November 9, 2010 — Dr. Alan B. Albarran, professor of radio, television and film at the University of North Texas, has been appointed chair of the 2012 Research Symposium by the Broadcast Education Association, the professional organization for faculty members, industry professionals and graduate students who are interested in teaching and research related to electronic media and multimedia enterprises.
During the BEA Research Symposium, which is part of the organization's annual convention, scholars from around the world report the latest research on selected topics in media management and economics. Read more
November 11, 2010 — Flashbacks, nightmares, feelings of helplessness, and intrusive, upsetting memories -- the typical symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder -- are not uncommon in those who have been sexually assaulted or faced violence or abuse from their spouses or romantic partners. For some, being a victim becomes central to their identity, with the sexual assault or other violence defining how they see themselves.
Two University of North Texas psychologists, Dr. Amy Murrell and Dr. Adriel Boals, will determine if Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is effective in treating PTSD symptoms in clients of Denton County Friends of the Family, which provides free outreach services to those who have been affected by relationship violence, sexual assault or both. Read more
November 2, 2010 — During deployments, military personnel often work rapidly changingschedules, sleeping for a few hours at a time whenever they can and sometimes being forced to cut sleep short and awaken quickly to respond to an ambush, mortar or rocket attack or other emergency situation. Their erratic sleep patterns usually continue when they return from deployment, leading to insomnia.
Dr. Daniel Taylor, a University of North Texas associate professor of psychology, has received a $1.16 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to determine the effectiveness of online and in-person cognitive behavioral therapy to treat active duty military personnel who areexperiencing these sleepproblems. Read more
October 29, 2010 — The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), the second largest funding source for cancer research in the United States, kicks off its second year by awarding 52 cancer research grants totaling $40,302,026 to 13 Texas institutions. Among the grants are two CPRIT Scholars in Cancer Research recruitment awards bringing outstanding scientists from preeminent institutions to join the faculty at Texas universities. University of North Texas Biological Sciences Professor, Pudur Jagadeeswaran, was amongst the recipients.
The grants awarded today are the first of $216 million expected to be awarded by CPRIT in 2011 to support groundbreaking cancer research, drug development, and evidence-based cancer screening efforts in Texas. Read more
UNT doctoral student wins Comstock award for biology research
University of North Texas doctoral student Joe Louis has been selected to receive the 2010 John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Award by the Entomological Society of America.
Louis, who currently is working toward his doctoral degree in plant molecular biology, is one of five students across the country chosen to receive the prestigious and highly competitive Comstock award. The award is designed to promote interest in entomology at the graduate level. Read more
October 12, 2010 — The University of North Texas will host a series of events to celebrate the opening of the new Life Sciences Complex and the 40th anniversary of the Institute of Applied Science this weekend.
The events will take place Oct. 15 (Friday) and Oct. 16 (Saturday) and will coincide with the UNT Homecoming game against Florida International University and other Homecoming events on Friday and Saturday. All events are free unless otherwise noted.
The four-story, state-of-the-art research facility with 87,000 square feet of space will support and enhance UNT's rapidly growing research in life sciences and be used for biochemistry and molecular biology, developmental physiology, genetics and plant science. Read more
October 12, 2010 — Marijke Breuning and John Ishiyama recently received the Heinz I. Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association for their study on factors that determine polices regarding intercountry adoption in 38 African nations. Read more
The University of North Texas will build one of the most advanced materials analysis laboratories at any university when it begins construction of its new Nanofabrication Analysis and Research Facility in November at UNT's Discovery Park .
The new $6 million facility will integrate UNT's Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) with a new clean room that will allow scientists to synthesize and process samples of new materials and then test and examine them at the molecular and atomic levels using CART's 27 state-of-the-art instruments and microscopes. CART is one of the nation's most extensive facilities for powerful materials characterization and analysis. Read more
October 4, 2010 — With a higher percentage of citizens of U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands like the Marshall Islands and Palau undereducated than U.S. citizens, the islands need libraries with professionally trained staff to provide many educational services and computer access.
