CASCaM: Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling

This UNT-based facility is a vital hub for research, education, training and outreach in all facets of advanced scientific computing and modeling. CASCaM provides excellent opportunities for mentorship and collaboration with UNT computational chemists, researchers and external partners working in multiple areas of science and engineering, with project support from the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Energy, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Computational Facilities

This research and teaching lab offers advanced computing technology and extensive hardware, with a wide selection of visualization software resources designed to express and analyze diverse computational problems, including Spartan, GaussView, AbInit, Crystal, Gamess, Guassian, Molcas, Molpro and NWChem.

RAVE: Research and Visualization Environment

The RAVE offers excellent computer resources to help scholars visually analyze large amounts of complex data for graphically intensive research, simulations, statistics, and design. The state-of-the art space features high-powered workstations, visualization software, and a large-scale, video display wall for analysis with superior graphical output to enhance and explain research.

TALON: High-Performance Computing System

Unique to the region, the TALON supercomputer features high performance computing clusters supported by high-speed networks, high performance storage, and advanced software. Availability of the Talon HPC system has greatly increased the computation resources available to UNT researchers.

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.

IAS: Institute of Applied Science

IAS fosters, facilitates and conducts science-based interdisciplinary environmental research that seeks to understand how human actions impact the environment. A network including biologists, ecologists, geologists, engineers, computer scientists, chemists, geographers, archeologists, policy experts, and philosophers work to address some of the world’s most pressing environmental puzzles.

CRS: Center for Remote Sensing

The Center utilizes the rapidly evolving technology of satellite imaging to advance scientific knowledge of land and water resources, ecosystems and human communities. It has a fully equipped Earth Resources Data Analysis System (ERDAS), and ARC/INFO capabilities with powerful computer facilities to conduct research on remote sensing data collection, image enhancement, classification and analyses.

Aquatic Toxicology and Reservoir Limnology

UNT has one of the best aquatic toxicology laboratories in the Southwest. The lab conducts acute and chronic toxicity tests with freshwater and marine organisms, water quality research on rivers and reservoirs throughout Texas, and research for a variety of industries and municipalities on the effects of chemicals on aquatic life.

Office of Sustainability

The Unt-based Office promotes environmental sustainability through four primary action areas: research, outreach, operations, and teaching. Developments include the Climate Action Plan, which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, curb energy consumption, and reach carbon neutrality; 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.

Water Research Field Station

One of the only facilities in the Southwest designed to assess, under controlled field conditions, the effects of pesticides on aquatic ecosystems prior to their general use in the environment. Research is supported with affiliated greenhouse nurseries, outdoor ponds and streams, and a biological and residue analysis laboratory.

Center for Watershed Reservoir Assessment and Management

The Center conducts research on techniques and best management practices for assessing and managing watersheds and reservoirs, and addresses current and emerging problems and issues.

CEP: Center for Environmental Philosophy

CEP promotes an understanding of environmental ethics by publishing journals and books, and advancing research through workshops, conferences, and education. CEP publishes the respected journal Environmental Ethics, the first of its kind in the discipline.

CEMI: Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia

World-renowned for innovative works and musicians, CEMI advances experimental music and intermedia through the creation of new music, public performance, teaching, collaboration, and research. Unique, state-of-the-art environments include the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater, an immersive multimedia performance venue featuring surround sound studios optimized for video production, audio production, and interactive media. Seminal founders who guided CEMI’s development into an internationally recognized center: Merrill Ellis, composer/performer with a focus on intermedia; Larry Austin, emeritus professor, renowned for his electroacoustic and computer music works; Phil Winsor, a pioneer in algorithmic composition and intermedia.

NOVA Ensemble: new music ensemble of UNT

Nova commissions, premieres and presents a diversity of musical, aesthetic, and cultural experiences to audiences, with repertoire ranging from 20th century classics to works that incorporate the latest musical innovations. Recent performances have included music of Elliott Carter, David Lang, Frederic Rzewski, Steven Stucky, Giacinto Scelsi, Nick Didkovsky, Cindy McTee, Libby Larsen, Judith Shatin, James Tenney, Isang Yun, Christian Wolff, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, and Charles Ives.

Music Now: weekly composition meeting and open forum

Music Now facilitates the exchange of ideas and information about the creation, performance, and understanding of contemporary music, with featured presentations by UNT faculty and students as well as visiting composers, scholars, and interpreters of new music.

Composers Forum: organization for UNT student composers

The Composers Forum supports and promotes new work by UNT student composers and coordinates performances within UNT and with external venues, regional/state colleges, and universities. The forum celebrates compositional diversity, from instrumental and electro-acoustic music to film and intermedia.

Murchison Performing Arts Center

This world-class facility features performances by students, faculty, guest artists and community members in two premiere venues: the Margot and Bill Winspear Performance Hall, and the Lyric Theater.

Voertman Hall

Newly renovated, 380 seat concert hall for recitals and small ensemble concerts with state-of-the-art lighting and acoustical features.

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.

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.