Alyssa Sarvadi, a recent graduate of UNT's College of Engineering, and mentor, associate professor of engineering technology Huseyin Bostanci, are part of a 10-year-old NASA program that sponsors graduate students and their professors who show significant potential to contribute to the space agency’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies.

Kevin Yao and Christopher Zhou, students from UNT’s Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, have been named 2020 Goldwater Scholars, one of the country’s most prestigious scholarships awarded to students planning careers in mathematics, science and engineering. UNT leads Texas universities in the number scholars, with a total of 66 named since 1996. TAMS encourages all students to participate...

In response to the possible need for more ventilators to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients, a team from UNT’s College of Engineering collaborated to adapt a design and manufacture ventilator splitters in the college’s digital manufacturing lab. The team used 3D printing technology to make the splitters, which will allow doctors to use a single ventilator to treat two patients.

UNT professor and computational chemist G. Andrés Cisneros, along with his research group, are running computer simulations using four U.S. supercomputers, including the world’s most powerful, Summit, at the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee, to investigate inhibitor mechanisms of existing drugs and provide insights that could serve to improve treatment options for COVID-19.

UNT senior Allison Taylor could have let a medical condition slow down her academic plans or even her life in general, but instead, she’s using it as inspiration to reach her goals. Diagnosed at 18 with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, commonly known as CMT, she has dedicated her life to researching a cure.

A UNT-led team of academic and industry experts is working together to ensure safe skies for drones and other low-flying traffic over cities in the U.S.

UNT engineers and artists are working together to create face shields for faculty and students to use once laboratories on campus start to reopen.

College of Education Assistant Professor Christopher Long is making the best of the situation after his research project was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A class project turned into much more as 30 teams of UNT students compete internationally to create the most accurate model of the spread of COVID-19.

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.

On June 1, NSF implemented the Grants.gov Application Guide (NSF 20-089). Overall, the Guide has been updated to align with the changes to NSF’s Proposal...

Mark McLellan, vice president of research and innovation for UNT, has an impressive record of service in university research administration along with a distinguished research career. What additionally sets him apart is his remarkable record contributing to national and international boards that oversee and acknowledge research science.

Steven Gore, doctoral candidate in biological sciences, is developing a broader cancer diagnosis model.

This past year was a banner year for technology commercialization at UNT, but it’s only the beginning. Licensing revenues reached a record level in 2019, and faculty filed six times as many disclosures of inventions and intellectual property as they did in 2015. More importantly, the culture of innovation at UNT is changing. UNT researchers are looking at the work in their laboratories in new and...

A new initiative administered by UNT’s Division of International Affairs is helping graduate students go great distances in conducting their research. The Graduate Research Experiences Abroad Travel Grant, or GREAT Grant, program supports international projects that enhance global perspectives by providing research experiences outside of the U.S.

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.

Kamesh Namuduri, professor of electrical engineering, is part of a NASA project focused on research toward safely and effectively managing drone traffic in urban areas.

G. Andrés Cisneros and his team at UNT’s Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling have received $1.5 million in grants from the NIH the NSF to look at how mutations of certain proteins may be related to cancer.

Chemistry Professor Oliver Chyan recently received $157,000, the largest royalty distribution to date for commercialized technology developed by a UNT researcher.

Guohua Feng, a professor in the UNT Department of Economics, has been named a fellow in the Society for Economic Measurement.