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[BROKEN LINK] 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 [BROKEN LINK]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.