Faculty & Staff
UNT researcher’s Walmart Foundation grant aims to bring jobs back to U.S.
Monday, April 10, 2017
A nearly $350,000 grant awarded to a University of North Texas researcher by the Walmart Foundation and the U.S. Conference of Mayors is helping to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
UNT librarian wins national award
Friday, March 31, 2017
Julie Leuzinger, associate librarian and head of library learning services at the University of North Texas, has been awarded the 2017 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Politics, Policy and International Relations Section Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award.
UNT’S Teacher Education and Administration earns inaugural equity and diversity award
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
The University of North Texas’ College of Education’s Department of Teacher Education and Administration earned the inaugural Inclusive Excellence Award from UNT’s Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity.
Jennifer Evans-Cowley named UNT Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Jennifer Evans-Cowley, a UNT alumna with more than a decade of experience in higher education leadership, has been named the new provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Texas.
UNT College of Music to present rare performance of Bach’s 1725 version of St. John Passion
Friday, March 10, 2017
The University of North Texas College of Music’s Collegium Singers and Baroque Orchestra are taking their talents to Dallas to perform a rarely heard 1725 version of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion. The performance isat 7 p.m. April 1 (Saturday) at the Church of the Incarnation, 3966 McKinney Ave., Dallas. The event is part of a partnership with the church that allows the College of Music to reach a Dallas audience.
UNT professor to speak about queerness and virtual reality at SXSW panel
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Liss LaFleur of the University of North Texas will discuss how two destabilizing elements – queerness and virtual reality – work together in a panel discussion at SXSW in Austin.
UNT institute part of a $20 million grant to research new ways to keep soldiers safe
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
An institute with the University of North Texas’s College of Engineering is part of a new cooperative agreement established by the Army Research Laboratory. The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute will be working with three other universities to research new ways to keep soldiers safe.
UNT researchers make “epigenetic” discovery while studying Gulf oil spill
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
On April 20, 2010, a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico led to 11 people being killed and millions of gallons of oil spilled. Since 2015, Warren Burggren and his colleagues have been researching how the spill lead fish to adapt in order to survive.
UNT staff member recognized by American College Personnel Association
Monday, March 6, 2017
Nicholas Fuselier in UNT's College of Health and Public Service is one of five college and university staff members in the nation to be named Emerging Professionals by the American College Personnel Association.
A professor worth following
Monday, March 6, 2017
In the fall of 2016, a young, vibrant and already extremely successful computational chemistry professor named G. Andrés Cisneros came to the University of North Texas. However, he did not come alone.