Kristin Farmer Autism Center at UNT

UNT’s multidisciplinary team of highly trained, experienced, and committed professionals collaborate with parents, researchers, university students, and community service providers to deliver state-of-the art educational, therapeutic, diagnostic and vocational services, and training. The center’s mission is to significantly improve school and life outcomes for students and clients across the autism spectrum and across the lifespan.

North Texas Autism Project

A service-learning project in the Department of Behavior Analysis, the project supports a variety of behavior analytic activities related to children with autism, including Easter Seals North Texas, University of Stockholm Blended ABA program, and the Systemic Institute of Behavior Analysis at the University of Athens.

ASAT: Association for Science in Autism Treatment

ASAT is a not-for-profit organization of parents and professionals committed to improving the education, treatment, and care of people with autism. Established in 1998, its goal is to work toward adopting higher standards of accountability for the care, education, and treatment of all individuals with autism.

ABAI: Association of Behavior Analysis

ABAI is a nonprofit membership organization with the mission to contribute to the well-being of society by developing, enhancing, and supporting the growth and vitality of the science of behavior analysis through research, education, and practice.

Autism Speaks

Autism Speaks has grown into the nation’s largest autism science and advocacy organization. It is dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism as well as increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families.

Behavior Analyst Certification Board

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board is a nonprofit corporation established in 1998 to meet professional credentialing needs identified by behavior analysts, governments, and consumers of behavior analysis services. The BACB adheres to the national standards for boards that grant professional credentials. Its mission is to develop, promote, and implement an international certification program for behavior analyst practitioners.

TXABA: Texas Association for Behavior Analysis

The mission of TXABA is to advance the science and application of behavior analysis to improve the world in which we live. To that end, TxABA strives to disseminate knowledge from the science of behavior analysis to the public and to professional behavior analysts working in Texas and its neighboring states (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico).

CICS: Center for Information and Computer Security

CICS is an interdisciplinary center that brings together individuals and organizations in the areas of information security, computer security, information assurance, and cybercrime. Recognized by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security as a “Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research,” its mission is to provide, coordinate, and promote educational, research, and service expertise in information and computer security, with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary initiatives in the North Texas area.

NSL: Network Security Laboratory

NSL pursues research, training activities, and workshops for students and faculty with the fundamental objective to study the problems related to next generation networks, from multimedia wireless devices and roaming issues to networked readers and scanners.

Trusted Secured Systems Laboratory

Lab researchers aim to design and develop computer systems architecture that provides isolated execution environment; verification mechanisms for varied trust models; trust guarantee independent of the system software; and minimal or no impact on performance. Research projects include virtualization based secure architecture testing and implementation framework, and energy efficient memory integrity verification mechanisms.

TXCDK: Texas Center for Digital Knowledge

TXCDK is a research, development, and consulting service enterprise that brings together researchers from multiple disciplines to enhance the relationships between individual knowledge workers and the technology-based environments in which they work to advance today’s global knowledge economy.

ISRC: Information Systems Research Center

The ISRC acts as a catalyst within the North Texas business community and beyond, facilitating research, educational seminars, problem specific projects, group meetings, and shared information through its network. The center utilizes the expertise of its member organizations and UNT faculty and students in the areas of information technology, quality, business continuity and security, continuous improvement, and decision-making techniques.

Net-Centric Software and Systems Center

Net-Centric is an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) built as a model of collaborative research and development among industry, academe, and government partners. Participating members access world class expertise and cutting edge technology in net-centric systems.

Emergency Operations Center

UNT’s state-of-the-art center serves as a nexus for all disaster communications. It provides faculty and students with an opportunity to apply various technologies in simulation and real emergency settings to understand how individuals and organizations interact during a crisis and to better manage low level and catastrophic disasters.

Emergency Operations Center

UNT’s state-of-the-art center serves as a nexus for all disaster communications. It provides faculty and students with an opportunity to apply various technologies in simulation and real emergency settings to understand how individuals and organizations interact during a crisis. Emphasis on learning through practice builds decision-making and critical thinking skills needed for managing low level and catastrophic disasters.

Center for Economic Development and Research

Established in 1989, the UNT-based Center conducts economic analysis and public policy research and additionally provides forecasting and strategic planning services to businesses, governments, and non-profit agencies with an interest in economic development.

