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| The Texas Legislature awarded UNT $10 million to accelerate activity at UNT's Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing where complex 3D objects, like those shown above, are developed with practically zero waste and cost savings to give Texas companies an advantage. |
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| Straight from Smatresk |
Dear Alum,
UNT's efforts to develop one of the most advanced university research facilities in the nation for materials analysis paid off earlier this spring when the 86th Texas Legislature awarded $10 million to accelerate activity and research at our Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing.
Through the center, UNT is transforming manufacturing technologies to better develop complex 3D objects that create viable market-based solutions, impacting almost every industry from operating rooms to oil fields, all while producing practically zero waste and saving money that gives Texas companies an advantage.
The center was launched in 2018 under the umbrella of UNT's existing Materials Research Facility, which is co-sponsored by the Office of Research and Innovation and the College of Engineering. Through these facilities, our students gain additional hands-on educational opportunities in this growing field, while our faculty collaborate with industry to advance the science and application of materials processing and additive manufacturing. The research conducted at the center will lead to smart materials and environmentally friendly technologies while helping Texas develop a highly skilled workforce of engineers.
We are highly pleased with the results of the legislative session, and I know UNT would not have received such positive results without support from Texas State Sen. Pat Fallon and State Rep. Lynn Stucky. They were among the devoted and dedicated elected officials that championed this research center and continued supporting higher education for Texans, young and old. We also owe thanks to the many alumni who participated in UNT Day at the Capitol and advocated for UNT's piece of legislative funding. We look forward to transforming the center into a Texas-based prototype that will globally transform the future of advanced manufacturing.
UNT Proud,
Neal Smatresk
President
 @UNTPrez
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UNT at Frisco
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UNT Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Bob Brown presented a first look at the master plan for the new UNT at Frisco branch campus to the UNT System Board of Regents last month. As reported by the Dallas Morning News, Community Impact Newspaper and the Denton Record-Chronicle, the plan integrates the land's natural features, including wetland areas for environmental education opportunities for both UNT students and Frisco ISD. A network of hiking and biking trails wind through part of campus, and the plan has the flexibility to create connections with the future Frisco parks and recreation activities envisioned by the city. The planning committee, comprised of UNT, Frisco and Collin County leaders, is ahead of its original schedule with architectural and campus planning firm Ayers Saint Gross, and hopes to open the first building on the new campus in time for the spring 2023 semester.
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Some of the nation's most talented nonfiction writers, like Hidden Figures author Margo Lee Shetterly and Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch, best known for penning the America in the King Years trilogy, a landmark narrative history of the civil rights era, will speak at the 15th annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference July 19-21 at the Hilton DFW Lakes in Grapevine. This year's theme, Justice in America, will explore how journalists cover issues of justice, race, politics and fairness in everyday life. Keynote speakers include Nikole Hannah-Jones, social injustice writer for The New York Times Magazine who has written extensively on the history of racism, school resegregation and the disarray of hundreds of desegregation orders, and Hampton Sides, an acclaimed journalist and author of bestselling histories, including Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice.
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| Engineering students win top honors in Germany for satellite design |
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A team of College of Engineering students took first place at the international CASMART Student Design Challenge in Germany by designing a system for CubeSats, very small satellites, that allows a satellite to deploy solar panels without using too much battery power. Instead of using little motors and gears, the team used a nickel-titanium shape memory alloy, a special metal that can change its shape when heated, to provide the motive force needed to move the panels. The team's work was featured on Phys.org, a science news site with more than three million readers. Our students' research has applications in the aeronautics, automotive, space and biomedical industries, and I hope their story inspires others to explore STEM pathways – at UNT, of course.
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| 2019 North Texas Athletics Hall of Fame class to be inducted during Champions Weekend |
The greatest rebounder in women's basketball history, one of the winningest coaches on record and a pair of outstanding wide receivers who made their impact on UNT are among the 2019 inductees to the North Texas Athletics Hall of Fame. The 2019 class will be celebrated Oct. 18-19 during the Mean Green's Champions Weekend with an induction dinner and on-field recognition at the football game against Middle Tennessee. Congratulations to the inductees to the 2019 North Texas Hall of Fame:
- Two-time all-conference wide receiver Marcus Camper ('89) led the team in receiving, punt returns and all-purpose yards in all four of his seasons, during which UNT twice reached the Division I-AA national playoffs.
- Casey Fitzgerald ('09) was one of the greatest wide receivers in North Texas history and is the owner of the best two-year stretch any UNT receiver ever had.
- Kelsey Hodges ('14) was the first Mean Green soccer player to earn Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year and was UNT's defensive anchor for four years.
- Amber Jackson ('07, '11 M.Ed.) is the top rebounder in North Texas women's basketball history, was a prolific scorer, strong shot-blocker and an academic standout.
- A three-time all-conference selection at linebacker, Zach Orr ('13) (pictured) is tied for third in program history with 365 total tackles, leading the team in that category on three occasions (2011-13). He also ranks in the top 10 in career tackles for loss with 25.
- J.W. St. Clair has the highest winning percentage of any coach of football and men's basketball in North Texas history, having coached football from 1915 to 1919, basketball for four seasons from 1916 to 1924, and baseball from 1922 to 1924.
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