University of North Texas College of Engineering professor Wonbong Choi and associate professor Gayatri Mehta are developing a sensor system for use in rebuilding and balancing the human knee.

Total knee arthroplasty is a surgical procedure that replaces the weight-bearing surfaces of the knee joint to relieve pain and correct disability. In order for the knee to work properly, orthopedic surgeons must ensure that everything in the joint is in balance. According to a study in ...

 University of North Texas professor Jincheng Du’s glass research is a labor of love that has resulted in a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, sponsored by the Department of State, the International Commission on Glass’s W.E.S. Turner Award and Corning’s 2019 Gordon S. Fulcher Distinguished Scholar Award.

“Jincheng’s awards shine a spotlight on the world-renowned faculty we have here in our...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Rachel Louise Moran, an assistant professor in the University of North Texas Department of History, is delving into how society has defined and diagnosed postpartum depression with a $162,619 grant from the National Science Foundation.

While pregnant with her first child, Moran was struck by the use of depression screening questionnaires at the obstetrician’s office, in the hospital and even by her son’s pediatrician. 

“I thought they were probably a good thing, but...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – The University of North Texas is celebrating indigenous languages in a series of events this fall as part of the United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages. 

According to the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 40 percent of the world’s estimated 6,700 languages are in danger of disappearing. 

A language is not only a means of communication, it’s intertwined with the cultures, histories and identities of the people who...

University of North Texas Associate Professor Ohad Shemmer in the College of Science is part of an international team of astronomers who recently discovered evidence of the most remote "cloaked" black hole ever found.

“Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as data from Pan-STARRS, an optical-light telescope in Hawaii, we discovered the most distant obscured quasar (the bright point where...

University of North Texas College of Engineering Regents Professor Miguel Acevedo now has $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation over five years to dig deep in tackling the growing global problem of food insecurity. 

Specifically, Acevedo, who is also a scientist with the Advanced Environmental Research Institute, seeks to find solutions for the high amount of salt in agricultural soil and...

The ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...