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 ...

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 fundi...

What: The STARTALK program offers a free intensive beginning Russian language course.

When: Applications must be submitted between Feb. 1–April 1. Application forms and instructions are available at https://worldlanguages.unt.edu/resources/startalk-program

Program dates are June 1–June 28 (Monday–Friday) from 9 a.m.–4 p.m.

Where: UNT Language Building located at 108 Ave. A in...

In April 2018, the University of North Texas became the first public university in the state to launch a collegiate esports program. Now, UNT continues to lead the way by becoming the first public university in Texas to offer scholarships for its esports gamers. Scholarships will be awarded to current players and recruits who show the exceptional talent and team dedication needed to play at the varsity level.

“We are serious about esports,” said UNT Vice President for Student Affairs Elizabeth With. “We already have one of the best college...

A team of University of North Texas College of Engineering seniors have created an energy efficient system for controlling solar panels on CubeSats using a nickel-titanium shape memory alloy.

Their design beat out teams from nine other universities to take first place at the CASMART 3rd Student Design Challenge in Germ...

 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....

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What: A unique collection of never-before-seen and rarely-viewed archival materials documenting women in Dallas’ LGBTQ, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer/questioning, community and their efforts to gain visibility will be showcased in a new exhibition – “Women in the Dallas LGBTQ Community” – for Pride Month in June.

In conjunction with the City of Dallas’ Pride Month declaration, the exhibit, which includes an op...

    DENTON (UNT), Texas – Four students from the University of North Texas’ Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science earned awards for their research at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

    Intel ISEF is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition with 1,800 high school students from more 80 countries, regions and territories presenting their ind...

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, al...