Shobhana Chelliah, a professor in the University of North Texas Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication, has been selected as a rotator program director in the National Science Foundation’s Documenting Endangered Languages Program. She will be in her position at the NSF office in...
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News
Its face had an expression like a giant bulldog, with fang-like teeth and an upturned jaw that could open wide to consume large prey. Its flippers had the appearance of wings. With more than...
Jaime Jimenez, professor of biology and member of the Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems and Biocultural Conservation research cluster, works in the sub-Antarctic forests of Chile to understand the habitat needs of the...
Scientists have been mapping the genomes of organisms for decades, but now a team of researchers has begun the process of mapping the “genes” of materials in an effort to simplify the process of identifying novel...
Office of Research and Economic Development
Dr. Vish Prasad
Vice President for Research and Economic Development
UNT strives to promote research, scholarship, and creative activities that engage faculty, research scientists, graduate and undergraduate students, and external collaborative partners to their fullest potential.
ORED plays a key role in this mission by supporting faculty in their research activities. ORED offers a comprehensive package of services to support and advance research projects at every stage of development.
Awards and Achievements
Anam Bakali has received a Critical Language Scholarship from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, part of the U.S. Department of State, to study Arabic in Tunisia.
Bakali, who is majoring in photojournalism and interdisciplinary art and design and minoring in Arabic, is among 621 undergraduate and...
University of North Texas graduate student Eric Norman may not have known the word "sustainability" when he went on Boy Scout camping trips to remote wilderness areas. But Norman said those experiences "planted in my mind that there are some things worth protecting."
On May 11, Norman, from McAllen, will become one of the first three UNT students to receive the university's "green degree" -- a master's degree in international sustainable tourism through UNT's first joint...
Media
UNT College of Visual Arts and Design faculty and administrators discuss the artist and UNT alumnus Nick Cave and his soundsuit collaborations with UNT, local, and regional communities.
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Jorge Roman, an Honors College student, was studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2009 when he had an epiphany. Roman, who is also a UNT...
Events
The University of North Texas Kristin Farmer Autism Center and the UNT autism graduate programs will host the fourth annual Adventures in Autism Intervention and Research conference July 28 (Saturday) at the UNT Gateway Center, located north of the intersection of Eagle Drive and North Texas Boulevard.
The conference will include more than 20 presentations by nationally recognized...
The UNT-based Research Training Group (RTG) within the Department of Mathematics is hosting a Logic and Dynamics conference June 4-8 2012: Logic, Dynamics and Their Interactions, with a Celebration of the Work of Dan Mauldin. Visit the website for detailed information. Registration is an online process. All speakers and attendees are asked to register at their earliest possible convenience.
Participants...
More than 4,000 students will receive their bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of North Texas during spring commencement ceremonies May 11 and 12 (Friday and Saturday).
Doctoral and master’s students will walk across the stage at 3 p.m. May 11 (Friday). This spring, 817 master’s students and 83 doctoral students applied for graduation, surpassing last spring’s record number of graduate student graduations by 145. The 3,125 students receiving their bachelor’s degrees will walk at 7 p.m. May 11 (Friday) and 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. May 12 (Saturday...
Book Corner
Drawing on art historical, epigraphical, and textual evidence, this book is the first full-scale reconstruction of medieval Jain artistic and devotional practices at the rock-cut site of Ellora in...
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of...
The impact of Calvinism is examined in The Destiny of Modern Societies: The Calvinist Predestination of a New Society (Haymarket Books) by Milan Zafirovski, professor of sociology.
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