Center for Logistics Education and Research

The Center is a private, not-for-profit foundation committed to excellence in logistics education. Based within the Department of Marketing and Logistics in the College of Business at UNT, the Center establishes partnerships between businesses and the academic community with the aim to advance the study and practice of logistics and supply chain management in Texas, the nation, and around the world.

SRC: Survey Research Center

The UNT-based SRC conducts applied survey projects and offers a complete survey package in areas including research design, sample design and selection, questionnaire design, data collection and analysis, and report preparation and presentation. Its mission is to provide timely, cost-effective, and high quality research services to university, government, and non-profit and business entities by ensuring validity and accuracy in all phases of the research process.

CERL: Computational Epidemiology Research Laboratory

CERL was established in 2004 to conduct and promote research in computational epidemiology. The primary focus is the application of computational concepts and resources to problems in the domain of public health, providing tools for epidemiologists and scientists that aid in the prediction and analysis of disease manifestation and disease spread through modeling, simulation, and visualization.

FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Region VI

FEMA’s mission is to support citizens and first responders to ensure that people work together to build, sustain, and improve the capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all national hazards. FEMA is part of a team that includes federal partners, state, tribal and local officials, the private sector, non-profits and faith-based groups, and the general public.

Contributing Research Clusters:

Hazards and Disaster Research to Respond to Global Crises

Complex Logistics Systems

Asia Study Abroad Program

The College of Merchandising, Hospitality, and Tourism (CMHT) study abroad program offers trips to Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China—the fastest growing economic region in the world. Begun in 1993, the program offers exciting opportunities for living and learning experiences. Students and faculty participants meet with factory managers, business executives, and government officials to learn about the apparel supply chain industry and doing business in China, from fiber manufacture and quality testing to merchandising and the shipment of finished garments.

Texas Fashion Collection

The UNT Texas Fashion Collection is a world renowned resource dedicated to the preservation and documentation of historically significant fashion. Founded by the Neiman Marcus family in 1938, the collection is an educational resource for students, faculty, researchers, and the general public and includes over 15,000 garments and accessories from the 19th and 20th centuries. Fashion on Main, the current exhibition facility of the collection, is dedicated to the presentation and interpretation of fashion history and current cultural topics and creates educational and scholarly activities in conjunction with each show. The Texas Fashion Collection Digital Library, part of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design, is managed by the UNT Digital Libraries.

College of Merchandising, Hospitality, and Tourism Board of Governors

CMHT boasts a dynamic board of governors—recognized leaders in the field who work diligently as advocates for the school and university. Board members guide program development, fund raising activities, and provide external support in numerous ways. The Apparel Group, Fossil, J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Pier 1 Imports, Sally Beauty Supply, Sheplers Western Wear, Target, and Tuesday Morning are among the industry names represented.

The J.C. Penney Executive-in-Residence Lecture Series

The series, made possible by an endowment from the J.C. Penney Company, brings top-level executives and experts to campus as guest lecturers in classrooms. Students and faculty gain inside perspectives about the industry on diverse topics, including the development of private apparel brands within the context of a global economy, and digital retail and online shopping trends.

DRC: UNT Design Research Center

DRC is a research unit that operates as an extension of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. Located in the heart of downtown Dallas in the Texas business district, it functions as a laboratory space that supports the endeavors of UNT faculty, staff, and students engaged in design research, and as a classroom space that supports the CVAD curriculum. The center facilitates collaborations and partnerships among groups from different disciplines to advance design research knowledge, practice, and scholarship.

Merchandising Inc.

Merchandising Inc. is a university-based organization that facilitates opportunities for students interested in fashion, home furnishings, or digital retailing. Through the organization’s established network of industry professionals and retailers, students gain practice experience and professional development—from styling and management of garments to fashion show planning.

Contributing Research Cluster:

Consumer Experiences in Digital Environments

Center for Logistics Education and Research

The Center establishes alliances between businesses and academic communities in order to advance the study and practice of logistics and supply chain management in Texas, nationally, and globally.

Center for Decision and Information Technologies

The Center partners UNT with North Texan businesses and other organizations to focus on the areas of information technology management, quality and improvement, business continuity and security, decision making techniques, and research issues.

Center for Economic Development and Research

The Center conducts funded applied economic research on issues of economic and community development, economic and fiscal impact analysis, urban planning, transportation systems analysis, and strategic planning. These skill areas have been applied to multiple projects looking at the impacts of disaster events and the impacts of disaster mitigation strategies on local and regional economies.

