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Giving Access to History
The Portal to Texas History was established in 2004 as one of the first online research resources of its kind available to both academic researchers and history hobbyists. Twenty years later, the Portal logs more than one million uses each month. It includes more than two million historical materials from newspapers and photos to maps, books, letters and other primary sources with collaboration from public and private partners throughout the state and beyond. It's helped establish best practices for digitizing documents and artifacts for preservation and innovated ways to design backend digital infrastructures to make the archive searchable and remain accessible in the internet's changing landscape. For scholars, it's been a game-changing tool for research and education by opening access to a trove of Texas history at the click of a mouse.
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 Connecting First Responders
An interdisciplinary team with UNT's Center for Integrated Intelligent Mobility Systems is researching ways to make disaster-relief operations more efficient by establishing a smart and connected ecosystem for the first-responder community with a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Led by College of Engineering professor Kamesh Namuduri (electrical engineering), the research team includes associate professor Maurizio Manzo (mechanical engineering) as well as associate professor Ila Manuj (supply chain management) and clinical associate professor Dipakkumar Pravin (information technology and decision sciences) in the G. Brint Ryan College of Business. At the core of their research is better understanding how information is shared between different teams and agencies working on disaster-relief operations.
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| The World is Our Laboratory |
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Not all research takes place in a lab among test tubes and beakers. Sometimes research must happen in the field, and that can take researchers from the rainforests of Kenya to archives throughout Europe. As a Tier One public research university also designated a Hispanic- and Minority-Serving Institution, UNT takes pride in the partnerships and research collaborations built with universities and organizations worldwide. Through globally minded programs in sustainable tourism, peace studies and biocultural conservation, as well as scholarly collaborations in disciplines ranging from art and music history to family science, UNT faculty and student researchers are contributing to the global understanding within their respective fields.
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G. Brint Ryan College of Business associate professor Russell Torres and Adriana Sun, a student at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at UNT, have developed an artificial intelligence model to better understand investments corporations are making in AI technology. They recently presented their research at the Americas Conference on Information Systems. "We are seeing dramatic changes in organizational spending related to AI, and understanding how those investments are related to improved organizational outcomes is critically important to organizations seeking more thoughtful, strategic adoption of these technologies," Torres says.
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A new permanent museum exhibition in London is bringing UNT history assistant professor Arunima Datta's research on traveling Indian ayahs, or domestic caregivers, to life. Datta curated the display that reflects the influence of an ayah on a typical late-19th century British household in collaboration with the Museum of the Home. Since its opening, Datta has been invited to speak at multiple events including at the High Commission of India, a diplomatic mission based in London. Across the United Kingdom, she has participated in historical lectures, cooking demonstrations using recipes from ayahs and public art projects related to her research.
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