The Department of Library and Information Sciences in the University of North Texas College of Information will provide full scholarships for 23 residents of the Pacific islands to enroll in its online master's degree program in library and information science.
The goal of the program, called LEAP: Library Education for the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific, is to increase the number and diversity of degreed library professionals for the islands. It is funded by an almost $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This grant was awarded to UNT through IMLS' Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, which provided funds to 38 projects. Read more
October 1, 2010 — University of North Texas doctoral student Joe Louis has been selected to receive the 2010 John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Award by the Entomological Society of America. Louis, who currently is working toward his doctoral degree in plant molecular biology, is one of five students across the country chosen to receive the prestigious and highly competitive Comstock award. The award is designed to promote interest in entomology at the graduate level. Read more
The Castleberry Peace Institute, named in honor of former Dallas Times Herald editor Vivian Castleberry, right, is now part of UNT’s Peace Studies Program, the only peace research center in the region.
The Castleberry Peace Institute is housed in the Department of Political Science and was founded in collaboration with Peacemakers Incorporated, an organization Castleberry created in 1987. Peacemakers sponsored its first international women’s conference in 1988.
DENTON (UNT), Texas — The Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program at the University of North Texas has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Examples of ¡Excelencia! award at the baccalaureate level. The nomination is in recognition of the UNT McNair program's role in assisting Latino students conduct and produce research and earn degrees in higher education. Read more
September 24, 2010 — Psychology professor Adriel Boals and post doctoral student, Amanda Kraha, relay that a U.S. study has found that overweight youngsters not only face discrimination at school and in relationships but from their own parents at home.
Studies have shown parents are less likely to help overweight or obese offspring pay for college but researchers from the University of North Texas in Denton have also found parents may be less willing to help their overweight child buy a car.
"No one is going to be surprised that society discriminates against the overweight, but I think it is surprising that it can come from your parents," researcher Adriel Boals told Reuters Health.
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Dr. Krishna M. Kavi, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, directs the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center to create cutting-edge software that will make it possible for complete computer networks to link together ground troops, air combat personnel, snipers, decision makers, soldiers and superiors so that snap decisions may be made to hit enemy targets and to avoid civilian casualties. The Net-Centric Software and Systems Center also includes two other universities and about a dozen high-tech companies. The Chronicle of Higher Education features the NSF Center in this article.
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September 20, 2010 — Reports have shown that Texas is facing critical shortages of qualified math and science teachers, and the situation is becoming dire now that the state has implemented a requirement that high school students must complete four years of both math and science.
The College of Education at the University of North Texas, which began as a teaching college, is committed to graduating exceptional teachers in an effort to ease the teacher shortage. A new grant from the National Science Foundation will help the college continue its commitment to developing excellent teachers.
The college received nearly $750,000 from the NSF's Noyce Program. The program honors the late Dr. Robert M. Noyce, the scientist credited with the invention of the integrated chip, and is dedicated to improving mathematics and science instruction in American public schools. UNT received a $500,000 grant from the NSF's Noyce Program in 2005. Read more
September 13, 2010 — Elm Fork Education Center at the University of North Texas will train an army of citizen scientists in the most pressing water supply and quality issues facing North Texas with support from the Wal-Mart Stormwater Grant Program.
A $99,941 grant will help UNT build on the success of an existing summer camp, X-Stream Adventure, in which children explore the Trinity River and learn about the reservoir's importance to Texas through fun, hands-on activities. Read more
Internationally known researcher Yong X. Tao has joined the College of Engineering as chair of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, director of the PACCAR Technology Institute and a professor of engineering.
