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UNT Health Science Center to manage NamUs

The UNT Health Science Center has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice to manage and administer the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). NamUs is a national clearinghouse for information related to missing person and unidentified decedent cases across the United States. Through secure online databases, medical examiners, coroners, law…
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TCOM students profiled on Fox 4 News for Veteran’s Day

TCOM '15 Students Eric Marple, Eric Mozeleski,  Nicholas Ray and Craig Karr were interviewed by Fox 4 news anchor Richard Ray for a news special scheduled to air on Nov. 11 at 9:30 p.m. The special segment features U.S. veterans and where they are now. The TCOM students represent the U.S. Air Force, Army and…

DNA case profiled on Channel 33

Dr. Art Eisenberg was interviewed by Channel 33's Dawn Tongish on Oct. 17 about the Center for Human Identification's role in analyzing DNA from eight unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Watch the TV news interview to learn more about how the UNT Health Science Center lab hopes to put to rest questions…

UNTHSC sees record enrollment again

The Health Science Center's Fall 2011 enrollment expanded to 1,760 students from a record 1,579 set last fall. The Physical Therapy (PT) program is entering its second year, the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) has grown to capacity with its incoming class of 230, and the School of Public Health welcomes its first incoming students…

Watch CBS Channel 11 tonight for more DNA news on the Gacy case

Watch CBS Channel 11's evening news tonight for an update on the UNT Health Science Center's role in identifying victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.Then tune into NBC's national newscast this weekend to see Dr. Art Eisenberg discuss the Gacy case and the DNA work that makes the UNT Health Science Center tops in…

Watch Telemundo for story on Willed Body program

Watch Vivo Rojo on Telemundo (Channel 39 in Dallas-Ft. Worth) at 4 p.m. on Oct. 13. The UNT Health Science Center is featured in a story about its Willed Body program, which helps medical students learn about anatomy and physiology. The cadavers are the students' first patients and teach them volumes about the way the body…

Human Performance Laboratory explores creative strategies for rehabilitation treatments

A group of engineers, physical therapists, physicians and basic scientists at the UNT Health Science Center are teaming up to gain a better understanding of normal human movement and how it is impacted by age, injury and disease. By using video motion capture, virtual reality environments, custom instrumentation and computational modeling, they are investigating rehabilitation…

Check social networks for regular updates on UNTHSC news

The UNT Health Science Center regularly updates news, photos and videos on several social media networks. Like the University of North Texas Health Science Center on Facebook or follow @UNTHSC on Twitter to receive the latest information. Photos are regularly posted to the UNTHSC Flickr account and videos to the UNTHSC channel on YouTube. UNT…

Willed Body Program featured on NBC

The Willed Body Program at the UNT Health Science Center was featured on the evening news September 22. NBC Channel 5's Kim King explores how the program educates future physicians, scientists and other healthcare providers, and improves the quality of health for future generations. Josh Payne (TCOM '12) tells how the program has impacted his…

Watch WFAA for reports on E. coli in the Trinity River

Joon Lee, PhD, assistant professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, speaks with Chris Hawes from WFAA Channel 8 about testing levels of E. coli in Fort Worth's Trinity River. The story examines findings from recent sampling, whether or not that sampling could be improved, and how other cities in Texas handle E. coli testing of…