The Princeton Review has named the University of North Texas among the “greenest colleges” in the US.

The Denton-based school made the cut for the third year in a row due to the many sustainability efforts underway on campus. To learn more about UNT efforts to stay green click here.

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A group of students under the guidance of Dr. Tae-Youl Choi
at the MEE department hope that they could contribute to developing a “Green
Technology” in which used vegetable oils can be converted to biodiesel. This
project is financially supported by Frito Lay under PepsiCo group. An initial
amount of $30,000 was invested to design and build a prototype biodiesel
conversion machine as shown below. Students have suggested two designs (Fig. 1
and Fig. 2) and the second design (Fig. 2) was selected for further
development. Based on this design, a bill of materials was prepared and

Five University of North Texas faculty members have been honored for their leading contributions to research, scholarship and creative activities in areas ranging from botany to engineering to film to public health.

The annual awards, presented Nov. 7, by the Office of Research and Economic Development, celebrate faculty whose efforts - often nationally and internationally recognized - support the university’s goal of growing as the preeminent public research institution in the North Texas region.