Four University of North Texas faculty members were among the educators celebrated for their dedication to excellence through research, service and education. The awards were presented during the seventh annual Salute to Faculty Excellence Awards Dinner and Ceremony Oct. 5 at the University Union’s Emerald Ballroom. The ceremony was supported by the UNT Foundation, which accepts, invests and manages private gifts, endowed funds and other assets for the benefit of the university, including faculty and students.
DENTON (UNT), Texas — The Texas Historical Records Advisory Board has chosen the University of North Texas Libraries for its 2018 Archival Award of Excellence for efforts to preserve, digitize and make publicly available archival footage from the oldest television news station in Texas, NBC 5/KXAS (formerly WBAP).
The recognition was announced as part of the advisory board’s Texas Archives...
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Three years ago in Hays County, Texas, a government initiative was introduced that would reclassify thousands of subdivisions known as “flash flood alley” as prone to flooding – despite the fact that those areas were in the midst of a multiyear drought. Residents protested the reclassification because it would increase insurance premiums and affect home values, but within months, a disastrous flood struck the county....
DENTON (UNT), Texas – University of North Texas College of Engineering assistant professor Tao Yang earned the prestigious 2018 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities for his research into the future of electrical distribution, microgrids.
“Traditionally, electricity is provided through one central distribution network. This means a...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Liss LaFleur, assistant professor of new media art in the University of North Texas’ College of Visual Arts and Design Department of Studio Art has been selected for an Immersive Scholar Residency to produce a new, digital-based artwork using data from the #MeToo movement. #MeToo is a hashtag used in social media to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment.
“I want to...
DENTON (UNT), Texas The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academy of Sciences has long recommended that adults consume at least 1,000 milligrams of calcium daily, and women age 50 and older should consume even more.
What’s great advice for Americans with European ethnicity, however, may not be great advice for Americans with West African ancestry. That demographic has high susceptibility to certain cancers when exposed to America’s calcium-rich, dairy food culture, according to Constance Hilliard, University of North Texas researcher in evolutionary African history....
The University of North Texas was recently awarded the prestigious Global Centers of Insurance Excellence designation by International Insurance Society for its outstanding risk management and insurance program. Last year in the inaugural year of the award program, only 20 institutions from around the world were recognized as recipients of the designation - and so far, UNT is the only school in Texas to be given this recognition.
The...
The University of North Texas is leading an initiative to grow a sustainable, business accelerator platform throughout the North Texas region, thanks to new leadership for UNT’s Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Jon McCarry, a UNT alumnus with a wide breadth of experience in private equity, was tapped as the senior director for the center housed in UNT’s College of Business.
"The North Texas region offers so much for industry, and as a Tier One research university,...
Angie (Wilson) Cartwright, an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education in the College of Education at the University of North Texas, has been selected as the school’s inaugural Presidential Early Career Professor.
“Upon receiving the news of my selection, I was excited and in a bit of disbelief,” Cartwright said. “There are so many wonderful members of the faculty here at UNT, and I am honored to be selected by the provost and the committee for this prestigious designation.”
Cartwright, who joined the UNT faculty in 2015, will receive $50,000...
DENTON (UNT), Texas – Narendra Dahotre, interim vice president of research and innovation and a distinguished professor with the University of North Texas College of Engineering, recently received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Eli Whitney Productivity Award for lifetime achievement in the area of manufacturing engineering.
“Receiving such recognition from the international manufacturing...