Tao has more than 20 years of research and 17 years of teaching and administrative experience, with expertise in thermal sciences, refrigeration system performance, alternative energy, multiscale computational engineering and renewable energy applications in buildings. Tao has received more than $12.2 million in research funding for multidisciplinary teamwork projects from the National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Air Force, Department of Energy and various industries. Read more
DENTON (UNT), Texas — A renowned expert in optical physics has joined the University of North Texas this fall. Dr. Yuankun Lin will be a member of UNT's Bio/Nano Photonics Cluster, a multidisciplinary collaboration of professors who explore how light can be used in extremely small dimensions to develop new materials and devices with applications in medicine, telecommunications, energy and numerous other fields. Lin will have a joint appointment in physics and electrical engineering as an associate professor. Read more
August, 2010 — Dr. Feifei Pan, assistant professor of geography at the University of North Texas, has been selected to receive one of 32 nationally competitive Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Pan was one of four faculty members from Texas colleges and universities selected as winners, who were chosen from 114 applicants. He is the seventh UNT faculty member to win a Powe award since 2005. Read more
August, 2010 — Maurice Leatherbury, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of North Texas, has announced he will retire Oct. 1.
"We are grateful for Maurice's years of committed service in managing the university's Computing Information and Technology Center," said President V. Lane Rawlins. "He is a recognized leader statewide and his stewardship in developing and implementing UNT's information systems are deeply appreciated. Read more
August, 2010 — One of the world's foremost computational chemists is joining the University of North Texas this fall as a distinguished university research professor.
The arrival of Dr. Jan Martin — who was most recently the Baroness Thatcher Professor of Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute in Israel — will further bolster UNT's strength in computational chemistry. Read more
July, 2010 - After being accepted into the Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program this past semester, Daniel McGee, a junior at Xavier University in New Orleans, knew he needed to find a summer job that was more than waiting tables, scanning and bagging groceries or helping shoppers with purchases.
The Research Experience for Undergraduates offered by the University of North Texas Department of Political Science turned out to be the perfect fit for McGee. He was one of eight university students to receive a $4,000 stipend and free room and board to live on the UNT campus and complete a research project with a professor in UNT’s Peace Studies Program. The students also have UNT doctoral students as mentors. Read more
July, 2010 - A University of North Texas doctoral student and a recent graduate will receive awards at the 2010 American Psychological Association Convention Aug. 12-15.
William Q. Hua, a doctoral student in clinical health psychology and behavioral medicine, has been selected by the APA's Board of Professional Affairs and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students to receive this year's APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology.
The award is given each year to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. To qualify for the award, a student must demonstrate exemplary performance in working with an underserved population in an applied setting or show that he or she has developed an innovative method for delivering health services to an underserved population. Read more
July, 2010 - Dr. Narendra B. Dahotre, who is internationally known for his work on fundamentals and applications of laser surface engineering of metals, ceramics, polymers and composites, has been named a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), a professional organization that promotes manufacturing knowledge and education.
Dr. Dahotre, chair of the College of Engineering's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is being honored for his pioneering contributions to understanding and engineering of laser-materials interactions along with implementation of high power lasers for materials processing and surface engineering. Read more
Dr. Saraju Mohanty, associate professor of computer science and engineering at UNT and director of UNT's Nanosystem Design Laboratory (NSDL), is working to extend the charge on batteries with the help of nanoscale device and system modeling and CAD tools.
In the world of consumer electronics, everything depends on your power supply. And when you're talking about portable devices including laptops, cell phones, mp3 players and the like, that power supply is your battery.
What if your devices only needed recharging once or twice a week? Imagine how much electricity and how many resources could be saved. Read moreJune, 2010 - The II-VI Foundation has awarded a gift in the amount of $100,000 to UNT's Laboratory of Advanced Polymers & Optimized Materials (LAPOM), Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Physics. The gift will go toward a project titled "Improvement of Effectiveness of Electric Power Generation."