Emergency Operations Center

UNT’s state-of-the-art center serves as a nexus for all disaster communications. It provides faculty and students with an opportunity to apply various technologies in simulation and real emergency settings to understand how individuals and organizations interact during a crisis. Emphasis on learning through practice builds decision-making and critical thinking skills needed for managing low level and catastrophic disasters.

Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship

The Center provides students, faculty, and entrepreneurs with the opportunity to exchange ideas, build entrepreneurial skills, and engage in joint entrepreneurial efforts. Academic programs access an integrated infrastructure of resources and a network of business leaders, alumni, and external collaborators to stimulate the formation of innovative enterprises and creative solutions for social problems.

CSCMP: The Dallas/Fort Worth Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

CSCMP is the only professional association that covers the entire supply chain profession. Its mission is to lead the evolving field by developing, advancing, and disseminating supply chain knowledge and research.

The North Texas Commission Logistics Committee

Since 1994 the NTC Committee’s mission is to develop strategies and programs to market the Dallas/Fort-Worth metroplex as a key logistics center of the Americas and to address areas of possible improvement in the region’s infrastructure.

Contributing Research Clusters:

Complex Logistics Systems

Hazards and Disaster Research to Respond to Global Crises

Texas Center for Music and Medicine

The center’s mission is to explore the relationships between music and medicine and to develop, apply, and disseminate successful strategies and therapies for dealing with medical, audiological, and mental health problems of musicians. An interdisciplinary team of musicians, music educators, clinicians, and research scientists work towards this goal. Shared expertise includes the use of advanced biomedical and performance engineering theory and technologies to study, treat, and prevent various medical problems associated with learning and performing music.

University of North Texas Speech and Hearing Center

Serving people with speech, language, and hearing disorders since 1967, the center strives to provide superior professional diagnostic and treatment services in speech-language pathology and audiology while providing excellence in clinical education for students in the UNT Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. The showcase facility boasts a hearing aid dispensary, preschool language room, numerous therapy and diagnostic rooms, and areas for families to observe clinical sessions.

PAMA: Performing Arts Medicine Association

PAMA is composed of medical professionals, artists, educators, and administrators with the common goal of improving the health care of the performing artist. Members are professionals from around the world in fields that include research, education, and clinical practice. Collaboration with diverse artistic organizations facilitates PAMA’s message to wider populations of performers and performers.

NHCA: National Hearing Conservation Association

NHCA’s mission is to prevent hearing loss due to noise and other environmental factors. The organization provides professional development by improving the skills, practices, and services of its members; providing education and the exchange of information among those involved with hearing conservation; encouraging research and improvement in noise and hearing conservation; and developing guidelines that affect the standards and the regulatory and legislative activities of the field.

NASM: National Association of Schools of Music

Founded in 1924, NASM is the national accrediting agency for music and music-related disciplines and is comprised of schools, conservatories, colleges, and universities with more than 600 accredited institutional members. It has an extensive publications program and provides a spectrum of services such as consultations, statistical information, professional development, and policy analysis. It also establishes national standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other credentials.

Human Performance Institute at University of Texas, Arlington

A research entity within the University of Texas at Arlington, the institute integrates expertise and students from a variety of different departments and collaborating sites to address the complexities of human performance. Its mission is to pursue basic and applied research in the measurement, understanding, and enhancement of human performance, with potential impact in fields ranging from the aerospace industry to medical rehabilitation, occupational medicine, gerontology, and sports medicine.

CART: Center for Advanced Research and Technology

CART is one of the most advanced university research facilities in the nation for materials analysis, from atomic to macro scales. The facility offers a suite of sophisticated analytical instruments used for true 3-D characterization and processing with an adjoining cleanroom so that materials can be synthesized, tested, and controlled in close proximity, creating a powerful combination of capabilities in one location.

ISES: Institute for Science and Engineering Simulation

ISES uses advanced characterization, simulation and modeling of aerospace components and materials to maintain and extend the life of aging U.S. Air Force aircraft, prevent catastrophic engine failure, and develop better materials for the next generation of aircraft.

