UNT’s biomedical engineering researchers create medical devices and technology to shape people’s lives.

UNT technology transfer focuses on all of the ways the university’s applied research can be commercialized to improve communities — from financial successes to societal impacts.

UNT continues to make tremendous strides as a Tier One research university, as the work of innovative faculty addresses real-world problems — and paves the path to a better, brighter future.

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education™ reaffirmed UNT’s standing as a Tier One Research University – further evidence of the university’s momentum in growing its research profile. Only 141 universities nationwide are included in the “Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity” classification.

A team of students from UNT’s Texas Academy of Mathematics and Sciences, mentored by UNT BioDiscovery Institute’s Calvin Henard and Mauricio Antunes, is the first group from UNT to participate in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. The team genetically modified bacteria to mitigate greenhouse gases.

UNT Engineering professor Anupama Kaul recently was elected Fellow of the Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) for her significant technical and societal contributions in the area of two-dimensional layered materials and nanocarbons for optoelectronics, photonics and sensing, including in flexible platforms.

Representatives from the U.S. Army Reserve’s 75th Innovation Command, First Innovation Group recently visited UNT to recognize the importance of emerging technology from the university in supporting their mission to strengthen national defense.

Three UNT Engineering researchers were honored as finalists for two prestigious Tech Titans awards at the annual gala held Jan.19 in Dallas. The awards showcase outstanding tech companies and individuals in North Texas who are transforming the industry and paving the way for new inventions and technical applications.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering professor, Ram Dantu, was named DCEO’s Dallas 500 list for the third year in a row.

Anupama Kaul, professor of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering, is studying nanomaterials such as tungsten diselenide and other semiconducting van der Waals solids that are being considered for electronics and optoelectronics as alternatives to silicon.

With AI, learning technologies professors create digital space for K-12 teachers to increase efficacy, equity and diversity in the K-12 environment.

Sanjukta Bhowmick has received three new grants for her work in dynamic networks and multilayer networks to solve today’s modern problems.

Three students at UNT’s Texas Academy of Mathematics and Sciences (TAMS) took first place in the Amazon Web Services DeepRacer Student League Competition, the world’s first autonomous car racing league.

A possible malaria outbreak in birds in Chile could lead to a better understanding of the impact global warming has on disease transmission, according to Andrew Gregory, assistant professor of biological sciences.

Three UNT researchers have been awarded a prestigious National Security Agency Research Innovation Award to crack the code on cybersecurity threats against private companies and government entities. UNT is one of six institutions to have received this type of award this year.

UNT has the green light from Texas’ 87th Legislature to use $113.4 million in tuition revenue bonds to build a 167,700-square-foot research facility to provide additional state-of-the-art space for faculty and student researchers to carry out solutions-based research.

Born in the Kurdish region of Iran, Pedram Baldari, assistant professor of studio art, takes experiences from his upbringing, his time in the U.S. and issues that he finds meaningful and incorporates them into his art research. From the idea of homeland citizenship to colonization to war, Baldari believes that issues and topics are a way for art enthusiasts to get a sense of others’ struggles.

Kent Chapman and Mina Aziz, researchers at UNT’s BioDiscovery Institute, have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to look at how plants talk to their neighbors -- specifically the role of fatty acid amide hydrolases, which exist broadly in plants, in communication between plants and microorganisms.

A new supercomputer for Texas researchers, launched recently, will allow scholars at UNT to compute and compete at the cutting edge of science and engineering. Lonestar6 will be able to perform roughly three quadrillion operations per second — or in high performance terminology, three petaFLOPS.

Materials science and engineering researcher Rajarshi Banerjee is rethinking the types of elements that could be used for aircrafts, thanks to a new $900,000 research grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.