Under the project, the UNT team will research changes to the chemistry of thermoelectric materials, as well as the processing and application of high-temperature materials. UNT will be in a research cluster that includes University of Idaho and Caltech. The research UNT will conduct could result in waste heat recovery innovations for automobiles as well as other applications. Read more
June, 2010 - When writing proposals to NASA, do your homework; find out what the agency wants in a proposal and how the agency wants it presented. This was the message stressed during a recent presentation by Steven Smith, Program Manager, Advanced Information Systems Technology, NASA's Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO). Smith is among the various visiting speakers the College has hosted as it strives to help students and faculty in their professional development. The College also recently hosted a Federal Funding Workshop to discuss funding opportunities with other agencies including the Departments of Defense and Energy.
"It is important to bring visiting officials from agencies such as NASA who share their knowledge and insights, which helps our faculty further develop as researchers," Dean of Engineering Costas Tsatsoulis said. Read more
June 25, 2010 - DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Anthony Tran of Arlington, a radio, television and film graduate student at the University of North Texas, has received a U.S. Student Fulbright Grant to conduct research on Vietnamese film in Hanoi during the 2010-11 academic year. He is the son of Loc Tran and Hong Phuc Tran of Arlington and a 2004 graduate of Bowie High School. Read more
June 21, 2010 - NASA needs new photos of the surface of Mars, so it sends a request to a group of robots stationed on the planet. The robots communicate with each other to select and execute the best strategy to accomplish the task. Read more
June 18, 2010 - Department of Library and Information Sciences will begin a three-year project addressing the roles of small rural libraries in Texas as community resources and gathering places. Read more
Warren Burggren, professor of biological sciences and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences who will become provost July 1, and Britt Holbrook, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies and assistant director of UNT’s Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity, are quoted in an article for Nature. They discuss the implications of grant agency criterion that researchers must demonstrate how their work impacts broader audiences. Read the story
June 10, 2010 - A biomedical company and an alternative energy company have opened offices at the University of North Texas Discovery Park, creating public-private partnerships that will lead to groundbreaking new technologies and provide a boost to the region's economy and technology sector.
The two start-up companies -- MedAutomate Diagnostics and Solar Logic -- are collaborating with UNT professors and students to bring about innovations in medicine and energy.
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June 8, 2010 - Warren W. Burggren has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Texas effective July 1, 2010. Burggren has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNT for the past 12 years. Burggren's appointment will continue until a long-term UNT president is appointed and the new president concludes a process to appoint a provost. Read more
May 28, 2010 - Three University of North Texas faculty members have been named faculty fellows of UNT’s Institute for the Advancement of the Arts for the 2010-11 academic year, giving them time and resources to pursue their creative endeavors.
David Bithell, assistant professor in the College of Music; Bruce Bond, Regents Professor in the Department of English; and Lesli Robertson, lecturer in the College of Visual Arts and Design, will be granted release from their other faculty duties during Fall 2010 to work on their projects full time.
“These three faculty members will have more uninterrupted time to devote to their art,” said Dr. Wendy K. Wilkins, provost and vice president for academic affairs. “They will return to the classroom energized and rejuvenated. And the public will get a chance to see their new works.” Read more
May 24, 2010 - The University of North Texas plans to expand research opportunities to more undergraduates and help ensure a successful transition for transfer students with support from a new $1.3 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
UNT was among 50 universities nationwide awarded $70 million from the HHMI in an effort to strengthen science education. The schools will use the grants — which range from $800,000 to $2 million — to develop creative, research-based courses and curriculum, to give students experience working in science laboratories and to improve science education from elementary school through college. Learn how UNT will apply this grant
May 18, 2010 — Travel and tourism is the second-largest services export industry in the U.S., with the industry being one of the nation’s largest employers. Sustainable tourism — tourism development that strives to meet the needs of the present tourism market without compromising the resources of future generations — is a tourism specialty that balances environmental, economic and socio-cultural benefits and concerns.
A new master of science degree in the University of North Texas School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management will educate students for management and leadership positions in this specialty as UNT’s first joint international graduate degree. The degree is the first of its kind in the U.S., offering students an interdisciplinary perspective on sustainability and tourism with one year of study at UNT and one year of study in Costa Rica. Read more
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May 17, 2010 - A doctoral student in chemistry at the University of North Texas is among the 500 students from around the world selected to attend a meeting of Nobel Laureates this summer in Germany.