CEMPI: Center for Electronic Materials Processing and Integration

CEMPI studies advanced plasma processes and insulators used in manufacturing state-of-the-art semiconductor chips, with a mission to increase performance. The center is jointly funded by UNT and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading industry consortium for research in semiconductors and related technologies.

Advanced Thin Films Laboratories

Laboratories include the Laboratory for Moving Mechanical Assemblies, which supports the synthesis and processing of thin films and laser processed bulk composites, characterization, and interrelationships of ceramic, metallic and polymeric materials; and the Optoelectronics and Thin Films Laboratory, which investigates the growth of compound semiconductor thin films and their optical and carrier transport properties.

Surface Science Laboratory

Research focuses on atomic level understanding and control of chemistry at surfaces and interfaces in various environments, including ultra-high vacuum (UHV), high pressure, gas phase environments, and aqueous solutions. Important applications include microelectronics fabrication, nanocatalysis, and corrosion.

Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Nanophotonics Laboratory

UNT offers one of the only facilities available in the United States for the UV-Visible region. A complement of optical, electronic characterization, and device modeling computational facilities additionally advance experiments ranging from time-resolved photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy, to differential transmission spectroscopy, etching, and electrical device fabrication.

TALON: High-Performance Computing System

Unique to the region, the TALON supercomputer features computing clusters supported by high-speed networks, high performance storage, and advanced software. The Talon HPC system greatly increases the computational resources available to UNT researchers.

Life Sciences Complex

The new, state-of-the-art, LEED-Gold certified building provides extensive facilities for plant science research, including four, climate controlled, rooftop greenhouses. The building also houses biochemistry, developmental physiology and genetics, and molecular biology to support exchange of expertise across areas. Additional features include a research aquatics lab with freshwater and saltwater facilities, “open” research laboratories, offices, and meeting spaces.

Center for Plant Lipid Research and Plant Signaling Shared Facilities

This group of laboratories focuses on basic and applied aspects of research in the regulation of plant lipid metabolism. Affiliated scientists use contemporary cellular, biochemical, and molecular genetic approaches to understand how lipids influence the growth and development of plants. Efforts also contribute to the discovery of new products and uses for plant derived lipids and their potential public benefit.

The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

The Noble Foundation is a world renowned, independent, nonprofit institute specializing in plant research with close relationships to UNT faculty researchers and students. Headquarters are located in close proximity to the UNT campus in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The Foundation assists farmers and ranchers through direct operations and conducts plant science research and agricultural programs to enhance agricultural productivity regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Department of Chemistry research facilities

The Department maintains an extensive range of modern instrumentation to facilitate sophisticated research in areas such as chemical synthesis, spectroscopy, computational chemistry, materials and surface science, and chemical analysis. Instruments include NMR spectrometers, UV/Vis/NIR electronic absorption, Raman spectroscopy, FT-IR spectrometers, atomic absorption spectrometers, X-ray diffractometers, Auger spectroscopy, photoemission, and microwave spectroscopy, with additional instruments and facilities available at the UNT Discovery Park.

Greenhouse Complex at Discovery Park

Located at the UNT Discovery Park, the greenhouse supports UNT’s research clusters and diverse projects by various scientists and engineers. The expandable infrastructure is equipped with high ceilings to grow sugarcane and other tall plants, water and electricity, climate controls, headhouse storage, and an adjoining laboratory.

CART: Center for Advanced Research and Technology

CART is one of the most advanced university facilities in the nation for research involving materials synthesis and analysis, from atomic to macro scales. CART features sophisticated equipment used for true 3-D characterization, processing, and cross-disciplinary analysis adjacent to a clean room so that materials can be synthesized, tested, and transferred in close proximity under controlled conditions, creating a powerful combination of capabilities in one location. UNT is among an elite group of public institutions nationwide to offer these open access resources.

PACCAR Technology Institute

PACCAR is an interdisciplinary, university research center that advances diverse projects related to alternative energy and energy efficiency of buildings and industrial processes for the benefit of local and global communities. Combining innovative technology and entrepreneurship with research and education, PACCAR involves academic researchers and industry experts from physical and social sciences and engineering disciplines.

Zero Energy Research Laboratory

The new, 1,200 square-foot facility, currently under construction, is a living space and also a working laboratory designed to test emerging, sustainable technologies and materials to achieve a net-zero consumption of energy in buildings. The structure is expandable to include multiple alternative energy sources such as solar and wind to support a wide range of research; no other university in the nation offers this resource.

