UNT heads new NASCO consortium to solve industry's logistics challenges

UNT heads new NASCO consortium to solve industry’s logistics challenges

UNT’s Jim McNatt Institute for Logistics Research is spearheading the North American Strategy for Competitiveness (NASCO) University Consortium. The new network resource is designed to further logistics infrastructure and trade research. Learn how UNT’s partnership with NASCO will help solve transportation, trade, policy and infrastructure challenges facing companies and government entities globally.


Partner Spotlight
Tarrant County College at Alliance AirportTarrant County College at Alliance Airport

Partnering with Tarrant County College at Alliance Airport, UNT’s aviation logistics program offers the DFW ACE (Aviation Career Education Academy) Camp each summer to give high school students interested in aviation and aerospace an introduction to the high-demand industry.


Research News
Solving transportation challenges
Solving transportation challenges

Addressing high-profile transportation and logistics challenges in Texas just got easier thanks to UNT’s Center for Logistics Education and Research. The center’s Austin office has a new, full-time researcher who will focus on funded research projects in the Texas capitol. Welcome, Lisa Weston.


Supporting logistics education
Supporting logistics education

A fundraising challenge as part of UNT’s fifth Annual Transportation Breakfast and Byron Nelson Open House this spring netted a major donation to assist students in UNT’s logistics program. Thank you to entrepreneur William "Bill" LaMothe, PGL chairman of the board, for the support. The annual event is hosted by UNT’s Center for Logistics Education and Research.


Combating racial profiling
Combating racial profiling

UNT logistics and criminal justice faculty earned a contract with Texas Department of Public Safety to examine 15 million traffic stop records to conduct one of the largest studies on racial profiling in the nation.


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