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  • Community
| March 8, 2018

United Way of Tarrant County selects UNTHSC for community assessment

United Way of Tarrant County today announced the selection of the UNT Health Science Center to conduct a comprehensive community needs assessment to uncover the most pressing social issues affecting the health and...

PA Students
  • Research
| March 8, 2018

Remarkable accomplishments for students in Physician Assistant program

By Alex Branch Completion of a master’s project manuscript is a rare achievement for students in Physician Assistant programs, and publishing those manuscripts is even rarer. However, in 2017-18, 10 manuscripts from the PA Studies Program at UNT Health Science...

Johnny He, PhD
  • Research
| March 6, 2018

Creating a more diverse research community

By Jan Jarvis   Students from underrepresented backgrounds could soon be getting a big boost from a training program aimed at increasing diversity at UNT Health Science Center – and ultimately the biomedical workforce. A $1.4 million grant from the...

PA at Graduation
  • Education
| March 5, 2018

Physician assistant program condenses curriculum by four months

By Alex Branch   The Physician Assistant Studies Program will condense its curriculum from 34 to 30 months, a change that will increase efficiency for the nationally recognized program. The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant approved...

Ryan Hyatt TCOM Student
  • Our People
| February 28, 2018

Student effort contributes to big jump in blood donations

By Sarah Jane Grisham Blood donations from UNT Health Center jumped almost 50 percent in 2017, thanks to a combination of student initiative and a dedication to follow through Donations jumped from 116 in 2016 to 234 units last year,...

Dr Vishwanatha
  • Research
| February 28, 2018

$10 million endowment strengthens research into health disparities

By Alex Branch A $10 million federal endowment will further elevate UNT Health Science Center as a national leader in research into health disparities that impact the lives of ethnic, racial, rural and economically-disadvantaged populations across the United States. The...

Geren FC
  • Education
| February 27, 2018

Honoring a lawmaker who helps move UNTHSC forward

By Jeff Carlton UNT Health...

Kaman Cowtown
  • Our People
| February 22, 2018

Cowtown co-founder looks at four decades of running success

By Jan Jarvis   The weather was in the 70s on that February evening in 1979 when some 1,000 runners picked up their packets for the first Fort Worth Cowtown Marathon. “An hour after the last packet was given out,...

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  • Community
| February 21, 2018

Family and friends keep a former runner in the Cowtown race

By Jan Jarvis It started with one of those memory notifications that pop up on Facebook. The photo was of Collin Hadley running the Cowtown Half Marathon in 2014, and it hit his wife Emily like a ton of bricks....

Dr. Marcy Paul
  • Education
| February 20, 2018

Connecting across cultures leads public health professor to new international role

By Sally Crocker Dr. Marcy Paul has spent a lifetime following the teachings of Tikkun Olam, the Jewish concept of “repairing the world.” The foundations of Dr. Paul’s...