Research
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
UNT conference to feature the latest in autism intervention, research
What: The University of North Texas Kristin Farmer Autism Center’s 11th annual Adventures in Autism Intervention and Research Conference
When: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. July 20 (Saturday)
Where: UNT’s Gateway Center, 801 North Texas Blvd., Denton
Registration: $75 for professionals/general public and $65 for students/UNT alumni; A grant from the...
Monday, July 1, 2019
UNT Professor invents detector for credit card skimmers
New technology will soon join the fight against credit card theft thanks to an invention by The University of North Texas Cyber Forensics Technology Lab, headed by Scott Belshaw, an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, along with Michael Saylor, president of Cyber Defense Labs.
The team, which includes a group of ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
U.S. Department of State grant creates new partnership between UNT and institutions in Mexico
A public-private partnership is helping University of North Texas engineering graduate students hone their skills in additive manufacturing, a rapidly developing technology that builds 3D objects through the successive layering of materials.
The U.S. Department of State and Partners of the Americas recently announced UNT’s College of Engineering as a winner of its latest ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
UNT behavioral science assistant professor receives Powe award for work in stroke assessment research
University of North Texas College of Health and Public Service Assistant Professor April Becker earned a prestigious 2019 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities for her improvements in behavioral assessment testing for stroke research.
Becker and her team of students developed an automated cylinder test...
Thursday, June 20, 2019
UNT engineering team joins NASA challenge to improve life support for astronauts
A University of North Texas College of Engineering team is one of 11 teams selected nationwide for a new NASA challenge aimed at supporting the agency’s capabilities for deep space exploration.
As part of the eXploration Systems and Habitation Academic Innovation Challenge, or X-Hab, students will work to improve life support for astronauts in space.
Led by faculty advisor...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
City of Dallas awards UNT professor $2.2 million for in-school water conservation program
DENTON (UNT), Texas —...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
UNT Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program and Director Ricardo Rozzi earn top honors for work in Chile
The University of North Texas Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program in Chile was recently awarded a 2019 Ocean Award by Boat International, a publisher of materials for boating enthusiasts.
UNT was recognized for the creation of the ...
Monday, June 17, 2019
Texas legislature gives $10 million boost to UNT’s Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Imagine transforming manufacturing technologies to better develop complex 3-D objects to create viable market-based solutions that impact almost every industry from operating rooms to oil fields — all while producing practically zero waste and cost savings that give Texas’ companies an advantage.
That’s exactly what the University of North Texas’ Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing intends to do with $10 million in...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
UNT researcher rediscovers decades old solution to a modern problem
University of North Texas BioDiscovery Institute Research Associate Jaime Barros recently authored a paper published in the journal Nature Communications that utilizes state-of-the-art techniques to confirm 40-year-old research explaining how plants produce lignin, a compound that provides structural rigidity in plants and allows them to grow upright.
“Understanding how lignin is produced in plants also means that it can be manipulated...
Friday, May 31, 2019
UNT statistician develops risk prediction model for childhood cancer survivors to avoid anthracycline-related cardiomyopathy
University of North Texas associate professor Xuexia “Helen” Wang first noticed a correlation between anthracycline, a class of chemotherapy drugs used to treat cancer patients, and cardiomyopathy, a type of heart disease, in childhood cancer survivors when she worked as a researcher for City of Hope in 2010.
Since then, she has dedicated her career to better understanding cancer, cancer-treatments and the side effects.
“Childhood cancer survivors are at a five- to 15-fold increased risk of anthracycline-related cardiomyopathy,...