About Texas/DFW
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
• Equidistant to the continent’s five
largest business centers (New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City
and Toronto).
• Home to 29 foreign consulate offices.
• DFW Airport serves 175 world destinations
and is world ranked 3rd in terms of operations
and 8th in terms of passengers.
• 239 languages are spoken in DFW; English is
not the primary language in about 1 of 5 DFW
households.
• 44% of DFW residents are new Americans,
including 1+ million that have moved here in
the past decade.
About Texas/DFW
DFW Ratings & Rankings
• Texas Ranks #1 in 2011 Top State For Doing Business (Area Development Online: September 22, 2011)
• Texas Ranks #2 on CNBC's Top States for Business 2011 (CNBC: July 2011)
• DFW scores well as best cities for business (Forbes: June 30, 2011)
• Dallas Named in Top Places to Live (RelocateAmerica: June 2011)
• Texas proves the most vibrant place for employment opportunities in the U.S. (Forbes May
2011)
• Texas voted the Best State for Business for the Seventh Straight Year (Chief Executive Magazine:
May 2011)
• Texas wins award for the most new and expanded corporate facilities (Site Selections Magazine:
March 2011)
• Dallas Ranks 3rd as Best Cities for New College Grads (Bloomberg Businessweek: July 2010)
• DFW Ranks in the Top 10 Sustainable Metros (Site Selection Magazine: July 2010)
• Dallas Fastest growing U.S. city (CNN: June 2010)
•Denton named “Best small town in America” USA Today - also was voted the friendliest
town, the most fun town, the fourth-best town for food, and the ninth-most patriotic
town in the country.
About Texas/DFW
Technology
• The DFW region’s technology sector encompasses a
wide range of industries and employs over 221,000, or
38.4% of the total high tech workforce in Texas.
• High-Tech Manufacturing is the largest sector, employing over 83,000.
The sector is anchored by industry stalwarts; Texas Instruments,
Lockheed Martin, and HP Enterprise Services.
• In terms of sustainable technologies, DFW ranks as one of the Top
Sustainable Metros in the U.S. (Site Selection Magazine, July 2010). By 2038, DFW is
expected to have added over 70,000 green jobs.
Business
• Texas is home to 51 of the Fortune 500, with 10 based in
DFW, including #2 Exxon Mobile and #12 AT&T.
• Texas has the third most Fortune 500 companies of any
U.S. state.
• The DFW region ranks 2nd in U.S. metropolitan areas for revenue
generated from Fortune 500 companies. (2009)
About Texas/DFW
Texas has 25.7 million residents,
accounting for over 8% of the U.S. population.
Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) has 6.4 million residents,
the largest metropolitan area in Texas,
4th largest in the U.S., and larger than 39 states.
•Outpaced the five largest U.S. metropolitan areas in growth; population
increase of 19.1% from 2000-07 while U.S. growth rate was only 7%.
•Low cost of living, and considerably lower than major
east and west coast cities.
•Home to four of the eleven Texas Nobel Prize winners.
•Dallas metro area was selected as one of the "Best Cities for Relocating
Families“ (Worldwide ERC and Primary Location, 2008).
Industry Partners
Fast Facts
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Established in 1890.
UNT is a comprehensive public research university.
UNT is the flagship of the University of North Texas
System and the largest university in the Dallas-Fort
Worth region.
With more than 36,000 students, it also is the fourth
largest university in Texas.
• It is ranked by the Carnegie Foundation as a
Research University in the High Research
Activity category.
• UNT is one of the seven emerging research
universities in the state of Texas. The
university aspires to move to Carnegie Very
High Research Activity category and the
company of 90% of the Association of
American Universities members.
