After joining UNT in May 2010, V. Lane Rawlins became the university's 15th president when the UNT System Board of Regents appointed him in December to the UNT presidency. The former president of Washington State University and the University of Memphis, Rawlins has more than four decades of experience in higher education. He has built his career on maintaining strong connections between world-class education and research, and he has pledged to help UNT achieve its long-held goal of becoming a major research university while preserving its traditional areas of excellence. He is shown here with Jonathan Gallegos, student regent. (Photo by Michael Clements)