Research Profiles
Behind the Camera: an MFA documentary program in action
The heavy snow that fell in Columbia, Missouri in February did not thwart volunteers from preparing venues and setting up projectors for the city’s annual True/False Film Festival. “The show must go on!” one participant tweeted. A storm of its own, the late winter festival transforms the small Midwestern town each year with a showcase of...
A Portrait of Three UNT journals Illustrates Rewards, Challenges of Publishing
Journal publishing is a cornerstone practice in the exchange of research and scholarly works, and universities and other academic institutions have historically facilitated these efforts as publishers. Over the years, the University of North Texas has produced journals in a wide range of disciplines, many of which are recognized as being significant resources in the field.
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The High-throughput Highway to Computational Materials Design
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is a UNT professor of physics and chemistry and member of the Materials Modeling research cluster. He also holds a joint faculty appointment with the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at...
Studies Hold Promise for Fighting Disease
Breast cancer, which strikes about one of every eight American women, has a five-year survival rate of only 15 percent if diagnosed at an advanced stage. Survival rates improve to nearly 90 percent with early diagnosis, but even the most thorough biopsies can miss cancer during the very early stages.
Plant Signaling
In the 1880s, Charles Darwin discovered that a blade of grass would no longer grow toward sunlight if the tip was covered with tin foil. This discovery suggested that the tip of the plant was somehow communicating with the rest of the plant to ensure optimal exposure to the sun.
Darwin's discovery created the field of plant signaling, or the study of how plants use chemical signals to...