Colleges & Schools
UNT has 12 colleges and schools:
• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Business
• College of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of Information
• College of Music
• College of Public Affairs & Community Service
• College of Merchandising, Hospitality & Tourism
• College of Visual Arts and Design
• Mayborn School of Journalism
• Honors College
• Toulouse School of Graduate Studies
Fast Facts
• UNT offers 225 degrees in • Other campuses in the
many diverse areas:
UNT System:
40
88
97
Bachelor's
Master's
Doctoral
Estimated $862 million
budget for 2011-12
– UNT Health Science Center
at Fort Worth
– UNT Dallas Campus
– UNT at Dallas College of Law
(enrolls first class in 2012)
Famous Alumni
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Norah Jones, Grammy Award winner
Dr. Phil McGraw, self-help expert
Shirin Askari, Project Runway contestant
Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize winner
Jesús Moroles, renowned granite sculptor
Thomas Haden Church, Academy Award nominee
Famous Alumni
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James Pawelczyk, Astronaut
“Mean” Joe Green, NFL Hall of Famer
Bill Moyers, Broadcast Journalist, Author
Michael Burgess, U.S. Congress
Charn Uswachoke, Entrepreneur
Honors & Giving
“Best of the West.”
-The Princeton Review
Named one of America's
100 Best College Buys®
for15 consecutive years.
Historic year of giving:
• $22 million pledged gift from
alumnus Charn Uswachoke
• $20 million stadium
sponsorship from Apogee
• $8 million bequest from Paul
Voertman
• $1.6 million valued
photograph collection from
Junebug & Kay Clark and Art
& Charlotte Hancock
• $1.2 million in merchandising
design software from
VRSoftware Ltd.
Accomplishments
• UNT is one of nine public universities in the nation with more than
5,000 Hispanic students and more than 4,000 African American
students.
• We Mean Green Named Green College Princeton Review.
• Alumni honored with numerous prestigious awards including the
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award, UNT's One O‘ Clock Lab Band
has had 6 Grammy nominations to date.
• Sustainable Tourism CMHT and CATIE joint degree.
• Designated a major research and digital library by the U.S.
Department of Education (6 million cataloged holdings), 2013
Chair International Internet Preservation Consortium.
Nationally-Recognized
Faculty
•
3 National Academy Members
•
3 Fulbright honors in 2010 alone
•
6 NSF Career Awards since 2004, most prestigious award offered by the
National Science Foundation for young researchers
•
7 Powe Awards since 2005, given to faculty members with research in
engineering, applied science, life sciences, mathematics, computer
science, physical sciences, policy management and education.
•
30% increase in faculty endowed chairs and professorships since 2000
•
21 new patents since 2000
•
60% increase in research awards since 2007
•
50% increase in total awards since 2007
•
142% increase in research expenditures for science and engineering
fields since 2007
Nationally-Recognized
Programs
Program
Recognition
Environmental Philosophy Program
Best in the world: International Association
for Environmental Philosophy
Medical Librarianship Graduate Program
3rd in U.S.: U.S. News & World Report
Graduate Counseling Program
12th in US: U.S. News & World Report
Public Administration Master’s Program
9th in U.S.: U.S. News & World Report
Graduate Rehabilitation Counseling Program
13th in US: U.S. News & World Report
School Library Media Graduate Program
11th in US: U.S. News & World Report
Jazz Studies
First program in U.S.
E-Merchandising Undergraduate Program
First program in U.S.
Applied Anthropology Graduate Program Online
First program in U.S.
Art Education Doctoral Program
First and only program in Texas
Aviation Logistics Undergraduate Program
First and only at a Texas university
Emergency Administration and Planning
Undergraduate Program
First program in U.S.
Nationally-Recognized
Programs
• One of the nation's best music colleges.
• Top 5 and largest logistics and supply chain management
programs in nation. Aviation logistics 1st four-year degree TX – one
of only two in nation
• Behavior analysis 1st Department in nation (undergrad-masters)
• Nation's first degree program in mechanical and energy
engineering, focus on renewable and sustainable energy.
• The only accredited professional journalism master's program in
Texas.
