Faculty & Staff
The University of North Texas has been named one of America’s Best Midsize Employers for 2017 by Forbes Media, in partnership with Statista – a statistics database and consumer research firm in Germany.
The University of North Texas will soon be home to a rare piece of equipment. The Army Research Office has agreed to fund $417,000 for a custom built multi-physics materials processing machine to help the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering.
Rachel U. Mun, a University of North Texas professor, has been awarded the 2017 National Association for Gifted Children Dissertation Award.
The University of North Texas’ College of Information has received the 2017 Outstanding International Research Collaboration Award sponsored by the American Educational Research Association.
The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation annually honors full-time faculty at Texas colleges and universities for outstanding teaching.
The advertising department in the University of North Texas’ Division of University Relations, Communications and Marketing won several awards this year, including five Service Industry Advertising Awards, two Collegiate Advertising Awards and four Hermes Creative Awards.
Pamela Padilla, an associate professor of biology at the University of North Texas and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the new College of Science has spent her career studying science, doing research in the field of genetics and teaching. Her efforts have brought her great success with everything from awards to publications. Now she has a new honor that comes with a new career focus. She was recently accepted to an advanced leadership institute and wants to help bring new leadership skills to her fellow scientists.
The first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency end this Saturday, April 29.
Rhonda Christensen, a research professor in the Department of Learning Technologies in the College of Information at the University of North Texas, has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholarship.
Elizabeth Murakami, professor and director of programs in Educational Leadership in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M-San Antonio, has been selected to serve as the Mike Moses Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership at the University of North Texas.