Chris Dewberry, a fourth-year doctoral student from Flower Mound, Texas will attend the 65th annual meeting of Nobel Laureates June 26-July 3 (Saturday-Saturday). Top students and young researchers from around the world apply to attend the meetings and lectures, and a committee decides who will attend based on recommendations from professors and universities. Read more
May 13, 2010 - A student at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at the University of North Texas will compete for a prestigious spot on the USA Biology Olympiad team this June. Shulin Ye, 16, of Lewisville, is one of 20 finalists selected based on scores from an open and semifinals exam to attend the USA Biology Olympiad national finals. Nearly 11,000 students from across the country registered for the open exam this year. Read more
May 10, 2010 - A student at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at the University of North Texas won a $100,000 scholarship for his groundbreaking research on cancer treatments.
Sahil Khetpal, 17, of Plano, was one of 10 students nationwide and the only Texas student to win the Proton Energy Scholarship at the recent NHA Hydrogen Conference and Expo in California. Read more
April 12, 2010 - PhysOrg.com - When Dominique Toran-Allerand started studying the effects of estrogen in the brain some 40 years ago, her research was considered so unconventional as to be unbelievable.
Today, the estrogen-brain connection is an accepted part of neuroscience, and Toran-Allerand's work is considered groundbreaking.
She is currently working on an NIH-supported project grant with colleagues at the University of North Texas. Read more
April 12, 2010 - Dr. D. Jack Davis, a professor of art and former dean at UNT's College of Visual Arts and Design, will receive the Distinguished Service Within the Profession Award from the National Art Education Association. Read more
April 12, 2010 - Marsha Sowell, a senior political science major, will receive a stipend of $30,000 each year for three years and a cost of education allowance each year to pursue a research focused graduate degree. Read more
April 6, 2010 - Two University of North Texas political scientists are researching the links between climate change and political instability in Africa. The research of Drs. Cullen Hendrix and Idean Salehyan, both assistant professors of political science at UNT, is being funded with a $50,000 grant that is part of a $7.6 million Department of Defense grant awarded to the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. The center’s program on Climate Change and African Political Stability, or CCAPS, will generate basic research and provide practical guidance to high-level policymakers in the U.S. government on the link between climate change vulnerability and political risk in Africa. Read more
April 2, 2010 - Denton Record Chronicle - The University of North Texas submitted a 10-year strategic research plan Thursday to state officials, which could bring an estimated 1,000 new jobs to the Denton area for research faculty, staff and doctoral students. Read more
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April 1, 2010 -Three students at the University of North Texas were named 2010 Barry M. Goldwater scholars, more than any other public university in Texas, for groundbreaking research with wide-ranging applications in medicine and technology. Read more
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March 30, 2010 – Years of practice and performance can give musicians serious injuries. Now, UNT researchers are looking for solutions in a high-tech way. View the video
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & DENTON, Texas, Mar 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and the University of North Texas (UNT) today announced the formation of a new research center focused on the fundamental understanding of advanced plasma processes and insulators used in manufacturing state-of-the-art semiconductor chips. Read more
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March 24, 2010 – The University of North Texas will become the first public university in the state to begin a focused discussion on an open access policy when it hosts its Open Access Symposium May 18 (Tuesday). Read more
March 2, 2010 - UNT is one of the 50 best undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada to study game design, according to the Princeton Review, which is known for its annual college "bests" lists. Read more
March 1, 2010 - European officials have turned to Duane Huggett, an assistant professor of biology at UNT, to develop more efficient screening process for potentially hazardous chemicals. Read more
March 1, 2010 - The University of North Texas College of Music and Dr. Kris Chesky, director of UNT's Texas Center for Music and Medicine, have earned the 2010 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award in the Services sector from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA). Read more
Feb. 24, 2010 - "River and Cultures" will bring scientists, philosophers, artists, policy makers, educators and others together to learn about and discuss crucial water issues.