Research Highlights
UNT has 67 research and service centers, including:
• Center for Advanced Research and Technology
• Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling
• Center for Computational Epidemiology and Response Analysis
• Center for Electronic Materials Processing and Integration (SRC)
• 3 NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
• Net-centric SW; Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys; Friction Stir
Processing
• Field Station in Chile on Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems & Conservation
Research Clusters
UNT has 21 innovative research clusters:
• Bio/Nano-Photonics
• Complex Logistics Systems
• Computational Chemical Biology
• Consumer Experiences in Digital Environments
• Developmental Integrative Biology
• Hazards and Disaster Research to Respond to Global Crises
• Human Security, Democracy, and Global Development
• Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts
• Knowledge Discovery from Digital Information
• Materials Modeling
• Multi-scale Surface Science and Engineering
• Renewable Bioproducts
• Renewable Energy and Conservation
• Signaling Mechanisms in Plants
• Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems and Biocultural Conservation…
Research Clusters
Knowledge Discovery
from Digital Information
Consumer Experiences
in Digital Environments
Initiative for Advanced
Research in Technology
and the Arts
Developing innovative
technologies to process and
analyze massive amounts of
digital information - from
terabyte to petabyte.
Developing social and
economic strategies for
global digital networks that
impact consumer decisionmaking, consumption, and
experiences.
Exploring emerging
technologies and new media
for novel interactions
between the arts,
engineering and sciences.
CMHT
Music; CAS; CVAD; CEng
http://digitalconsumer.unt.edu/
http://iarta.unt.edu/
COI; CSE; Libraries
https://kddi.unt.edu/
New Facilities
Discovery Park is a 290-acre UNT campus,
located 5 miles north of the UNT main
campus, currently includes a 554,000 square
foot building, which is also occupied by the
College of Engineering, the College of
Information and the Computing and
Information Technology Center.
Discovery Park promotes and
supports interactive and multidisciplinary
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics) research, education, and
training that benefits students, faculty, and
the community, and expands economic
development by developing industryuniversity partnerships.
New Facilities
College of Business
Leadership Building –
Opened Fall 2011
Received gold-level
Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED)
certification from the U.S.
Green Building Council.
New Facilities
Life Sciences
Complex – Opened
Fall 2010
Received gold-level
LEED certification.
Apogee Football Stadium
– Opened Fall 2011
First newly constructed
athletic stadium in the
world to receive Platinum
LEED certification.
New Facilities
Zero Energy Research Lab – Opened Spring 2012
Designed specifically to test various energy
technologies and systems in order to achieve a netzero consumption of energy.
International Students
UNT is currently home to over 3,000 international students
from 118 countries.
Top Sending Countries Fall 2012
China
India
Korea
Saudi Arabia
Nepal
Taiwan
Mexico
Vietnam
Japan
Thailand
338
270
176
139
107
89
78
52
48
41
0
100
200
300
400
International Partners
Since 1985, UNT has signed 225 MOUs with
institutions in 49 countries.
Source: http://gunn.co.nz/map
UNT Students Abroad
Since 1998, UNT students have gone abroad on exchanges,
faculty-led programs, and affiliated programs in
approximately 46 countries and 78 cities.
Source: http://gunn.co.nz/map
Initiatives in Thailand
•
Emergency Management- Dr. Sudha Arlikatti,
(NSF RAPID) Examining Resiliency from
Tropical Storm Nock-ten which overflows the
Chao Phraya River basins resulting in severe
inland flooding affecting over 12 million
people. Kanappa Pongpurat, Thammasat.
•
Geography and Geospatial Sciences- (NSF)
Dr. Harry Williams examines marsh core
samples to examine geological record
typhoon activity with Prof. Montri Choowong
at Chulalongkorn
•
Early Childhood Education- Success for life
Program- Dr. George Morrison with Kasetsart
University
•
Mathematics Education Research – Dr.
Colleen Eddy with Prof Maitree Inprasitha at
Khon Kaen University
•
Emerald Eagle Scholars Study Abroad in
sustainable development, environmental
ethics, disaster recovery and prevention and
media representation while living in a Thai
community.
