits of contemporary moral theory. Aside from typical planning problems, there is incongruence between moral theory and some of the subjects that require moral assessment, such as urban infrastructure. Despite this incongruence, there is not a need to develop another moral theory. Instead, a supplemental measure that is compatible with existing moral positions will suffice. My primary goal in this paper is to explain the need for this supplemental measure, describe what one looks like, and show how it works with existing moral systems. The secondary goal is to show that creating a supplemental measure that provides congruency between moral systems that are designed to assess human action and non-human subjects advances the study of moral theory.

On Friday, April 17, 2015 Prof. Martin Yaffe gave a talk at Congregation Bethel in Fort Worth, on Shakespeare's philo-semitism in his "Jewish" play, The Merchant of Venice (1596).