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A commitment to lifelong learning begins in the intellectually rigorous and nurturing environment at the University of North Texas located just North of Dallas/Fort Worth in Denton, Texas. Every classroom and laboratory experience, field trip and extracurricular activity supports students in their quest to become well-rounded, highly qualified and engaged global citizens.

  • Biocultural Conservation at UNT-Chile Field Station

    The Yahgan, nomadic people living in the Cape Horn Archipelago at the southern tip of South America for the last 7,000 years, have long revered Omora. This green-backed firecrown hummingbird is a cosmological hero maintaining harmony between society and nature.

  • Computer Scientists Overhaul 911 System

    Next to stacks of papers and old science journals, a sleek, black video phone rests in the corner of Ram Dantu's office. Like a growing number of phones, this one connects callers through the Internet rather than by traditional wire lines.

  • Linguist Saves Culture

    While growing up in south India, Shobhana Chelliah knew very little about the state of Manipur, located thousands of miles away on India's northeastern border with Myanmar. As a native speaker of Tamil, one of India's official languages, she also wasn't familiar with the languages of Manipur.

  • UNT Achieves National Prominence in Course Redesign

    In 1860, a series of fires burned several North Texas communities. Rumors began that slaves lit the fires as part of a terrorist scheme hatched by northern abolitionists. Fears were exacerbated by the pending presidential election featuring Abraham Lincoln, who was nominated on a platform opposing the spread of slavery.

  • Improving Nuclear Reactors

    A love of computers and computer gaming initially led Jeff Hetherly down a path toward a computer science degree. How­ever, the prospect of using computer modeling as it applies to physical theory won him over, and instead he chose to study physics, earning his bachelor of science from UNT, magna cum laude, in May 2008.

  • UNT professor featured in National Geographic documentary

    A UNT undergraduate computer science class took a shot at cracking the code last year by developing software capable of breaking substitution ciphers. Experts think the 340-cipher is a substitution code similar to an earlier Zodiac cipher sent to California newspapers and solved by a husband and wife.

  • TAMS student captures national Siemens title, $100,000 scholarship

    Certain kinds of bacterial infections, called nosocomial infections, affect more than 2 million hospital patients annually and kill about 100,000. But Wen Chyan, a 17-year-old student and researcher at UNT's Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, hopes to change those statistics.

  • Simulated Emergency Operations Center prepares tomorrow's emergency managers and coordinators

    With another severe weather season approaching, disaster response organizations and agencies are making sure they are prepared, and now, so are some students at UNT. 

    UNT opened its own Emergency Operations Center lab last fall and is training students in the Emergency Administration and Planning program to use the same software applications employed by many municipal, state and federal emergency management agencies.

  • UNT announces formation of the Association for the Study of Transfer Students

    UNT has further distinguished itself as a leading authority on the study of transfer students with the formation of the Association for the Study of Transfer Students (ASTS).

    Bonita Jacobs, vice president for student development and executive director of UNT's National Institute on the Study of Transfer Students, announced the formation of the new association at the institute's seventh annual conference.