Despite hurdles presented by the global pandemic, UNT recorded record growth in research productivity last year. Unprecedented gains in new research grants and proposals and overall research expenditures reflect the university’s rise as a major national research university.

A team of researchers with the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute received a $5.5 million grant to devise new materials for making bulletproof protection materials.

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.