DENTON (UNT), Texas — University of North Texas College of Engineering assistant professor Melanie Ecker earned the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious recognition for early career faculty.

Ecker will use the $553,036 award given through the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to further her research on using smart polymers for biomedical applications.

NSF CAREER awards are g...

Creative research is backed by UNT’s Institute for the Advancement of the Arts program

DENTON (UNT), Texas —  From a multi-suite musical work based on the historical events of 2020 and an exhibition on the bolo tie to a project documenting the story of Denton through a community-designed performance, three University of North Texas professors will be pursuing creative research projects in the next year as the 2023-24 Institute for the Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellows.

UNT is committed to fostering creativity an...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – The leader of UNT’s Student Money Management Center earned national recognition for his contributions to the financial wellness movement.

Paul Goebel, the founder and director of UNT’s Student Money Management Center, was honored with the 2023 Financial Education Instructor of the Year Award from the National Financial Educators Council. Since 2011, the award has acknowledged the commitment of financial educators and the positive impact they leave on the lives of the people they reach....

The Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility will leverage research across academic disciplines and industry expertise

DENTON (UNT), Texas — University of North Texas College of Engineering and College of Information researchers are part of a national effort to foster more collaboration in the development of emerging vehicle technologies.

Through the Center for Electric, C...

The team will focus on transforming logistics in the Texoma Region, which covers 26 counties and is bordered on the south by the Dallas-Fort Worth area and north by the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma.

DENTON (UNT), Texas — The University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas Arlington, Southeastern Oklahoma State University and Dallas College along with a network of 25 other participating organizations in North Central Texas and Southeastern Oklahoma, have been awarded $1 million from the U.S....

DENTON (UNT), Texas – The University of North Texas will celebrate graduates in 12 ceremonies this week.

During Spring 2023 Commencement ceremonies May 12-14 (Friday-Sunday), the university expects more than 6,700 students to celebrate the completion of bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees during the spring and summer semesters.

Opal Lee (’63 M.Ed.) will receive an honorary doctorate degree as part of UNT’s Spring 2023 Commencement events. She led the successful charge to make Juneteenth a national holiday — earning admiration and accolad...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — Charles Wood, a graduate student in the University of North Texas College of Health and Public Service, earned a $40,000 Rotary Global Grant to pursue his dream of leading local government and community efforts to address the growing need for affordable and accessible housing.

Wood will graduate from UNT in May with his Master of Public Administration, with concentrations in nonprofit and local government management. In August 2023, he will head to the Netherlands to attend...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – The University of North Texas celebrated 31 faculty members for their remarkable impact on student success and outstanding scholarly and creative achievements during the annual Salute to Faculty Excellence awards ceremony April 28.

Faculty received awards from across the university, including the Office of the Provost, the Division of Research and Innovation, the Center for Learning Experimentation, Application and Research, International Affairs and more. See a...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – Jathin Pranav Singaraju, a student from the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at the University of North Texas, has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar in recognition of his work in the biomedical engineering lab of assistant professor Huaxiao “Adam” Yang.

The Goldwater Scholarship is one of the most competitive awards in the country for students pursuing careers in math, science and engineering. Jathin’s award brings UNT’s lifetime number of Goldwater Scholars to 71.

“This awar...

DENTON (UNT), Texas — The University of North Texas G. Brint Ryan College of Business saw its part-time Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) jump ahead of dozens of other universities across the nation to come in at No. 68 in the nation – and No. 6 among Texas public universities. The full-time M.B.A. landed at No. 5 in the state and No. 95 in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Graduate Schools released Ap...