What: "River and Cultures" -- The WaterWays conference at the University of
North Texas, which brings scients, philosophers, artists, policy makers, educators
and others together to learn about and discuss crucial water issues. Texas' Trinity
River is the focus of WaterWays 2010.
When: March 3-4 (Wednesday and Thursday)
Where: UNT's Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building, located on the northwest corner of Avenue C and West Mulberry Street. (1704 W. Mulberry St.)
Cost: Free
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Feb. 16, 2010 - As big engineering fixes go, "clean coal" has proved an elusive concept. Carbon capture projects remain experimental, expensive and energy intensive. But working with some of the tiniest things in nature, scientists are engineering proteins found in living things to trap carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants. Read more
Feb. 8, 2010 - Researchers at the University of North Texas have found that a technique long used to develop new pharmaceuticals could be used in the battle against climate change. Read more
Feb. 4, 2010 - Memorandums of understanding were signed in January between UNT and two Indian institutes, the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. The agreements will foster graduate, post-doctoral and faculty research exchange programs and joint research activities. Read more
Feb. 1, 2010 - Jung Hwan Oh, an assistant professor in computer science and engineering at the University of North Texas, is developing software to improve colonoscopies and create important quality controls for the procedure. Read more
Feb. 1, 2010 – A new laboratory in the University of North Texas' College of Information will determine technology products and tools that will enhance the math, reading and social skills of children with ASDs in kindergarten through sixth grade. The Technology and Applied Research in Autism Laboratory, or TARA, will have its grand opening and open house Feb. 13 (Saturday) from 9 to 11 a.m. The laboratory is located in Room G186 at UNT's Discovery Park campus, which is at 3940 North Elm St. in Denton. Read more
Jan. 31, 2010 - The CSE Programming Team competed at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Harbin, China from Feb. 1-6, 2010. The programming team is pictured (L-R) Robert Mitchell-Burke, James Pascoe and Daniel Hooper. CSE doctoral student Michael Mohler is the team’s coach. Dr. Ryan Garlick is the Faculty Advisor and accompanied the team to China.
The team is featured in this front page article on Feb. 1, 2010, and in this editorial on Feb. 2, 2010.
Jan. 28, 2010 -Two students at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at the University of North Texas were named finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search for their groundbreaking research developing a biocompatible material for protein drug delivery and predicting the existence of new rare gas molecules. Peter Hu, 18, and Katheryn Shi, 16, are two of 40 national finalists who will travel to Washington, D.C., in March to compete for $630,000 in scholarships. The top winner will receive $100,000 from the Intel Foundation. Read more
Jan. 13, 2010 - A renowned researcher with close to 30 years of experience in laser science and engineering will take the helm of the University of North Texas' Department of Materials Science and Engineering this year. Dr. Narendra B. Dahotre comes from the University of Tennessee, where he was a professor in materials science and engineering and director of the Laboratory for Laser Material Synthesis and Fabrication. He also had a joint faculty appointment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read more
Jan. 12, 2010 - Katie Schniebs, a junior at the University of North Texas and electrical engineer major, has received a $40,000 scholarship from NASA's Aeronautics Scholarship Program. The Springtown student will receive two years of financial support and a summer internship at a NASA research center. Read more
Jan. 11, 2010 – Rada Mihalcea will be honored on Jan.13 for her research on understanding the meaning of text and her exemplary commitments to education and community service. Read more
Dec. 17, 2009 – An engineering researcher at the University of North Texas has helped develop a new and more effective way to obtain 3D images, which could have significant applications in physical and life sciences. Read more
Dec. 7, 2009 - Dr. Nada Shabout, associate professor of art history at the University of North Texas, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Service to create a publicly accessible archive of missing modern Iraqi art. Read more
Sept. 3, 2009 – According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 4 million school-age children have at least one disability, yet many educators are inadequately prepared to teach children with disabilities. Read more
Aug. 17, 2009 – Wes Borden, the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Texas, was named to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Read more
July 10, 2009 – UNT’s efforts to bolster its research capacity was featured in this recent story in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In the article, UNT President Gretchen M. Bataille talks about the challenges of raising money in a tough economy. Read more
