University of North Texas 
Roadmap to Research Success
2022 Research Magazine
Feb. 14, 2022
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.
Feb. 14, 2022
The Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing established the Institute
for Transformative Education in Additive Manufacturing (ITEAM), which focuses on education
and workforce development.
Feb. 17, 2022
With its unique approach of combining research and business skills, UNT’s biomedical
engineering program is supplying the growing workforce needed for industry, hospitals,
research institutions and entrepreneurs.
Feb. 14, 2022
UNT center is changing the face of manufacturing — developing advanced material components
for industries ranging from biomedical and energy to defense and aerospace — with
future-focused solutions and workforce training that will lead U.S. global competitiveness.
Feb. 18, 2022
New initiative aims to increase Ph.D. participation and diversity in science and engineering
programs focusing on research relevant to human health.
Feb. 25, 2022
Through UNT’s shared research facilities, researchers on campus and industry partners
can access the latest high-tech equipment and spaces to carry out the most sophisticated
projects and analysis.
Feb. 16, 2022
UNT’s biomedical engineering researchers create medical devices and technology to
shape people’s lives.
Feb. 17, 2022
A collaboration between UNT researchers and the Dixon Water Foundation is helping
to create sustainable ranch practices and further basic science about biodiversity.
Jul. 30, 2021
Kamesh Namuduri is developing safer and more efficient ways to move people and cargo
as the demand for using unmanned aerial vehicles in urban, suburban and rural areas
continues to grow.
Aug. 30, 2021
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.
Feb. 18, 2022
Art History professor Nada Shabout has received the Kuwait Prize for Arts and Literature
from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.
Feb. 18, 2022
College of Visual Arts and Design Dean Karen Hutzel — an advocate for experiential
learning opportunities — understands the value of the arts in public higher education.
Oct. 25, 2021
A team of researchers in the BioDiscovery Institute are working to reduce damage to
cotton plants from aphids and Fusarium fungal infections after having received a National
Institute of Food and Agriculture grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Oct. 25, 2021
Warren Burggren and Pamela Padilla are exploring a poorly understood field called
epigenetics, the study of how the expression of genetic traits can be altered without
change to the DNA itself.
Feb. 18, 2022
Alexandra Ponette-González, associate professor of geography and the environment,
was recently selected to serve on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee, the nation’s top advisory committee informing air quality
standards.
Jan. 6, 2022
With AI, learning technologies professors create digital space for K-12 teachers to
increase efficacy, equity and diversity in the K-12 environment.
Feb. 18, 2022
Eleven speakers spread their ideas and inspired the audience — in person and online
— to make a difference in the world at the TEDxUNT: Create the Change event held in
October.
Sep. 24, 2021
UNT faculty members Shobhana Chelliah, Distinguished Research Professor of linguistics
and associate dean of research and development in the College of Information, and
Julie Leventhal, principal lecturer in UNT’s Honors College, have been named award
winners in the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
Oct. 11, 2021
Hae Jin Gam, associate professor of fashion design, received a “Best Paper” award
from the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences for research on the
effects of health consciousness on environmentally sustainable textile furnishing
product purchasing.
Jul. 30, 2021
Dave Meder, assistant professor of jazz piano, received a Fulbright Visual and Performing
Arts Award, to travel to Egypt to explore and refine his own teaching methodology
of improvisation with students at the Cairo Conservatoire.
Sep. 24, 2021
A UNT professor believes he has found a better drug for treating potentially deadly
blood clotting disorders. Department of Biological Sciences Professor Pudur Jagadeeswaran
has been conducting research with zebrafish to isolate proteins that could be manipulated
to treat blood clotting disorders in humans more efficiently with few side effects.
Aug. 9, 2021
Ifana Mahbub, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, is the first UNT recipient
of a prestigious Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA).
Feb. 18, 2022
Phil Samson, a studio art student pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in the College
of Visual Arts and Design, has poured over scientific research papers from scholars
in UNT’s College of Science to shape sculptures inspired by plant science and gene
modification.
Aug. 19, 2021
Brian F. Wright, an assistant professor of music history in UNT’s College of Music,
is working to detail the electric bass’s early history in his book, The Bastard Instrument.
The book’s title comes from jazz bassist Monk Montgomery, one of the instrument’s
early pioneers, who was initially reluctant to play it.
Feb. 6, 2021
UNT researchers have discovered a new way to examine turbulence, the weather in the
galaxy, to understand the birth and evolution of stars.
Feb. 18, 2022
One thousand and counting. Bill Acree, professor of chemistry, recently received acceptance
of his 1,000th publication.
Dec. 8, 2020
Tristan Wu, associate professor of emergency management and disaster science, is researching
hurricane evacuations during COVID-19 in a project funded by a National Science Foundation
Rapid Grant.
Sep. 3, 2021
Four UNT professors are addressing health disparities by training the next generation
of counselors and social workers to offer trauma-informed, bilingual mental health
services to minorities in both behavioral health and integrated care settings.
Feb. 18, 2022
Amy Guan, a May 2021 graduate of the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at UNT,
was named among the top 40 scholars in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search.
Feb. 18, 2022
Garrison Gerard, a doctoral student in UNT’s music composition program, was selected
for the prestigious Composing in the Wilderness program, which took place in summer
2021.
Feb. 18, 2022
Hillary Shah, a political science and economics major, was a winner of the 2021 Harry
S. Truman Scholarship, a premier graduate scholarship from the Truman Scholarship
Foundation for college students pursuing careers in public service.
Feb. 18, 2022
Madison (Sonny) Card, a senior psychology major, began a professional career in the
performing arts, developing choreographic works and performance styles of dance.
Feb. 18, 2022
Stephanie González, a doctoral student in UNT’s educational psychology program, graduated
from UNT with a bachelor’s in kinesiology in May 2021.
Feb. 18, 2022
Michael (Clay) Moore was in the first class of students to graduate with a master’s
in artificial intelligence at UNT.
Feb. 18, 2022
Vincent Lowe, a junior in chemistry with a minor in biological sciences, has been
working in the laboratory of Regents Professor of chemistry Paul Marshall since May
2020, two days before he graduated from high school.
Feb. 18, 2022
Kathryn Hays, a doctoral student in information science and a research associate in
UNT’s xREZ Art + Science Lab, is currently working on research in spatial computing,
segmentation 3D and human-computer interaction.
Feb. 18, 2022
kYmberly Keeton, a library science alumna and current doctoral student in information
science, was recently selected to receive the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Diversity Scholarship for PastForward 2021 Online.
Feb. 18, 2022
As a result of a Fulbright Research Award, Bree Nichols (’21 D.M.A.) will work to
compile an anthology of Czech art songs so it will be more accessible to English-speaking
singers and the community.
Feb. 18, 2022
Kian Huat (Eric) Lim (’06), a computational biologist, earned a spot on the 40 Under
40 in Cancer list — which recognizes emerging leaders in the study and treatment of
cancer.
Feb. 18, 2022
Junfei Xie’s (’13 M.S., ’16 Ph.D.) research on unmanned aerial vehicle-based networked
airborne computing earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Xie, an
assistant professor at San Diego State University, will use the five-year award to
develop a flying computing cluster that benefits current UAV applications and enables
new ones.
Feb. 18, 2022
Joe Louis (’11 Ph.D.) is studying how sorghum, one of the world’s most valuable crops,
can resist sugarcane aphids, one of its most persistent pests.
Feb. 18, 2022
Inspired by his family of farmers in India, Nagaraju Mukka (’16 M.S.) is using his
expertise to improve technology in agriculture.