UNT researchers from across disciplines are providing guidance on improving the health and quality of lives of marginalized populations.

Meet Tamara Brown, dean of UNT's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences since 2019.

As part of a focused strategy to advance UNT’s research standing and help faculty members’ dreams come alive as they address some of society’s biggest problems, last year a new program was launched.

As UNT’s creative and scholarly footprint grows, so does the campus, which has seen the addition of new facilities that encourage collaboration and enable faculty, students and external research partners to conduct solutions-based research.

In 2019, UNT secured $10 million from the 86th Texas Legislature for the Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing (CAAAM).

Since she was a kid, Morgan Kainu (’19), a UNT anthropology alum, has loved outer space, attending NASA summer camps and visiting observatories and planetariums

Brian Elliott (’20 Ph.D.), who earned his doctorate this spring, never allows his visual impairment to slow him down.

Diagnosed at 18 with Charcot-MarieTooth disease, commonly known as CMT, Allison Taylor (’20), who earned her biology degree this spring, has dedicated her life to researching a cure.

Kelly Jacques (’20), a Ph.D. student in UNT’s College of Engineering, is the 2020 recipient of the U.S. Department of Defense’s SMART (Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation) scholarship, which will cover the cost of her tuition, books and living expenses.

Shrika Eddula, a second-year student in UNT’s Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, jumped in with both feet as part of the early summer research scholarship program before she began her first year in 2019.

During their time as undergraduates at UNT, David Woodward (’20), Juan Ruiz (’20), Tim Stern (’20) and Nickolas Bratsch (’20) proved that one small step toward the unknown could result in a giant leap for the future of spacesuit user interface technologies.

Pamela Padilla, associate vice president for research and innovation, was recently named as one of 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists in America by prestigious journal publisher Cell Press.

As the first recipient of the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Fellowship in Food History, UNT history doctoral student Joshua Lopez wants to bridge queer and food studies — and he’s started that process by compiling oral histories from the Latinx and queer community.

Graduate students gain real-world experience in using artificial intelligence to improve health care outcomes in UNT’s Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Jantana Keereetaweep (’15), an assistant biochemist in the biology department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, won the Paul K. Stumpf Award, given to early career scientists, from the International Symposium on Plant Lipids.

Jackie Battles (’20), a financial planning major, was recently awarded second place in the International Association of Registered Financial Consultants’ National Financial Plan Competition.

Arun Devaraj (’11 Ph.D.), a materials science and engineering graduate, received the 2020 Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Alexander Sarvadi (’20) and his mentor Huseyin Bostanci, associate professor of engineering technology, believe they have found a better way to revitalize the air aboard spaceships — and NASA agrees.

As an assistant professor at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Noura Shuqair (’20 Ph.D.) is developing research about the relationship between the historical area Al-Balad and contemporary Saudi art practice.

Assistant professor Lauren Eutsler is dedicated to improving student literacy by examining how to more efficiently use continually changing technology in the classroom and at home.

Ifana Mahbub is creating a new wireless recording, stimulation and power system that may lead to treatments for chronic pain and stroke recovery.

Researchers at UNT in conjunction with scientists at the Huazhong Agricultural University in China, recently developed a complete map for the genome of the jojoba tree.

A UNT research team is working to better understand how metal alloys function at the atomic level with a $1 million grant from the Department of Defense.

Kalani Gordon (’12), a graduate of UNT’s Mayborn School of Journalism, was part of the team from the Baltimore Sun that won the Pulitzer Prize winner for local reporting.

A new collaboration between LaCore Labs and UNT will include a $1 million gift eligible for matching funds from the Texas Research Incentive Program, a new laboratory, sponsored research, a license to UNT technology and real-world opportunities for students.

Biological Sciences Professor Kent Chapman has spent 27 years as an educator and researcher exploring the intricacies of plant biochemistry, specifically lipids. Jantana Keereetaweep spent seven years researching with Chapman while earning her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UNT.

Giorgio Di Salvo (’20), a biomedical engineering student, was selected as the first fellow in the Westheimer Science Research Fellow program, specifically designed to support undergraduate research in UNT Mathematics’ new Statistics Lab.

Brenda Barrio, associate professor of special education, in collaboration with Susan Nichols, interim executive director of UNT’s Kristin Farmer Autism Center, are researching the disparities in diagnoses and treatment of young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Professor Anupama Kaul, who directs the Nanoscale Materials and Devices Lab and the PACCAR Technology Institute, is working to develop new solar cell technology for the Office of Naval Research, utilizing perovskite materials that are extremely efficient at absorbing incoming light.

Pamela Padilla, associate vice president for research and innovation, was elected president of the Society for Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science.

Jincheng Du, an internationally recognized researcher in nuclear waste processing, has been recognized by the U.S. Department of State with a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, the International Commission on Glass’s W.E.S. Turner Award and Corning’s 2019 Gordon S. Fulcher Distinguished Scholar Award.

An anonymous donation of $300,000 promises to improve UNT's existing Water Research Field Station with a permanent lab facility and educational resources.

As an applied data scientist at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, Zikra Toure (’16, ’17 M.S.) works hand-in-hand with Microsoft’s high-impact customers to help them tackle some of their toughest technical problems.

An historian of health, medicine and modern U.S. politics, History Professor Rachel Louise Moran is delving into how society has defined and diagnosed the disease that affects 1 in 9 U.S. women.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering professor Saraju Mohanty received a Fulbright U.S. Specialist Award to collaborate on a project focused on security, communication and interoperability in areas where long-range communications with a lower power are needed for the Internet of Things (IoT).

College of Engineering assistant professor Yijie Jiang earned the prestigious 2020 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for his research into passive control of internal structures in 3D printed composites.

Eduardo Blanco, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, intends to use a $500,000 NSF CAREER grant to teach computers the intricacies of negation.

Qing Yang and Song Fu, computer science and engineering researchers, have earned $1 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation for their connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) projects.

Daniel Alemneh of UNT Libraries was recently named a Fulbright Scholar to develop digital library structures and framework to support local universities and organizations in Ethiopia.

College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism researchers Xi Yu Leung and Jiyoung Kim, received a Facebook Research grant to help minority-owned small restaurant owners make more informed decisions when it comes to social media advertising.

April Becker, assistant professor of behavioral analysis, earned a 2019 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for her improvements for stroke research.

Three UNT researchers in linguistics, physics and mathematics were awarded more than $1.5 million total in grant money through the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program.

Harrell Gill-King, founding Director of UNT’s Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology and co-founder of the UNT Center for Human Identification, has been awarded the T. Dale Stewart Award by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences for work that has included responding to the World Trade Center after 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and many other natural and man-made mass casualty events.