Dallas icon Vivian Castleberry, a staunch advocate for women's rights and peace, has received the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism's most prestigious honor, the C.E. Shuford Hall of Honor Award.

Castleberry, the first female editor of the Dallas Times Herald, is a founder of the Women's Center in Dallas and The Family Place, the first women's shelter in the city. In 1987, she created the nonprofit Peacemakers Inc. UNT's peace studies program collaborated with Peacemakers Inc. in 2010 to establish the Castleberry Peace Institute at UNT, the only peace science research institute in the southern U.S.