Office of Sustainability

 The Office promotes environmental sustainability through four primary action areas: research, outreach, operations, and teaching. Developments include the Climate Action Plan; power grid infrastructures based on wind and electrical energy technologies; sustainable green spaces; an active recycling program; and tech transfer assistance to commercialize new technologies.

Electrical Engineering Laboratories

UNT’s EE labs provide state-of-the-art instrumentation and advanced software. These include the Autonomous Systems Laboratory, which investigates problems in wireless sensor networks, robotic systems, and airborne networks; and the Wireless Systems and Sensor Networks Laboratory, which focuses on system-level issues critical for the design of high-performance wireless networks and intelligent sensor networks.

Polymer Mechanical and Rheology Laboratory

This UNT-based lab focuses on structure property relationships to increase the reliability of materials. Tensile, creep, fatigue, compression and shear testing is done in thermally controlled conditions with sophisticated instruments such as the Leistritz Twin Screw Extruder for biopolymer blending.

Adaptable, Multi-functional Reaction Frame Lab

The Frame Lab provides flexibility for multiple performance and durability tests, including static and cyclic shear wall tests; web crippling tests on cold-formed steel sections; tension tests on structures; flexible testing on beams; and load bearing tests.

CART: Center for Advanced Research and Technology

CART is one of the most advanced university research facilities in the nation for materials analysis, from atomic scale to macro scales, with a suite of sophisticated instruments used for true 3-D characterization, processing and cross-disciplinary analysis located next to a cleanroom so that materials can be synthesized, tested, and transferred in close proximity under controlled conditions. UNT is among an elite group of public institutions nationwide to offer these open access resources.

Contributing Research Clusters:

Renewable Bioproducts

Signaling Mechanisms in Plants

Renewable Energy and Conservation

CART: Center for Advanced Research and Technology

CART is one of the most advanced university facilities in the nation for research involving materials synthesis and analysis, from atomic to macro scales. CART features sophisticated equipment used for true 3-D characterization, processing, and cross-disciplinary analysis. A new NSF funded, university Nanofabrication Analysis and Research Facility provides an adjoining cleanroom so that materials can be synthesized, tested, and transferred in close proximity under controlled conditions, creating a powerful combination of capabilities in one location.

ISES: Institute for Science and Engineering Simulation

 ISES uses advanced characterization, simulation and modeling of aerospace components and materials to maintain and extend the life of aging U.S. Air Force aircraft, prevent catastrophic engine failure, and aid the Air Force in developing better materials for the next generation of aircraft.

CEMPI: Center for Electronic Materials Processing and Integration

CEMPI studies advanced plasma processes and insulators used in manufacturing state-of-the-art semiconductor chips, with a mission to increase performance. The center is jointly funded by UNT and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading industry consortium for research in semiconductors and related technologies.

LMMA: Laboratory for Moving Mechanical Assemblies

Research activities support the synthesis and processing of thin films and laser processed bulk composites; characterization; and interrelationships of ceramic, metallic and polymeric materials and their composites.

Surface Science Laboratory

Research investigates atomic level understanding and control of chemistry at surfaces and interfaces in various environments, including ultra-high vacuum (UHV), high pressure, gas phase environments, and aqueous solutions, with applications in microelectronics fabrication, nanocatalysis, and corrosion.

Laboratory of Imaging Mass Spectrometry

Mass spectrometry and imaging instruments support local, national, and international research. The laboratory offers a suite of mass spectrometry and imaging instruments with applications in chemistry, toxicology, environmental, forensic, and material science. Instruments include Quadrupole Ion Traps, Reflectron Time-of-Flight, Triple Quad, and Single Quad. The GC, Nanospray, and Electrospray are coupled to Quadrupole Ion Traps and Triple Quads (Thermo DECA, TSQ 7000, Polaris), and the MALDI is coupled to Time-of Flight. ICP-MS is a Varian 820-MS.

The Bone and Joint Research Center, UNT Health Science Center

The interdisciplinary center facilitates collaborations within its system and with national and international institutions. BJRC houses state-of-the-art equipment for experimental and computational studies in areas including tissue mechanics, multi-scale modeling and biomaterial evaluation.

Contributing Research Clusters:

Materials Modeling

Multi-scale Surface Science and Engineering

Renewable Bioproducts