June 17, 2009 – Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a bill that would allow universities to receive state funding to match dollars received from federal and private sources rather than to individually compete for research funding. President Gretchen M. Bataille, left in photo, and UNT System Chancellor Lee Jackson attended the Dallas signing ceremony, along with officials from other schools that aspire to be national research, or Tier 1, universities. Legislation was introduced by Dallas Rep. Dan Branch and Laredo Sen. Judith Zaffirini during the 81st Texas Legislature. The law is effective Sept. 1. Texas voters in November will be asked to approve use of $425 million in existing higher education funds for the research effort. Read more
May 26, 2009 – Bioactive glasses can help restore and repair bones, act as coatings for knee and hip replacements and assist in drug delivery. But researchers still don't know much about the complex structure of the materials, which limits their potential. Read more
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On Monday, one of the pianists scheduled to compete in the Van Cliburn Piano competition had to withdraw from the competition because of a hand injury. Right now students at the University of North Texas are researching of what causes these piano-related injuries, and they are doing it with the help of cutting edge technology. 31-year-old Anastasia Markina has played the piano since she was 4. The Russian-born Doctoral candidate at UNT remembers her early lessons.
"My teacher was always pushing me to be the best. That's the whole point of Russian training you don't stop. You just keep going through pain." Read more
May 4, 2009 –
In 2000, Texas set a bold goal for itself: Enroll 630,000 more students in colleges and universities by 2015.
The University of North Texas took on the “Closing the Gaps” challenge and now ranks first in the state for the increased number of degrees awarded — and second in the state for increased total enrollment. We earned a 2008 Texas Higher Education Star Award for our success in getting more students into college and out into the workforce with degrees in hand. Read more
May 1, 2009 – Afshan Kamrudin, a senior psychology major at the University of North Texas, has a received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to prepare for a career as a researcher in behavioral health.
The Graduate Research Fellowships are given to students who plan to earn research-focused master's and doctoral degrees in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Each student receives a three-year stipend of $30,000, plus $10,500 each year as a cost of education allowance. The students may also receive supplements for travel and computing. Read more.
Spring 2009 Research Magazine – Next to stacks of papers and old science journals, a sleek, black video phone rests in the corner of Ram Dantu's office. Like a growing number of phones, this one connects callers through the Internet rather than by traditional wire lines.
"In the next five years, the way we communicate will change greatly," says Dantu, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of North Texas. "This is the phone of the future."Read more.
March 10, 2009 – Technology integration to focus on military, commercial superiority
From the intricacies of modern warfare to the time-sensitive demands of a commercial delivery service, technology integration answers the call for "faster, better, smarter." Three North Texas universities, including the University of North Texas, are part of a newly designated National Science Foundation research group charged with developing the next generation of "net-centric" solutions that will link people and resources.
Academic partners in the consortium are Southern Methodist University, the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas. The center's industry partners are Boeing, Cisco, Codekko Software, EDS/HP, Fujitsu, GlobeRanger, Hall Financial Group, Lockheed-Martin Aero, Raytheon, Texas Instruments and T-System. Read more
March 5, 2009 – Tier One universities, generally defined as those that commit more than $100 million to research annually, are integral to keeping the state in the forefront of research as the global competition stiffens for talent, ideas and economic development. The presidents of the three largest public universities in the area the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Texas at Dallas met with the North Texas Commissions board of directors in February to make a case for additional Tier One-class universities in the area.
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January 5, 2009 – Researchers at the University of North Texas are rethinking a 130-year-old standby of modern technology: the light bulb. Professors from chemistry and materials science and engineering are pioneering innovative research in the field of organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, an emerging technology that scientists say will revolutionize lighting. Read more
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