•
Sustainable Tourism Studies- Dr. Dan Spears
- Foundations of International Travel and
Tourism
•
Business, Dr. finance and accounting with
Mahidol and NIDA
•
Film Documentary- Prof. Melinda Levin on
Global Rivers
Support for Initiatives
in Thailand
• UNT’s new Global
Research
Development Fund
(GRDF)
– Funding for joint
graduate student
advisement
– Funding for joint
workshops
– Research Experiences
for Students
Not ‘just an office’!
Not by ‘flying in
and out’ but
through a local
presence
Office
Not ‘until we
meet again’ but
with the local
capability to
follow-up
Coordinator
No ‘cold call
from afar’ but
warm
introduction in
Thai style
Not centrally
‘intermediated’
but driven by
college interests
Ambassadors Champions
University of North Texas – Bangkok Office
Level 29, 388 Exchange Tower
Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey
Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for UNT
College of Business
Vice President for Academic Affairs
National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA)
Dr. Pradit Wanarat
Ph.D. Management Science, UNT, 1994
pradit@nida.ac.th
66 2 727 3332
Dr. Pradit
Wanarat
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Arts & Science
Professor of Mathematics
Ramkhamhaeng University
Dr. Somporn Sutinuntopas
Ph.D. Mathematics, UNT, 1988
Sompornss@ru.ac.th
66 2 310 8388
Dr. Somporn
Sutinuntopas
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Merchandising, Hospitality
Management & Tourism
Manager, Learning & Development
Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok
Mr. Jaturon Pruekpairojkul
Master’s Hospitality Management, UNT, 2003
Jaturon.pruekpairojkul@fourseasons.com
66 2 126 8866
Mr. Jaturon
Pruekpairojkul
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Education
President
Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science &
Technology (IPST)
Dr. Pornpun Waitayangkoon
Ph.D. College and University Teaching, UNT, 1989
pwait@ipst.ac.th
66 2 392 4021 ext. 1301
Dr. Pornpun
Waitayangkoon
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Education
Instructor / Former Chair Information Technology
Bangkok University
Dr. Pijarn Charoensri
Ed.D. Higher Education Administration, UNT, 1999
Pijarn.c@bu.ac.th
66 2 350 3500 ext. 1690
Dr. Pijarn
Charoensri
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Visual Arts & Design
Lecturer: Jewelry Design
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology
Mrs. Noppakamol Chana
Master’s Fine Arts, UNT, 2000
Buab2005@gmail.com
Mrs. Noppakamol
Chana
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Information
Faculty Member: Faculty of Humanities
Ramkhamhaeng University
Dr. Peemasak Angchun
Ph.D. Information Science, UNT, 2011
peemthailand@yahoo.com
66 2 318 0888
Dr. Peemasak
Angchun
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Arts & Science
Head: Department of Zoology
Kasetsart University
Dr. Monchan Maketon
Ph.D. Biology, UNT, 1986
fscimcm@ku.ac.th
66 2 562 5555 ext. 3256
Dr. Monchan
Maketon
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Music
Lecturer : Vocal Pedagogy
Mahidol University
Dr. Joseph Rinaldi
Ph.D. Musical Arts, UNT, 2011
jwrinaldi@gmail.com
66 2 800 2323
Dr. Joseph
Rinaldi
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Engineering
Acting Dean, Graduate School of Applied Statistics
National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA)
Dr. Raweewan Auepanwiriyakul
Ph.D. Computer Science, UNT, 1989
raweewan@as.nida.ac.th
66 2 727 3057
Dr. Raweewan
Auepanwiriyakul
Honorary Alumni Ambassador for the UNT
College of Public Affairs & Community Service
Director: Research and Information Technology
Thailand Productivity Institute (FTPI)
Dr. Phanit Laosirirat
Ph.D. Political Science, UNT, 1995
phanit@ftpi.or.th
66 2 619 5500 ext. 100
Dr. Phanit
Laosirirat
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