Jincheng Du, professor in UNT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has received major national and international recognition for his glass research.

Pamela Padilla, professor of biological sciences, was named associate vice president for Research and Innovation at UNT.

Narendra Dahotre, Regents Professor of materials science and engineering at UNT, was named associate vice president for the Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing at UNT.

UNT Distinguished Alumnus Bruzzy Westheimer funded the new Westheimer Science Research Fellow program, specifically designed to support undergraduate research in UNT Mathematics' brand-new Statistics Lab. The first fellow, undergraduate Giorgio Di Salvo, and biostatistics professor Xuexia Wang are developing a novel and powerful statistical model to identify susceptible genes for complex diseases.

Skylar King and Chipo Gray, in the Department of Biological Sciences, recently authored a paper in Cell Death & Differentiation about the cell death pathway and the CISD gene family.

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.

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.

Linguists scholars Kristen Acker and Madison Muniz have earned Fulbright scholarships to serve as teaching assistants in Europe this fall helping students learn English.

UNT's Reconfigurable Computing Lab in the College of Engineering was named finalist for a prestigious Tech Titans award.

Four UNT professors will receive time to work on personal projects – ranging from writing poetry to creating a new method of printmaking – after receiving an Institute for the Advancement of the Arts fellowship.

Mark R. McLellan, a 30-year leader of university research programs with experience at five major institutions, was selected to oversee research and innovation at UNT as it seeks to grow its research enterprise and cement its place among the nation’s top Tier One research universities.

The UNT College of Engineering will receive $750,000 from the Office of Naval Research over the next three years to fund educational and research initiatives in materials, manufacturing and electronics. 

It is a time of marvels and miracles, a time when 3D objects can literally be printed from a computer. It’s the Fourth Industrial Revolution, when manufacturing design, process and production are combining into one comprehensive whole.

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

Rudi Thompson, associate professor of biological sciences, is successfully changing behavior and saving billions of gallons of water each year through the city of Dallas’ Environmental Education Initiative.

The UNT Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program in Chile was recently awarded a 2019 Ocean Award by Boat International, a publisher of materials for boating enthusiasts.    

Hanchen Huang, new dean of the UNT College of Engineering, recently was elected Fellow of ASM International for his distinguished contributions to the fields of materials science and engineering.

UNT researchers are leading the way in the Fourth Industrial Revolution — the fusion of manufacturing design, process and production — to transform how industries engineer new materials and devices.

25 undergraduate students are conducting research at UNT this summer thanks to the NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. UNT has 3 NSF-REU sites led by senior researchers in the departments of chemistry, political science, and computer science and engineering. 

UNT alum Dave Copps, founder of DFW-based startup Brainspace, produced technology that can read and learn from hundreds of millions documents simultaneously.