Research Profiles
College of Engineering joins research consortium
The University of North Texas College of Engineering has joined the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC), which brings together leading research teams across North America to provide the world's most comprehensive research on cold-formed steel structures.
"Joining the consortium gives UNT and partner institutions an opportunity to combine our expertise and research facilities to advance...
Does Mom's cell phone use stress out baby?
University of North Texas student Cory Kildare stood at a city park one day, watching parents transfixed on cell phone screens while kids on the swing set yelled, "Push me, Mommy!"
At restaurants and stores, she often saw the same – parents with their eyes fixed on tiny screens instead of tiny tots.
The experience inspired the UNT doctoral student to focus her doctoral dissertation on the...
Biocultural Conservation
The acrimonious relationship between humans and flies has existed for ages. But at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park within Chile's Cape Horn Archipelago, some families of this insect so pesky to humans have developed a special relationship with a peculiar moss, Tayloria mirabilis. While most mosses, or bryophytes, disperse their spores by wind or water, this moss emits an odor attractive to flies...
TAMS student researchers tackle special projects
Advanced students enrolled in the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, an early college entry program at the University of North Texas, are working closely with UNT faculty members on a number of research projects that give them hands-on experience solving everyday issues and mysteries.
From devising a more efficient way to generate energy from solar panels to uncovering a new technique to...
Art Meets Science
Nearly 10 years before he joined the faculty at the University of North Texas College of Music, Panayiotis Kokoras won a competition that earned him a residency at one of the world's most distinguished electroacoustic music studios. The options included programs in France, Switzerland, the U.K. -- or Denton, Texas.
One of the first college electronic music centers in the United States, UNT's now-...